""I looked into my future - I talk with my work," said Collins, then living in Southern California. "And it just kind of said to me, 'This isn't on the page. This is bigger than you think. This piece is on the stage.' And I just knew at that moment I could not do that work where I was living, but I knew I could do it in Portland, and I moved.""
"In August, the Oregon Community Foundation awarded Collins a $74,000 Creative Heights grant for her spoken-sung opera, One Death in Seven Doorways, a story of grief. "There have been - there are - a lot of dead people in my life," Collins said. "What I'm curious about is how do the dead remain a part of our lives and also how is grief expressed?""
Licity Collins moved from Southern California back to Portland after a character in her work prompted her to relocate so the piece could be staged. She received a $74,000 Creative Heights grant from the Oregon Community Foundation for One Death in Seven Doorways, a spoken-sung opera about grief. The opera centers on Sam and Suzy, characters originating in Collins's 2022 spoken-word music collection The Flower in the Mirror Was Dead. The sudden death of a close friend inspired Sam's role and helped shape the work. Collins grew up in Washington, D.C., studied at Brown, earned an MFA at Portland State, and performs as a singer, guitarist, and multidimensional genre-busting artist.
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