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Slaughterhouse-Five A1

by Kurt Adapted and Directed by Josh Aaseng Shannon Loys DESIGN: A-1 Welcome John Ulman :

PHOTO A-3 Slaughterhouse-Five Credits A-8 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information

Robert Bergin, Todd Jefferson Moore, and Erik Gratton. Moore, Jefferson Robert Todd Bergin, ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY JUNE 9 - JULY 3, 2015 JOSH AASENG PICTURED:

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Q & A with playwright Wayne Rawley BY BRETT HAMIL

Wayne Rawley is a playwright, director, actor and Cornish grad. He’s a regular contributor to the 14/48 Festival and Sandbox Radio Live as well as a teaching artist with ACT’s Young Playwright’s Program. You might’ve seen some of his work produced last year in the form of Theater Schmeater’s Attack of the Killer Murder…of Death! and Seattle Public Theatre’s Christmastown: A Holiday Noir.

Rawley just completed a run directing his play Live! From the Last Night of my Life, winner of the 2012 Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play. The production reunited the cast and crew of the acclaimed 2011 show. Continuing this month’s run of notable Seattle playwrights, Rawley joined me for a handful of questions. See more interviews with Seattle theatre artists every Friday over at EncoreArtsSeattle.com.

What’s the best performance you’ve seen lately? This is a trick question because I just opened a show. If I say, “The best rock solid support to the show. She was at every single rehearsal, she helps performances? Why the performances are in MY show of course!” I sound keep the hundreds of moving parts backstage greased and spinning, the a little disingenuous. And if I say some other performances then my cast entrances happening, the play moving forward. She sets up before the show chases me around the room with knives. and leads the clean up after. We could not do Live! From The Last Night of My But here is the truth. One truly great performance for me this past Life without her and she does it night after night, flawlessly. weekend was turned in by Jessamyn Bateman-Lino. She is the assistant The best performance this weekend you didn’t see. Even if you did. stage manager for Live! From The Last Night of My Life. She runs our Crazy, right? So you are going to have to trust me. It truly is a sight to backstage before during and after every performance. She is a tireless, not behold.

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What’s the best meal in Seattle? One Word. Med Kitch. Two words actually, but each cut in half to equal one word. It’s the insider way to say The Mediterranean Kitchen (I made that up). On Boren just north of Madison. My favorite food in the city that is not a Dick’s Burger. That scream you heard back in 2005 and you didn’t know what it was but it sounded close? That was me living in Los Angeles learning that their original Queen Anne location had closed. But they have been back for a while now and if you love garlic, you should stop whatever you are doing and go get some shwarma. Or the Farmers Plate, which is chicken wings covered in a sauce so good we must not speak of it. If you don’t love garlic, well then, you’ve got bigger problems than I can help you with.

What music gets you pumped up? What do you listen to when you’re sad? The first thing I do when I think I have something I want to work on is make a playlist. I have lots of playlists. I’ve been listening to a lot of disco lately. I like disco because it is the music of people who feel very strongly that they are sexy and yet may or may not actually be sexy. For the last year I’ve had this idea for a play in my head and I don’t have a clue about what it is except for a vision of the poster that says the play’s title (I don’t know) and right under the title it says “Now with 75% more DISCO!” I can’t wait until it’s written so I can stop listening to so much disco. When I’m sad I listen to The Wailin’ Jennys’ cover of Neil Young’s “Old Man.” Female voices singing in harmony take my eyes to the sky.

What’s the ideal setting for writing a play? Right before it is due is always the most ideal setting for writing a play. Beyond that, there is not any such thing. Not anymore. If I’m going to write, it’s got to be whenever I can, wherever I am. 4 a.m. On the train. Any coffee shop with an empty outlet and some type of sausage breakfast sandwich. I do a lot of writing on my bike commute. I wrote this paragraph on my bike. I forgot the rest of it, but it was very insightful.

What’s the most useful thing anyone’s ever taught you about working in theatre? A dear friend and teacher, Judith Weston, taught me, “There is no Passive Income.” That means that in the theater, if you want it to work, you have to be there. And be there. And be there. You can’t write it and walk away. Oh, and “Play Your Pain.” August Wilson taught me that. (Pause. Removes hat.)

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Godspell July 10—August 15 This song-and-dance takeoff on the Gospels has travelled around the world to Broadway and back again. Featuring tuneful parables in the form of memorable songs like “Day By Day” and “Learn Your Lessons Well,” Taproot presents the musical as an appropriately sunny and hopeful summertime treat. Taproot Theatre

Grease July 9—August 2 The students of Rydell High School capture the innocence and raunch of adolescence on the verge of adulthood with musical backing by rockin’ Seattle mainstays The Dusty 45’s. Thrill to the songs you know by heart (“Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” “Beauty School Dropout,” “You’re the One That I want”) with Danny, Sandy, Rizzo, the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds. 5th Avenue Theatre

As You Like It Henry IV July 9—August 9 Experience the works of the Bard in the open air with Wooden O’s summertime park 50 years ago, some parents had productions. Surrounded by soft breezes and warm sunlight, join Rosalind and Celia in just two choices: the Forest of Arden for the romantic comedy As You Like It, or cavort and intrigue with institution or revolution. Prince Hal and Sir John Falstaff with Part I of So they started Northwest Center — and a revolution to include people of the thrilling royal epic Henry IV. all abilities at school, at work and in the community. Wooden O, various Seattle area parks Join the Revolution. nwcenter.org/revolution For more previews, stories, video and a look behind the scenes, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com

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The 5th Avenue Theatre’s MATHEW WRIGHT has directed each of the Rising Star shows since the program’s Rising Star Project puts kids inception in 2012. “Every year I learn as much from them as I hope they do from us,” in charge of a mainstage says Wright, “It’s hugely instructive. It’s a production with training great playground as a director, too, to try out different ways of explaining things to different and support from in-house levels of actors and to work those chops.”

professionals. Everything, I spoke to some of the Rising Star students about their experiences and what they’ve We treat the even administrative work learned so far. like fundraising and Kleo Chrisafis, props and set, stage left whole you. marketing, is run by the How did you get involved in the Rising Star Attentive care that considers kids. It’s a big institutional Project? every aspect of your health. I used to be involved in the drama program at undertaking that will reap the first high school I went to but now I go to a Naturopathic Medicine • Counseling long dividends in talent smaller high school that doesn’t have one, so I was looking for an opportunity to do theatre. Acupuncture • Ayurveda • Nutrition development, giving What are the most valuable things you’ve youngsters unprecedented learned? Being pushed to always be here five minutes access to the inner workings early and get my things done. Being accountable and taking on responsibility of a large theatre house. and then following through with what I need to do, because if not the show won’t run as Healthy.BastyrCenter.net | 206.834.4100 smoothly. EMMA HASSELBACH EMMA

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Rachel Andres, development team Under the Tents • Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada June 4 – Sept 26 What have you learned? 1-877-739-0559 • bardonthebeach.org One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that things don’t always go as you’re expecting them to go. We were working on a lobby campaign where we were going to do a curtain speech asking audience members to donate money as they left the theatre. We tried it one night, but it was decided that the curtain speech didn’t go with the artistic vision of the show. We had to adjust our plan to how we were going to still try to raise money while being say. My director, Mat [Wright], gave us some conscious of the show. notes and he said when he was doing acting, he’d always feel like he owed something to Adrian Lockhart, actor, Starkeeper and that character. What was the character trying Strong Man to pursue? What’s his main objective?

What have you learned so far? What are you going to do with this Professionalism and trying to live in the knowledge? moment. For a lot of actors it’s hard to still be After I’ve learned everything I can—because that character and believe what you’re acting, there’s always new stuff to learn—I hope to but it shouldn’t be about acting, it should be take my talent to Los Angeles and pursue my that you’re trying to make it into a reality. career in acting and movies.

