Yesterday we presented the last event in our Lost & Founded reading series. Beginning in September, this series of readings and receptions has paid tribute to five seminal Seattle theatres that are no longer in operation, but who's influence continues to be felt in this community: Alice B. Theatre, Seattle's Group Theatre, Bathhouse Theatre, Northwest Asian American Theatre, and the Empty Space. Thank you to the patrons and artists who joined us for these memorable evenings.
Another new initiative this season is our New Play Workshop Series, which we continue with Clarence Coo's People Sitting in Darkness. We invite you to join us at one of the public readings this April 1–3.
New Play Workshop: People Sitting in Darkness
Presented in collaboration with Azeotrope.
In this comic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the early 20th-century Philippines, a small town prepares to stage a performance for their American occupiers. Their play, based on an American novel about a young boy and an escaped slave rafting down the Mississippi, will either earn the townspeople their freedom—or more trouble from the US… Read more
Exhibition Opening: Production Design at UW Drama
A Muse of Fire highlights the amazing work of MFA lighting, costume, and scenic design alumni and students from the School of Drama. A number of the objects and images in the exhibit were crowdsourced from alumni. The exhibit will also include costumes and other items from the School of Drama Costume Shop. Drama librarian Angela Weaver serves as curator of the exhibition.
The exhibit runs April 1 through May 11 at the… Read more
Mellon Foundation grants $750,000 to fund performing arts research
The Andrew A. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Washington a three-year $750,000 grant to pilot a new Creative Fellowships Initiative that will explore the nature of creative research at a top public research university. The interdisciplinary initiative will advance the field of performing arts by supporting artists in the development of new work and by integrating the performing arts disciplines into the broader curriculum.
"We see these research-directed creative… Read more
Melody Donais, Drama senior, on producing and directing 4.48 Psychosis
Melody Donais is a Drama: Design major with a minor in Dance, specializing in stage management and choreography, and the 2016 recipient of the School of Drama Senior Capstone Award. With the support from the School, Melody is producing and directing Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.
The show runs March 31 thru April 3 in room 218 of Hutchinson Hall, and features a creative team of current students—James Melnick, Levi Perez, Max Kerwien, Mairin Hackett, Emma Broback, and Jake Israel—and… Read more
Alumni News, March 2016
Aaron Jackson (MFA '10) is currently the set designer for Rizzoli & Isles (TNT), and Tristan Dalley (MFA '02)is the art director.
Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton (MFA '96) was named one of the 20 most talented people in Seattle by Seattle Magazine.
Brooklyn Bridge, our co-production with… Read more