CONTACT: gracecarterart@gmail.com

Grace Carter is a multidisciplinary artists from Portland OR. Grace has spent 25 years making performance driven work in theatre, film, collaborative images and performance. Her process starts with place and character— building personas, testing ideas on location through movement, and shaping resulting scenes into various mediums of expression.

Grace co-founded the critically acclaimed defunkt theatre and collaborated as a producer, director and actor on several stage performances throughout her time there. In addition, Grace won the 2010 Drammy Award for best direction on 4.48 Psychosis, by Sarah Kane. Grace's films have been screened at several local and regional festivals including The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many film projects, including Paranoid Park (2007), a feature film by Gus Van Sant. Some of Grace’s most recent productions include The Yellow Wallpaper (2016) at CoHo Theatre, Distances (2018) a site-specific and devised performance and Agnes (2023), a short film collaboration with Holly Andres.