How do you stay in the moment? Rehearsal photos courtesy Rising Star By not losing focus, not losing sight of things development team member Emma that are in the outside world, staying in Hasselbach. character and honestly believing what you

8 ENCORE STAGES as Frida Kahlo Rivera, analyzed poetry while in the skin of Dorothy Wordsworth, and imagined inhabited the Bard’s comedic and tragic kingdoms. I have introduced this world to my son who, at age eleven, enjoys exploring truth the planet Tatooine with Luke Skywalker, adventuring the seas with Poseidon, and finding the magic at Hogwarts. “The truth is rarely pure As an arts educator, it’s in the world of and never simple.” real truth that real work happens and real OSCAR WILDE, lives are changed. Real truths have proven THE IMPORTANT OF BEING EARNEST the arts foster analytical, practical and creative thinking skills in students while As an actress, director, musician, and arts better preparing them for the 21st century educator, I have made my living traveling workforce. It’s real truth that the arts between two truths—the imaginary and opportunity gap is widest for children in high the real. And I will continue to traverse that poverty schools and that the persistent lack connection of imaginary and real truth as of access to arts education is detrimental to Book-It’s director of education. our future. It’s in this world that I work to You might think the idea that truth has provide opportunities and programming that two meanings is incomprehensible. But look celebrates an interactive relationship between at Kurt Vonnegut’s worlds in Slaughterhouse- youth and literature that encourages the joy A New Season Five—the real, World War II world and of reading, enhances student and teacher of Children’s the other-worldly Trafalmadore—the story Stories learning—and celebrates imaginary truth. straddles both worlds giving it its own life. With deep respect for Oscar Wilde, I Turn to page As an artist and arts educator, the notion of argue that truth is pure and often simple, as A-12 to see two worlds built of opposite, interdependent which titles long as you fully embrace which truth you truths best describes what we do both on we’re adapting are experiencing at the time. For me, I will in our 2015-16 stage and in the classroom. continue to travel between the two as often Touring Season! As an artist, the world of imaginary as I can. truth is where I first adventured with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew before my Enjoy the show, interest shifted to Pecola, Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya, and the poetry of Edna St. Annie DiMartino Vincent Millay. In this world I created art Director of Education

Meet Annie DiMartino, Our New Director of Education Annie joins us following her tenure at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where she was in charge of all educational programming and oversaw their Next Stage Resident/Intern Program. We are thrilled to have her on the Book-It team.

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SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 18, 2015 DECEMBER 2 - JANUARY 3, 2015 What We Talk About Emma by JANE AUSTEN When We Talk About Love Book-It revisits Jane Austen’s match-making classic in honor of the 200th anniversary of its publication. by RAYMOND CARVER

An evening of stories adapted from the 1981 collection by Northwest native Raymond Carver.

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The Brothers K by DAVID JAMES DUNCAN Part One: Joy to the Wordl! // Part Two: The Left Stuff

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.

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Adapted and directed by Josh Aaseng

cast Robert Bergin Billy Pilgrim Rory Eaden† Ensemble Jim Gall* Vonnegut / Ensemble Erik Gratton* Billy Pilgrim Martyn G. Krouse Bernard O’Hare / Ensemble Jocelyn Maher Valencia / Barbara / Ensemble Cobey Mandarino* Derby / Ensemble Benjamin McFadden Lazzaro / Ensemble Todd Jefferson Moore* Billy Pilgrim Eleanor Moseley Mary O’Hare / Ensemble Joshua Ryder Weary / Ensemble Riley Shanahan† Ensemble Jason Slown† Ensemble Sydney Tucker Montana Wildhack / Ensemble

Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Kent Cubbage Pete Rush Matt Starritt Lindsay Carpenter Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Dramaturg / Assistant Director Ben Burris & Zane Exactly Myra Platt Gin Hammond Emily Penick Tom Dewey Puppet Designers & Consultants Music Director Dialect Coach Choreographer Fight Choreographer Louise Butler* Victoria Thompson* Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

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When I first picked up a copy of Perhaps most compelling to me is Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five, I was in my early Vonnegut’s (often hilarious and irreverent) twenties and we had just shocked and awed exploration of what war does to the the nation of Iraq with our superior military individual and how one returns home after science. In fact, I watched the bombing of experiencing its atrocities. In 2015, we are Baghdad on live television during spring still discussing these issues, and “PTSD” is break. My generation’s wars are broadcast common parlance in our society. We’re aware live, and we get to watch as cities are of the internal wounds the men and women destroyed in real-time. bear home from the battlefield, and at least I wonder what the destruction of Dresden have a vocabulary to approach a healing would have looked like on CNN. process. But what was it like for the young Like many young idealists who first men returning home 70 years ago? These encounter Slaughterhouse-Five, I was things were less understood and even less immediately taken with its biting humor publicly discussed. and anti-war sentiment. But, as I have Like the character Billy Pilgrim (and perennially reread the book and now as his real-life author), many World War II I work with a tremendous group of artists veterans struggled years later to find real on this production, I have come to admire peace on the home front. With very few it for all the questions it asks, and for the resources compared to today’s returning few answers it provides. How do we make veterans, those men were left to construct sense of the tens of thousands of innocent their own methods of coping with what they civilian deaths in Dresden in the midst of experienced overseas. Some of those methods a necessary and justifiable war? If wars and were constructive, some destructive, and human massacres are inevitable, then what some altogether unique—like this tale of notes are we to do? Shrug and say, “So it goes”? Billy Pilgrim. from the Ignore the awful times and focus merely on director the good? Josh Aaseng Adapter & Director

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A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A soldier at age 20, Vonnegut became a Prisoner of War during the Battle of the Bulge and survived the Dresden Bombing while in a slaughterhouse 60 feet underground. After returning from the war, he married and had three children. His first novel was published in 1952. In 1957, Vonnegut’s life was altered drastically when his sister died from cancer and her husband died in a train crash two days later. Vonnegut and his wife took in three of their children to raise with their own. Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969, transformed Vonnegut from a writer with a small cult following into a popular literary icon. He became increasingly outspoken about his political beliefs. He was especially critical of George W. Bush’s presidency and the increases in American militarization following September 11, 2001. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, though his legacy lives on.

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NOVELS COLLECTIONS The full title of (1952) Canary in a Cathouse (1961) Slaughterhouse-Five is: (1959) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) (1961) Wampeters, Foma, and Slaughterhouse-Five Cat’s Cradle (1963) (1974) or, The Children’s Crusade: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls (1981) A Duty-Dance with Death Before Swine (1965) Nothing Is Lost Save Honor (1984) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Fates Worse than Death (1991) by Kurt Vonnegut, (1973) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) A Fourth-Generation German- , or Lonesome No More (1976) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) American Now Living in Easy (1979) (2005) Circumstances on Cape Cod [and (1982) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Smoking Too Much], Who, as an Galápagos: A Novel (1985) Look at the Birdie (2009) American Infantry Scout Hors Bluebeard (1987) While Mortals Sleep (2011) de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, (1990) Kurt Vonnegut: Witnessed the Fire Bombing of (1997) The Cornell Sun Years 1941-1943 (2012)* Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012)* of the Elbe,’ a Long Time Ago, and PLAYS Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012)* Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Sucker’s Portfolio: Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Penelope (1960) A Collection of Previously Unpublished Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of Fortitude (1968) Writing (2013)* the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Between Time and Timbuktu, If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy (1972) Advice for the Young (2013)* Flying Saucers Come From. Peace. Make Up Your Mind (1993) Miss Temptation (1993) *published after Kurt Vonnegut’s death L’Histoire du Soldat, adaptation (1993)

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DRAMATURGY BY LINDSAY CARPENTER

BEFORE Before the firebombing, Dresden in Germany under law, an open city. That said, many in was known as a historic city, reputed for its World War II perceived it as such. art, architecture, and culture and nicknamed Furthermore, it was not removed from the Elbflorenz or “Florence of the Elbe.” The the war as many critics claim. Dresden did bombing of Dresden on February 13-15, have war-related industries and was a railway 1945 remains deeply controversial. Disputes hub for German soldiers on their way to the continue over why the city was bombed, its Russian front. Though it had suffered little innocence, and even the number of people damage by 1945, it had experienced previous killed. air raids during the war. Nonetheless, the On February 13, 1945, Dresden attack was unexpected and flew in the face of experienced a combined attack by the the prevailing belief that the Allies had chosen AFTER American USAAF and Britain’s RAF that Dresden to be their postwar administrative lasted until February 15. Over a thousand capital and planned to spare the city. Plus, with tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries the Eastern Front drawing nearer, Dresdeners were dropped on the city. The attack destroyed were more afraid of an attack from the east than eighty percent of the main city center and fifty from the air. percent of the remaining area. Dresden was in Among the controversies over Dresden’s ruins. bombing is the question of how many people Dresden’s bombing is often described as a were killed. It’s impossible to say for sure, senseless crime. At the time of the bombing, especially since it’s unknown how many the city was filled with thousands of refugees refugees had entered Dresden by that point. from all over Europe and lacked enough air Estimates range from 8,000 deaths to 500,000, raid shelters to protect and hold the number though more recent assessments typically fall of people staying in the city. The city was between 35,000 and 135,000 with 35,000 as BEFORE seen as innocent of war, lacking sufficient the generally accepted amount. Kurt Vonnegut air defenses to defend itself, and given how cites 135,000 deaths in Slaughterhouse-Five. close the Allies already were to the end of the Though general awareness of the Dresden war, the city’s destruction is often explained bombing on February 13-15, 1945 has as an Allied revenge, meant only to terrorize increased exponentially, in great part due Germans. to Slaughterhouse-Five, the event remains Yet Dresden’s image as an innocent city controversial. Were the Allies justified in is partly myth. Claims that it was an open destroying the city? Did it serve any strategic city—“a city declared to be unfortified purpose? Was it an acceptable target or an and undefended and so, by international innocent city massacred out of revenge? And law, exempt from enemy attack” (Oxford how many civilians were actually killed so close Dictionary)—are false. It was not officially, to the end of the war? AFTER

