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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Joann Farias

October 26, 2023

Joann Farías is a writer in many formats.  As a script writer, Joann Farías’s opera libretto, Past the Checkpoints, with music composed by David Hanlon, was produced by Houston Grand Opera, and is available for touring. Her play The Land of Corn and Power was read at the ACT Multicultural Playwrights Festival (2011). No More […]

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Olga Sanchez Saltveit

October 18, 2023

Olga Sanchez Saltveit is Artistic Director Emerita for Milagro, the Pacific Northwest’s premier Latinx arts & culture organization, following her service as the company’s Artistic Director from 2003-2015. She is an actor, director, devisor, and arts activist, whose work has been seen throughout the US and in Peru, Venezuela, Honduras, and Cuba. Olga served as […]

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Circus Contraption

October 17, 2023

Circus Contraption was a one ring circus committed to the preservation, enrichment, and evolution of the circus and variety arts. Music is an integral part of the Circus Contraption experience, and the troupe worked toward blurring the lines between the musicians and physical performers in the creative process. The band was led by music director […]

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Jeff Gardner

October 9, 2023

Jeff Gardner is a native of Los Angeles, California and a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. After graduation Jeff began acting professionally in Washington D.C. where he appeared in Little Women at the Kennedy Center, Skylight at The Studio Theatre, Henry V, Henry VI parts I-III and Measure for […]

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Camilla Kintana

July 11, 2023

Camilla Kintana is an actor in Seattle, Washington who recently played Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries, directed by Michael Nevárez, and Thaisa in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directed by Timothy McCuen Piggee. Originally from Portland, Oregon, her training at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle has provided her the opportunity to explore what is now the […]

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Rob Witmer

June 22, 2023

Rob Witmer is a composer, musician, and sound designer from Seattle, Washington. He studied arts and technology at the Evergreen State College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts. Rob has composed music and created sound designs for many theatrical productions at Seattle Rep, Seattle Opera, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle […]

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Kate Myre

September 13, 2022

Kate Myre lives and works in Seattle as a stage actor, voice over talent, and teacher. In addition to her extensive work nationally as a voice over artist and dialect coach, regional stage credits include: Seattle Public Theater’s Boston Marriage, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Lady Macbeth, Boston’s Publick Theatre as Rosalind in As You Like It, […]

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