Check out what Sarah Ruhl says on American Theater's website:
What the next 25 years might bring in theatre:
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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...?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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)
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.
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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