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.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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
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.
&
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...?
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)
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.
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
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