Current & Past Projects

Rehearsing Dancing Through Dreamtime, 1992.

• Reading the Rocks.
  Since 1986, co-director and co-founder with Roy Phillips of Burns, Oregon. Interpretation, preservation and perpetuation of native pictographs and petroglyphs.

• Takelma Language Project.
  Doty co-directs the project with John Michael Greer.

• Dragonfly Place.
  When he's not on the road, Thomas Doty is Storyteller and Author in Residence at Dragonfly Place: A Siskiyou Mountain Retreat & Center for the Study of Storytelling, Literature & Performance.

• Doty & Coyote.
  Doty's series of chapbooks continues to grow. New titles are added frequently.

• Sacred Salmon Ceremony at Tilomikh.
  Bringing an ancient ceremony home to a Takelma village along the Rogue River in southern Oregon. June, 2007.

• Eme'tek!iyikíkh (We Are Here).
  Featured speaker and on the planning committee for native sculpture installed in downtown Ashland, Oregon, September, 2006.

• Two Sisters, Two Brothers, and a Journey.
  Doty directed the premier of his first full length play that opened November 15, 2001 at the Rose Street Theater in Phoenix, Oregon.

• Martin Luther King Day.
  1990-1995 & 2001, performer and assistant stage manager for Ashland's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration, sponsored by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the City of Ashland, the Ashland School District and Southern Oregon University.

• Ribs of the Animal: Stories from the Rogue River.
  Summer project with Irina Doty, composer Paul Nash, playwright and director Joshua Heuertz in association with the Italian Futurist Theater Co. of Ashland, Oregon. Created and produced a storytelling and theater performance that opened in October, 1999.

• Dancing Through Dreamtime: Storytelling & Dance Inspired by NW Myths.
  Seven week summer projects sponsored by the University of Minnesota and Southern Oregon University, 1992 (in OR), 1993 (in OR) and 1995 (in MN). Doty was co-director, writer and performer with choregorapher Marge Maddux, storyteller and dancer Irina Doty, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Minnesota dancers.

• The International Folklore Project.
  Co-director and co-founder with Tish McFadden. Produced 120 living folklore concerts of storytelling and music, in cooperation with Northwest Nature Shop of Ashland, Oregon, 1994-1997.

• Daedalus Project.
  Performances at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Daedalus Project, a benefit for AIDS patients, 1992-1995.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
  Played Strider (Aragorn) and Farmer Maggot in Actors' Workshop 1987 production in Ashland, Oregon.

• Academy.
  Helped start the Academy Program for Talented and Gifted Students at Southern Oregon University in 1981, and has performed and taught several summers with the program.