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“From ‘Irritable Heart’ to ‘Shellshock’” 2012. ; “New Name Could Mean Less Stigma.” 2012. Washington Post. ; National Institute of Mental Health. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).” ; Bowe, Meghan Kathleen. “Framing Memory: The Bombings of Dresden, Germany in Narrative, Discourse and Commemoration after 1945. 2009. ; History.com. “Bombing of Dresden.” ; Taylor, Alan. “Remembering Dres-

A-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE NAMING TRAUMA While the term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is relatively new (introduced in 1980), the condition is not. During World War II, it became increasingly accepted that all men were vulnerable to the symptoms, though many doctors and generals had little patience or sympathy for those who experienced it. The condition has been called by more than 80 names over the centuries. As the term changed, so too has the stigma and treatment surrounding the condition.

Nostalgia Diagnosis for Swiss Otis Archive/Flickr soldiers in 1678

Homesickness Term given by German soldiers in or “Heimweh” 1600-1700s

Maladie du pays French name, 1600s-1700s. Translates “Disease of the country”

Estar roto Spanish name, 1600s-1700s. Translates “To be broken” Alistair Hobbs/Flickr

Soldier’s Heart, Jacob Mendez da Costa’s diagnosis, based on chest-thumping, anxiety, PTS Irritable Heart, or and other symptoms in U.S. Civil Da Costa Syndrome War veterans SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Neurasthenia Victorian term for those with Symptoms of PTS can disrupt a person’s or Hysteria excessive neurosis or nervousness daily routine and make it difficult to sleep, eat, and concentrate. Reminders of the traumatic moment or event can trigger these Shell Shock Common term from WWI symptoms.

Re-experiencing symptoms Combat Exhaustion Popular term during WWII and the • Flashbacks or Combat Fatigue Korean War • Nightmares • Scary thoughts PTSD Introduced in 1980 when it was added Avoidance symptoms Post-Traumatic to the Diagnostic and Statistical • Avoiding places, events, or objects that remind the person of the experience Stress Disorder Manual of Mental Disorders • Feeling emotionally numb • Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry or Within the last decade, specialists • Losing interest in activities that were previously PTS PTSI enjoyable Post-Traumatic Stress Injury have begun dropping the “Disorder” Having trouble remembering the traumatic event part of PTSD. The change is due • to the stigma surrounding the Hyperarousal symptoms: word disorder. Another alternative • Easily startled substitutes “Injury” for “Disorder.” • Feeling tense or on edge • Difficulty sleeping • Angry outbursts den: 70 Years After the Firebombing.” The Atlantic; 2015.; Kennedy, David M. “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.” 1999.; “Dresden WWII bombing pre-and after pictures (English).” ; Ellmers, Frank. “Dresden Survives as Potent World War II Symbol.” 2005. Los Angeles Times. ; “The WWII Dresden Holocaust – ‘A Single Column of Fame’.” Rense.com. ; Fowler, George. “Holocaust on Dresden.” 1995. The Barnes Review.

