Adrienne Mackey

March 6, 2024

Adrienne Mackey is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the potential of performance and play. With her company, Swim Pony, she’s created works including Survive!, a 22,000 square ft choose-your-own-adventure installation exploring humanity’s place within the universe; Lady M, a feminist take on Macbeth; The Giant Squid, a “crypto-zoology-horror-comedy” performed in science lecture halls; and The […]

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Anna Homler

December 14, 2023

Anna Homler is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler sings in an improvised melodic language. Her work explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. She […]

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Stephanie Roman

December 6, 2023

Stephanie Roman (they/them) is a Mexican American actor and teaching artist based out of Seattle. Their training began at PCPA – Pacific Conservatory Theatre in California, and they later moved to Seattle to earn their BFA in acting at Cornish College of the Arts. During their time in Seattle they have worked at Ese Teatro, […]

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Jesse Minkert

November 27, 2023

Jesse Minkert’s work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate. Thanks to Raven Chronicles, he is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Over twenty years he has written about fifty short radio stories that were […]

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UMO Ensemble

November 17, 2023

UMO Ensemble’s creative process is rooted in physical theatre: improvisations in movement, character, vocalization, and writing are the basis for the creation and development of new works. In its over 30 year history, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative, compelling and critically acclaimed performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. […]

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Stacey Levine

November 14, 2023

Stacey Levine is the author of five books of uniquely original voice-driven fiction. Her novel MICE 1961, a comic-dramatic exploration of two sisters’ relationship and set during the Cold War, will be published by in 2024. Levine’s short fiction collection THE GIRL WITH BROWN FUR, longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State […]

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Nikki Appino

November 14, 2023

Nikki Appino is a multi-disciplinary theater artist and filmmaker. Her art has been recognized through commissions and grants, including the Pew Center for Arts & Culture, the Flintridge Foundation, Paul Allen Foundation, Artist Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Fellowship. In the ’90s she founded a company to develop and produce original theater […]

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Patricia Van Kirk

November 14, 2023

Patricia Van Kirk (1954-2005) was a longtime Seattle resident, director of plays and active member of the LGBT community who touched many lives through her work as Director of Front Room Theater and Hidden Histories, and through her position at Metro Transit as a Base Chief. The Patricia Van Kirk Memorial Scholarship extends her legacy […]

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Joseph Zajonc and Janet Wallace

November 13, 2023

For the 1996 Jack Straw Artist Support Program, musician Joseph Zajonc and poet/storyteller Janet Wallace collaborated on the project Noseman: A Twin Absorbed, a narrative about a man with a cauliflower nose, which is actually his undeveloped twin from the womb. “The initial situation is that his twin is directly between him and the world, […]

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Y York

October 30, 2023

Y York is the author of more than 50 plays, half for young people and their adults, half for adults without their young people. Her popularly and critically acclaimed plays are noted for their relevance and humor. Her adaptation of Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book Afternoon of the Elves has been produced in virtually […]

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