Little Bee at Book-It Theatre

APRIL 2015

BY CHRIS CLEAVE ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY MYRA PLATT

APRIL 22 - MAY 17, 2015

I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE DOG OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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APRIL 2015

Little Bee A1

by Chris Cleave Adapted and Directed by Myra Platt

A-1 Welcome BY CHRIS CLEAVE A-3 Little Bee Credits ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY MYRA PLATT A-8 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information

APRIL 22 - MAY 17, 2015

I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE DOG OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

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Five Friday Questions with Keiko Green BY BRETT HAMIL

Keiko Green is a half-Japanese writer/performer from Georgia who came shake her and scream, to Seattle via New York three years ago. Since then, she’s appeared in “Stop pretending to be numerous productions: Annex’s Chaos Theory, WET’s Bengal Tiger broken! You’re broken at the Baghdad Zoo, Pony World’s Or, the Whale. This year she makes already!” her debuts at the Rep in The Comparables in March and at Seattle Shakespeare in next May’s production of Othello. Her original musical What’s the best meal Bunnies, inspired by the Woodland Park bunny infestation with music in Seattle? by Jesse Smith, will have its world premiere as part of Annex Theatre’s I’m a sucker for a good mainstage season this April. happy hour. I often end Green is preparing for a creatively prolific year. I caught up with her up eating dinner really for this installment of Five Friday Questions. early because of this happy hour obsession. What’s the best performance you’ve seen lately? The grilled sardine That fake field goal in the NFC championship game. I’m obsessed with tartine at Lecosho is the it. I can’t stop watching loops of it online. It’s everything you want in a single most delicious performance: a solid set-up and a beautiful twist in the plot. I want all bite in Seattle, and it’s my work to be like that fake field goal. only available at happy There’s also been so much good theatre in town so far this year. I hour unless you use your puppy dog eyes -- which I have used to varied saw seven shows last week. The performance that is currently sticking success. in my mind is Robin Jones as Blanche in Civic Rep’s A Streetcar Named Add a salad with a perfect egg, some sausages to share, and a glass (or Desire. She was so layered. Her Blanche was so delicate, and yet she two) of wine for the perfect meal. If I could get the roasted bone marrow would victimize herself in a way that fooled no one. You wanted to from Quinn’s Pub added to that, well…a girl can dream.

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What music gets you pumped up? What do you listen to when you’re sad? I like danceable music to get pumped up — or at least something I can jump up and down to. I really like Metric’s “Black Sheep,” though the intro is way too long, so I usually skip 30 seconds in. I actually like the actress who sang it in Scott Pilgrim’s voice better, so I often listen to the movie version online instead. Also my classmate from the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU is the lead singer of this band Avan Lava, and they’re amazing. Their song “Feels Good” gets me pumped not just because I love the song, but also because it reminds me that I’ve worked with tons of people who are way more talented than I am —it taps into my competitive nature. “Don’t stop never stop.” It’s my mantra. Don’t get left behind. When I’m sad, I like to listen to songs from Young Jean Lee’s band Future Wife. Their song “Horrible Things” puts things into perspective. The lyrics are depressing and hilarious: “Who do you think you are to be immune from tragedy? What makes you so special that you should go unscathed?” But it’s set to this really cute music and her voice is so sweet. All the songs are like that. “I’m Gonna Die” is also really great. I like to play cutesy sad music and just lie there and wallow, if time permits.

Do you “treat yourself” to anything special after a show closes? Well, I think the Olympus Spa or “naked spa” in Lynnwood will be my new treat. A friend introduced me to it last October, and I’m pretty smitten. They have a Korean restaurant inside the spa! How am I supposed to resist going to that place? Other than that, I pretty much like to celebrate all night after closing then lock myself in the house the day after, cooking and eating all day. Near the end of a run, I’m eating out more often than I like. So I spend this lazy day filling my body with hot, stinky, healthy Asian foods. I’ll stock up on everything fermented at Uwajimaya a couple days before, preparing for FEB 12 – MAY 17 this stinkfest.

What’s the most useful thing anyone’s ever taught you about working in theatre? In an audition, the people on the other side of the table are always on your side. Auditors want This exhibition is organized by the American Generous Support you to walk into the room and blow everyone Federation of Arts and was made possible Anonymous by the generosity of an anonymous donor, the ArtsFund/Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff else out of the water. It makes their job easier. JFM Foundation, and Mrs. Donald M. Cox. Fund for the Decorative and Design Arts They are rooting for you. The MacRae Foundation Seattle Art Museum Supporters (SAMS) The Seattle presentation is made possible through the

support of these funders Corporate Sponsor Perkins Coie LLP For more previews, stories, video and a look Image: Child’s jacket, ca. 1880, Apsáalooke (Crow), behind the scenes, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com Montana, hide, glass beads, 30 x 20 in., Diker no. 846, Courtesy American Federation of Arts.

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Seattle Rock Orchestra May 9 and 10 With over 50 instrumentalists and special guest vocalists, the Seattle Rock Orchestra combines the energy of rock ‘n’ roll with the colors and subtleties of classical music. This Mother’s Day weekend the Seattle Rock Orchestra continues their chronological foray into the albums of the Beatles with Abbey Road and Let It Be. PARENT PREVIEW oct. 23, nov. 8, & May 13 The Moore Theatre OPEN HOUSES Nov. 12 & Dec. 2 drop-in event jan. 10, 2015 Pilobolus For more information visit WWW.BILLINGSMIDDLESCHOOL.ORG May 14-16 With a vast repertoire and new works created every year, the dancers of Pilobolus are known for their extreme athleticism and strength. Named after phototropic fungi, this globetrotting dance troupe has performed on the Academy Awards, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Meany Hall

Jeeves Intervenes May 13-June 13 Reginald Jeeves, the expertly capable valet whose surname has become a synonym for “manservant,” must once again save the day in this comedy adapted from a P.G. Wodehouse story by Margaret Raether. Taproot Theatre

Threesome June 5-28 An Egyptian American couple invite another man into their bed for a threesome and end up exploring issues of sexism and independence in this world premiere written by local playwright Yussef El Guindi and directed by Chris Coleman. ACT Theatre

Slaughterhouse Five June 11-July 3 Kurt Vonnegut’s beloved story about the human consequences of war comes to life in this Book-It production adapted and directed by Josh Aaseng. Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim bounces from the firebombing of Dresden to the alien planet Tralfamadore and many points in between. Book-It Repertory Theatre

Correction: In the last issue, we mischaracterized the plot of Book-It’s Little Bee as the story of a Nigerian immigrant father committing suicide to keep his son, Little Bee, from being deported. The actual plot revolves around Little Bee’s encounter later in life with Sarah, a middle-class Englishwoman. We regret the error.

