Saturday, April 11, 2009

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.

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