NPA & Seattle Repertory Theater present
In the Poncho Forum – Seattle Rep – 155 Mercer St
(please use main entrance)
Tues. November 10 @ 7 p.m.
Readings from our annual touring show.
The official tour begins in Jan. with performances in the NW and then NYC, England and Kobe, Japan. Co-sponsored by Western Washington Univ. Special thanks to the Abingdon Theater (NYC), Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund (UK) and the Academy of International Education (Japan).
Free Admission
Nov. 10, 2009 – NPA/WWU tour
Directed by Rich Brown
Tads, by Eva Suter
Johnny Elgam and the Newport Kid, by Aaron Shay
Poor Shem, Gregory Hischak
Scent of Man, By Soloman Olmstead
The Square, by Michael Wallace
The Lazy Beauty, by Bryan Willis
and
The winner of our 2009 kid’s play, Mother Goose Disaster – by Penny Jefferson (age 12)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
THE GREATEST PLAYS EVER WRITTEN by NW Playwright Nick Stokes
THE GREATEST PLAYS EVER WRITTEN BY NICK STOKES, by Nick Stokes
Probably Forgettable Productions at Old City Hall, Tacoma
November 5 - 22
Th at 7:30, F and Sa at 8, Su at 2.
Pay-If-You-Can (no pressure applied) Preview Th Nov 5
Live music at the Nov. 6 Opening by the Hollowbodies, and on Nov 14, 20 by Jon Parker
Directed by Phoebe Keleman
Featuring
Evan Tucker
Gabe McClelland
Kris Keppeler
Mike Tilton
Scenic Designer - Julia Welch
Lighting Designer - Tess Malone
Sound Designer - Clifford Dunn
This unique production at historic Old City Hall consists of two one-acts. THE SOUND WE MAKE, set in Tacoma, finds three homeless locals coping with the loss of a street legend; a play about what was lost, what is acquired, and what can be saved. WHITEOUT traps a young traveler with no past and an old caretaker with nothing but in a snowbound motel. Ghosts and myth collide with cold reality in this haunting play. Sponsored by Northwest Playwrights Alliance and the Tacoma Arts Commission.
Totally reasonable tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com.
Probably Forgettable Productions at Old City Hall, Tacoma
November 5 - 22
Th at 7:30, F and Sa at 8, Su at 2.
Pay-If-You-Can (no pressure applied) Preview Th Nov 5
Live music at the Nov. 6 Opening by the Hollowbodies, and on Nov 14, 20 by Jon Parker
Directed by Phoebe Keleman
Featuring
Evan Tucker
Gabe McClelland
Kris Keppeler
Mike Tilton
Scenic Designer - Julia Welch
Lighting Designer - Tess Malone
Sound Designer - Clifford Dunn
This unique production at historic Old City Hall consists of two one-acts. THE SOUND WE MAKE, set in Tacoma, finds three homeless locals coping with the loss of a street legend; a play about what was lost, what is acquired, and what can be saved. WHITEOUT traps a young traveler with no past and an old caretaker with nothing but in a snowbound motel. Ghosts and myth collide with cold reality in this haunting play. Sponsored by Northwest Playwrights Alliance and the Tacoma Arts Commission.
Totally reasonable tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com.
NWDC/NPA New Play Competition
Northwest Drama Conference/Northwest Playwrights Alliance
New play competition
Deadline for Submissions: November 20, 2009 (Postmarked)
Unpublished full length plays written by students.
Theme: (Interpreted any way you see fit)
“The West” in the geography of the world, mind or spirit
Submit two copies of your play each with a separate title page containing your name, school, address, and phone number.
Be sure that your name does not appear anywhere on the copy of the play itself.
All plays will be read by the professional playwrights who are members of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance.
The winning play will be given a reading at the NWDC/KCACTF regional festival at the University of Nevada in February 2010
and a reading by NPA at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle.
NPA has the option to publish the winning play
Award:
$100 award
Up to $400 toward travel to Seattle WA, if the playwright can attend the reading.
Plays to be submitted to:
Tammi Doyle
NWDC/NPA Playwriting Competition
Theatre Arts Department
Bellevue College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
New play competition
Deadline for Submissions: November 20, 2009 (Postmarked)
Unpublished full length plays written by students.