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6 ENCORE STAGES from city arts magazine ENCORE ARTS NEWS AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ Saturday, March 21 $39, $34 & $29, $15 youth/student A tribute to the black Rose Ann Finkel musicians of the 1920s and Charles Finkel and ’30s who were inspired the craft- part of the Harlem Beer Renaissance, this show beer revolution. takes its title from the 1929 Waller song of the same title. Central KORESH DANCE COMPANY Wednesday, April 1 Pike Place $34, $29 & $24, $15 youth/student Brewing Founded in Philadelphia in 1991, Koresh Dance is a secret Company is widely recognized for its superb treasure. technique and emotionally-compelling appeal. Thank its THE WONDER owner for BREAD YEARS Thursday, April 16 craft beer. $34, $29 & $24, $15 youth/student BY JONATHAN ZWICKEL A fresh & funny salute to Americana, The Wonder Bread Years starring Pat Hazell (Seinfeld) is ONE THING MOST museums get wrong is The owner of the collection—the execu- a fast-paced, hilarious production that grace- no beer. Though Pike Brewing Company is tive brewmaster and self-described “creative fully walks the line between standup and theater. technically a brewpub, it could easily qualify director” and president and founder of the Seniors 62+ & Military: 10% off on ECA presented events! as a museum. A museum of beer. brewery—is also the man responsible, at In other cities an establishment as grand least indirectly, for the craft beer revolu- ec4arts.org as Pike Brew would be a point of civic pride tion that began in the early ’80s. Back then, 425.275.9595 and a go-to hangout for crusty locals and Charles Finkel was a renegade importer who 410FOURTHAVE.N. gawping tourists alike. Somehow—maybe believed Americans were ready for beer with EDMONDSWA98020 because it’s existed so long in a location so a flavor profile beyond the bland, corn- prominent—most Seattleites forget it exists. syrupy lagers that dominated the landscape. The cavernous warren of rooms and bars and Today Finkel is considered a visionary, one more bars and more rooms winds through of the primary catalysts of a new American two floors of the South end of Pike Place industry. Market. It’s a 19-year-old secret treasure hid- “When we started in the beer business, den in plain sight. sales of craft beer were so small that they Every inch of every vertical surface is weren’t measurable,” Finkel says, sitting in a bedecked with “beeriana,” the highlights of booth inside Pike Brewing’s office (which is what might be the greatest collection of beer- also covered floor-to-ceiling with ephemera). related ephemera on Earth: beer labels, beer “Last year, sales of craft beer exceeded sales ads, beer articles, beer books, beer acces- of the Budweiser brand for the first time. sories, beer photos, beer illustrations, beer That’s a major milestone.” recipes, beer history and legend and data. A Vindication through longevity. And rec- sprawling array, for sure, but thoughtfully ognition: Finkel was described as “among a curated, elegantly framed and captioned dozen principals responsible for the modern in exacting detail. Brain candy for the beer renaissance of beer” by no less an eminence drinker. One room is dedicated entirely to than Michael Jackson, the scholar who the 9,000-year history of brewing; you can was to beer what James Beard was to food. follow the timeline across three walls, from Finkel edited the illustrations to the Oxford Handcrafting artisan Sumer to Seattle. Another details the story Companion to Beer, 2011’s massive, authori- of Nellie Curtis, the glamorous madam who tative volume on the subject. And here he confections in Seattle operated one of Seattle’s last brothels in a sits, bowtied and bespectacled, a 71-year-old for over 32 years hotel below the Market. There’s also a shrine Jewish boy born in New York and raised in to King Gambrinus, the legendary Lowlands Oklahoma, inside the inner sanctum of his royal known as the King of Beer. He purport- unassuming empire. His wife Rose Ann, edly invented the toast. who’s worked alongside him every step, is 1325 1st Avenue, Seattle Contemplate all this lore while drinking answering emails a few steps away. 206.682.0168 beer made one floor below. Pike Brewing’s “You’re speaking to the artist right now,” 2626 NE University Village Street, Seattle Naughty Nellie—a robust but delicate golden she says of her husband. 206.528.9969 ale named after Nellie Curtis—is one of True in more ways than one. Charles 10036 Main Street, Bellevue Seattle’s greatest achievements. Pike Entire Finkel’s entry into the beer business wasn’t 425.453.1698 Wood Aged Stout is chewy and smooth. The as a brewer but as an importer—an auteur, if 5900 Airport Way South, Seattle current seasonal special is the Octopus Ink you will. After moving to Woodinville, Wash. 206.508.4535 Black IPA, full-hopped but balanced and as from New York and working in the market- dark as its namesake. ing department of the fledgling Chateau Ste. franschocolates.com

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Michelle winery in the ’70s, one of his first consumer had an interest in a more flavorful, entrepreneurial endeavors was to re-launch distinctive product.” Samuel Smith, a 250-year-old brewery in Once they’d amassed the finances, the Yorkshire, England. Rather than make his Finkels opened the original Pike Brewing own full-bodied beer, Finkel convinced the Company on Western Ave. in 1989. Charles owners of the struggling brewery to remake developed the beer list and designed all theirs. the labels, both of which remain consistent Healthy.BastyrCenter.net | 206.834.4100 From his travels across Europe with Rose through today. They moved to their pres- Ann, he’d developed a taste for artisanal ent location, which serves a full menu of beers made by traditional methods for re- hearty, wholesome pub fare, in 1996. Pike gional tastes. “And as a guy from Oklahoma Brewing Co. often features guest beers from I’m not beyond going to a guy in Yorkshire upstart Seattle breweries and hosts food and and saying, ‘Can you make an oatmeal stout drink events that draw talent from around for me?’ And the guy from Yorkshire says, the world. Pike brewers have gone on to ‘What’s an oatmeal stout?’ And I have to brewmaster positions at breweries across teach them what their own heritage is. It’s the country and launched breweries of their not below my own chutzpah or dignity level own. to do that.” By unofficial count, eight breweries When their product met his standards, opened in Seattle in the last half of 2014. Finkel applied his schooling in graphic de- Several others debuted in the burbs. Still sign to develop a new, now-iconic label for the more are slated to launch in the coming beer. Then, with its sophisticated look and months. Due to their minimal production flavor profile, he began importing Samuel capacities, most of them are categorized photo: wireimage Smith Oatmeal Stout into the U.S. Soon he as nanobreweries—smaller even that the redesigned their entire line of beers. His original four-barrel facility Finkel started ROBERT success led him to rebranding and importing with. As the brewery count in King County beers from Germany, Norway and Belgium. nears 70—and with some 200 in Washington SCHENKKAN His import company, Merchant du Vin, is state—the craft beer revolution that Finkel All the Way, The Great Society and The Kentucky Cycle responsible for introducing American drink- incited shows no signs of slowing. Neither ers to their favorite European beers. And this does Pike Brew. Keynote Speaker at Friends of the Libraries is how Finkel inspired America’s craft beer “We’ve got enough momentum that the Literary Voices Dinner movement. more nanobreweries there are, the more “He was so far ahead of the curve in there’s a need for a place like this, where Saturday May 9, 6 pm the alcoholic beverage business that even you can come and learn about beer,” Finkel pioneers like me were astonished,” says says. “Beer is a great lens to look at history Paul Shipman, co-founder of Redhook, the through. We’re trying to introduce people, Club Husky, Husky Stadium Northwest’s first microbrewery. Back then, and hopefully encourage those nanobewer- Tickets $150 to support conservation he and co-founder Gordon Bowker were ies, to recognize that we’re talking about a $300 patron tickets | sponsorships available cracking open a brand-new marketplace in serious product of gastronomy through the the U.S. (much like the current dawn of the ages. Nine thousand years of people having recreational marijuana industry, Shipman a civilized attitude about consuming beer. [email protected] notes.) “What Charlie did with imports was And we’re beer central.” n 206-616-8397 a beacon. It was an inspiration to us as we contemplated doing it ourselves. He was PIKE BREWING