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ROBERT BERGIN a Mockingbird and Mountain McClintock in area including Seattle Public Theater, The Billy Pilgrim Requiem for a Heavyweight. Locally Jim has Horse In Motion, Macha Monkey, 14/48, Robert is thrilled to worked at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle and ACT Theatre. Jocelyn holds a BA in make his Book-It debut Rep, Intiman, Village Theatre, and ACT drama performance from the University of with Slaughterhouse- Theatre, to name a few. Jim has been named Washington. Five. He recently best actor by the Seattle Times’ Footlight appeared as Steve Awards three times. He is proud to be COBEY MANDARINO* Hubbell in A Streetcar married to the talented and beautiful Kelly Derby / Ensemble Named Desire at Civic Rep, and also as Kitchens. Cobey will be Bertrand and the Director in 5 by Beckett originating the role with Sound Theatre Company. Other ERIK GRATTON* of Mike in Jenny credits include Harrison in Terre Haute with Billy Pilgrim Connell Davis’ new Bridges Stage Company, Middle Scrooge in Erik is ecstatic to play, Goddess of Mercy, A Christmas Carol with ACT Theatre, and perform with Book-It at the Icicle Creek Patrick Rowen in The Kentucky Cyclewith and to help tell this Theatre Festival this summer. His latest film, Bainbridge Performing Arts. Robert also story in particular. He Refraction, is premiering at this year’s Seattle performed in the award-winning web series moved to Seattle in International Film Festival. Cobey’s Seattle Wrecked, from Honey Toad Studios. He is a 2012 and has worked theatre credits include Dick Whittington and company member of Washington Ensemble at Village Theatre in Mary Poppins and played His Cat with Seattle Children’s Theatre and Theatre, and holds an MFA from the the title roles in their productions of The She’s Come Undone and The Financial Lives of University of Washington’s Professional Actor Foreigner and The Noteworthy Life of Howard the Poets with Book-It. His New York theatre Training Program. Barnes. Other favorite projects across the credits include productions at Roundabout country include the one-actor show Jacob Theatre, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, and RORY EADEN† Marley’s Christmas Carol and playing some American Theatre of Actors. He and his Ensemble of Shakespeare’s best characters including fellow castmates earned ’ Rory is a Seattle-based Hamlet, Rosalind, and Jacques. He also Ensemble of the Year honors for Roundabout actor, singer, and played a beaver on “Grimm” and is the co- Theatre’s revival of David Rabe’s Streamers. guitar player making host of The Lazy Muses Podcast. Up next is His television credits include “Grimm” and his Book-It debut Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play at ACT Theatre “Law & Order” on NBC and “Six Degrees” with Slaughterhouse- this fall. on ABC. Five. He is a proud recent graduate of Cornish College of the MARTYN G. KROUSE BENJAMIN MCFADDEN Arts where he received his BFA in musical Bernard O’Hare / Lazzaro / Ensemble theater. Recent credits include Singin’ in the Ensemble Ben is absolutely Rain with Showtunes Theatre Company, The Martyn is pleased thrilled to be returning Messiah and All Things Irish with The Inverse to make his to the Book-It stage for Opera, the regional premiere of Bonnie and Book-It debut in his sixth production. Clyde the musical with Cornish College of Slaughterhouse-Five. Previous Book-It the Arts, The Secret Garden and Grand Hotel A Seattle-based actor credits include The at Cornish Playhouse, and a number of vocal and voiceover artist, Martyn has been seen Financial Lives of the Poets, Owen Meany’s performances and cabarets around town in acclaimed productions at several Seattle Christmas Pageant, The Cider House Rules, Parts including the Columbia Tower Club and the theatres including Seattle Shakespeare I & II, and The Highest Tide. A Northwest Paramount Theatre. So it goes. Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, native and a graduate of Cornish College Sound Theatre Company, and Annex Theatre, of the Arts, Ben has worked with Seattle JIM GALL* among many others. He has also appeared in Shakespeare Company, Sandbox Radio Vonnegut / Ensemble a number of feature films, including A Bit of Live, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Washington Some of Jim’s favorite Bad Luck, and on the network television show Ensemble Theatre, 14/48 Projects, Balagan Book-It credits include “Grimm.” He lives in South Seattle with his Theatre, ArtsWest, Theater Schmeater, The Dog of the South, partner, Amy-Ellen, his daughters, Mary Rose Greenstage, and many others. On top of If I Die in a Combat and Amelia, and their leopard gecko, Sam. acting, Ben also loves working with young Zone…, Pride and www.martyngkrouse.com people as a teaching artist. You can catch Prejudice, Moby-Dick, Ben next in Vincent Delaney’s The Art of Bad or The Whale, and Border Songs. His most JOCELYN MAHER Men with MAP Theatre, directed by Kelly recent credits include a national tour of The Valencia / Barbara / Kitchens. Miracle Worker with Montana Rep as Captain Ensemble Keller, The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Jocelyn is very thankful TODD JEFFERSON Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O to be returning MOORE* Theatre, and The Bunner Sisters with Athena to Book-It with Billy Pilgrim Productions at Theatre Off Jackson. Other Slaughterhouse-Five. Todd happily returns favorite roles include Atticus Finch in To Kill She was last seen to Book-It where on the Book-It stage portraying Dolores he appeared in The * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union Price in She’s Come Undone, for which she Financial Lives of the of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. earned a Gregory Award nomination for Poets and A Tale of Two Outstanding Actress. She has worked with Cities. Other recent local appearances include † Book-It Acting Intern various companies around the Puget Sound The Ramayana at ACT Theatre; Crash, The A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Edge of Peace, and The Wizard of Oz at Seattle University of Oregon. He is also a voice-over a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Children’s Theatre; Crime and Punishment, artist, teacher, and film actor. He dedicates his Directors Lab, and a graduate of New York Uncle Vanya, and The Grapes of Wrath at performance to his late grandpa, Bob “Timer,” University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Intiman; Waiting for Godot, King Lear, A who served as a naval captain on the USS Midsummer Night’s Dream, Electra, and The Mugford in WWII and to all those suffering CATHERINE CORNELL Miser at Seattle Shakespeare Company; and from PTSD—may they find peace. Scenic Designer Dancing at Lughnasa, OPUS, and Thom Pain † Catherine is happy to work with Book-It (based on nothing) at Seattle Rep. JASON SLOWN yet again after designing Truth Like the Sun, Ensemble Jesus’ Son, and several touring shows in their ELEANOR MOSELEY Jason is thrilled Arts and Education Program. Other scenic Mary O’Hare / to make his design credits include Master Harold… and Ensemble Book-It debut in the Boys with West of Lenin; Henry IV with Eleanor is delighted Slaughterhouse-Five. Freehold Theatre; Red Light Winter and 25 to be back at Book-It, He is a recent graduate Saints with Azeotrope; Undo, Zapoi!, and last appearing here of Cornish College Precious Little with Annex Theatre; Into the in The Art of Racing of the Arts with a BFA in acting and he Woods with STAGEright; and Cloud Nine with in the Rain. Recently spent a summer training in St. Petersburg, University of Michigan. Catherine is also a seen in The Long Road with Arouet, in August Russia where he received a certificate of skilled prop artisan (Adventures of Huckleberry she’ll play Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion achievement in the Stanislavsky system. Finn: Uncensored; The Financial Lives of the in Winter at SecondStory Repertory. Other School credits include Professor/Jerry/Brian Poets; and She’s Come Undone with Book-It favorite local credits include Last Summer at in Jim Cartwright’s Road, Egeus/Snug in A Repertory Theatre) and scenic artist (Oz: The Bluefish Cove, The Torchbearers, The Ladies of Midsummer Night’s Dream, Andrei in Anton Great and Powerful by Walt Disney Pictures). the Corridor, The Familiar, The Way of All Fish, Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, and Robert in www.catcornell.com and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. He lives in Seattle. Dean, Jimmy Dean. Recent film work includes KENT CUBBAGE Regulate, You’re So Vain, Children of Light, and SYDNEY TUCKER The Dark Horse. An aspiring playwright, her Lighting Designer Montana Wildhack / This is Kent’s fourth show with Book-It, scripts have been staged at Seattle Fringe Fest Ensemble (2014), The Northwest Playwrights’ Alliance, following Geek-Out, Jesus’ Son (Gregory This is Sydney’s first Award-nominated for lighting), and The and will be part of the upcoming Seattle Play show with Book-It. Series. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Past credits include Recent theatre and dance designs include Late Night Bites JOSHUA RYDER Moisture Fest, Sam Boshnack Quintet/Karin with Ghost Light Stevens, and Converge at Velocity; Twelfth Weary / Ensemble Theatricals,The Adventures of Owl and Night with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and Josh is honored to be Pussycat with theater simple, At Capacity The Explorers Club and Appalachian Christmas making his Book-It with soikowski research | performance, and Homecoming with Taproot. He also recently mainstage debut with Quickies 14 with LiveGirls! Theater. You assistant designed An Evening of One Acts with Slaughterhouse-Five. may have also seen her on stage at 14/48: ACT Theatre and A Room With a View and Last season he toured The World’s Quickest Theater Festival or A Chorus Line with The 5th Avenue Theatre. The Phantom Tollbooth performing around town as her burlesque Other recent endeavors include designing with Book-It’s Arts and Education Program. alter ego, Daisy O’Day. Sydney is a graduate lights for Emerald City Comic-Con, The Josh is a proud graduate of the University of of Cornish College of the Arts. Dismemberment Plan, and Josh Rouse and Washington’s drama department, and since www.sydneytuckerperformer.com showing his large-scale interactive lighting then has worked at Village Theatre, Theater art at Sea Compression. He is a resident Schmeater, Seattle Musical Theatre, and designer at the Triple Door, the Neptune, frequents Studio East’s Storybook Theater. Artistic the Crocodile, and Theater Off Jackson, and He’s an avid believer in “Everything was teaches and designs at Seattle University. beautiful, and nothing hurt” and thanks you for coming. PETE RUSH meet the staff RILEY SHANAHAN† Costume Designer Ensemble JOSH AASENG Pete previously designed costumes for The Riley is a Sacramento Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Adapter / Director Truth Like the Sun, The Cider House Rules, native, graduate from Josh is an actor and director based in Cornish College of the Parts I and II, The Art of Racing in the Seattle. Directing credits include Jesus’ Son, Rain, and Night Flight for Book-It, along Arts, and is thrilled A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Passion, Where to be working with with scenery for Sense and Sensibility. the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Amazing Seattle designs include Hamlet, Electra, Book-It. Most recently, Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (assoc. dir.) he appeared (and disappeared) in Seattle Antony & Cleopatra, A Doll’s House, The and The Seagull (asst. dir.). He is a consulting Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline for Shakespeare Company’s Tartuffe featuring R. director on Frank Boyd’s The Holler Sessions, Hamilton Wright. Up next, you can see Riley Seattle Shakespeare Company; Rapture, which premiered at On the Boards in Blister, Burn, and Little Shop of Horrors perform at the 2015 Intiman Theatre Festival. January, and which will be presented at the Some favorite school credits include Wait— for ACT Theatre; Jasper in Deadland and Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in the RENT for The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Is This Graded?! and A Midsummer Night’s Netherlands this August. Josh is the literary Dream with Cornish and The Cruciblewith Adding Machine for New Century Theatre manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Company; Sprawl, BedSnake, Sextet, and encoreartsseattle.com A-9 Artistic production

