Upcoming Readings and Other Events

 

All reading start at 7PM unless otherwise noted

 

 

Readings will switch to the second TUESDAY of the month in July

 

August: Northwest Playwrights Month

Join us for a variety of events celebrating new plays and Northwest Playwrights

August 4th - 2009

Framed by Y York, dir. Mark Lutwak

August 11th - 2009 - Special Event 7pm

Lee Blessing reads his play Chesapeake

Festival Northwest:

Co-Produced with Tacoma Little Theatre

For full festival Info and to purchase tickets visit: TLT Website

With The Working Theatre Collective

A Story that Ends& Begins With a Dream by Nate Harpel,

John Lennon's Gargoyle by Bryan Willis

Convention by Dan Erickson

Six short plays

   Exit, Pursued by A Bear by Sean Walbeck, Dir. by Deane Shellman

   Santa Fe by Robert Caisley, Dir. by Brian Tyrrell

   Off Book by LaChris Jordan, Dir.by Amalia Larson

   TBA by Lia Romero

   The Chore by Nick Stokes,

   A poetry work by the 253 Collaborative

August 22nd - 2009, 2pm and 7pm

AIE at Port Gamble

Free Admission

Co-sponsored by NPA and the Academy of International Education.

"Port Gamble Anthology" features a cast of 40 in this site-specific
adaptation of the 1915 Edgar Lee Masters' masterpiece, "Spoon River
Anthology." Hear your great grandmother's ghost tell you the story behind
the tombstone. Audience will be free to roam eight sites throughout the
village...but we're almost certain we know where you'll end up. Directed by
NPA's playwright-in-residence, Bryan Willis, featuring NPA board members
Jana Tyrrell, Tim Hoban, NPA Artistic Director Brian Tyrrell, and the
ghostly spirits of at least 36 Japanese students. Not to be missed!

Questions? Please contact Kohei at 254/589-1453
or Bryan at 360/754-2818

 

September 8th - 2009

TBA by Nick Stokes, dir Jerry Manning, I Love You Flavilla by Bryan Willis

October 13 - 2009

A Strange Disappearance of Bees by Elena Hartwell

 

 

 

 

 

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NPA also publishes an annual anthology of short plays, NorthNorthwest, co-sponsors the annual Double Shot Festival of overnight plays with the Univ. of Puget Sound, as well as an annual tour to England (co-sponsored by the Kennedy Center) featuring short plays by Northwest playwrights.  Last Feb/March NPA sponsored the Festival of Northwest Plays (with The Broadway Center and UPS), in Tacoma at Theater on the Square.  The festival featured three fully-produced, royalty-paying, full-length plays and over 30 ten-minute plays. Deadline for anthology submission March 15, 2009.

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Northwest Drama Conference/NPA playwriting contest

NWDC & NPA announce a new play competition for students of NWDC affiliated Colleges and Universities.

Unpublished short plays (ten minute or one act) written by students.  

All plays will be read by the professional playwrights who are members of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance.  

The winning play will be given a reading at the NWDC/KCACTF regional festival at the University of Idaho in February 2009 and one presented as a reading NPA at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle.

The play must connect to the theme: "The West" in the geography of the world, mind or spirit.  

NPA has the option to publish the winning play.

A $100 prize plus $400 towards travel to Seattle WA, if the playwright can attend the reading, will be awarded the winning playwright.  

Deadline for all play submissions is December 5.  


Plays to be submitted to :  

Northwest Drama Conference
NWDC/NPA Playwriting Competition
Tammi Doyle
Bellevue Community College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007

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Seattle Rep/NPA Discount  

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 2008/09 Season for just $24 a ticket, individuals 25 and under always pay $10 a ticket.  For dates and times of our Preview performances please view our website calendar at seattlerep.org.  To purchase tickets at this special price simply call our box office at 206-443-2222, Groups of 10 or more contact Klint Keys at 206-443-2224.

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