Theme: (Interpreted any way you see fit)
“The West” in the geography of the world, mind or spirit
Submit two copies of your play each with a separate title page containing your name, school, address, and phone number.
Be sure that your name does not appear anywhere on the copy of the play itself.
All plays will be read by the professional playwrights who are members of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance.
The winning play will be given a reading at the NWDC/KCACTF regional festival at the University of Nevada in February 2010
and a reading by NPA at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle.
NPA has the option to publish the winning play
Award:
$100 award
Up to $400 toward travel to Seattle WA, if the playwright can attend the reading.
Plays to be submitted to:
Tammi Doyle
NWDC/NPA Playwriting Competition
Theatre Arts Department
Bellevue College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
Saturday, September 19, 2009
NPA Playwriting Workshop with Catherine Trieschmann
Playwriting Workshop With Catherine Trieschmann
Sponsored by Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Live Girls! theater
“Confronting the Monster: The Role of Fear in the Art of Playwriting."
Explore the role that fear plays in a script and in a writer’s life. Award-winning playwright Catherine Trieschmann leads this exciting workshop to deepen a writer’s ability to create tension onstage while simultaneously confronting the fear in one’s own mind. Open to writers of any experience level.
With productions in London, Edinburgh, New York, and throughout the rest of the US, current commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and Southcoast Rep, and publications with Samuel French, Trieschmann brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this playwriting intensive.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot today.
Contact NPA Literary Manager Elena Hartwell at emhartwell@earthlink.net.
Date/Time: Sunday October 18th 2-5pm
Admission fees: $25, $10 students/Live Girls! company members
Location: Live Girls! theater, 2220 NW Market St. Lower Level in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.
Fees partially benefit Live Girls! theater
Catherine’s new play “Hot Georgia Sunday” will receive a public reading directed by Meghan Arnette and sponsored by the Seattle Repertory Theatre and NPA. Tuesday Oct 20th at 7pm in the Poncho Forum at the Rep. Admission to the reading is free.
For more information about NPA, please visit us on the web
Sponsored by Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Live Girls! theater
“Confronting the Monster: The Role of Fear in the Art of Playwriting."
Explore the role that fear plays in a script and in a writer’s life. Award-winning playwright Catherine Trieschmann leads this exciting workshop to deepen a writer’s ability to create tension onstage while simultaneously confronting the fear in one’s own mind. Open to writers of any experience level.
With productions in London, Edinburgh, New York, and throughout the rest of the US, current commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and Southcoast Rep, and publications with Samuel French, Trieschmann brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this playwriting intensive.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot today.
Contact NPA Literary Manager Elena Hartwell at emhartwell@earthlink.net.
Date/Time: Sunday October 18th 2-5pm
Admission fees: $25, $10 students/Live Girls! company members
Location: Live Girls! theater, 2220 NW Market St. Lower Level in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.
Fees partially benefit Live Girls! theater
Catherine’s new play “Hot Georgia Sunday” will receive a public reading directed by Meghan Arnette and sponsored by the Seattle Repertory Theatre and NPA. Tuesday Oct 20th at 7pm in the Poncho Forum at the Rep. Admission to the reading is free.
For more information about NPA, please visit us on the web
Friday, August 28, 2009
Do you Self-Produce?
Please take a moment to fill out this survey on self-production. We’re curious to know who out there is doing it and why and if you’re not doing it, then why not?
No right or wrong answers here! And it should only take you about a minute.
Thanks!
Click Here to take survey
No right or wrong answers here! And it should only take you about a minute.
Thanks!
Click Here to take survey
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Readings of new plays at Live Girls! Theater
The Bakery- Spring Readings at Live Girls! Theater
Including Dramatists Guild Member Joy McCullough-Carranza
Your chance to be a part of the development process and see fresh new
works before anyone else! Many of the plays chosen for past festivals
have been slated for production by Live Girls! or other local
companies. The Live Girls! 2009 Bakery Spring Readings will feature 7
new works by women. Live Girls! is also continuing our partnership
with the ACT Young Playwrights program and pairing our three teen
playwrights with an adult writer for a unique opportunity to see new
works at all stages. Our audience truly sees it first!