meet the staff staff Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington LINDSAY CARPENTER Midwest with Café Nordo, and choreography/ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone award from Puget Sound Business Journal, BRYAN BURCH Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions direction of Distance, a dance and poetry Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Dramaturg / Assistant Director Interim Production Manager at ArtsWest and Seattle Public Theater. Lindsay is excited to be working on piece. Recent directing credits include The include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, Other Woman, Wandering, and the world That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West a finalist for the American Union for Stage Slaughterhouse-Five. Previously with Book-It KARLA DAVENPORT George Street Playhouse, and Berkshire she worked as the assistant director for The premiere of the devised short play Pot of Gold Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Theatre Festival. Dog of the South and as dramaturg for I Am at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Favorite and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. Properties Manager of Ireland. She is also their year-long literary associate directing credits include Bethany (original production). She has performed MATT STARRITT artistic intern. Lindsay’s primary focus is as a with ACT Theatre, The Seagull with American at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New DANIEL Y. MAYER ELIZABETH STASIO† Sound Designer Players Theatre, and War is F**king Awesome City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. playwright and director, and she has had her Managing Director Stage Management Intern Matt is a freelance sound designer for both plays produced and workshopped in Seattle with Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a This past November, Daniel joined the staff of Emily, who was born in California, raised Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary theatre and dance and a writer from Seattle. (Theatre Battery, Eclectic Theatre), Boston Book-It as its managing director. Most † He is currently the sound design associate (Boston Shotz, Bare Bodkin), and California in Princeton, New Jersey, and who earned grant, the 2010 Women of Influence from recently, he spent eight years at the Kirkland CHARLOTTE COOK at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and is a part- (Barnyard Theatre, ACME Theatre). In her MFA in directing from Ohio University, Puget Sound Business Journal, and was Performance Center. Prior to that, Mayer Directing Intern time lecturer for the UW’s School of Drama. April, she received the Kennedy Center is grateful to call Seattle’s thriving theatre named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero worked in a variety of arts nonprofits in the In Seattle he has designed for Book-It, The American College Theatre Festival National community home. emilypenick.com and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year Seattle area including Photographic Center DAN SCHUY Cherdonna and Lou Show, Intiman and the Undergraduate Playwriting Award for her contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, On Interim Technical Director Intiman Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory play Borders. TOM DEWEY the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Sand Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Fight Choreographer JANE JONES Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The Empty Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Waxie BEN BURRIS Tom is honored to join the team of Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Space, and the Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan ANDERS BOLANG Moon, and was a founding member of the Slaughterhouse-Five. As an actor and fight Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 years Master Carpenter Washington Ensemble Theatre. Nationally, he Puppet Designer & Consultant Ben is excited to be making his designer choreographer, his work has been seen co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory ago from New York where he worked as a has designed for the Alley Theatre, Berkeley around the Puget Sound Region. For Book- Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater debut with Book-It! A Seattle actor and SUZI TUCKER part of the absurdist comedy group Le It, he has choreographed the fights for Great staging literature, she has performed, adapted, Nast Publications and as executive director Company, Illusion Theatre, and South Coast Expectations, The Financial Lives of the Poets, and directed works by such literary giants at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for five Carpenter Repertory. Frenchword, Ben is also a puppeteer with Thistle Theatre, a local children’s puppet She’s Come Undone, and Little Bee. He also as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, theatre. You may have seen him recently in played the role of Fisher in Border Songs. Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam , D.C. where he was the executive director of CARMEN RODRIGUEZ LOUISE BUTLER* Zapoi! at Annex Theatre, SnowGlobed with Other credits include Brad in Gloucester Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest artsave, an artist rights project founded by Scenic Charge Artist Stage Manager Playing in Progress, and The Boy at the Edge of Blue at Harlequin Productions, Titus Lartius Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John People for the American Way, a civil liberties Louise is glad to return to Book-It having Everything at Seattle Children’s Theatre. in Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, organization founded by . TREVOR CUSHMAN previously worked as assistant stage www.BenBurris.com Company, and Petruchio in The Taming of and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as manager for The Art of Racing in the Rain the Shrew with GreenStage. Tom is an actor years, she has played leading roles in many of executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Master Electrician / Light Board Operator and Border Songs. Louise has been a part ZANE EXACTLY combatant with the Society of American America’s most prominent regional theatres. Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization of stage management teams for Village Fight Directors and a proud graduate of Most recently, she played the role of Miss for artists of all genres. During this time JESSICA JONES Puppet Designer & Consultant the theatre arts and history programs at the Theatre (Around the World In 80 Days, Mary Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator Zane is a visual artist turned theatre artist and University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Planning and Research at the National Poppins, In The Heights, The Foreigner, Trails, has a BFA in sculpture. He works for Thistle Big River), Seattle Shakespeare Company Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate Theatre as a puppeteer and in repair/tech. He “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed of Case Western Reserve University School ANNA BOWEN (King Lear, A Doll’s House, As You Like It, is also part of the clown/puppet duo Good MYRA PLATT Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Founding Co-Artistic Director with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s of Law and Claremont McKenna College, Wardrobe Supervisor Evening, Mr. Homunculus, who have their adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House and also studied at the London School of Cymbeline, Wittenberg; Wooden O’s Two own show at Annex Theatre this fall: Mad As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It Gentlemen of Verona, , and ; produce over 100 world premiere mainstage Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful Economics. He has taught at Columbia Scientist Cabaret. He is a fanatical horror fan, runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum College in Chicago, New York University, Puppets built at and the educational touring productions a ravenous reader, a producer of puppets, and productions and over 30 education touring in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and Columbia University School of Law; Thistle Theatre of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth), Balagan an admirer of alliteration. productions. Most recently she adapted and Theatre (Carrie, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, directed Little Bee and directed The Amazing and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish studios by Ben Burris The Full Monty, Closer, ), Showtunes GIN HAMMOND Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won best director). Jane directed Cyrano, Pride College of the Arts, and the EDGE Artist and Zane Exactly. Theatre Company (Miracle on 34th Street), and Prejudice, and at Portland Professional Development Program at Artist Dialect Coach the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Theater Schmeater (Twilight Zones), the Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Northwest Folklife Festival, Giant Magnet, award for Best Direction and Production. For Advisory Council of 4Culture and on the Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, and 14/48. Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the board of directors of Khambatta Dance very happy to be collaborating with this Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed The South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Company and Coyote Central. army of talents. She teaches voice, voice-over, Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House affiliations VICTORIA THOMPSON* public speaking, and dialect coaching at the Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Assistant Stage Manager Seattle Voice Institute, and can be heard on Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, Victoria is a freelance stage manager. She was commercials, audiobooks, and a variety of House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Cowboys Are My In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen the production stage manager at Book-It for video games including Undead Labs: State of Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two special thanks to three and a half seasons where she worked Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. Weakness, among others. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and on several productions including Pride and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre, Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier EMILY PENICK Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 & Clay, Jesus’ Son, and She’s Come Undone. and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Choreographer Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to Other credits include The Holler Sessions with Emily is the artistic associate at ACT be named by the Seattle Times among seven Macall Gordon, Kirk Honda, PsyD., Frank Boyd presented by On the Boards, Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, R90 Lighting, The Red Badge Project, Theatre. Recent movement credits include , Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with ACT Theatre, fight choreography for Othello with Seattle for their 20-year contribution to life in the Roosevelt High School, Seattle Pacific Waiting for Godot and Richard II with Seattle Shakespeare Company, movement direction Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the University, Seattle Scenic Studio / Craig Shakespeare Company, and Tails of Wasps for Mary’s Wedding with New Century Theatre * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Wollam, Thistle Theatre, Village Theatre with New Century Theatre Company. of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the Company, choreography for Don Nordo Del United States. Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence

