“As a kid growing up in poverty, I thought almost everything was an improv,” Shambry explains. “I had to figure out what was next, how I could navigate through.” Two decades later, after gaining fame as an actor on Broadway, touring the world, then returning to Portland, Shambry recalled his experience in a poignant monologue on the public radio show The Moth. “Outdoor School” went viral, was incorporated into a best-selling anthology, and ultimately spawned an original theater project, a book in progress, and a made-in-Portland feature film.