$5 general admission for all events
Advance tickets available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1792 or 1-800-838-3006
All shows at Live Girls! theater in Ballard 2220 NW Market Lower Level
The complete schedule of events includes-
(See below for more about individual plays and writers.)
Wed May 13th 7pm
Slasher by Allison Moore | Directed by Lisa Jackson Schebetta
Fri May 15th 7pm
Rain by Caitlin Cassot | Directed by Jason Franklin
AND
Emerald City by S.P. Miskowski | Directed by Meghan Arnette
Saturday May 16th 2pm
Fatalism by Danielle Mantello | Directed by Ellie McKay
AND
Home/Land by Joy McCullough- Carranza | Directed by Andy Jensen
Saturday May 16th 7pm
Debutant by Rachael Severtson | Directed by Darian Lindle
AND
fracture/mechanics by Mallery Avidon | Directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield
(Note- fracture/mechanics is recommended for mature audiences)
More About the plays…
Slasher by Allison Moore is a comedy of horrific proportions. When
she’s cast as the “last girl” in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena
thinks it’s the big break she’s been waiting for. But news of the
movie unleashes her malingering mother’s thwarted feminist rage, and
she’s prepared to do anything to stop filming—even if it kills her.
Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis where she is
a 2007 Bush Artists Fellow and a 2008 McKnight Fellow. Her play,
Slasher, premiered at the 2009 Humana Festival. Other plays include:
End Times (2007 Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas Critics Forum Award),
American Klepto (2006 Fresh Ink/Illusion Theater), Hazard County (2005
Humana Festival), Split (2005 Guthrie Theater commission), Urgent Fury
(2003 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Mentor: Marsha Norman), and Eighteen
(2001 O'Neill Playwrights' Conference). She is a two-time
Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow and two-time McKnight Fellow.
Moore's new adaptation of Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia, for
Illusion Theatre will be produced in 2009-10. BFA: Southern Methodist
University. MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Is there a right way to pay your respects when you lose someone? Rain
by Caitlin Cassot is a bitter-sweet story about memory, loss and the
moments that shape us. Caitlin Cassot is a student at Bellevue High
School.
In Emerald City by S.P. Miskowski, four women have a love/hate
relationship with the ever-changing city of Seattle. With characters
based on the aspirations of characters from the Wizard of Oz, this new
urban comedy is about change as a fact of human life. S.P. Miskowski
earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting at the University of Washington and
has received two NEA Fellowships (for short fiction and playwriting).
She's been commissioned by ACT Theatre three times as part of FirstACT
and her scripts have been produced by UW, Seattle Theater Project,
Youth Theater Northwest and 14/48 the World's Quickest Theater
Festival. She's had workshops and staged readings of her plays at GEVA
and Cherry Lane Alternative in New York. Her recent full-length play,
"my new friends (are so much better than you)" was performed by Morgan
Rowe at New City Theater and at SPF-3 in Seattle. The play received a
2008 Footlight Award from the Seattle Times and was nominated for an
American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award.
Is our future set or do we create our own fate? Fatalism by Danielle
Mantello is a quirky comedy about destiny and the obsessive nature of
human beings. Danielle Mantello is a student at Highline High School.
An Irish immigrant in the 1840’s, a Latin American immigrant in the
1990’s, and a Persian exile in the 2100’s all make their way to the
same Philadelphia house. Home/Land by Joy McCullough-Carranza examines
their journeys and the lives they forge in a new place.
Joy McCullough-Carranza’s plays have been seen at Live Girls! in
Quickies, The Bakery, Holiday XXX, Notorious Women, Bakers Dozen, and
her play Mud Angel was produced in the 2007 season. Her plays have
also been developed and produced in New York, Chicago and San Diego,
and locally with FringeACT, WET, Mirror Stage Company, Seattle
Dramatists, 14/48, Next Stage, and the Mae West Fest. She has twice
been a finalist for the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman
Award. Joy received her theatre degree from Northwestern University,
where she won the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award. She has taught
playwriting for ACT, La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe, among
others. Joy is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Barbara's business is to know all the right people and how to present
them to the world. Her daughter Julia is struggling to make her own
way on her own terms in the coming of age drama Debutant, by Rachael
Severtson. Rachael Severtson is a student at Lakeside School.
