Monthly Reading Series

All readings at the Seattle Repertory Theater unless otherwise noted

Readings start at 7PM unless otherwise noted

Seattle Repertory Theatre

Readings are the second TUESDAY of the month

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Because Seattle Repertory values the interest, and fresh perspective of its community, we would like to encourage attendees of The Northwest Playwrights Alliance to attend any or all Preview performances of the 2010/11 Season for just $25 a ticket with no additional service fees (individuals 25 and under will always pay $12 a ticket). For information on dates and times of our Preview performances please view our website calendar at seattlerep.org. This discount is only redeemable via telephone so please call our box office at 206-443-2222.

September 14 - 2010 - 7pm/Seattle Repertory Theatre 

Fathers and Sons by Mike Moroz

Winner of the NPA/SAG Screenplay competition

Directed by John Vreeke

Finalists: (not ranked)

Kamarie Chapman, Margaret Friedman, Rich Rubin

Further info on our September Reading:

Mike Moroz: (Writer)

An actor, director, independent producer and screenwriter, Mike teaches acting, filmmaking and screenwriting at Cowichan Secondary School on Vancouver Island.  A founding member of The Mercury Players, he served as that organizations’ Artistic Director from 1999-2004.  More recently, he helped found Chalkboard Theatre, a semi-professional company dedicated to developing new audiences and assisting new and emerging playwrights and performers.  Through his production company, Sunflower Pictures, he is currently producing his screenplay, ‘Face the Sun,’ the proceeds from which will be targeted directly at cancer organizations.

Fathers and Sons: Robert is just days away from the birth of his first child. Already uncertain about the kind of father he’ll be, his turmoil deepens when he’s visited by a woman who tells him that his estranged father has died of cancer, and requests that he attend the funeral.  As Robert decides how to respond, he comes face to face with the many layered and complex issues that surround families.  At its heart, Fathers and Sons is about love and forgiveness, and the courage it takes to do both.

John Vreeke: (Director)

For the past nine years John was based in Washington DC and is newly re- relocated to his home in West Seattle. In DC, he directed the critically acclaimed and Helen Hayes nominated production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at H Street Theater/Forum Theater and Boom for Woolly Mammoth which received four Helen Hayes nominations including director and production.  Also at Woolly Mammoth, he directed Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, K of D by Laura Schellhardt, Homebody/Kabul, and Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis which received four Helen Hayes nominations. For the Public Theatre in Seattle, Christopher Shinn’s Dying City. Fiddler on the Roof for Olney Theater in Maryland. Karen Zacharius’s new children’s play Chasing George Washington for the Family Theater at the Kennedy Center (national tour). He has two Helen Hayes Nominations for adaptation/direction of Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Washington Shakespeare Company (originally adapted with Mary Machala for Book It Repertory Theater). He also directed, Our Lady of 121st Street at the Kennedy Center, Born Guilty for Theater J (Helen Hayes nomination), Death and the Maiden, a new novel/play by Joyce Carol Oates, the Tattooed Girl, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Bal Masque and a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Tiny Alice and Death and the Kings Horseman for the Washington Shakespeare Company, Opus and Red Herring for Everyman Theatre,  Heroes, One Good Marriage and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again at Metro stage, the Monument and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You for H Street Theater. The Caretaker for the Salt Lake Acting Company.  Upcoming productions: Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, How I Learned to Drive, Woman in Black and The Real Inspector Hound for various local theaters. Currently, he is involved in the development of a brand new piece called Rapture of the Deep by Eric Lane Barnes at the Balagan Theatre.