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

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organization based in

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, United States.

History

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 in 1991. As part of the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, the theatre received between $150,000 and $350,000 in federally backed small business loan from US Bank as part of the

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

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