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8 ENCORE STAGES authors presented on our stage. the way in key positions making a difference Why is the percentage of women authors in society. #seaarts lower than the other statistics? Some suggested Book-It Repertory Theatre has been it is because we present many classics from the blazing the trail with two women leading 19th and 20th centuries, an era when writing the organization for the last quarter century. feminism was dominated by men; some said it was only Jane Jones and Myra Platt have mentored coincidence; some said it was a reflection countless women and been role models of Last month the Seattle Office of Arts and of the publishing industry’s inherent bias. how to succeed in the arts in our community Culture sponsored a Twitter conversation Regardless of whether any of these factors and beyond. Over the years, Book-It has entitled “Feminism + Arts in Seattle.” It is true—it has made us stop, reflect, and get provided women opportunities to build their was a lively conversation and sparked much more thoughtful about presenting work from résumés and hone their skills as writers and interest in the topic both during that forum all viewpoints and perspectives. adapters, directors, designers, actors, stage and since then. It spawned a Facebook managers, and arts administrators to go on to page and further conversation on Twitter “The story of women’s stuggle careers locally, regionally, and nationally. The (#SeaArtsFeminism), and is one part of an for equality belongs to no success of this organization has been driven ongoing national dialogue about feminism in single feminist nor to any one by women in leadership roles at every level. the arts. organization but to the collective (In fact, I’m also trail-blazing as the first male Feminism and the role of women in all managing director in Book-It’s history.) efforts of all who care about fields is a topic that should be central to our We cannot answer the question of how to society, and The Office of Arts and Culture is human rights.” create more opportunities for women or how to be congratulated for getting the ball rolling GLORIA STEINEM to remove the barriers to success for women on the issue of feminism in the arts in our in the performing arts. What we can do is to area. Why does it matter that women are given raise issues, question our own assumptions, This topic also sparked many conversations opportunities as directors, adapters and and welcome dialogue as we move this in our offices. We began thinking about how authors? Is it an issue of equity and fairness? topic forward. We appreciate everyone who Book-It represents women, and the role of I have been following Melinda Gates’ posts has participated in the #seaartsfeminism women in the work we do on stage. That led on these topics and the work of the Bill conversation started by the Seattle Office of to some number crunching as you see in the and Melinda Gates Foundation addressing Arts and Culture—please join us! statistics below. Although we pat ourselves on worldwide issues of gender equality and the back because the vast majority of Book-It empowerment for women, and she makes an Welcome to Book-It. shows are directed by women and a majority important point about why having women in of our adapters are women, we pause to leadership roles is essential—girls and young Daniel Mayer reflect on the lower percentage of female women need role models of women leading Managing Director

WOMEN AT BOOK-IT: THE NUMBERS Gender breakdown of 107 stories and novels produced by Book-It from 1993 to 2015

Book-It has hired 26 directors: 15 women, 11 men 33 adapters: 15 women, 18 men

and adapted the work of 75 authors: 27 women, 48 men

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encoreartsseattle.com A-1 WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2015-16 SEASON What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by RAYMOND CARVER An evening of stories adapted from the 1981 collection by Northwest native Raymond Carver.

Emma by JANE AUSTEN Book-It brings back the Jane Austen classic in time for the 200th anniversary of its publication.

The Brothers K by DAVID JAMES DUNCAN From the celebrated author of The River Why: an uplifting novel spanning decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. —Presented in two full-length parts—

OPENING JUNE 9

Turn to page A-12 for more about the show!

FOR MORE SEASON INFORMATION BOOK-IT.ORG JANE JONES & MYRA PLATT, FOUNDING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS | DANIEL Y. MAYER, MANAGING DIRECTOR

LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave Adapted and directed by Myra Platt

cast Sydney Andrews* Sarah Kourtney Connor† Ensemble Elena Flory-Barnes Yevette / Hunter / Ensemble Jonah Kowal Charlie Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako Little Bee Meiko Parton Leader / Ensemble Michael Patten* Lawrence / Ensemble Eric Riedmann* Andrew / Ensemble Jason Sanford Nigerian Guard / Ensemble Zenaida Smith No Name / Ensemble Kaila Towers Nkiruka / Ensemble

William E. Cruttenden III* Stage Manager Xandria Nirvana Barber Assistant Stage Manager

Artistic Team Will Abrahamse Scenic Designer Andrew D. Smith Lighting Designer Christine Meyers Costume Designer Evan Mosher Sound Designer Harry Todd Jamieson Assistant Sound Designer Anthea Carns Dramaturg Gin Hammond Dialect Coach Tom Dewey Fight Choreographer

Setting: London and Nigeria, 2007

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States † Book-It Acting Intern

season support Lucky Seven Foundation media sponsorS

Additional generous support is provided by individuals and by The Ex Anima Fund, The Williams Miller Family Foundation, and Spark Charitable Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters!

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Join Book-It as we discuss PUBLIC LIBRARY SEATTLE Chris Cleave speaks after the 2011 Seattle Public Library reading of Little Bee. These organizations make issues of immigration and a difference in immigrant asylum-seeking and how lives here in Washington and they resonate with us in Seattle. FRom page to stage around the world.