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meet the staff staff Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington LINDSAY CARPENTER Midwest with Café Nordo, and choreography/ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone award from Puget Sound Business Journal, BRYAN BURCH Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions direction of Distance, a dance and poetry Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Dramaturg / Assistant Director Interim Production Manager at ArtsWest and Seattle Public Theater. Lindsay is excited to be working on piece. Recent directing credits include The include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, Other Woman, Wandering, and the world That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West a finalist for the American Union for Stage Slaughterhouse-Five. Previously with Book-It KARLA DAVENPORT George Street Playhouse, and Berkshire she worked as the assistant director for The premiere of the devised short play Pot of Gold Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Theatre Festival. Dog of the South and as dramaturg for I Am at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Favorite and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. Properties Manager of Ireland. She is also their year-long literary associate directing credits include Bethany (original production). She has performed MATT STARRITT artistic intern. Lindsay’s primary focus is as a with ACT Theatre, The Seagull with American at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New DANIEL Y. MAYER ELIZABETH STASIO† Sound Designer Players Theatre, and War is F**king Awesome City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. playwright and director, and she has had her Managing Director Stage Management Intern Matt is a freelance sound designer for both plays produced and workshopped in Seattle with Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a This past November, Daniel joined the staff of Emily, who was born in California, raised Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary theatre and dance and a writer from Seattle. (Theatre Battery, Eclectic Theatre), Boston Book-It as its managing director. Most † He is currently the sound design associate (Boston Shotz, Bare Bodkin), and California in Princeton, New Jersey, and who earned grant, the 2010 Women of Influence from recently, he spent eight years at the Kirkland CHARLOTTE COOK at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and is a part- (Barnyard Theatre, ACME Theatre). In her MFA in directing from Ohio University, Puget Sound Business Journal, and was Performance Center. Prior to that, Mayer Directing Intern time lecturer for the UW’s School of Drama. April, she received the Kennedy Center is grateful to call Seattle’s thriving theatre named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero worked in a variety of arts nonprofits in the In Seattle he has designed for Book-It, The American College Theatre Festival National community home. emilypenick.com and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year Seattle area including Photographic Center DAN SCHUY Cherdonna and Lou Show, Intiman and the Undergraduate Playwriting Award for her contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, On Interim Technical Director Intiman Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory play Borders. TOM DEWEY the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Sand Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Fight Choreographer JANE JONES Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The Empty Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Waxie BEN BURRIS Tom is honored to join the team of Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Space, and the Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan ANDERS BOLANG Moon, and was a founding member of the Slaughterhouse-Five. As an actor and fight Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 years Master Carpenter Washington Ensemble Theatre. Nationally, he Puppet Designer & Consultant Ben is excited to be making his designer choreographer, his work has been seen co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory ago from New York where he worked as a has designed for the Alley Theatre, Berkeley around the Puget Sound Region. For Book- Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater debut with Book-It! A Seattle actor and SUZI TUCKER part of the absurdist comedy group Le It, he has choreographed the fights for Great staging literature, she has performed, adapted, Nast Publications and as executive director Company, Illusion Theatre, and South Coast Expectations, The Financial Lives of the Poets, and directed works by such literary giants at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for five Carpenter Repertory. Frenchword, Ben is also a puppeteer with Thistle Theatre, a local children’s puppet She’s Come Undone, and Little Bee. He also as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, theatre. You may have seen him recently in played the role of Fisher in Border Songs. Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, D.C. where he was the executive director of CARMEN RODRIGUEZ LOUISE BUTLER* Zapoi! at Annex Theatre, SnowGlobed with Other credits include Brad in Gloucester Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest artsave, an artist rights project founded by Scenic Charge Artist Stage Manager Playing in Progress, and The Boy at the Edge of Blue at Harlequin Productions, Titus Lartius Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John People for the American Way, a civil liberties Louise is glad to return to Book-It having Everything at Seattle Children’s Theatre. in Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, organization founded by Norman Lear. TREVOR CUSHMAN previously worked as assistant stage www.BenBurris.com Company, and Petruchio in The Taming of and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as manager for The Art of Racing in the Rain the Shrew with GreenStage. Tom is an actor years, she has played leading roles in many of executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Master Electrician / Light Board Operator and Border Songs. Louise has been a part ZANE EXACTLY combatant with the Society of American America’s most prominent regional theatres. Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization of stage management teams for Village Fight Directors and a proud graduate of Most recently, she played the role of Miss for artists of all genres. During this time JESSICA JONES Puppet Designer & Consultant the theatre arts and history programs at the Theatre (Around the World In 80 Days, Mary Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator Zane is a visual artist turned theatre artist and University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Planning and Research at the National Poppins, In The Heights, The Foreigner, Trails, has a BFA in sculpture. He works for Thistle Big River), Seattle Shakespeare Company Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate Theatre as a puppeteer and in repair/tech. He “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed of Case Western Reserve University School ANNA BOWEN (King Lear, A Doll’s House, As You Like It, is also part of the clown/puppet duo Good MYRA PLATT Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Founding Co-Artistic Director with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s of Law and Claremont McKenna College, Wardrobe Supervisor Evening, Mr. Homunculus, who have their adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House and also studied at the London School of Cymbeline, Wittenberg; Wooden O’s Two own show at Annex Theatre this fall: Mad As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and Macbeth; produce over 100 world premiere mainstage Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful Economics. He has taught at Columbia Scientist Cabaret. He is a fanatical horror fan, runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum College in Chicago, New York University, Puppets built at and the educational touring productions a ravenous reader, a producer of puppets, and productions and over 30 education touring in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and Columbia University School of Law; Thistle Theatre of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth), Balagan an admirer of alliteration. productions. Most recently she adapted and Theatre (Carrie, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, directed Little Bee and directed The Amazing and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish studios by Ben Burris The Full Monty, Closer, Othello), Showtunes GIN HAMMOND Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won best director). Jane directed Cyrano, Pride College of the Arts, and the EDGE Artist and Zane Exactly. Theatre Company (Miracle on 34th Street), and Prejudice, and Twelfth Night at Portland Professional Development Program at Artist Dialect Coach the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Theater Schmeater (Twilight Zones), the Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Northwest Folklife Festival, Giant Magnet, award for Best Direction and Production. For Advisory Council of 4Culture and on the Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, and 14/48. Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the board of directors of Khambatta Dance very happy to be collaborating with this Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed The South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Company and Coyote Central. army of talents. She teaches voice, voice-over, Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House affiliations VICTORIA THOMPSON* public speaking, and dialect coaching at the Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Assistant Stage Manager Seattle Voice Institute, and can be heard on Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, Victoria is a freelance stage manager. She was commercials, audiobooks, and a variety of House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Cowboys Are My In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen the production stage manager at Book-It for video games including Undead Labs: State of Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two special thanks to three and a half seasons where she worked Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. Weakness, among others. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and on several productions including Pride and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre, Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier EMILY PENICK Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 & Clay, Jesus’ Son, and She’s Come Undone. and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Choreographer Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to Other credits include The Holler Sessions with Emily is the artistic associate at ACT be named by the Seattle Times among seven Macall Gordon, Kirk Honda, PsyD., Frank Boyd presented by On the Boards, Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, R90 Lighting, The Red Badge Project, Theatre. Recent movement credits include Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with ACT Theatre, fight choreography for Othello with Seattle for their 20-year contribution to life in the Roosevelt High School, Seattle Pacific Waiting for Godot and Richard II with Seattle Shakespeare Company, movement direction Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the University, Seattle Scenic Studio / Craig Shakespeare Company, and Tails of Wasps for Mary’s Wedding with New Century Theatre * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Wollam, Thistle Theatre, Village Theatre with New Century Theatre Company. of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the Company, choreography for Don Nordo Del United States. Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence

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SPIRITED DISCUSSION MOVE America’s Vice-filled Past Comes to MOHAI RESTORE “Did you know that a woman wasn’t allowed to sit alone at a bar in Washington State until 1967?” I’m speaking with Lorraine McConaghy, public historian for the Museum of History & Industry, REFLECT and we’re discussing Washington’s restrictive Blue Laws, overturned in 1966. McConaghy has been doing exhaustive research on them as she st BREATHE creates 21 Century Speakeasy, a locally focused exhibit running alongside the nationally touring YOGA American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, CENTERS which opened at MOHAI on April 2. (Speakeasy YOGA opens in June.) Together, the two exhibits will tell a Seattle story within a national context, shedding light on Prohibition as well as the changing attitudes toward vice over time. NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE American Spirits spans the early-1800s temperance movement through the 1920s to MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS! the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. “In so many ways it’s a Seattle story,” says MOHAI executive director Leonard Garfield. “There’s quite a bit of history in our community—because of our proximity to Canada for one thing and Nominations open our location on the water, but also because May 1 – 31 at Washington has been a place, historically, that was always one step ahead of the country seattle.gov/arts in terms of reform and changes in laws.” Washington State passed an initiative banning Save the Date for the alcohol four years before the federal law took effect in 1920. Mayor’s Arts Awards American Spirits, created by the National Friday, September 4, 4pm Constitution Center in Philadelphia, is making its West Coast debut at MOHAI, which contributed an interactive exhibit in which you pilot a police Categories: boat to chase rumrunners through Puget Sound. Future Focus Interactive, elements like this—you can also Cultural Ambassador Arts & Innovation learn to dance the Charleston—join more than Cultural Preservation 100 rare artifacts, like ratification copies of the 18th and 21st Amendments and equipment used for making moonshine. image: Brittney Bollay Supplemental programming connects to Presented by Sponsored by Seattle’s booming alcohol scene today, pairing craft booze, beer, wine and cider with historical context. 21st Century Speakeasy focuses on three subjects in Washington State history—alcohol, gambling and marijuana—from Washington Territory days through 2012 when Washington voters passed initiatives to legalize marijuana and privatize the sale of alcohol. Both exhibits explore the unintended Captivated consequences of Prohibition, good and bad. “There were strands in the Prohibition movement Readers that were instead looking for ways to penalize or disadvantage the immigrant community, Sophisticated who tended to come from countries where alcohol was a social norm,” Garfield says. On Consumers the good side, Prohibition leveraged significant social progress. When it took effect, Garfield says, ordinary people were suddenly outlaws, a reality that made them much more receptive Advertise in to counterculture—ultimately fueling explosive change in the 1920s. Says Garfield, “We ended © Kevin Berne Courtesy of American Conservatory Theater. Prohibition with a society that was much more Performing for you liberal, had much greater roles for women, and 800.308.2898 x10505 [email protected] new forms of music and art.” GEMMA WILSON

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Inside Café Nordo’s brand-new kitchen facility beneath their brand-new theatre in Pioneer Square, actors Ryan Higgins (as Don Nordo), Maximillian Davis (Sancho) and Opal Peachey (Food Writer) pour on the charm. Don Nordo del Midwest will be the first production in the space, dubbed the Culinarium.

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Seattle’s experimental dinner theatre settles in but doesn’t settle down.

by JONATHAN ZWICKEL

HE SIXTH ACT OF DON NORDO DEL MIDWEST, the new production by experimental dinner theatre company Café Nordo, brings up a quintessentially Nordoesque conundrum: What the heck is this stuff we’re drinking? T According to the storyline, Don Nordo and his sidekick Sancho are treated to homemade hooch “micro-distilled” in a junkyard carburetor by an insane-genius chef. At this point in the show, a cadre of jocular hobos will enter the theatre/dining room, bottles in hand, circulating among the tables where the audience/diners are seated. Into their awaiting wine glasses they’ll pour what appears to be the same bootlegged liquor as our heroes are drinking.

