Northwest Playwrights Alliance

NPA READING SERIES PRESENTS

oakwoods

High school senior George Marvin has attracted national attention to tiny Oakwoods with his award winning science project. George’s sudden notoriety, along with the construction of a housing development and resort, has the fading mountain town standing on the verge of being reborn. Will a dark discovery derail this new found hope? Oakwoods is a story about accomplishments beyond our wildest dreams and the unexpected places they can lead us.

Dano Madden is a playwright and director. His plays have been produced and/or received development by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Source Festival, The Artful Conspirators, World At Large Theatre, The National New Play Network, Mile Square Theatre, Burnt Studio Productions, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Kitchen Theatre Company, Rutgers University, The University of Tulsa, Bloomsburg University, Lark Play Development Center, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Boise Contemporary Theater and Boston Theatre Works, among others. He is a three time Heideman Award finalist. He was the winner of the Kennedy Center’s 2007 National Student Playwriting Award and a finalist for the National New Play Network’s 2010 Smith Prize. Published works include: In the Sawtooths and Drop (Samuel French, Inc.), Beautiful American Soldier and Ella (Best American Short Plays 2005-2006 & 2009-2010), The Save (Playscripts, Inc.), The Soft Sand and Survival (Northwest Playwrights Alliance), The Raccoon and Leaving IKEA (Indie Theater Now) and monologues in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Scenes 2010 (Smith & Kraus) and Exceptional Monologues 2 (Samuel French, Inc.) Dano is the Associate Artistic Director of The Artful Conspirators and an adjunct professor of playwriting at NYU. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his wife Lauren, and their cat Beth. www.danomadden.com

Directed by Brian Tyrrell.

Brian Tyrrell is the co-founder of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. He has been a member of the Centralia College faculty since 1991. Over the past 22 years he has directed and/or produced over 80 college productions. A graduate of Purdue University (MA, 1980, MFA, 1997), his directing credits include The Rainmaker and Rabbit Hole (Harlequin Productions), Fiction, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Next to Normal (Capital Playhouse) and assistant direction of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the 5th Avenue Theatre. He’s the former Associate/Casting Director for Tacoma Actors Guild. Over the past four summers he has taught acting at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York. A member of AEA, his stage credits include seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, National Shakespeare Company as well as productions in Chicago, Seattle and Olympia.

NPA MONTHLY READING SERIES PRESENTS

littlevoices

7pm in the Pancho Forum at Seattle Repertory, on Tuesday, October 8th.

On a mild, sunny winter's day in 1923, short story writer Katherine Mansfield was a patient at an alternative medicine sanitarium, the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France. Little Voices records the events of that day, real and imagined.

Take an interior journey with the little known but extraordinary New Zealand writer, to the early 1900s and mystic, aboriginal New Zealand, to the South of France, to the swinging London of the Roaring Twenties, into the imagination of one of the world’s most original and elusive early feminist writers as she struggles to create a last, meaningful short story.

Chris Longo is an American playwright who now resides in Seattle after twenty-five years as professor of Literature and Theatre in Buenos Aires. There he was artistic director of The Bi-Lingual Buenos Aires Cabaret Theatre and the Americas Theatre Company, as well as actor and frequent playwright/Director at the Suburban Players and the British Arts Center, two of the city's most prominent English language theaters.

In Los Angeles, Mr. Longo was a member of the Screenwriters Guild and developed a project for John Travolta Productions called Bugatti, a project to be filmed in Mainland China called Footprints of the Pheasant in the Snow for Tower Films, and a project for public television in Los Angeles on migrant workers, Aztecs in a field of Flowers.

As a playwright his work has received the following commendations: The John Golden Award for Creative Writing, the Peter Pauper Press Prize, three Office of Advanced Drama Research nominations, a National Repertory Theater Foundation playwriting award, MultiStages New Works Playwriting Contest , and the Nantucket Playwriting Competition. His plays have been performed in New York, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Nantucket, and Argentina. He is a finalist for the third time this year in the MultiStages International Playwriting Competition in New York, where his play Sunday en la casa de Granma will be part of the 2013 festival at the beginning of 2014.

He’s worked both in Europe and the United States as a freelance journalist, most notably for Hugh Hefner’s now defunct QUI Magazine. A novel, THE LAST GENE, was published by Major Books in Los Angeles. In 2009 his play ABRACADABRA was published by Dunken Press in Argentina in a limited bi-lingual edition.

doubleshot 2013

Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
in Studio III at the Broadway Center

NPA is proud to co-sponsor with the Broadway Center this year's Double Shot festival.This 24 Hour play festival will feature as yet to be written plays by some the best playwrights in the Northwest. Writers will be given a prompt on Friday night, actors and directors will rehearse the play, and the performance will be Saturday night. TWICE. Always entertaining, the Double Shot festival is part of the Broadway Center's Free For All festival. That means free! (with registration)

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