Beyond the Book Get Involved

JOHN ULMAN JOHN NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT Where In 2011, when Little Bee was chosen as the These are always terrifying events for RIGHTS PROJECT The Center Theatre lobby Seattle Reads novel by the Center for the both the performing artists and the author. A nationally recognized legal services My Heart’s pounding Book at the Seattle Public Library, Book-It Both sides hold their breaths and whisper to organization based in Washington Admission had the pleasure of meeting Chris Cleave. themselves “I hope I/they like it.” Luckily, State that provides direct legal Free and open to the public SPL’s Chris Higashi hired Book-It to adapt Chris Cleave did like it and we are so assistance in immigration matters to When I first read this page-turner, my I wanted to investigate this story, with its and perform a portion of Little Bee for a honored that we were granted permission over 10,000 low-income people from heart was pounding. I attributed that to unique double narrative, precisely because series of readings to tour Seattle libraries. The to do a fully realized stage adaptation in our over 150 countries each year. compelling storytelling, the need to know of how Little Bee and Sarah navigate their culminating performance at the central library 25th anniversary season. u nwirp.org APRIL 29, 6:30PM what happens next. But I became aware way past their fear on a planet that seems to was followed by a Q&A with the author. Hear from Anya Gedrath Smith from of the same sensation while I worked on reward fearmongering and male dominance. INTERNATIONAL RESCUE the International Rescue Committee, the adaptation and again while working These women possess a naturally strong COMMITTEE which provides resources to refugees. with the actors in rehearsal. Even though I capacity to turn atrocity into beauty and help Every year, the IRC resettles knew what happened, us see how empowering thousands of refugees in 22 U.S. Chris Cleave was born cities and their teams provide health MAY 3, 4:30PM my heart would thump. women across the globe in London in 1973, but spent his care, infrastructure, learning, and Learn more about the important legal What causes our hearts can lead to peace. SShhhh... childhood up to the age of eight in economic support to people in 40 work being done by the Northwest to pound? Excitement. The broader story of Cameroon. In university he studied countries, with special programs Immigrant Rights Project. “We don’t want to tell you too Nervousness. Fear. immigration, refugees Experimental Psychology at Balliol designed for women and children. much about this book. It is a truly Elation. Pinpointing and asylum seekers is College, Oxford. His debut novel, u rescue.org those moments in the special story and we don’t want huge and complicated. Incendiary, won a 2006 Somerset MAY 6, 6:30PM story and figuring out The statistics are mind- Maugham Award, was shortlisted for Listen to a representative from to spoil it... Once you have read it, REFUGEE WOMEN’S ALLIANCE the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ the Refugee Women’s Alliance how to effectively bring you’ll want to tell everyone about numbing regarding the With a mission to help immigrant Prize, and is now a feature film. speak about the work they do with them to life on stage was numbers of men, women women and their families to thrive, it. When you do, please don’t tell He credits a “chance encounter” with immigrant women in Washington. no simple task. and children who are ReWA serves as a home-base for A flurry of questions them what happens either. The caught seeking a safe life, the immigration detention system—a Washington State’s immigrant few days working as a laborer in the arose during our rehearsal magic is in how it unfolds.” and then are essentially and refugee communities. Holistic canteen of Campsfield House—as MAY 10, 4:30PM process regarding our arrested, treated like services are offered in more than 50 Maggie Cheng from the Northwest BOOK JACKET BLURB FOR part of the inspiration for his second languages and dialects. responsibility as global LITTLE BEE (THE OTHER HAND) criminals and deported novel, Little Bee. Little Bee, originally u rewa.org Immigrant Rights Project will speak citizens: How far would to the place from which about her legal work with asylum- published as The Other Hand in the UK, we go to help someone they were seeking refuge. seekers. is an international bestseller with over not of our culture? Whose lives have value? This is not an easy story to tell. But we 2 million copies in print and a film Who are we to tell someone they do not are so lucky that Little Bee helps tell it. Her adaptation in development. During the run belong? We spent time exploring how we voice inspires with its strength and resolve. He lives in London with his wife of Little Bee, Speakers subject to change. balance our compassion with self-protection, Her innate sense of humor and candor is and three children. you can Book-It is our pragmatism with our idealism—how we winsome. It turns out my heart’s pounding Donate collecting rationalize our selfishness and excuse our is my profound gratitude to be here doing NOVELS BY CHRIS CLEAVE donations for these groups. For more information ignorance and our naiveté. Chris Cleave refers what I love to do: telling an important Incendiary 2005 today! Make your gift BOOK-IT.ORG/LITTLEBEE to the “mutual incomprehension” between story and sharing it with as many people as Little Bee (The Other Hand) in the lobby on developing and developed countries. Little possible, in the hope that together we can 2008 your way out! Bee seeks a common language and earns her make a difference in our developing world. right to a safe, joyful life; Sarah feels guilt Gold 2012 and responsibility for how to make things Myra Platt SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SEATTLE right. Adapter & Director encoreartsseattle.com A-5 In the Delta, oil spills and gas flaring (burning off usable associated natural gas) are common. As is petroleum theft, illegal refining, and violent and non-violent protests against the oil industry and its infrastructure. These security concerns led to Shell allegedly hiring local gangs and militants on security contracts, and then turning a blind eye to the resulting DRAMATURGY BY ANTHEA CARNS violence between gangs, the military, and civilians. In more recent years, the international community’s gaze has been on the northeast of Nigeria is big. It’s the seventh most populous country Nigeria, home of the terrorist group Boko Haram. In in the world, with more than 174 million citizens. April 2014, Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 It has the largest economy in Africa, bypassing schoolgirls, most of whom have not been released South Africa in 2014. And it’s among the top 15 oil- nor escaped. Though Boko Haram producing countries in the world, producing 2.44 and the Niger Delta conflict are million barrels of oil per day at the industry’s separate crises, the corruption peak. 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SYDNEY ANDREWS* JONAH KOWAL MICHAEL PATTEN* Shakespeare Festival. He has previously for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua CHRISTINE MEYERS Sarah Charlie Lawrence / Ensemble appeared locally in productions with Seattle Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Costume Designer Sydney is so happy to Jonah is overjoyed to Most recently for Shakespeare Company and their Wooden O Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Since attending Motley School of Theatre be returning to Book-It be back on stage at Book-It, Michael Theatre. He obtained his MFA from the UW Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas Design in London, Christine has designed this season! Previous Book-It Repertory played George Deasey/ Professional Actor Training Program. in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. costumes for opera, theatre and film across productions include Theatre where he was Shannenhouse/ Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, the USA and Europe. She has designed for Jesus’ Son and Hotel on last seen as Elias in Ensemble in The ZENAIDA SMITH The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Peter Pan, The Highest Tide,and The Beautiful the Corner of Bitter and Truth Like the Sun. Amazing Adventures No Name / Ensemble The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Things That Heaven Bears at Book-It Repertory Sweet. Most recently, she was seen as Irina Having the opportunity to work with such of Kavalier & Clay. Previously for Book-It, Zenaida graduated Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Theatre,Julius Caesar at Seattle Shakespeare in The Three Sisters with The Seagull Project, talented and supportive people once again he originated the role of Mellors in Lady with a BFA in acting Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She Company, and The Imaginary Invalid at of which she is also a company member. In at Book-It makes him feel like a superhero! Chatterley’s Lover, and appeared as Jaggers from Nebraska has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Her Seattle, her credits include Vanya and Sonia His other adventures in theatre include and Magwitch in Great Expectations and Wesleyan University Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark relationship with Rogue Opera produced and Masha and Spike and A Christmas Carol classes, camps, and productions at Studio Reverend Wiggin in Owen Meany’s Christmas and is thrilled to make Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Hansel and Gretel, Carousel, and Amahl and the with ACT Theatre, The Trial with New East in Kirkland and Village Theatre in Pageant. In Seattle, he has worked with her Book-It debut. Jones, of a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Night Visitors. Film credits include 48hrFilm Century Theatre Company, Antony and Issaquah. Jonah is in the third grade at St. New Century Theatre Company (founding Recent roles in the Seattle area include various Anniversary grant, the 2010 Women of Lethal Cotillion, which screened at the 2008 Cleopatra with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Louise School and is a youth reader at St. company member), Seattle Repertory characters in A Gogolplex, Viola in Twelfth Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, Cannes Film Festival, and Ryder Clan. She has Undo with Annex, and she understudied for James Cathedral. In his spare time he enjoys Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Night, and Mayella in To Kill a Mockingbird. and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung worked since 1999 with Handel Festival in Pippi Longstocking with Seattle Children’s computer programming, creative writing, and Company, Seattle Opera, Intiman, Strawberry Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20- Göttingen, Germany. Theatre. Regionally, she has worked at Zach making video animations. Theatre Workshop, and others. Regional KAILA TOWERS year contribution to life in the Puget Sound Scott Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, credits include McCarter Theatre, Alabama Nkiruka / Ensemble region. EVAN MOSHER Austin Shakespeare, Children’s Theatre of CLAUDINE Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre, Kaila is honored and WILL ABRAHAMSE Sound Designer Charlotte, and participated in the New York MBOLIGIKPELANI Mill Mountain Theatre, Camden Shakespeare excited to be making Evan is thrilled to be collaborating with International Fringe Festival. Sydney holds an NAKO Festival, Interplayers, Tacoma Actors Guild. her mainstage debut Scenic Designer Book-It for the first time. His design MFA in acting from the University of Texas Film and Television credits include Prefontaine, at Book-It. Her last Will is thrilled to back with the Book-It family credits include The Flick for New Century at Austin. Little Bee Georgia, Highway, “Grimm,” “Leverage,” and opportunity to work for this production, his second of this season. Nako makes her Theatre Company; The Bells, Accidental “The Commish,” among others. Michael is a with this amazing With more than a decade in theatre and nearly Death of an Anarchist, and Black Comedy for KOURTNEY CONNOR† Book-It debut in the proud member of Actors’ Equity Association company was portraying Wilma in their arts 100 productions under his belt, Will’s work as role of Little Bee. She Strawberry Theatre Workshop; Love Horse for Ensemble and SAG-AFTRA. and education touring production of Wilma a scenic artist and designer has also been seen Washington Ensemble Theatre; Cryptogram, This is Connor’s first has lived in Seattle for two years, earning stage Rudolph: How Wilma Rudolph Became The on the stages of Tacoma Musical Playhouse, credits at various companies including Village Arcadia, Slip/Shot, and Slowgirl for Seattle time performing in ERIC RIEDMANN* World’s Fastest Woman. Towers received her ArtsWest, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Public Theater; Returning to Albert Joseph for any theatre production Theatre, ArtsWest, Seattle Public Theater, Andrew / Ensemble BFA in theatre from Cornish College of the and 14/48, among others. Will received and Balagan Theatre. She also served as vocal Satori Group; Gruesome Playground Injuries, (excluding childhood Eric is absolutely Arts in 2012. She was most recently seen in Broadway World Seattle’s award for Best Red Light Winter, and 25 Saints for Azeotrope; Christmas productions captain and lead singer/dancer for Carnival thrilled to return to the the role of Kate in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Scenic Design (Local) in 2013 for his work Cruise Lines’ Playlist Productions. Most and The Important of Being Earnestand where he played Book-It stage, where Good People, at the newly named The Modern on Ragtime with Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Measure for Measure for Seattle Shakespeare Manger Haystack #2). He is very excited and recently, she played Grace Bradley in Seattle he was last seen in The Theater in Spokane, Wash. He studied architecture and technical theatre Public Theater’s holiday favorite, The Best Company. Evan is a founding member of grateful to take part in Book-It’s production Art of Racing in the at Washington State University and The art-pop band “Awesome” and a performing of Little Bee. Christmas Pageant Ever. In addition to the Rain. Additional credits University of Idaho, and now serves as the stage, Nako works in film and television and member of foodie-theatre company Café include King Lear at Seattle Shakespeare technical director and auditorium manager Nordo, which will open Nordo’s Culinarium ELENA FLORY- can be seen in multiple national commercials. Company, Middletown at ACT Theatre, for Enumclaw High School, helping to foster She is a freelance youth theatre director and Artistic at the former Elliott Bay Books space in BARNES Good People (co-production) with George a love of the arts in the next generation of Pioneer Square this spring. cafenordo.com a passionate advocate for arts education in theatre artists and patrons. Yevette / Ensemble Street Playhouse and Seattle Rep, The Glass schools. She is deeply inspired by Little Bee’s Menagerie at Seattle Rep, A Single Shard at