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This fiction throws off the audience from not coincidentally a riff on Don Quixote. The for the Alliance for Pioneer Square. She an important fact. “It’s actually really good menu: “Midwestern tapas.” showed them several spaces around the sherry,” says playwright Terry Podgorski. More significantly,Don Nordo del Midwest neighborhood; they eventually settled on a “Nice amontillado from Spain.” is the first production to be staged in Café private dining space run by the owners of Overseeing a full-cast rehearsal in the Nordo’s new, permanent location. Dubbed Delicatus. There they put on a show called Bullitt Cabaret below ACT theatre one the Culinarium, the 4,000-square-foot space “Smoked!” to tremendous response. Tuesday night in early February, Podgorski occupies part of the former Elliott Bay Books “We were doing this spaghetti western, and director Erin Brindley agree to defer the in Pioneer Square. It’s the first theatre to and the space has a saloon vibe,” Brindley question of how to present the sherry. Don open in the neighborhood since the Pioneer says. “First time we had an on-site kitchen. Nordo del Midwest is more than a month from Square Theater closed in 1989 and it sets a It was perfect. So we did the show there and opening and, as experience has taught them, precedent for Café Nordo. the response from the neighborhood was this detail will make its solution known in For its first five years, the company was amazing.” time. Right now they’re more focused on itinerant, staging productions at different “We ran at like 99 percent capacity,” another scene, one that culminates in a brawl spaces around the city—the warehouse of Podgorski says. straight out of The Three Stooges. With nine Theo Chocolate, West of Lenin, Theatre Off “It was a lot of neighborhood people,” actors playing attendees of the Southwest Jackson. None of these places had a full-time are so excited for art and interesting things Convention of Servers, punches fly, nipples kitchen. With each new show, Café Nordo to come down here. We fell in love with the are twisted, serving trays are thrown and attempted a molecular-gastronomic Teatro neighborhood.” Don Nordo suffers a giant kick in the nuts. ZinZanni with a pop-up budget. All along, a A few months later, Nordo took over The scene—the fourth out of 20—requires permanent space was calling. Washington Hall for a show that featured meticulous fight choreography; tonight they As we sit in the high-ceilinged, brick- a poultry course prepped at a commissary run through at half-speed for more than an walled Culinarium, occasionally flinching to kitchen on the other side of I-5, hauled to the hour. the cacophony of heavy construction in the Hall and served out of a coffin. True attended Café Nordo exists in an uncanny valley of unfinished space, Brindley and Podgorski and brought with her Ilze Jones, owner of the gastronomic disbelief. Not just in Don Nordo tell me how they found their home. Two Elliott Bay Books building. del Midwest, which is currently scheduled years ago, looking for a location for their “She came to the show, ate the chicken to open this spring, but in each of the new production, the pair met with Karen that crossed the road, had lots of wine,” productions they’ve put on over the last five True, director of business development Brindley says. “We went up to her afterwards years. In Nordo’s immersive brand of dinner theatre, food and drink isn’t simply for eating and drinking. It’s for character. Sherry as moonshine. Squid-ink custard as primordial ooze. Mashed potatoes and gravy as donut and coffee. The dinner plate as a tiny stage. You eat the performance, multiple courses per show. Of course you also watch the performance, typically by a cast of a dozen or so veterans of Seattle’s theatre, comedy and dance scenes. Podgorski’s Nordo plays tend toward In Nordo’s absurdist musical edutainment, setting up stories that involve the history, legend immersive and social context around a particular type of food or food trend. The post-WWII brand of development of pre-packaged foods, for instance, or the history of the restaurant, dinner or the dangers—and benefits—of factory farming. And there’s live music, singing and theatre, dancing—provided by your servers. Don Nordo del Midwest details Chef Nordo food and Lefesczki’s origin story, which mirrors Café Nordo’s real-life mission: Both are intent on exploring the intersection of food and drink isn’t art. The company’s namesake is a mystery, possibly a fabrication, based on airline-pilot simply for jargon for a plane flying with no radio. As such, Nordo is a cypher for the complicated eating and Café Nordo company regular nature of Café Nordo itself: He’s a mad Carter Rodriquez gourmet championing real food prepared drinking. was part of Let imaginatively, presented in a fictional the Dinner Games Begin at 2013’s context with factual basis. It’s for Lo-Fi Festival at More than any other Café Nordo play, this Smoke Farm. one is self-reflective, self-mythologizing. It is character. BRUCE CLAYTON TOM ENCORE ARTS NEWS from city arts magazine THE SEATTLE GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY’S and she was like, ‘You belong in my building. “Think TED Talks with alcohol,” Podgorski Let’s start talking.’” says. Brindley and Podgorski had met years “We’ve never had the sandbox that we earlier working with the now-defunct Circus always wanted to play in,” Brindley says. Contraption, one of Seattle’s most well-loved As Nordo’s menu designer and head cook, circus-arts groups, where Podgorski was Brindley is looking forward to cooking less technical director and Brindley managing and designing more. “But I’m sure I’ll still be director. Contraption’s final shows took in the kitchen, especially now that it’s mine.” place at the Theo Warehouse, so the space At first I’m surprised to learn that Brindley transitioned easily to accommodate their first is almost entirely self-taught. She says she foray as Café Nordo. The pair collaborated worked in her mom’s bakery growing up and on the general storyline—it was called learned by osmosis while living in New York The Modern American Chicken—and then with a boyfriend who cooked at some of New Podgorski wrote the script and Brindley York’s most celebrated restaurants. But then prepared the menu. One show led to another: again, her Nordo creations barely adhere Sauced traced the history of the cocktail; to the dogma of “good taste” instilled by Bounty! was an evolutionary ode to seafood restaurant cooking. Her food is based equally that began with the earth cooling and oceans in creative concept and flavor, a daring sort forming. Nordo piqued media interest and of stunt-cuisine that works not only because earned a loyal audience. After a few years, it tastes good but because Nordo is as much a they believed they could sustain a year-round theatre experience as a dining one. lease. They were working as a nonprofit with “Our tongue is firmly planted in our cheek JULY 10-12, a minimal budget, a small board of directors most of the time,” Brindley says. “We take and a loyal team of actors and volunteers. ourselves less seriously than anyone thinks 17-19, 24-25 Then Jones came knocking with the keys to we do. I was doing serious, avant-garde TICKET SALES BEGIN JUNE 2nd: the building. theatre in New York, which no one ever 800.838.3006 or “We’d been growing our board that whole came to. Then I started working at Circus brownpapertickets.com time, collecting people that we knew would Contraption and seeing people leave with this donate when the time came,” Podgorski says. beautiful sense of joy. It became clear that WWW.PATTERSONG.ORG (He himself was growing his skills in technical giving people something they enjoy is better directing with Degenerate Art Ensemble and than giving them something to figure out.” Washington Ensemble Theatre.) Several new Which is not to say Café Nordo is easy to board members, including current president digest. Especially Don Nordo del Midwest—at John Tynes, work at Microsoft, which matches nine small courses, it’s Nordo’s most complex donations made by employees to nonprofits. menu yet. Along with carburetor sherry, Through individual donations, matching expect pigs-in-a-blanket made with house- funds and ticket-subscription sales, Nordo made chorizo, “Chicken McCroqeuttes” served has collectively raised almost $290,000 in in a fast-food takeout box and “Bacalao Tater less than a year. That sum covers technical Tots” served family-style and unraveled from additions to the space—light grid, sound gear, a hobo’s bindle. electrical and plumbing improvements. It pays Podgorski describes how the stage will for Podgorski and Brindley to go full-time so be set for the show but, because it’s rather FRESH HANDMADE TORTILLAS they don’t have to work other jobs. And, along unusual, asks that I don’t divulge too much. SMOKED MEATS with a significant investment from Jones, it Suffice it to say the room won’t look like a pays for the brand-new kitchen downstairs. restaurant or a theatre but rather a big, dark, CHARRED VEGGIES What will open in April is a fully equipped blank canvas beckoning interaction between PERFECT MARGARITAS theatre space with an adjoining professional guests. AND TAQUITO HAPPY HOUR! kitchen—walk-in fridge, commercial-grade “It’s going to challenge people,” Podgorski gas stove, ovens, prep stations, and room for a says. “We want people to know that when half-dozen cooks and servers. Two-thousand- they come to our shows they’re not going to be Cantina Leña is a bright new spot square-feet upstairs, 2,000-square feet spoon-fed.” in downtown Seattle to grab downstairs. “I think it’s going to turn out really the perfect plate of addictive food During the eight months out of the year beautifully,” Brindley says, “but people are with a scratch margarita when Nordo isn’t running one of their own going to be like…” or a cold Mexican beer! productions in the Culinarium, Brindley “‘Where’s my chair? Where do I sit? Can I sit HOURS OF OPERATION and Podgorski will open it to what they’re with my friends?’” Mon-Fri 11am-11pm calling “interstitial programming.” They “‘Is it going to be like this the whole time? 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From left to right: Jarred Katz, Tom Eddy, Reed Juenger and Mark Hunter

