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Festival of Northwest Plays
February 21 - March 2, 2008
Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA

Three new full-length plays
Three evenings of ten-minute plays

Including works by C. Rosalind Bell, Brent Hartinger, Dano Madden, Ki Gottberg, John Longenbaugh, Elena Hartwell, Gregory Hischak, Kamarie Chapman, Paul Mullin, Bryan Willis, Vince Delaney, Marcy Rodenborn, Beth Amsbary, Phillip Atlakson, Sol Olmstead, Eva Suter, Glenn Hergenhahn, Dan Erickson, Sean Walbeck, C.P. Stancich, Emily Freece, Michael Gaiuranos, Lindsey Newman, Ryan Dowler, Randall Colburn, Gregory Youtz, Adam Quesnell, Gregory Fletcher, Jon Haller, Ryan Clemens, Nadescha Bunje, Arlitia Jones....

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Presented by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, University of Puget Sound and Centralia College. Corporate Sponsor: "The Weekly Volcano." Season Sponsor: Pacific Slope Properties.
Additional funding: The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the Pierce County Arts Commission.

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The Full-length plays:
1) "In the Sawtooths," by Dano Madden, directed by Brian Tyrrell. This play received its first reading with NPA in Olympia and was recently voted "Best full-length play in the U.S." by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
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DANO MADDEN is from Boise, Idaho. He was recently named "One of 50 playwrights to watch" by The Dramatist, the magazine of the Dramatist Guild of America. His play, In the Sawtooths, was the winner of the Kennedy Center’s 2007 National Student Playwriting Award. In the Sawtooths has received readings at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Northwest Playwright’s Alliance, the Midtown International Theatre Festival and Boise Contemporary Theater. Mr. Madden’s play, Beautiful American Soldier was awarded first place in the 2006 New Works of Merit Playwriting contest and second place in the University of Tulsa’s 2007 New Works for Young Women contest. His writing credits include: The Wealthy Life of Sam Tyler (The National New Play Network’s University Playwright’s Workshop). The Save (Mile Square Theatre); Ella; Billy’s Suitcase; Caravaggio Called (Rutgers University); Yo-yo (State Theater in Olympia, Washington); The Raccoon (Idaho Theatre for Youth); Forecast (Honorable Mention, University of Idaho’s one-page play festival); The New (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Soft Sand (Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts); Drop (SAMUEL FRENCH, Inc). Drop was the winner of the Kennedy Center’s 1997 National Short-Play Award. Mr. Madden was the recipient of the 2001 Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship in playwriting. He recently received his MFA in playwriting from Rutgers University.

2) "The New Orleans Monologues," by C. Rosalind Bell, directed by Geoff Preohl, featuring Grace Livingston.

About the Playwright
C. Rosalind Bell is native of Southwest Louisiana, and for the past twelve years has called the Pacific Northwest home. She has authored five screenplays, two novellas, a novel and a collection of short stories. Rosalind was awarded a Washington State Artist in Residency Grant in 2000, and received a Callaloo Literary Journal Fellowship in 2003. A short film of one of her stories, "Tootie Pie," was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival in May, 2006.

Stones In My Passway
A fictionalized account of legendary Bluesman, Robert Johnson, was chosen as a season opener for the Seattle International Film Festival's Screenwriters' Salon Series.

Rosalind is currently a writer in WITS-Seattle (Writers In the Schools) where she leads a writing workshop with middle schoolers. She will be a featured writer in the upcoming NPA/UPS Doubleshot Festival May 18, 19. She is also collaborating on an NPA script with Ki Gottberg, Bryan Willis, Elena Hartwell, S.P. Miskowski, Lou Clark, Dano Madden and Beth Peterson.

About the play:
New Orleans Monologues is told through the voices of 14 fictional people who survive the tragedy, including blacks, whites and Vietnamese. The leading and most captivating voice is that of Elaine, an older black woman with a will that runs as strong as her opionions. The play starts with her voice saying, "Sometimes you look back on a thing, and you can't do nothing but just wonder. Water. A can opener...a basketball. Some gas...garbage...you knever know what'll save your life."
Daisy Hernandez, Colorlines, the national newsmagazine on race and politics, Jan/Feb 2008

3. "The Geography Club," by Brent Hartinger, directed by David Domkoski
BRENT HARTINGER, who was born and raised in Tacoma and has returned to live here after many years away, is thrilled by this, the first local production of one of his full-length plays. Brent is also the author of a number of novels for kids and teens, including Grand & Humble, The Last Chance Texaco, and Dreamquest; Geography Club is his stage adaptation of his first published novel. Brent's ten other full-length plays have been produced across the country, and Geography Club (the play) has been optioned for a New York production. Also a screenwriter, Brent has three feature films in the works, including, yes, a big-screen version of Geography Club.

Visit Brent online at www.brenthartinger.com

GEOGRAPHY CLUB: Sixteen year-old Russel Middlebrook thinks he's the only gay kid at his high school--until he discovers the school's baseball star is also gay, as is his best female friend, the school brain, and her soccer-playing girlfriend. But how can kids this diverse get together without calling attention to themselves? "We just create an after-school club that's so boring nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We could call in the Geography Club!" Russel and his friends may not learn any actual geography in their latest club, but they learn plenty about the about the treacherous social terrain of high school, and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart.

The ten-minute plays
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All of these have either received readings or have been published during the past four years with the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. Many of them are included in NPA's British Arts Tour, co-sponsored by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Western Washington University, which is currently touring the state and will complete the run with performances in England later this spring.

Some of the shows included among the three evenings of short works:
1. Poor Shem, by Gregory Hischak. Office routine stops cold when co-worker Shem is killed in the xerox machine. Do we call a rabbi or use the by-pass tray?
2. The Soft Sand, by Dano Madden. By the author of the Kennedy Center's "Best play in the United States - 2006.*" The King of Self-Editing learns to dance.
3. A Shoe Story, by Arlitia Jones. The deep meaning of life unveiled in a fight over shoes.
4. Mammals, by Ryan Dowler. Voted the best ten-minute play in the U.S. by the Kennedy Center in 2006. Two college students make a video unlike anything you've ever seen.
5. Hamlet, Prince of Denny's, by Ryan Clemens. Shakespeare meets McDonald's. A uniquely American interpretation.
6. The Evolution of Chaos, by Bryan Willis. Get inside the heads of four women as they attempt to master inner peace during a yoga session.
7. We Remember Breakfast, by Emily Freece. Two women on an airplane flight have a secret to share. A play about lies and friendship.
8. Kuwait, by Vincent Delaney. Free Press vs. Free Rein when a journalist is withheld by U.S. forces.
9. A Play about Fish, by Kamarie Chapman. A slug attempts to sustain a philosophical discussion with two brilliant goldfish burdened with extremely limited short term memories. Oh Look! A new castle!
10. Snippy, by Dan Erickson. Life is never the same for young Thandie after she loans her scissors to a classmate. A dark and excruciatingly funny look at the glorious dance of the victim.
11. Memorable Moments with Strangers, by Sol Olmstead.
12. Chat Room, by Jon Haller. A meeting of an AOL suicide club goes awry. Gilda and Probhu learn important lessons about feet, turtles and new beginnings.
13. The Man Who Fell off His Bicycle, by Glenn Hergenhahn. A curious and passionate love story featuring a wildly uninhibited Frederick Nietzche.
14. Ravishment, by Randall Colburn. Voted one of the best short plays in the U.S. (KCACTF) - An enigmatic play about sexuality and self-respect.
15. Europa and the Bull, by Beth Amsbary. Woman vs. Nature - victory without a conquest.

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