“A simple industrial kitchen with an oversized clock on the wall. A lone woman carrying a box of ingredients and supplies needed to bake an apple pie. That is what greets audience members at the beginning of Bag & Baggage’s newest production, Apples in Winter, and is what carries them through this incredible show….

“The Fawcett play – directed here by B&B’s occasionally returning founder Scott Palmer – centers, not on rage and literature, but on grief and guilt and family…”

“From a slow burning monologue in Hillsboro to a warmly funny political romp in Northeast Portland to three sizzling musical spectacles at the Keller Auditorium, winter theater in Portland brings the heat. Dig into these 11 can’t-miss winter…”

“Scott Palmer is, by his own admission, “just a big Shakespeare dork” – so much so that he even has a bit of “Hamlet” (“What a piece of work is man…” etc.) tattooed on his forearm. Which means that The Last White Man, although contemporary rather than classical, is very much his kind of play…”

Hillsboro, Oregon, had a few distinguished guests drop in this week to visit The Vault Theater and Bag and Baggage Productions. This was quite an honor for our town. The stop was specifically for Congresswoman Suzzane Bonamici and Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson to see how local arts benefit from Federal funding as we all come out of the pandemic.

“Dmae talks with Scott Palmer, founding artistic director of Bag & Baggage Productions whose last day will be March 1st. He talks about the upcoming world premiere of The Island In Winter or La Isla en Invierno –the first of the Problem Play Project. Scott reminisces about his 15 year tenure at the theatre company based in Hillsboro and about the his future…”

“Scott Palmer, the founding artistic director of Bag&Baggage Productions, will soon join the ranks of the National Theatre Conference…”

“The Sun Valley Center for the Arts has named Scott Palmer the new producing artistic director of Company of Fools (COF)...”

“It was the phone call Bag & Baggage Productions' artistic director, Scott Palmer, had dreaded for years…”

“In theater, timing is everything. So it was serendipitous when the folks at Bag&Baggage asked Kay Mattson – at the very last minute – if they could borrow her dog, Ollie, to perform in their production of "Of Mice and Men…"

“Scott Palmer, artistic director of Bag & Baggage, gives another reason for Austen’s popularity: Her work feels particularly relevant...”

“Bag&Baggage Productions of Hillsboro, Oregon, will tackle Orson Welles’ Moby Dick, Rehearsed, next month with a change in gender for the lead role. In adapting Herman Melville’s 1,000 page seafaring novel to the stage, Welles created a play within a play with a running time of under two hours...”

“Scott Palmer first saw "King Lear" as a high school sophomore on a class trip to Ashland. Twenty-five years later, the kid smitten with William Shakespeare's language is using theater to help revitalize downtown Hillsboro…”

“Some years ago, Bag & Baggage Productions founding artistic director Scott Palmer was registering at a national theater conference and a staffer asked for his name. Palmer told him. “Palmer, Palmer,” the man said, trying to place him. “Oh yeah, you’re that annoying guy from Hillsboro!”

“At 9:30 pm last November 5 — which happened to be Guy Fawkes Day, commemorating the planned bombing of the British Parliament — Bag&Baggage Productions’ artistic director Scott Palmer got the phone call he’d been dreading for years. the Venetian Theatre, the company’s downtown Hillsboro home, had been sold…”

“ANNE MUELLER SHIVERS under her kimono on a cold, blustery late-spring day in Hills-boro’s civic plaza, lilies woven into her light-brown hair, her sharp features looking like porcelain under their coat of white makeup. A male voice asks her to mimic a sakura tree. The retired Oregon Ballet Theatre dancer obliges, twisting her lean body into a sturdy trunk…”

“As you might expect from a small suburban theater company, Hillsboro's Bag&Baggage Productions has presented straightforwardly accessible plays such as "The Importance of Being Earnest," "Steel Magnolias" and "The Velveteen Rabbit." But much more typical of its work has been the unexpected, the different, the daring...”

“Oregon’s Washington County has added to its vibrant high technology profile. Bag&Baggage Productions, a oncetouring theater troupe that has blossomed into an acclaimed fixture at Hillsboro’s Venetian Theatre, recently began construction on a state-of-the-art facility that will boast some of the state’s most advanced performance technology…”

Meet creative arts power couple and newlyweds, Brian and Scott Palmer. Brian is the author of almost 40 novels, including his most recent, New Shoes, the first of The Saint-Moreno Novels, an urban fantasy series about two people who might just save the world if they can manage to save one another first. Scott, the founding Artistic Director of the nationally known theater, Bag & Baggage, has directed and produced critically acclaimed theatrical productions across the globe…

A powerful political family ruthlessly expanding their power; a calculating woman with vaulting ambitions; an egotistical politician who cares little for the needs of the people; an outraged electorate violently protesting on the streets; conniving spin doctors working to rig the election; and an atmosphere of fear and war hovering over it all.

Sound familiar?

Scott Palmer was stuck. The Bag & Baggage Productions artistic director had just auctioned off the choice of its annual summer Shakespeare production to a patron, and this year’s choice was… Romeo and Juliet. Palmer silently groaned. They’d staged the popular perennial ten years earlier and Palmer, an expert on the Bard of Avon’s work, didn’t want to revisit it so soon. Now he had no choice. How could he do it differently than before?

“The Sun Valley Center for the Arts is thrilled to announce that Scott Palmer has been hired as the new Producing Artistic Director of Company of Fools. In his new role, Scott will lead the artistic direction of the Hailey-based professional theatre company and serve on The Center's executive leadership team…”

“We all have been, or known, that one student who asks too many questions, disrupts classes with arguments, and generally challenges professors. “The Niceties,” by Eleanor Burgess, brings us something akin to that sticky situation but in a way that raises the audience’s own level of awareness…”

“At this year's dinner, held at Tuality Health Education Center, Bag&Baggage's artistic director and founder Scott Palmer was acknowledged with the "Outstanding Professional" award for 2011….”

“Hillsboro's Bag&Baggage Productions is continuing its focus on Shakespeare this year with the latest production announced by the local professional theater company. The new project is "The Last White Man," which explores the legacy of Shakespeare on contemporary theater by analyzing "Hamlet," specifically….”

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as theater companies everywhere serve up warmed-over seasonal standards to bolster their bottom lines. But hark! This holiday season, four local companies are taking risks to cut through the treacle…”

“The three year grant award from The Meyer Memorial Trust to fund Bag&Baggage’s play commissioning program has resulted in the first of three major, world premiere adaptations of Shakespearean plays: The Island In Winter, or La Isla En Invierno by Cuban-American playwright Carlos Zenen-Trujillo…”

“Five years after they first appeared in a drag parody of A Christmas Carol, Bag & Baggage have revived their fake community theater company to stage a madcap murder mystery, Murder at Checkmate Manor. A convoluted whodunit set inside an English country estate, Checkmate Manor is an awful play. Fortunately for Bag & Baggage's farcical humor, the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society are even worse at presenting it….”

“Given the election-season debates over joblessness, recession, social responsibility and American individualism, it's easy to see the value of revisiting John Steinbeck's Depression-era classic, "Of Mice and Men." Certainly, this play is the product of another time, but as much as it recalls the troubled 1930s it can speak to us now -- a fact demonstrated by Bag&Baggage's moving production of this formidable drama….”

“Bessie, Alice, and Margaret all have two things in common: They were all married to George Joseph Smith, and they are all dead….”