A Seattle native meet the HARRY TODD JAMIESON story and honored with the task of bringing Seattle Children’s Theatre, A Lie of the Mind staff ANDREW D. SMITH and a University of it to life. Assistant Sound Designer Washington graduate, at ACT/Collektor, The Violet Hour at Seattle Lighting Designer Public Theater, and more. His screen credits Harry is pleased to be designing again with Elena is pleased to be MEIKO PARTON MYRA PLATT Andrew is a Seattle-based lighting designer, Book-It, having last worked with them on making her mainstage include NBC’s “Grimm,” TNT’s “Leverage,” and is pleased to be working again with Leader / Ensemble CBS’s “The Fugitive,” Lynn Shelton’s Laggies, Adapter / Director Pride and Prejudice and many touring shows Book-It debut in Little Bee. Previously with Book-It, where he previously designed for their arts and education program. Harry Like long-lost family, and Disney’s 10 Things I Hate About You. Eric As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Book-It she played Moe Moe Bay in their produce over 100 world-premiere mainstage is a freelance sound designer, actor, and arts and education touring production of Meiko has been lives in Queen Anne with his wife, Jesse, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, happily reunited with kitty, Scout. productions and over 30 education touring director and has worked in these disciplines Pink and Say. Her local credits include The and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. at many local theaters and institutions. Local his love for theater. productions. Most recently she directed Other credits include Red Light Winter and 25 Kentucky Cycle with Bainbridge Performing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sound design credits include Twelfth Night Arts, Honky with Mirror Stage, and several With theater homes JASON SANFORD Saints with Azeotrope, Pippi Longstocking with spread like pins on which won the 2014 Gregory Award for with Seattle Shakespeare Company; Two shows with quiet Productions. Nigerian Guard / Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman Summer Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare a map (thanks to a military background), Ensemble Outstanding Production and received a Seattle Festival 2013, and The Seagull Project with Meiko has had the pleasure of portraying Times 2014 Footlight Award. She directed Company’s Wooden O Theatre; Chinglish and Jason is proud to ACT Central Heating Lab. Andrew has The Mountaintop with ArtsWest; Gideon’s Knot a wide range of roles from romantic to make his Book-It Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, worked nationally at Flint Youth Theatre, beautifully villainous. A character of and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and and Broke-ology with Seattle Public Theater; debut. Most recently Horizon Theatre Company, Cincinnati SOAPfest One-Act festival with Sandbox characters, Meiko is as grateful as he is proud he appeared in We directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, The Shakespeare Company, Roust Theatre, and to accept another pin, another home, and River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Artist Collective; and Othello and Julius Caesar Are Proud to Present Cardinal Stage Company. He received with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s statewide * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union welcome another theater family into his heart. a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Award for of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are tour. Harry received his BA in drama from United States. He plans to continue his growth here in Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the Outstanding Lighting Designer, as well as the Western Washington University. Seattle and looks forward to the adventures, German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, 2010 Seattle Times Footlight Award. Andrew † Book-It Acting Intern opportunities, and fulfillment that only – 1915 with Pony World. He has worked with A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in holds a BA from Duke University and an theater life can offer. Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, Wales. She adapted The Art of Racing in the MFA from the University of Washington, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Oregon Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas where he currently teaches. Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE meet the Cast

