Written and directed by John Bergstrom and produced by desert island studios.

“Chris Harder gives an incredible performance as Winston.” – Review

Directed by Chris Harder for The Actors Conservatory 2022 One Act Festival at Portland Center Stage in the Ellyn Bye Studio Theatre.

In the pandemic year of 2020, fourteen Americans isolated by self-quarantine desperately hold on to their bonds of love and friendship remotely — as their lives unravel, their future unknown. Their recorded stories are found in a time capsule years later.

“FROM THESE STREETS I RISE is just good theatre… thanks to Chris Harder’s direction and the skillful work of the streaming team, I almost felt like I was actually sitting at CoHo!” – Review

A brand new, direct address style performance piece that reflects the complicated personal and professional experiences and emotions of police officers in our country today. @ Hollywood Theater

Directed by
Chris Harder & Shelly Lipkin
Scenes and monologues selected and filmed by the graduate students of The Actors Conservatory.

In a world where people struggle to have children, one American couple decides to ‘un-adopt’ their young Korean son because they have a newborn at home.

The beloved holiday staple comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast with the story of George Bailey.

 “Caught” is unlike any other play you’ll see this season. Not just because you never know what’s coming next.”

“Artists Repertory Theatre’s production is perfectly cast. Chris Harder brings off-kilter energy to Caden”

New adaptation of Taming of the Shrew by Amy Freed at Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival’s outdoor stage.

“Harder’s a master of stillness and understatement (think back to that quiet yet emotionally staggering performance in 2014’s Intimate Apparel), and he strikes a delicate balance here — semi-sweet, pleasantly plausible, never quite artificial, just a little flat in spots. He’s a sandy-haired anodyne, earnest and inviting, drawing us into this brave new world, where memory is a prime motivator.”

Portland Shakespeare Project Presents
August 4th, 5th and 6th
at Artists Repertory Theatre
Alder Stage

A new play in development by Mary Kathryn Nagle tells the story of one of America’s first feminists, Sacajawea, and draws a line from a completely original view of Lewis and Clark to the present …

Quiara Alegria Hudes play about finding love and connection on a spontaneous road trip with a brilliant teen and her estranged mother.
June 15 – 25, 2017

“There is, of course, the purely actorly pleasure of watching Harder switch from character to character, which he does not showily (he never even changes costume, wearing formal Victorian men’s attire from start to finish) but subtly, with the slightest twisting of the apparatus.” – Bob Hicks

“Quite a feat and he does it brilliantly!” – Dennis Sparks

“…beautifully performed… Harder exhibits masterful command of the script… A mesmerizing and moving, well-written and affecting play- a superb fringe performance.”

“Charlie Chaplin taught us years ago that Everyman can both act the clown and demonstrate enormous dignity, and Chris Harder’s fisherman shows us the same thing.”

“It is exquisite!” The same could be said about the performance by Chris Harder as that magnanimous merchant,”

Set in 17th century Venice, this is Shakespeare’s profound tragedy of the power of love and jealousy. A highly esteemed general serving the state of Venice, Othello, secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a senator.

The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area high schools. The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event.

“As Eddie, Chris Harder dances through this minefield with a cowboy’s crooked gait and a crocodile grin, relishing his gamesmanship. He really captures Eddie’s combination of rough allure and sly menace in a performance that’s as unsettling as it is wonderful to watch.”