Does your sexual history create a vision of who you are? Does all the
sex you've ever had accumulate? Mallery Avidon's fracture/mechanics
is a funny sexy and harrowing portrait of one woman's lineage of love.
Told in small snapshots in and around a bed, the play ponders the
frailty of affection. Mallery Avidon's plays have been developed or
produced in New York by Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, Clubbed
Thumb, Little Theater@ The New Dixon Place, ART/NY, Bee Sting Theater
Company; in Chicago by The Pavement Group; and in Seattle by Live
Girls! Theater, angry blvd, Strike Anywhere Productions, and Cornish
College of the Arts. She is a membe of the 2007/2008 Soho Rep
Writer/Director Lab, holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish
College of the Arts and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting
at Brown University.
Including Dramatists Guild Member Joy McCullough-Carranza
Your chance to be a part of the development process and see fresh new
works before anyone else! Many of the plays chosen for past festivals
have been slated for production by Live Girls! or other local
companies. The Live Girls! 2009 Bakery Spring Readings will feature 7
new works by women. Live Girls! is also continuing our partnership
with the ACT Young Playwrights program and pairing our three teen
playwrights with an adult writer for a unique opportunity to see new
works at all stages. Our audience truly sees it first!
$5 general admission for all events
Advance tickets available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1792 or 1-800-838-3006
All shows at Live Girls! theater in Ballard 2220 NW Market Lower Level
The complete schedule of events includes-
(See below for more about individual plays and writers.)
Wed May 13th 7pm
Slasher by Allison Moore | Directed by Lisa Jackson Schebetta
Fri May 15th 7pm
Rain by Caitlin Cassot | Directed by Jason Franklin
AND
Emerald City by S.P. Miskowski | Directed by Meghan Arnette
Saturday May 16th 2pm
Fatalism by Danielle Mantello | Directed by Ellie McKay
AND
Home/Land by Joy McCullough- Carranza | Directed by Andy Jensen
Saturday May 16th 7pm
Debutant by Rachael Severtson | Directed by Darian Lindle
AND
fracture/mechanics by Mallery Avidon | Directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield
(Note- fracture/mechanics is recommended for mature audiences)
More About the plays…
Slasher by Allison Moore is a comedy of horrific proportions. When
she’s cast as the “last girl” in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena
thinks it’s the big break she’s been waiting for. But news of the
movie unleashes her malingering mother’s thwarted feminist rage, and
she’s prepared to do anything to stop filming—even if it kills her.
Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis where she is
a 2007 Bush Artists Fellow and a 2008 McKnight Fellow. Her play,
Slasher, premiered at the 2009 Humana Festival. Other plays include:
End Times (2007 Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas Critics Forum Award),
American Klepto (2006 Fresh Ink/Illusion Theater), Hazard County (2005
Humana Festival), Split (2005 Guthrie Theater commission), Urgent Fury
(2003 Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Mentor: Marsha Norman), and Eighteen
(2001 O'Neill Playwrights' Conference). She is a two-time
Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow and two-time McKnight Fellow.
Moore's new adaptation of Willa Cather's novel, My Antonia, for
Illusion Theatre will be produced in 2009-10. BFA: Southern Methodist
University. MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Is there a right way to pay your respects when you lose someone? Rain
by Caitlin Cassot is a bitter-sweet story about memory, loss and the
moments that shape us. Caitlin Cassot is a student at Bellevue High
School.
In Emerald City by S.P. Miskowski, four women have a love/hate
relationship with the ever-changing city of Seattle. With characters
based on the aspirations of characters from the Wizard of Oz, this new
urban comedy is about change as a fact of human life. S.P. Miskowski
earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting at the University of Washington and
has received two NEA Fellowships (for short fiction and playwriting).