of Washington with a degree in digital art and experimental media, aware of his own intelligence, unafraid to expose it, committed to a rigorous approach to a playful pastime. Perfecting pop music is a quixotic mission. HIT MACHINE Juenger is well-suited for it. “I don’t have any interest in being involved in anything mediocre,” he says before the Beat Connection counters pop listening session, as Juenger, drummer Jarred Katz, bassist Mark Hunter and singer Tom Eddy perfection with incisive intellect. sit around a tiny table at Caffe Vita in Queen Anne. “That’s maybe a ridiculous thing to say, BY JONATHAN ZWICKEL but I’m not gonna f-- with it if it’s not gonna be the best it can be. So that’s why it’s taken us so heard the best new music of 2015 inside as accessible as any Top 40 on KISS 106.1, and long and why it was so life-or-death and why a rundown former roadside motel not far apropos of both. There’s no Seattle touchstone we had to be so committed to it.” from the Space Needle. for this stuff. Instead Mark Ronson—voracious Beat Connection has endured a slew of The members of Beat Connection had student of music, skilled stylistic dilettante and lineup changes since it began five years ago invited me to preview their second album bona-fide hitmaker—comes to mind. with Juenger and a friend no longer in the Ias a one-time, in-person deal—listen all the “This is really smart, fun pop music,” I say. band. It weathered the chillwave trend, come way through and then wait until it’s officially and gone over the course of 2009, and its released this summer. They bring me to their association with beachy vibes and dreamy nos- rehearsal space, a spacious and surprisingly “I don’t have any talgia. The band members have slogged away well-appointed room in a graffitied complex at day jobs to ensure themselves time to write, abutting Highway 99 near Seattle Center. I interest in being rehearse, record and tour. Modest sacrifices, sit in an office chair while Reed Juenger, Beat involved in anything yes, but also hard work in service to a project Connection’s primary creative force, cues up with genuine mainstream potential. his Macbook, which is hooked into a pair of mediocre.” Eddy’s expanded role, from guest vocalist powerful studio monitors, and hits play. to full-time member, was the tipping point. Forty-some minutes of euphoria: swirling With him on board the band moved on from and breezy, casually upbeat, meticulously “That’s what we were going for,” Juenger introspective electronica toward extroverted balanced between dense arrangement and replies. “Glad we pulled it off.” dance-pop. They continue to walk that line, loose composition, strong vocals shifting from He speaks with a solemn face and the which is part of their appeal. somber soul to keening cry. Au courant but inflection of a newsreader. This is his de-facto “I get a little self-conscious when I get in original, dance-floor propulsive but friendly. expression, that of a serious young profes- the moment and, like, try to be the rock guy, As ambitious as any indie-electro on KEXP, sional, recently graduated from the University which I think is an important attribute to have AVI LOUD ENCORE ARTS NEWS from city arts magazine ENCORE ARTS NEWS from city arts magazine

in a live group because it resonates with people STAY AWHILE when you’re that dude,” Eddy says. “But we’re Airbnb as Art Installation provided to lounge on, as well as a vari- aware that our music comes from a place which Interactions with objects are fleeting at ety of small tables constructed by artists does not require that sort of hero figure. It’s more a gallery or museum, so a pair of artists and topped with objects. of a collective-type situation.” have tapped into a more lasting way to “It’s important that the apartment not For his part, Eddy is a compelling frontman experience art: Airbnb. Right now, a be furnished in a typical way,” Rhee says. whose fashion-model cheekbones and square jaw belie real-deal pipes and witty, observant cozy, brightly lit ground-floor unit in an “Instead, it asks you to be aware of your lyricism—an all-American Chris Martin, maybe, Eastlake apartment building is filled with body.” without the pretension. Where Ronson and other art to be experienced at your leisure, For example, the plates and mugs of producer-auteurs cast their rock star lead singers overnight or over a string of days. Natalie Riha’s “Dishware” are the only on a song-by-song basis, Beat Connection’s is Rob Rhee and Dawn Cerny conceived items in the cabinets—handmade with in-house. of the idea late last year. They and a small fragile gray clay, fired but unglazed. “Use Katz came on board around the same time as group of fellow artists had started a book it as you would dishware in your daily Eddy, after the three of them had been living club (wryly dubbed “Poker Night”) that life,” the artwork guide instructs. “Don’t together in a house in the University District. led to discussion about the intersection of be worried if it stains. It is meant to stain Hunter, a friend of Katz’s from the UW jazz everyday domesticity and art. with each use as an index of this experi- studies program who officially joined last “We wanted to exhibit more,” Rhee ence.” Barely visible are faint traces of year, was the final puzzle piece. Since then, says. “We considered opening our own coffee stains left by past guests. Beat Connection has released three impec- space but didn’t have the money for it. We The minimal bedroom is outfitted with cable singles, starting with the sinuous, funky realized we all do have spaces—we just a queen-size bed piled with pillows and “Hesitation” last May, which was easily one of happen to live in them.” a top-stitched, cream-colored quilt. A the best songs of the year. All three are on the At first Cerny curated an art show in her sheet of paper—a simple oil painting of upcoming album, Product 3. The business-savvy Beacon Hill Craftsman home, photo- an ear by Shaw Osha—hangs above the Juenger refuses to divulge the LA-based indie graphed it and created an Airbnb profile headboard, suggesting that this space is label it’s coming out on, or a specific date (“July. for the space but didn’t receive guests. intended for close listening. Three pairs Maybe August.”) until the ink on the contracts The conceptual exhibit lived online. of headphones made by Jamie Hilder are is dry. “I remember feeling a stigma against ambition “Photographs of homes on Airbnb.com mounted on the wall next to the bed, when we started out,” Juenger says. “It was double as exhibitions where art is used as their earpads replaced by seashells. like, ‘Oh yeah, we just started a band and that’s a prop or decorative cue, showing what When you put them on, you hear the what’s happening’,” he says in a blasé affect. life might be like in that space,” she says. ocean roar. “But now we couldn’t be further away from Then Rhee jumped at an opportunity Xenia is available for booking through unambitious.” to take over a friend’s unused apartment May for $100 per night (https://www. Juenger’s purposefulness extends to the in Eastlake, curating the exhibit Xenia (a airbnb.com/rooms/5307747). So far a album artwork and promo materials that he Greek term for hospitality that literally handful of people have rented the space. designs with sleek, urban-sophisticate imagery translates as “guest-friendship”), open for After Xenia closes, Rhee and his fellow and photography. And it extends to the stark public booking. Xenia includes works by artists will continue to pursue different philosophy lurking behind the music’s gleaming 15 artists from Seattle, Portland, New York twists on the idea. pop exterior. and elsewhere. Rhee’s arrangement of “It’s my dream that people know “We call it Industrial Condo Sadness,” he the apartment gently demands interac- that when you come to Seattle, one of says. “It has to do with those nice, well-lit tion, riding a fine line between functional the things you do is stay at one of these condos that are probably pretty tight. But there’s domestic space and formal group show. places and have these experiences,” Rhee a price you pay to be in them that involves work- Guests are given a list of the artworks says. “That this is part of the art scene: ing at Amazon or, I don’t know, denying other with instructions for handling. Instead of long-term, super-intimate, unique experi- people access to basic human rights so that you a couch, a large, square, raised plat- ences you get to have with art.” can have a nice condo.” form fills the living room. Cushions are AMANDA MANITACH It’s a devastating duality reflective of Seattle in its current moment of transition. Eddy’s lyrics on the new album, love songs hung up on the technology-induced gap between perception and reality, take on the same depth. But will a mainstream pop audience get it? “I don’t think you’re supposed to,” Juenger says. “You’re supposed to casually be in the nice apartment and be like, ‘Look at this Ikea furniture! We have a really nice fluffy dog! This is tight!’” “Pop music is the blinder in front of your eyes in a lot of ways,” he continues. “But we think about those things. And honestly, that’s not something you should be satirical about. It’s like, how do we deal with these realizations as people who make pop music, and find joy in it, and find that it’s something people want to hear? How can we bring a little bit of awareness to that? Pop music, that’s a good start. And we The living room in the need to set ourselves up to do more.” l Eastlake apartment

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