meet the staff staff WILLIAM E. CRUTTENDEN III* TOM DEWEY she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to BRYAN BURCH be named by the Seattle Times among seven Stage Manager Fight Choreographer Interim Production Manager This is Will’s Book-It debut. His D.C. credits Tom is honored to join the team of Little Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius affiliations for their 20-year contribution to life in the include King Hedley II, Five Guys Named Bee. As an actor and fight choreographer, his ACTORS’ EQUITY SHANE GOLDBAUM-UNGER Moe, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and work has been seen around the Puget Sound Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle ASSOCIATION The Mountaintopwith Arena Stage; The Region. For Book-It, he has choreographed Actor’s Equity Foundation, founded Properties Mananger Totalitarians, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, the fights for Great Expectations, The Financial Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence in 1913, is the U.S. labor union Bootycandy, Clybourne Park, Maria/Stuart, Lives of the Poets, and She’s Come Undone. He award from Puget Sound Business Journal, that represents more than 50,000 DAN SCHUY and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s professional actors and stage managers. Equity and Dead Man’s Cellphone with Woolly also played the role of Fisher in Border Songs. endeavors to advance the careers of its members by Interim Technical Director Mammoth Theatre; Knuffle Bunnywith The Other credits include Brad in Gloucester 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was negotiating wages, working conditions and providing a finalist for the American Union for Stage a wide range of benefits (health and pension included). Kennedy Center; and And the Curtain Rises, Blue at Harlequin Productions, Titus Lartius Member: AFL-CIO, FIA. #EquityWorks. Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s ANDERS BOLANG Sunset Boulevard, Chess, and I Am My Own in Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Book-It Calling Wife with Signature Theatre. Will’s Off- Company, and Petruchio in The Taming of 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. THEATRE PUGET SOUND Master Carpenter Broadway credits include Wild With Happy the Shrew with GreenStage. Tom is an actor Can we count on you with The Public Theater and Perfect Harmony combatant with the Society of American DANIEL Y. MAYER CARMEN RODRIGUEZ with Acorn Theatre. His national credits Fight Directors and a proud graduate of Managing Director THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS for support? Charge Artist include Cleveland Play House, Alley Theatre, the theatre arts and history programs at the This past November, Daniel joined the staff of GROUP Gulfshore Playhouse, and West Virginia University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Book-It as its managing director. Most We love performing for you but Public Theatre. recently, he spent eight years as executive TREVOR CUSHMAN ticket sales do not cover the full MYRA PLATT director of the Kirkland Performance Center. Master Electrician / Light Board Operator cost of each production. In fact Prior to that, Mayer worked in a variety of XANDRIA NIRVANA BARBER Founding Co-Artistic Director ticket sales cover only half of Assistant Stage Manager See bio on page A-9. arts nonprofits in the Seattle area including special thanks to JESSICA JONES Photographic Center Northwest, Spectrum Book-It’s expenses. Xandria Barber is delighted to be joining Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator Book-It Repertory Theatre for Little Bee. JANE JONES Dance Theater, On the Boards, Seattle Jewish Rachel Alquist, Maggie Cheng, Other regional stage management credits Film Festival, Sand Point Arts & Cultural During April and May, we’ll be Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Exchange, The Empty Space, and the Deng Duot, Temie Fancy, ANNA CURTISS include The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding reaching out to patrons by phone (2014, 2013) at Seattle Public Theater, The Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan returned to his Chris Higashi, Nike Imoru, Wardrobe Supervisor co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory hometown of Seattle 16 years ago from New asking for your support. We love to Mountaintop at ArtsWest, and Returning to Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of Erin Lunde Keenan, Annie Lareau, Albert Joseph with The Satori Group. Assistant York where he worked as a consultant to POZ talk with our patrons so be sure to staging literature, she has performed, adapted, Susan Y. Lee, Ernie Piper IV, Joey Sills, stage management credits include Twelfth Publishing and Condé Nast Publications and answer your phone when you see and directed works by such literary giants as executive director at Volunteer Lawyers Night with Seattle Shakespeare Company and as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Anya Gedrath Smith, North Seattle Book-It calling! Julius Caesar with their Wooden O Theatre. for the Arts for five years. Earlier, Mayer Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, lived in Washington, D.C. where he was the College, Seattle Repertory Theatre, You’ll see her returning to the parks this Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest summer for Wooden O’s As You Like It. executive director of artsave, an artist rights Seattle Children’s Theatre Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John project founded by People for the American Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, Way, a civil liberties organization founded by ANTHEA CARNS and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 Norman Lear. Mayer began his legal career in Dramaturg years, she has played leading roles in many of Chicago as executive director of Lawyers for Anthea is pleased to be working with America’s most prominent regional theatres. the Creative Arts, a pro bono legal assistance We are Book-It again. She has worked in Most recently, she played the role of Miss organization for artists of all genres. During proud to Book-It’s Arts & Education Program’s Washington, Pennsylvania, and Alaska Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. this time he was also a fellow at the Office of as a dramaturg, director, writer, and arts Film and TV credits include The Hand That Policy, Planning and Research at the National announce 2015-16 TOURING SEASON administrator. Her co-written play Bad Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate Hamlet was an official selection of the 2011 “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed of Case Western Reserve University School A Last Frontier Theatre Conference; more with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s of Law and Claremont McKenna College, Flora Splash THE AND recently she worked on Book-It’s Pride and adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House and also studied at the London School of OF Prejudice and The Dog of the South. Her Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful Economics. He has taught at Columbia Secret Garden Ulysses Red current projects include hosting a monthly runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum College in Chicago, New York University, community Shakespeare event, and branching in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and Columbia University School of Law; into original fiction and digital media. and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish www.antheacarns.com best director). Jane directed Cyrano, Pride College of the Arts, Edmonds Community and Prejudice, and Twelfth Night at Portland College, and the EDGE Artist Professional GIN HAMMOND Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer award for Best Direction and Production. For Dialect Coach is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art of 4Culture and on the board of directors South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House very happy to be coaching another terrific Central. of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Book-It show. Gin has performed in Russia, Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and England; In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen teaches voice, voice-over, and public Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two speaking; and can be heard on commercials, Call to book your touring story, Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and audiobooks, and a variety of video games student matinée, or residency today! II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory including Undead Labs: State of Decay, DotA Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. 206.428.6266 | [email protected]

