Seattle Dramatists' fabulous and fun Playwright Auction and Wine Tasting Party is coming up Sunday, December 3rd, 5pm to 9pm, Hugo House on Capitol Hill.

Three playwrights are sold and receive instructions
Three playwrights retire to quiet rooms
Three playwrights write a five-minute play each
And we all get to enjoy the result!

Join us and you can ...

See Keri Healey, Vincent Delaney, and Elizabeth Heffron on the AUCTION block
Enjoy five different WINES and delicious FOODS to go with each
Appreciate the beauty of playwriting and the splendor of community
Feel enriched or confused by a historical reenactment of last year's auction
See three brand new short plays performed by nine of our favorite actors
And laugh along with our talented emcee, Sarah Rudinoff.

For all the details about the event, please visit our web site at www.seattledramatists.org and click on "events" or call Seattle Dramatists at (206) 720-0083.

We hope to see you there!

Becky Hellyer
Executive Director, Seattle Dramatists
(206) 720-0083

Did anyone else hear the piece on KUOW about Seattle theatre tonight at 8pm? Always fun to hear people we know on the radio! And it was an interesting and hopeful piece. What did you think?

Comparing for-profit to non-profit organizations is very tricky - and actually not really useful. For-profits are all about maximizing stockholder wealth. Amazon.com is really interesting in that stockholder wealth continued to grow even without a profit showing on the books. It's a case-study that business students will be studying for many, many years to come.

Non-profits are all about their boards. Does the board have the ability and the interest to raise money for the organization? (Part of that, of course, comes down to management and the mission and the "product".) If they're willing to raise the money, the organization can pursue its mission. If not, the party is over.

CALL FOR SCRIPTS
Seattle Dramatists' Avalanche: A Festival of New Plays
 
Contact: Becky Hellyer, Executive Director
           (206) 720-0083, becky@seattledramatists.org
 
Seattle Dramatists, a non-profit organization supporting playwrights and
playwriting, seeks project proposals for its upcoming Avalanche: A Festival
of New Plays. We are accepting whole, completed scripts or a proposal for a
planned script. These should be new, unproduced projects. There are no
length restrictions or cast limits but we are not accepting musicals this
time around.

Proposal submission dates for Avalanche:
Submission period opens on September 1, 2006.
Submission deadline is November 1, 2006.
Decisions will be announced December 1, 2006.
The festival runs February 2nd through February 4th, 2007.
 
Proposals are accepted only from playwrights living in the Northwest.
 
The play festival will run over a single weekend and will include two public
readings each of eight projects chosen. Stipends for actors and directors of
each reading will be provided.
 
Only one submission per playwright.
 
A proposal should include all of the following:
a synopsis of the story
the entire script or 10-15 pages of dialogue from the script
a list of the characters (please indicate if doubling is possible)
an estimate of the running time of the play
your playwriting resume
your bio (what would show up in a program)
a letter describing what you hope to achieve before and during the festival
your current contact information
 
Please mail your submission (no emails, please) to:
Seattle Dramatists' Avalanche
1634 Eleventh Ave.
Seattle, WA  98112
 
Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of Seattle-area
theatre professionals. It is possible that further details about a proposed
project would be requested.  Good luck to you!

www.seattledramatists.org

Seattle Dramatists and Hugo House have joined forces to offer up a very cool playwriting for Fall 2005!

To register for the class, email Seattle Dramatists info@seattledramatists.org or call (206) 720-0083
 
SPEAK TO ME: Dialogue for the Playwright and Writer
Taught by Elizabeth Heffron
Six Weeks: Thursdays 4-6:00pm at Hugo House
October 6th - November 10th
Tuition: $190/ $175 for Seattle Dramatists members
Class Limit: 15 students
 
Description:
Playscripts tell their stories almost solely through dialogue. But, dialogue is not the sole purview of the playwright. Great dialogue is essential for all writers. We recognize great dialogue when we hear it – characters talk as if they’re right in the room with us. But somehow it's more – somehow the writer has infused the words with mystery, resistance, desire, promise, lust. How do they do it? Using a diverse assortment of in-class exercises, award-winning playwright Elizabeth Heffron will share the tools for writing authentic dialogue that reveals plot and character. Class is appropriate for all writers... including the playwright.
 
Elizabeth Heffron bio:
Elizabeth Heffron's plays have been produced in the US and Canada, including Seattle, New York, and Vancouver B.C. Her work includes NEW PATAGONIA, MOSES LAKE, APPROACHING PI, and MITZI'S ABORTION, which received a workshop production at ACT Theatre last March. Her short play, BIRDS, is currently a finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She’s received a Playwriting Fellowship from Artist Trust/WSAC, is a Principal Playwright at Seattle Dramatists, and teaches playwriting for ACT's Young Playwrights Program.

