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.

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.