Creative Capital

Donna Porterfield

Dramaturge, playwright, and producer Donna Porterfield is one of the leaders of the community-based ensemble Roadside Theater, a company that develops performances through community involvement. She is the producer of Roadside’s ongoing 20-year collaboration with Native American artists in New Mexico’s Zuni Pueblo, and through that project, co-edited the book and compact disc Journey’s Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration. Her articles have been published in High Performance Magazine, on the National Endowment for the Arts website, and in the book The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena.