Monday, November 9, 2009

NPA Reading Tuesday November 10

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)

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.

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Unpublished full length plays written by students.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

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

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


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.

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

NPA Reading at Seattle Rep: KISSING and AT THE RECITAL

Northwest Playwrights Alliance
&
Seattle Repertory Theater
present readings of

KISSING by Rob Caisley
directed by Jere Hodgin

&

AT THE RECITAL by Traci Parks,
directed by Brian Tyrrell

Monday May 11 @ 7 p.m. - Seattle Repertory Theater's
Poncho Theater
155 Mercer - please use main entrance

FREE ADMISSION


Join us the second Monday of every month as we discover groundbreaking new works by Northwest playwrights. Many of the readings are followed by a chatback with the playwright.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Kudos to Sarah Ruhl mentioning the Guild

Check out what Sarah Ruhl says on American Theater's website:

What the next 25 years might bring in theatre:

1
Either: Our government will start more and more to imitate Scandinavia, and everyone, including artists, will have health care. There will be a new government agency for the arts, granting us months and years to finish projects, simultaneously revitalizing our theatre and our economy.

Or: The government won't imitate Scandinavia, and so, in response, the Dramatists Guild will become an incredible force for change, replacing the United Auto Workers in its pull, determination and tactical brilliance. We will do away with subsidiary rights participation, so that playwrights will only give back their own earnings to a theatre when they earn as much per year as their artistic directors; then, and only then, will writers give tax-deductible donations to the not-for-profit theatres that produce them, out of gratitude and choice (rather than giving away 40 percent of their New York income by fiat). We will convince theatres who produce our work to provide us with health care for two seasons. Playwrights and dramaturgs working at the same theatre will have health insurance; directors and managing directors will have the same health insurance.


I think a lot of people, in the theater and outside the theater world, forget that playwrights don't have a budget. They aren't on salary like artistic directors and are in general, paid less than actors and stage managers. And they don't get health insurance.

And yet, the playwright is the reason all of these people have jobs...

Is it me, or is something out of whack here...?

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Quickies at Live Girls!

Live Girls! theater is kicking off its 10th anniversary season with the 10th volume of Quickies our annual short play event! Featuring 7 new short plays from all over the country and the UK, Quickies Volume 10 has something for everyone!

Quickies Volume 10 runs April 10th to May 2nd Friday 8pm and Sat 4pm/8pm.
Special PWYC industry nights Monday April 20th, 27th at 8pm
All shows at Live Girls! theater in Ballard 2220 NW Market, Lower Level.
Visit www.livegirlstheater.org for info.

Tickets $15 General * $12 Student/Senior * Under 18 $5 with ID
Saturday 4pm Happy Hour Shows $7, and $1 PBR!
GALA OPENING April 10th, tickets $18, CHAMPAGNE TOAST INCLUDED
Advance tickets at- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1792
1-800-838-3006

Quickies is Live Girls! trademark event and longest running program. Volume 10 will feature seven exciting new plays from all over the country and the U.K. as well as a two new commissioned pieces from local playwrights and Quickies veterans, Erin Stewart and Darian Lindle. From sweet, quirky comedies like Rachel Barnett’s For a Button, to Celene Ramadan’s reverse duel play Duellette, Quickies 10 truly has something for everyone. As always, Quickies will include up and coming local directors and actors as well as tons of gratuitous entertainment in between the plays. It all adds up to a fantastic, not to be missed event.

The volume 10 line up-
Duellette By Celene Ramadan / Directed by Raymond Williams
The Education of Macoloco by Jen Silverman / Directed by K. Brian Neel
Form vs Content by S.P. Miskowski / Directed by Nikki Przasnyski
For A Button by Rachel Barnett / Directed by Chrystian Shepperd
Alone Not Lonely by Darian Lindle / Directed by Erin Kraft
Cold Soup by Christin Siems / Directed by Nik Perleros
Changing by Erin Stewart / Directed by Meghan Arnette

Quickies also features 15 exciting local actors including- Megan Ahiers, Trick Danneker, Heather Gautschi, Shawnmarie Stanton, Jason Harber, Matt Middleton, Colleen Robertson, James Frounfelter, Rachel Jackson, Chris Bell, Hillary Dixler, Lindsey Newman, Heather M. Bottomley, Kelley Faulkner, and John Smythe.

The production team includes- Jessamyn Bateman-Iino (Stage Manager), Heather Mayhew (Asst. Stage Manager), Eric Mata (Lighting Design), Jessica Strauss (Costume Design) Jen Cabarrus (Props), Michele Hallman (Costume Assistant)

