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)
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.
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
&
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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