I have the Summit on my calendar for June 6th. (gah!) Obviously, I've missed another important TPS event. So, I'll be awaiting a recap as well.

Becky

Seattle Dramatists has just chosen Stephanie Timm and Allison Gregory as Principal Playwrights! Stephanie and Allison were chosen from a pool of playwright applicants by a panel of local theatre professionals. Stephanie and Allison are both talented and accomplished playwrights with a commitment to supporting and participating in the local theatre community. They will receive focused play development and support, as well as promotion in the theatre community, during their three-year terms.

Congratulations to Stephanie and Allison! We look forward to supporting your works-in-progress over the next few years!

Becky Hellyer
Executive Director, Seattle Dramatists

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ABOUT STEPHANIE TIMM
Stephanie Timm most recently wrote the script for FRANKENOCCHIO, which opened the 2004-2005 season at the Empty Space Theatre.  Her other original works include W(H)ACKED, THE FROG, BIG FISH, SMALL POND, ONCE UPON A HOLY NIGHT, and CRY FIRE. Her work has been performed at On the Boards, ACT Theatre as part of the FringeACT Festival of New Original Work, Seattle Fringe Festival, Live Girls!, Mae West Festival, Freehold Studio Series, and R.E.D. Studio among others. Stephanie is also an equity actor, a poet, and an administrative specialist.  She most recently played Poppy in Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of NOISES OFF, Sophie in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s BIG FRIENDLY GIANT, Hyacinte in Intiman’s SCAPIN, and Esther in Missouri Repertory Theatre's MORNING STAR.  Her poem Serial Romance Fantasy #49 will appear in Issue 22 of Bricolage, and she works in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington.
 
ABOUT ALLISON GREGORY
Allison Gregory's first play, FORCING HYACINTHS, won a Julie Harris playwriting award and an honorable mention in South Coast Repertory's California Playwrights Contest. Other plays include FALL OFF NIGHT (commissioned by South Coast Repertory), which had a critically acclaimed run in Los Angeles; CLIFFHOUSE, produced in Macon, Georgia; POINT DECEPTION, which was commissioned by Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre, and BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY, in conjunction with Baba Yaga Productions. Ms. Gregory's compilation of short plays, FRUIT, was produced by SCR's Professional Conservatory, and Theatre East in Los Angeles. Her children's play EVEN STEVEN GOES TO WAR (commissioned by A.S.K. Theatre Projects), was selected by the Kennedy Center for their New Visions/New Voices reading series. The play received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education UPRP award, and had its premiere at Childsplay in Arizona, where it won the Zoni Award, given by area newspapers, for Best New Script.  She adapted GO DOG, GO! with her husband, playwright Steven Dietz, for Seattle Children’s Theatre, who has also commissioned her to adapt PETER AND THE WOLF, to premiere in Spring 2006. Currently, she is working on a free-wheeling adaptation of an Edith Wharton novella. Allison is lucky mom to Ruby C. G. Dietz.

Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Elvis Presley (<----who's he?)

Elizabeth Heffron just won the ACT Theatre New Play Award and you can have her as a teacher!

Spring 2005 at Seattle Dramatists
Elizabeth Heffron's Beginning Playwriting Class.

Tuesdays, April 12th thorugh May 31st (8 weeks)
6:15-9:15pm at Seattle Dramatists
Tuition $325, $300 for members of Seattle Dramatists
Class limit: 10
To register (or for more information): reply to this email or call Seattle Dramatists at (206) 720-0083

Class Description: This eight-week class explores the process of playwriting
from beginning to end. Using a diverse assortment of in-class exercises, most of which are deliberately designed to ‘disarm’ our internal editor, we will discover the essential elements of good plays: believable characters, compelling conflict, and authentic dialogue. Armed with the results of these exercises, the student will then be challenged to complete a one-act play. We will focus on the art of story structure and learn how to weave characters and conflict together in compelling and satisfying ways.
Please dress in comfortable clothes as we will begin each class with a series of warm-ups and will frequently come to our writing work from a physical or improvisational exercise.

Teacher bio:
Elizabeth Heffron’s plays include NEW PATAGONIA, produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and MITZI’S ABORTION, commissioned by ACT Theatre for the FringeACT Festival of New Plays. She’s created three site-specific musicals for Seattle’s One Reel Productions, including ICICLE TIMES, which featured 250 live performers, plus a horse, a donkey, and two chickens. Her work has been staged in Seattle, Vancouver B.C., New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco.  She's the recipient of three Seattle Artist grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, and a Playwriting Fellowship from Artist Trust and the Washington State Arts Commission.