NPA Reading Monday June 13th

Northwest Playwrights Alliance & Seattle Repertory Theater
present a reading of

The Politics of Hair by Lou Clark

Directed by Rebecca Shoenfeld Holmes
featuring Julie Nagle

&

NPA/NWDC contest winner

Body of an American by Andrew S. Lyness

directed by Brian Tyrrell

with

Tim Hoban, Aaron Jacobs, Evan Tucker, Jana Tyrrell


Monday April 13 @ 7 p.m. - Seattle Repertory Theater's

Poncho Theater

155 Mercer - please use main entrance

FREE ADMISSION


About Lou Clark
Lou is a native New Englander and Northwest defector who currently calls New Mexico home. Her plays have been produced as readings, workshops and full productions by Emerging Artist Theater in New York, the Kennedy Center, the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, ACT, the Mae West Fest, New Mexico Theatre and Dance and VSA Arts of New Mexico. Professional training includes an artistic internship with Seattle Rep and the Bonderman New Play Conference for Young Audiences in Indiana. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Univ. of New Mexico and won national playwriting and regional directing Kennedy Center awards as a graduate student. Lou is currently the Artistic Director of Albuquerque's Ka-HOOTZ and Solarity Theater Companies and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

About Andrew Lyness grew up in Shropshire on the Welsh border of the UK with an English mother and an Irish father. He holds a BA in American and English Literature from the University of East Anglia, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield; he'll soon complete a second MA in American Studies at the University of Wyoming. Body of an American is his first script and the first winner of the our collegiate writing contest co-sponsored with our friends at the Northwest Drama Conference.

Special thanks to Tammis Doyle for making this possible.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Reading of LUBYANKA by DG Member David Tucker II

Northwest Playwrights Alliance
&
Seattle Repertory Theater
present a reading of

LUBYANKA
by David Tucker II

Directed by Jerry Manning

Monday March 9 @ 7 p.m.
Seattle Repertory Theater's Poncho Theater

155 Mercer - please use main entrance

FREE ADMISSION

Friday, February 13, 2009

Next up: SEPTEMBER SKIES by DG member Jim Moran

SEPTEMBER SKIES by Jim Moran will have a workshop presented by the Seattle theatre company of Absurd Reality Theatre.

This drama features two stranded travelers who have a happenstance meeting in an airport terminal while a terrible fate awaits them. Talk back sessions with the playwright and actors to follow each performance.

$5 general admission, $3 for students/seniors/TPS members.

Date/Time:
Tue. Feb. 17 @ 7:30pm
Wed. Feb. 18 @ 7:30pm

Location:
Jewel Box theatre at the Rendezvous in Belltown
2322 2nd Ave.
Seattle, WA.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

T or C at by Vincent Delaney at Seattle Rep, Monday 2/9

Northwest Playwrights Alliance &
Seattle Repertory Theater

present a reading of
T or C by Vincent Delaney
Directed by Julie Beckman

featuring:

MJ Sieber*
Laura Fager
Shana Bestock
Alex Miller


*appears courtesy of AEA

***

Monday Feb. 9 @ 7 p.m. - Seattle Repertory Theater's

Poncho Theater

155 Mercer - please use main entrance

FREE ADMISSION

About the Playwright
NPA has produced and published (NorthNorthwest #2) Vincent Delaney's short version of Kuwait and also presented the play around the Northwest and in England last year in our British Arts Tour. His plays have been seen at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, the Empty Space, the Jungle, PlayLabs, The Ilusion, the New Harmony Project, Pittsburgh Public and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. Commissions include the Guthrie, The Children's Theatre Compnay, Seattle Public Theater, ACT, the Cleveland Playhouse and a Jerome Commission from the Commonweal Theater. He is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the University of Alabama's Apsey, Award, the Nathan Miller Award and Heidemann Award.

About the Play
Can we ever really know our children? And what do we become, when darkness claims them? A year after their son commits a vicious school shooting, Sheridan and Jane come together in the New Mexico desert to reinvent themselves. But that falls apart when they meet Soledad, a casino girl with a gift for poker.

About the Director

Julie Beckman is a freelance director and adapter in the Seattle area where she has worked with Strawberry Theatre Workshop (Fellow Passengers), Book-It Repertory Theatre (Hard Times, Jane Eyre and Waxwings), and Stone Soup Theatre (Five by Tenn, Trilogy of Terror, the Lady Who Loved). Her work has also been seen at ArtReach Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Playhouse in the Park and Xavier University in Cincinnati, at Center Theatre, Porcupine Productions, the Chicago Director’s Co-op and Northwestern University in Chicago, in Washington D.C. at Studio Theatre and Source Theatre and in Atlanta at Actors Express. She holds an MFA in directing from Northwestern University.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Portland Town Hall Meeting, Saturday January 31

Please see below the Press Release for Gary Garrison's visit and the upcoming Town Hall Meeting in Portland, January 31, 2009. David Faux will also give a "Author as CEO" lecture on intellectual property rights.

If you have any questions regarding the area or the event, please contact the new co-reps, Andrea Stolowitz (astolowi@yahoo.com) and Steve Patterson (splatterson@mindspring.com)

I hope some of you might be able to make the drive down there and show support!

Cheers,
Dennis

PRESS RELEASE :

Representatives from the Dramatists Guild of America, including Gary Garrison, Executive Director of Creative Affairs for the Guild, will visit Portland on January 31, 2009, to hold a Dramatists Guild Town Hall Meeting for Oregon's Guild members and other interested playwrights, followed by a Portland Theatre Town Hall Meeting,
inviting Portland's theatre community to discuss development of new plays. Both events are free and open to the public.

