Gregory Hischak’s short plays Hygiene and Poor Shem have been produced as part of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Apprentice/Intern Tens program and both were restaged as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays (2010 and 2014, respectively). His full-length play, The Center of Gravity, won the 2009 Clauder Prize and premiered at Portland […]
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Nu Quang, born and raised in Vietnam, is a playwright/author. She earned an MFA from Western Michigan University in 1992. Her plays were designated as finalists at numerous playwriting competitions. In 2000 she won a GAP Award and the Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in Theatre for her dark comedy The Philanthropist, which was […]
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Laurel Anne White began writing at the age of four, primarily oral histories for the benefit of Fuzzy Creature, Lambchop, and Tedward Bear. Throughout her youth she composed many plays, poems, speeches, and short stories until she was wooed away to a life in the theatre. Years of fast living in regional repertory theatre as […]
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Gavin Reub is the Artistic Director of The Seagull Project, which is a Gregory Award-winning company with an ensemble of 26 actors. Also, he has helped develop more than 20 local plays as the Director of Creative Development for The Umbrella Project, which exists to develop and advocate for diverse new theatrical work by demonstrating […]
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Curtis Taylor is a narrative filmmaker and playwright. In Seattle he operated the underground theater Vodvil from 1996 to 2006, and under these auspices created original folk operas, cabarets, recitals and sound art installations. His recent work has combined mannered musical languages (murder ballads, sacred choir and opera) with historic stage traditions (ballet, vaudeville and […]
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Anastacia-Renee (She/They), former Jack Straw 2020 Curator and Seattle Civic Poet, is an award-winning writer, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and speaker. She is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad), selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 and feature of PBS.org’s, My Brief But Spectacular Life on Poetry and Legacy. […]
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Ann Teplick is a Seattle poet, playwright, and prose writer, with an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. For eighteen years she’s written with youth in schools, juvenile detention centers, psychiatric hospitals and literary non-profits. Her work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Drash, Chrysanthemum, Hunger Mountain, and others. Her plays have been showcased […]
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