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encoreartsseattle.com A-11 honoring book-it contributors Gala a big success! Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support! Thank you to our many supporters who made Book-It’s 25th Anniversary Gala a Literary Legends’ Circle $75,000+ Leadership circle, cont. Nobel Prize Circle, cont. fantastic evening of fun and fundraising in ArtsFund Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Sage Foundation support of our mainstage and education Beth McCaw & Yahn Bernier Cheryl & Tom Oliver Christine Sanders programming. Two hundred and ten guests The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Deborah Parsons Martha & Donald Sands helped us raise $137,000 while enjoying live Christiane Pein & Steven Bull John Schaffer Book-It performances, both silent and live Literary CHampions’ Circle $25,000+ Anne Repass The Seattle Foundation auctions, and dancing to The Dusty 45s on The Boeing Company Shirley Roberson Gail & John Sehlhorst March 7, 2015 at the Showbox. Sonya & Tom Campion Martha Sidlo Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley So many people who were involved with Matthew Clapp Colleen & Brad Stangeland Mary Snapp Book-It over the years were in attendance National Endowment for the Arts Deborah Swets Spark Charitable Foundation including former board members Kay Mary Pigott U.S. Bank Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Alexander, Steve Bull, Mary Anne Christy, Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Elizabeth Warman Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Melissa Manning, Colette Ogle, John Shirley & David Urdal April Williamson Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West Platt, Sharon Prosser, Lynne Reynolds, Kathy & Jim Tune This Year’s Gail Sehlhorst, Jim Tune and Kathy Tune; producers’ circle $10,000+ Nobel Prize Circle $1,000+ Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Honorees Elizabeth and former managing directors 4Culture Anonymous (4) Beverly Welti & John Pehrson Every year at our annual Fleming Jen Teunon Charlotte , , and City of Seattle Office of Arts All One Family Fund Judith Whetzel gala, we honor someone Tiencken. We were thrilled to toast 25 years special to Book-It. This & Cultural Affairs Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Williams Miller Family Foundation of history with old friends and new, and year’s honorees were Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Salli & Stephen Bauer Patricia Wilson our founding co-artistic look forward to sharing the next 25 years of Gretl Galgon Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford directors, Jane Jones and bringing books to life with you and yours. Ellen & John Hill Elizabeth Braun Christina Wright & Luther Black Myra Platt, the ones who Stellman Keehnel Patricia Britton Wyman Youth Trust View the gala photo gallery online started it all. Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Sally Brunette book-it.org/silver-jubilee-gala MIKE HIPPLE MIKE Lucky Seven Foundation Karen Bystrom Pulitzer Prize Circle $500+ Nordstrom Karen & D. Thompson Challinor Connie Anderson The Shubert Foundation, Inc. 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Brooks Gekler • Susan George • Gail Tanaka • Anne Terry • Catherine Susan Petitpas • Carolita Phillips • Wilson Lectures • Seattle Children’s Museum • Seattle Sandra Perala & John Platt Peter Davenport • Todd London • Craig • Mitzi Gligorea • Ann Glusker • Suzanne Thayer • Richard Thorvilson • Jennifer Tice Platt • Kim Port • Marion Reed • Mildred Children’s Theatre • Seattle International Film Judy Pigott Lorch • Stephen Lovell • Alexander Lindsey Goren • Patricia Graves & David Nash • • Grace Urdal • John Urdal • Eugene Usui Renfrow • Ginger Rich • Carla Rickerson Festival • Seattle Repertory Theatre • Seattle Scott Pinckney & Lynn Manley • Molly & Mike Martinez Anke Gray • Laurie Greig • Jim Hamerlinck • Marcia Utla • Elizabeth Valentine • Karen • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Jo Ann Shakespeare Company • Seattle Theatre Group Eleanor Moseley Pollnow & Charles Pollnow • Elaine Mathies • Ann McCurdy & Frank • Faith Hanna • Janet & Corina Hardin Van Genderen • Roxann Van Wyk • Pieter Roberts • Michele Ruess • David Rush • • Seattle7Writers • Jenny Shortridge • Preston Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Lawler • Marion McGowan • Jennifer • Pamela & W.B. Harer • Jill Hashimoto • Vandermeulen • Jorie Wackerman • Colin Jennifer Russell • Joshua Ryder • Patricia Singletary • The Sitting Room • Richard Bradley Renner Mcintyre • Susan Mecklenburg • Christine Elizabeth Hatch • Elizabeth Heath • Rebecca Wagoner • Todd Warren • Jerry Watt • Jennifer Rytkonen & William Karn • Rebecca Sloniker • Something Silver • Sound Brewery • Janey L. Repensek Mosere • Paige Packman • Judd Parkin • Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Rita Hibbard Weis • Julie Weisbach • Laurie Wenzel • Dan Sadinsky • Deanna & Bo Saxbe • Julie St. Clouds Food & Spirits • Storiarts • Studio Rebecca Roe & T. A. Greenleaf Corliss Perdaems • Sherry Perrault • Gloria & Roger Neale • Diana Hice • Patricia Highet Whalen • Sara White • Chelene Whiteaker Schoenfeld • Heidi Schor • B. Charlotte A Photography • Deborah Swets • Taproot Polly Schlitz Pfeif • Olivia Pi-Sunyer • Sharon Prosser • • Stephanie Hilbert • Sandy Hill • Mary • Margaret Whittemore • Jane Wiegenstein Schreiber • Sally Sheck • Audrey & John Theatre • Taylor Shellfish Farms • Terry Tazioli/ Pamela & Nate Searle Barbara & Daniel Radin • Doris & Charles Hinderliter • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • • Melinda Williams • John Wilson • Lauren Sheffield • Linda Snider • Barbara Spear • TVW • Ten Mercer • Sara Thompson & Charyl & Earl Sedlik Ray • Michelle Rebert • Paula Riggert • Beth Cynthia Huffman • Melissa Huther • IBM Wilson • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone • Dale Stammen • Dana Standish & Noah Richard Gelinas • Tom Douglas Restaurants • Jo & Michael Shapiro Rutherford • Debby & Dave Rutherford Matching Grants Program • Robert Jones Elana Winsberg • Michael Winters • Jodie Seixas • Julie Stohlman • Sheila Striegl • Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge • Town Hall Marcia & Peter Sill • Sarah Ryan & Douglas Larson • Lena • Susan Jones & Christopher Monck • Kris Wohl & Richard Hert • Kim R. 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Toney in memory of Dan Wheetman • Rachel DeBusk • Dottie Deb Bigelow • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Peterson • Robert Pillitteri • Anne Pipkin • Hemer • Karyn Henry • Kate Hokanson • Hotel 1000 • Icicle Creek Center for the Willis Strange Delaney • Carol & Kelly Dole • David Dong Gina Breukelman • Rebecca Brewer • Vibeke Felicia Porter • Susan Porterfield • Joan & • Rebecca Hsia • Zhen Huang • Beatrice Arts • Margaret Kineke • Kimberly King • • Lauren Dudley • Gayle & James Duncan • Brinck • Don Brown • Jonathan Buchter • William Potter • Gordon Prouty • Andrea Hull • Heather Hutchinson • Alison Inkley Jo Anne Laz • Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose Laura Einstein • Mary Fallon • Jane Faulkner Rachel & David Bukey • Barbara Buxbaum Ptak • Linda Quirk • Roberta & Brian • Wendy Jackson • Michael Johnson • • The Living Desert Xoo and Gardens • • Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman • Jamie & • Michela Carpino • Casey Family Programs Reed • Carolyn Rees • Nancy Reichley • Gil Joynt • Trina Kauf-Jones • Jim Kelly Steve Loeb • LT Nails • Daniel Mayer • This list reflects gifts received Steve Froebe • Norman Garner • Claire • Joyce Chase • David & Marilyn Chelimer • Marcia Repaci • Jeannette Reynolds • Karen • Vicki & James King • Shirley Knight • Christine & Sandy McDade • Mediterranean February 1, 2014 – March 20, 2015. 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The artists of Electric Coffin are helping define Seattle’s landscape— one giant squid at a time.

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ROVE, THE SIX-MONTH-OLD PAN- ASIAN RESTAURANT ON CAPITOL HILL, throbs like a living thing. An energized Thursday-night crowd radiates a warm din under a ceiling Tpainted the vivid red of an internal organ. Exposed ducts and HVAC tubes stretch through the space like arteries carrying sweet meat smoke from tabletop hibachis. Iris-colored wallpaper speckled with Space Needles and Godzillas lines the restroom hall. Hanging on the wall of the cocktail bar is a giant, gilt-framed painting that depicts Mt. Rainier spewing neon-orange lava into a bruise-purple sky. Diners and drinkers linger in the bustle.

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On their way out, a couple stops to order frozen custards, served from a full- sized ice cream truck parked by the front door. They fail to notice the peephole inside the gas cap, set about knee- high. A look inside reveals a miniature diorama: Godzilla attacking the Space Needle. This is not a place you visit and forget. More than most restaurants, Trove has vibe. As in vibration. Trove feels like action. Across town, Westward sits on the shore of Lake Union like a steamship ready to push off from its gravel mooring and cruise into the Seattle skyline. Aside from its dramatic waterfront setting, the most striking visual aspect of the year-and-a-half-old seafood restaurant is a 25-foot-long model ship, its interior visible in cross-section, revealing breadbox-sized chambers that each contain a tiny, 3-D diorama—an angry yeti, a professional wrestling match, a great white shark swimming with a unicorn. Plus life-size bottles of booze, full of actual booze. Because this high- fantasy art installation is Westward’s back bar. The food at Westward is superb. But it wasn’t the menu that garnered the place a 2014 James Beard Nomination for Outstanding Restaurant Design. It was the space, and specifically the ship that launched a thousand Instagrams. It, like the whole interior of Trove, was conceived, constructed and installed by the three-man collective known as Electric Coffin. Patrick “Duffy” De Armas, Justin WITH THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY Kane Elder and Stefan Hofmann have worked together as Electric Coffin for Scott Dunn, conductor / Seattle Symphony four years. In that time they’ve been let loose on a slew of interior spaces

across the Northwest with orders to tilt TICKETS GOING FAST! Presentation made under license from Buena Vista Concerts, each one toward the unexpected. Trove a division of ABC Inc.© All rights reserved. is their most extensive project so far; Westward the most celebrated. They also 206.215.4747 | SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG worked on Joule, the Fremont restaurant