Mr. Garrison's visit emphasizes Portland's growing reputation as an incubator of new work and coincides with Portland's innovative, inaugural Fertile Ground City-Wide New Works Festival, which was recently profiled in American Theatre Magazine and the Dramatists Guild's The Dramatist Magazine.

The Dramatists Guild Town Hall Meeting will begin at 1:00 PM, featuring with an information session that will detail an overview of the Dramatists Guild, discuss plans for its future, and then an open Q & A for Guild members. In addition to Gary Garrison, speakers will include David Faux, (Guild Director of Business Affairs), Roland Tec (Guild Director of Membership), and Steve Patterson and Andrea
>Stolowitz, Portland's Regional Guild Representatives. From 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, David Faux will present "The Author as a CEO": a short lecture, which will review the main points of dealing with a playwright's portfolio of works as intellectual property assets.

After a half-hour break, the afternoon will resume from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM with a Portland Theatre Town Hall Meeting. Moderated by Mead Hunter, Portland Center Stage's Director of Literary Programs, the Town Hall will feature a panel discussion with Mr. Garrison, Lui Douthit of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Michael Rohd of Sojourn Theatre, discussing trends in local and national theatre, playwriting, and dramaturgy. The meeting will then open up as a brainstorming session for the panel, Portland theatre leaders, and the audience to address how to foster development and production of new plays in Portland and Oregon.

The Dramatists Guild Town Hall and Portland Theatre Town Hall will both be held at Portland Center Stage's Ellen Bye Studio Theatre, 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, Oregon.

For more information on both events, please contact the Dramatists
Guild's new Portland co-representatives: Andrea Stolowitz (astolowi@yahoo.com) and Steve Patterson (splatterson@mindspring.com) >[or contact Steve Patterson at 503-312-6665].

Space Available in DG Member Elizabeth Heffron's Playwriting Class

There's a few spots left in PLAYWRITING II, which begins next Tuesday,
Jan. 27th and runs for 8 exciting weeks, at Freehold!

In this class, we explore elements of playwriting by studying a
variety of theatrical genres. This year's class will feature:

The absurdist/comedic tendencies in
Bertolt Brecht's THE WEDDING

The poetic realism of
Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICE

The well-made-play structure of
Tracy Lett's AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Aspects of docudrama and solo performance in
Anna Deveare Smith's TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES

During the course, we will work from writing prompts that spring from
our exploration of these plays.

RESULTS OF THE CLASS:
By the end of the quarter, you will have written numerous short scenes
in a variety of genres, and will have worked to complete two original
one-acts that are wildly different from one another..

So wipe the snow from your parka, grab your pen and paper, and get
down to Belltown, quick!

For enrollment information, see www.freeholdtheatre.org, or email
Jenny at info@freeholdtheatre.org.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Theater Begins with the Playwright

"Theater begins here"
Motto of The Playwrights Center


This article, written by Polly Carl who heads up The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, is possibly one of the best articles I've read about how the way new plays are selected is "seriously flawed".

My favorite quote is:

"If we start with the idea that playwrights and artists are what drive the theater--that they are indeed our greatest asset--and work backwards from there, it's amazing to think how this will immediately alter our practices."


I wish every Playwright, Literary Director and Artistic Director in the country could read it.

No, screw that.

I wish every actor, director, stage manager, costume designer, scenic designer, lighting designer, box office manager, board member, donor, congressman, patron and maybe even the plumbers should read it.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The 20th Century, Friday & Saturday @ 8 pm

JANUARY 9 & 10 @ 8:00pm
the
NORTHWEST PLAYWRIGHTS ALLIANCE
presents

THE 20th CENTURY
by
11 original theatrical vignettes by Northwest playwrights:
Scot Augustson, Lenore Bensinger, Nadine Caracciolo, Lee
Strucker, Steven Deitz, Ki Gottberg, Thomas J. Fields-Meyer,
Rick Rankin, Bryan Willis, Y York, Bill Downs, Dan Erickson.
(originally conceived and curated by Dan Fields)

SHOEBOX PERFORMANCE SPACE
1404 18th Avenue
Seattle 98122

TIKS: $15.
thru ww.brownpapertickets.com

or cash at the door

Info. call 425 - 417 - 1964

Short plays by 12 piquant Northwest playwrights that capture the events,
issues, and personalities of the most bizarre, dense, evolved, and involved
century in the history of the world.

The two performances at the Shoebox Performance Space commence the
NW Playwrights Alliance 20th CENTURY production tour that will take the
company to New York City and the United Kingdom later this spring.

Directed by Amalia Larson
Stage Manager - Kati Dawson

featuring
Alex Hodgins
Ashley Johnson
Evan Kubena
James Tweedale
Sarah Waisman
Jessica Young

NORTHWEST PLAYWRIGHTS ALLIANCE provides a home for regional writers to
test their work via our free monthly reading series at Seattle Rep, an anthology of
short plays, international tours, over-night festivals, professional workshops,
and festivals of fully produced plays