She's been commissioned by ACT Theatre three times as part of FirstACT
and her scripts have been produced by UW, Seattle Theater Project,
Youth Theater Northwest and 14/48 the World's Quickest Theater
Festival. She's had workshops and staged readings of her plays at GEVA
and Cherry Lane Alternative in New York. Her recent full-length play,
"my new friends (are so much better than you)" was performed by Morgan
Rowe at New City Theater and at SPF-3 in Seattle. The play received a
2008 Footlight Award from the Seattle Times and was nominated for an
American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award.
Is our future set or do we create our own fate? Fatalism by Danielle
Mantello is a quirky comedy about destiny and the obsessive nature of
human beings. Danielle Mantello is a student at Highline High School.
An Irish immigrant in the 1840’s, a Latin American immigrant in the
1990’s, and a Persian exile in the 2100’s all make their way to the
same Philadelphia house. Home/Land by Joy McCullough-Carranza examines
their journeys and the lives they forge in a new place.
Joy McCullough-Carranza’s plays have been seen at Live Girls! in
Quickies, The Bakery, Holiday XXX, Notorious Women, Bakers Dozen, and
her play Mud Angel was produced in the 2007 season. Her plays have
also been developed and produced in New York, Chicago and San Diego,
and locally with FringeACT, WET, Mirror Stage Company, Seattle
Dramatists, 14/48, Next Stage, and the Mae West Fest. She has twice
been a finalist for the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman
Award. Joy received her theatre degree from Northwestern University,
where she won the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award. She has taught
playwriting for ACT, La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe, among
others. Joy is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Barbara's business is to know all the right people and how to present
them to the world. Her daughter Julia is struggling to make her own
way on her own terms in the coming of age drama Debutant, by Rachael
Severtson. Rachael Severtson is a student at Lakeside School.
Does your sexual history create a vision of who you are? Does all the
sex you've ever had accumulate? Mallery Avidon's fracture/mechanics
is a funny sexy and harrowing portrait of one woman's lineage of love.
Told in small snapshots in and around a bed, the play ponders the
frailty of affection. Mallery Avidon's plays have been developed or
produced in New York by Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, Clubbed
Thumb, Little Theater@ The New Dixon Place, ART/NY, Bee Sting Theater
Company; in Chicago by The Pavement Group; and in Seattle by Live
Girls! Theater, angry blvd, Strike Anywhere Productions, and Cornish
College of the Arts. She is a membe of the 2007/2008 Soho Rep
Writer/Director Lab, holds a BFA in Original Works from Cornish
College of the Arts and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting
at Brown University.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Three Plays by Edward Mast
Underground Theater presents:
SHEARWATER RIVER
three plays by Edward Mast
Three short plays with masks and movement, about exile, home and the longing for return.
Written by Edward Mast, directed by Carmel Baird, with musical interludes by Mike L’Engel and Ava Chakavarty. Character designs by Lisa Bade.
THREE NIGHTS ONLY
Friday - Sunday
May 15-17
7:30 pm
The program will last about an hour.
at
THE MOVEMENT STUDIO
2011 1st Ave North
corner of 1st N. and Crockett, top of Queen Anne Hill
The Studio is on the first floor of Queen Anne Baptist Church -
enter through triple doors on 1st N.
Free admission but SEATING IS LIMITED - CALL OR EMAIL FOR RESERVATIONS:
(206) 774-6438
shearwaterriver@gmail.com
SHEARWATER RIVER
three plays by Edward Mast
Three short plays with masks and movement, about exile, home and the longing for return.
Written by Edward Mast, directed by Carmel Baird, with musical interludes by Mike L’Engel and Ava Chakavarty. Character designs by Lisa Bade.
THREE NIGHTS ONLY
Friday - Sunday
May 15-17
7:30 pm
The program will last about an hour.
at
THE MOVEMENT STUDIO
2011 1st Ave North
corner of 1st N. and Crockett, top of Queen Anne Hill
The Studio is on the first floor of Queen Anne Baptist Church -
enter through triple doors on 1st N.
Free admission but SEATING IS LIMITED - CALL OR EMAIL FOR RESERVATIONS:
(206) 774-6438
shearwaterriver@gmail.com
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