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Bloomsday at ACT Encore Arts Seattle SEPTEMBER 2015 Sep 11–Oct 11, 2015 World Premiere Illustration by Barry Blankenship by Illustration Extraordinary Performances from Around the Globe 2015 2016 Season YOUSSOU N’DOUR ANOUSHKA SHANKAR ANONYMOUS 4 MARTHA GRAHAM BÉLA FLECK DANCE COMPANY & ABIGAIL WASHBURN TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY CHOOSE YOUR OWN SERIES Select FOUR or more and SAVE 10%. Choose from 27 events. SANKAI JUKU Meany Hall on the UW Seattle Campus / uwworldseries.org / 206-543-4880 / #uwworldseries EAP full-page template.indd 1 8/5/15 10:44 AM September 2015 Volume 12, No. 1 Paul Heppner Publisher Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Kim Love Design and Production Artists Marty Griswold Director of Business & Community Development Mike Hathaway Sales Director Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Gwendolyn Fairbanks, Ann Manning Seattle Area Account Executives Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Tim Schuyler Hayman San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Brett Hamil Online Editor Jonathan Shipley Associate Online Editor Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Jonathan Shipley Ad Services Coordinator www.encoreartsseattle.com Leah Baltus Editor-in-Chief Paul Heppner Publisher “the most talked about new comedy of the season.” Marty Griswold -the new york times Associate Publisher Dan Paulus Art Director Jonathan Zwickel Senior Editor Gemma Wilson Associate Editor Amanda Manitach Visual Arts Editor Amanda Townsend Events Coordinator www.cityartsonline.com Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Vice President Genay Genereux Accounting Corporate Office BY JONATHAN TOLINS 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 DIRECTED BY p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] DAVID BENNETT 800.308.2898 x113 www.encoremediagroup.com Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media season sponsor Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget oct 23 - nov 22, 2015 Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2015 Encore Media Group. Reproduction seattlerep.org // 206.443.2222 without written permission is prohibited. encoreartsseattle.com 3 Contents SEPTEMBER 2015 Sep 11–Oct 11, 2015 Bloomsday 9 9 Title Page 10 Welcome to ACT 13 About the Play and Who’s Who 18 ACT Partners 24 ACT Board & Staff World Premiere Illustration by Barry Blankenship by Illustration Planting the Seeds of Bloomsday BY NICKY DAVIS, ACT LITERARY INTERN he team of Bloomsday The commissioning of new work is an important way that contemporary theatres commissioners includes: Charles around the country support playwrights. ACT has a variety of programs designed T& Benita Staadecker, Jim & Kathy to foster new work, from the ACT New Play Award to workshops and readings in Tune, Paul & Paula Butzi, Jim & Jane The Construction Zone and other ACTLab programs. One of these programs is Lyons, and Laurie Besteman & Jack ACT’s partnership with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts in Leavenworth (now known as the Icicle Creek New Play Festival, ICNPF). Lauderbaugh. ACT first approached Founded in 2008, ICNPF gives playwrights a chance to develop new plays the Staadeckers about the opportunity, while working with actors and directors in a workshop setting. The whole creative as they had worked with Dietz on a team for the play is lodged in cabins in the Cascade Mountains where they have previous commission. Charles recalls, ample time, resources, and inspiration to push the play to its next stage. The “We did not know Steven’s work prior process culminates in a reading series at the Snowy Owl Theatre in Leavenworth to our experience of commissioning and as part of ACTLab back in Seattle. Plays that are under consideration for full Becky’s New Car. It was Kurt Beattie production on ACT’s stages often get their start at Icicle Creek. who knew it would be the right fit. Of With a long history of collaboration with Steven Dietz, ACT organized a team course, we now know about all his plays, of commissioners to support the creation of his new play Bloomsday in 2012. In either having seen them or read them. 2014, with a draft of Bloomsday completed, Dietz took the play to Icicle Creek. When you commission a play you are It was at the final reading in Leavenworth that several of the commissioners not picking the playwright. The theatre were able to hear, for the first time, the new play they had sponsored. Those does that. So you have to trust that the who couldn’t attend the reading will be seeing the play for the first time in its full production at ACT. The generosity and support of the commissioning team theatre will make a good match.” comes from a shared love of the theatre and complete trust in the playwright. The Staadeckers brought the team for Bloomsday together in under 24 4 ACT – A Contemporary Theatre Steven Dietz hours. “We called the first four people we thought would be interested and all said yes,” Charles says. The Tunes note that, “the very positive experience the Staadeckers had in commissioning [Becky’s New Car] influenced all of us,” and indeed, every commissioner attached to the Bloomsday project cites Becky’s New Car as a favorite play by Dietz. Other favorites include Lonely Planet and Inventing Van Gogh. There’s a magic in Dietz’ writing that several commissioners cite as the key to his great success. “Steven’s plays speak to the soul of truth. He has a way with words that makes the ideas just sing,” says Paula Butzi. It’s easy to imagine why this group was excited to support the creation of Bloomsday. However, it’s not just Dietz’ work that excites the commissioners. All of them share a passion for new work in general. Here’s what some of them had to say about the importance of supporting creativity: New work from creative minds is always exciting, whether it’s a play, a painting, a symphony, or a piece of art. Those who create don’t seem to have the limits the rest of us do—they often “color outside the lines,” and produce stimulating, thought-provoking, beautiful, CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 encoreartsseattle.com 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 possibly even offensive works which World Hope Outreach seeks to meet both the physical and spiritual evoke a variety of emotions in needs of those who have been confronted with challenges in their all of us who are lucky enough to lives. We provide services to needy families and work with other experience them. organizations — training and equipping volunteers — to help restore —Laurie Besteman the lives of those families, thereby creating better lives for them and for the world as a whole. New plays are what keep theatre To support us and our mission please visit us at: going. We strongly believe in WorldHopeOutreach.org/support supporting new work so that there are new stories to tell. After all, shows that are classics today STRAWBERRY E((66)) were once performed for the first THEATRE WORKSHOP time somewhere. it is a mob. I'm a humanist and idea that every single member of GROSS: You call it masses, but my concept of directing this language, created by the organization derives from the the staff is human and must become more and more human. If we take from him his human fully human and plunge him centuries-old tradition of prevented him from becoming national culture, we shall have innermost conviction I can never straight into the jaws of self-alienation. I'm not against Man. 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