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owned by the same restaurateurs as Trove; deftly describes the post-Millennial world. the Hollywood Tavern in Woodinville, “Their creativity is born out of an owned by the same restaurant group as irreverence to some of the stuff that was Westward; EVO, the homegrown snow- done before,” says Jim Graham of Graham sports store in Wallingford that recently Baba Architects, who worked with Electric opened a new, Electric Coffin-designed Coffin on Via6 and Westward. “I appreciate store in Portland; and Via6, the high- that about those guys. Architects take profile high-rise apartment towers in themselves far too seriously. That’s not to Belltown. say that we should drape the entire world in Their style explodes in three Electric Coffin—that wouldn’t work either, dimensions with Skittles-bright colors because then how do you judge it? But that’s and meticulous, ridiculous details. why it’s so exciting. We’re starved for their It lands somewhere between the work right now.” Midcentury hot-rod cartoonery of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, the salacious-but-refined HERE ARE TOO MANY CHAIRS IN lowbrow paintings of Robert Williams, Electric Coffin’s Ballard HQ. Far more the childlike handcrafted charm of chairs than people to sit in them, even Wes Anderson and the hypermodern when the three guys and their intern maximalism of Takashi Murakami. Their are all present. Plastic shell chairs, work pulls from the restless mania of Tmetal wire chairs, vintage office chairs— three fanatic skaters and snowboarders more than a dozen around the office, which who’ve harbored their own iconoclastic, is situated up a steep flight of stairs from a artistic inclinations since childhood. The giant construction warehouse filled with trio matches its collective imagination paint and power tools. with individual skills in fabrication— “We have a serious chair problem,” De carpentry, mechanics, metalwork, Armas says. “We love chairs. It gets to a screenprinting, airbrushing—a rare point where they’re not useful.” combination that puts Electric Coffin in To put it mildly, the decor is eclectic. the design/build category that’s highly One wall is opaque corrugated plastic, sought after by architecture firms and giving off a mellow glow in the afternoon marketing departments alike. sunlight. Eighties action figures stand Electric Coffin’s mondo-destructo/ sentry on desktops next to Power Macs, beer punk-funk/industrial-artistic aesthetic is cans and whiskey bottles. A blackboard unprecedented in Seattle. Over the past 10 is covered with doodles and agenda years, restaurants and retail spaces have items. The disembodied hood of a Camaro Bischofberger sprouted an urban forest of reclaimed leans against a wall, screenprinted and barnwood, corralled a menagerie of acid-distressed, a piece of De Armas’ art est. 1955 Violins taxidermy and wrought enough blackened exhibition showing at AXIS Gallery this iron to gird a medieval prison. Owing to summer. Beside it is a big metal sign for Professional a devout sense of history and perhaps “Squid Inc.” that looks like it was found at a sense of that history vanishing, the the bottom of a scrap heap after languishing Repairs hunting lodge, the faux dive and the for decades. Appraisals oyster shell are the traditional touchstones Turns out Electric Coffin built the sign in & Sales of Northwest design. These have been 2013, mixing salvaged metal letters, pages done well—over and over—and they’ll from ’70s porn mags, airbrushed paint and forever remain part of the regional custom neon. Squid Inc., De Armas tells 1314 E. John St. visual vocabulary. But as the Northwest me, is a fictional company they dreamed Seattle, WA continues its inexorable march into up as an art project and then designed 150 206-324-3119 the 21st century, those designs will be years of backstory for, including print ads, augmented by new visual cues. Electric packaging artifacts and a subtitled, French- www.bviolins.com Coffin speaks a homegrown slang that language biographical documentary (“Their

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miracle-cure squid ink battled ailments from halitosis to boot rot and could be found across the nation—and the world!”). They mounted a show at Bherd Gallery in Greenwood, displaying phony vintage ephemera with painter Kellie Talbot’s photorealistic oil images of Squid Inc. signage. The project was meant as “a discussion about the reverence for classic Americana analog,” as De Armas diplomatically puts it. Like all of Electric Coffin’s work, it was EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 10/8/14 1:06 PM a playful discussion. It involved some nose-thumbing—a fake brand imbued with fake character via the group’s skills and an intentionally obtuse backstory. It was the gallery version of their commercial work, both of which follow the same dictate: If you can’t source the object you envision from salvage, make it from scratch. Make it look old, worn, real. And make it fun. The design aesthetic of the moment, as seen on Pinterest and in the pages of Dwell and Kinfolk, is rather serious. Conservative. Twee. It fetishizes the old, whether vintage furniture, reclaimed wood or a dying dive bar. If it’s old, it’s beautiful, even precious. The Electric Coffin guys appreciate old stuff— the vintage chairs, the Camaro hood, the G.I. ANN HAMILTON Joes—but they appreciate it as a medium, not as an end to itself. They pay it the honor of the common S E N S E destroying it so they can give it new life. “Recontextualization of cultural icons,” Hofmann says. “At the EVO storefront we built totems, animals stacked on top of animals. You start creating narrative out ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 26 HENRY ART GALLERY of these kinds of things, almost a pop-icon sensibility. You put it in this candy shell but it contains more expansive concepts of idealism and cultural identities.” HENRYART.ORG De Armas: “Everyone’s trying to wax their Ann Hamilton. Digital scan of specimens from the Division pants now instead of buying Gore-Tex. Like, ‘I of Tetrapods at the Museum of drink out of a mason jar!’ Just because you’re Biological Diversity at The Ohio State University. 2013. Courtesy buying a mason jar you’re still a consumer. of the artist. You’re idolizing the idea of consuming.”

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“When you’re working in a truly collaborative way unexpected things may come about,” Hofmann says. “Looking back you can see the continuity—larger narratives that relate to consumerism and disaster and sarcasm.” Elder, De Armas and Hofmann at work. PHOTO BY STEVE KORN VERYTHING IS UP FOR GRABS a three-floor-tall mural in its lobby. And THESE days—the way business is run, they’re negotiating a contract to design the the way we brand and market, the way interior of a new high rise in South Lake we run restaurants,” says Matthew Union, a two-year project that would involve Parker, lead designer of Huxley Wallace creating multiple installations and art pieces “We were almost challenging each other, ECollective, the restaurant group that built for the entire building. like we were children trying to understand Westward. “We’re constantly changing “We have an awesome opportunity and a the realm of truly collaborating and what old models and flipping them around legitimate responsibility to work with these that meant,” Hofmann says. Time and and creating new ones. The design style people and make things that are progressive, practice solved that problem. Overlap is now those guys carry fits perfectly with these thoughtful, interesting on multiple levels, an intentional part of the process, a sort of contradictions. And within contradictions not just to look at but also functional,” De interpersonal geologic layering of paint and things get exciting.” Armas says. “Seattle is a weird little city paper and metal and plastic that gives their Electric Coffin’s latest, greatest canvas is that should’ve been bigger years ago and work physical depth and creates the illusion the city itself. As its population explodes, now we’re having this boom. Development’s of the passage of time. Seattle is building its own future to live and happening regardless. We can affect the face Snowboarders know the butterflies-in-the- work and play in. Developers mostly hew to a of that development by infusing it with art.” belly feeling of carving a fresh line on a virgin bottom-line principle, wary of expenditures Ready yourself: Tomorrow’s Seattle will run. And they know the feeling of following on risky design—which gives us the low- be airbrushed raspberry red and wrapped a friend’s fresh tracks, helixing them with budget, low-concept eyesore architecture in giant-squid wallpaper. It will be expertly your own, side by side, simultaneous but that’s turned swaths of the city into the constructed, scaled mini to macro and rich individual. The crossover between action urban equivalent of Ikea furniture. with subtle visual humor. It will be brand- sports and Electric Coffin’s gestural art is Since their involvement with the Via6— new but look ageless. It will be distinctly uncanny. Elegant chaos, controlled just long one of the more visible projects in the city— American—but an America that’s been enough to finish the run. Electric Coffin has been fielding more calls blown up, reconfigured and reborn for a new “Creativity in motion,” Elder says. for commissions on large-scale commercial era. “Instead of using a canvas to express your projects. They built a winter forest inside a “There’s something intrinsically beautiful creative vision you’re using the environment, yurt at the downtown REI that’s on display about an explosion,” Hofmann says. “Aside whether it’s a bowl in a skate park or an open through the spring; REI corporate has since from the destruction, it represents rebirth. field of powder.” requested custom installations in each of What comes from this? What’s the next new “We made a conscious choice to let go,” their flagship stores nationwide. A new W thing? And it’s hopeful in the sense that Hofmann says. Hotel is going up in Bellevue with space for whatever it is, it might be better.” n

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