Seattle Dramatists Hosts

OPEN BOX: An Open Mic For Playwrights
at the JewelBox Theatre in the Rendezvous Tavern in Belltown
Saturday, March 26th 4:30-5:30pm

Playwrights arrive with raw, quivering, short scripts that might knock our socks off... or might not. We won't know until we hear them. Open Box is a monthly event for playwrights, looky-loos, and rubber-neckers.

"A most terrifying opportunity playwrights would be crazy to pass up."

Playwrights are included on a first come, first served basis. Playwrights who would like to participate should show up 1/2 hour early with enough copies of a 10-minute or less piece for all the characters who are reading. Actors will be available to read or writers may choose to read the piece themselves.

Seattle Dramatists is a playwright's organization with a mission to support Seattle area playwrights and the plays they write. Seattle Dramatists offers script evaluation, peer mentoring, workshops, readings, classes, library resources, meeting space, and a casting directory. Playwrights at all levels of experience are welcome to join. For more information please contact Seattle Dramatists at info@seattledramatists.org or call (206) 720-0083.

Richard,

Thanks for the update. I'll try it again soon and see if I can make it work.

Becky

Gilbert O'Sullivan, darling?

Alone again, naturally.

(Name that 70s artist!)

Did this problem from Richard Lorig ever get answered? I had the same problem and I'm running with the same system and browser.

Okay, I'm game. I'm not much on chat rooms but I decided to fire it up and...

Tiny Box!

I'm running it on a Mac on Safari in OSX. (The latest version of everything.)
It was impossible to  make out a lot of the info because it was bound in the center of the screen by a tiny box.
I tried hitting the float button to see if that would free it but nothing happened.

 

Seattle Dramatists Hosts

OPEN BOX: An Open Mic For Playwrights
at the JewelBox Theatre in the Rendezvous Tavern in Belltown
Saturday, February 26th 4:30-5:30pm

Playwrights arrive with raw, quivering, short scripts that might knock our socks off... or might not. We won't know until we hear them. Open Box is a monthly event for playwrights, looky-loos, and rubber-neckers.

"A most terrifying opportunity playwrights would be crazy to pass up."

Playwrights are included on a first come, first served basis. Playwrights who would like to participate should show up 1/2 hour early with enough copies of a 10-minute or less piece for all the characters who are reading. Actors will be available to read or writers may choose to read the piece themselves.

Seattle Dramatists is a playwright's organization with a mission to support Seattle area playwrights and the plays they write. Seattle Dramatists offers script evaluation, peer mentoring, workshops, readings, classes, library resources, meeting space, and a casting directory. Playwrights at all levels of experience are welcome to join. For more information please contact Seattle Dramatists at info@seattledramatists.org or call (206) 720-0083.

Seattle Dramatists presents a reading of
Principal Playwright Scot Augustson's GEEZERS

Monday, February 28th 7:00pm
Theatre Off Jackson (409 Seventh Ave S.)
$2, free for members of Seattle Dramatists

MURDER! DEPRAVITY! RUTHLESS AMBITION!

The battle between Mrs. Weezewind and Mr. Enderquinn for the Presidency of the Residents' Council at the formerly peaceable old folks home, Casa De Adios, turns deadly in Scot Augustson's brand new classical tragedy, GEEZERS. It's an epic tale of passion, betrayal and pudding. Directed by Adam Greenfield.

Scot Augustson's plays include SPY DIARY, INTELLIGENCE, WHY? WHY? WHY?, GONE ARE THE DAYS: A GHASTLY CHRONICLE OF AN EPIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE REMORSELESS, UNRELENTING LANDSCAPES OF HELL ITSELF! (OR, SEX AFTER DEATH), VERY LESBIAN NUTCRACKER/HUNG BY THE CHIMNEY, BRENT OR BRENDA, 1001 NIGHTS, and GILGAMESH, IOWA. His play PLANTS AND ANIMALS toured the festival circuit last year and his play THE CHRIS SCHUSSLER INCIDENT is currently playing at Chamber Theatre. Scot has worked with Printer's Devil, Consolidated Works, Pulp Vixens, Annex, On The Boards, Richard Hugo House, The Ethereal Mutt, NWAAT, Der Stamen Spielers, One World Theater, Defibrilator, Three Card Monte, and Rebar.

Seattle Dramatists is a playwright's organization with a mission to support Seattle area playwrights and the plays they write. Seattle Dramatists offers script evaluation, peer mentoring, workshops, readings, classes, library resources, meeting space, and a casting directory. Playwrights at all levels of experience are welcome to join. For more information please contact Seattle Dramatists at info@seattledramatists.org or call (206) 720-0083.