Oregon Children's Theatre (OCT) is a children's

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

organization based in

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. Originally created by Sondra Pearlman as the "Theatre for Young People" in 1988, OCT became a resident company of the

Portland Center for the Performing Arts Portland's Centers for the Arts (stylized as Portland'5 Centers for the Arts), formerly known as the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA), is an organization within Metro that runs venues for live theatre, concerts, cinema, small confer ...

in 1991. As part of the

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, the theatre received between $150,000 and $350,000 in federally backed small business loan from

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as part of the

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. The company stated it would allow them to retain 91 jobs.

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