by Mariah Lee Squires & S.W. Jones | directed by Shana Bestock

The year is 1938. Dr. Lawrence Walton, the direct descendent of Capt. Robert Walton, has acquired his ancestor’s collected writings: the very letters and journal entries detailing the plight of Victor Frankenstein and his uncontrollable, murderous Creature. Dr. Walton is determined to rectify the calamitous failures of Frankenstein’s original experiment using modern science and a simple concept: he will tame his Creature by re-animating a female corpse.

Content Information: misogyny, violence, death, ableism, grooming, stillbirth, medical horror.

Playwrights

Mariah Lee Squires and S.W. Jones met at Cornish College of the Arts while both enrolled in the theatre department. They kicked off their playwriting partnership with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, titled A Pond as Deep as Hell. Other works include: A Scythe and a Sandglass the Skeleton Bore, Carmilla,  Seven Down, and An Afternoon of Unpaid Sick Leave. They have a keen interest in storytelling that explores theatre of questions and use their writing to, as Cesar A. Cruz said, “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

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Shana is an artist, educator, and director born and raised in Seattle, WA. For 17 years Shana served as the Artistic and Education Director for Seattle Public Theater, building a unique youth theater program and a home for exciting regional premieres. She has directed over 200 productions with youth ensembles, produced over 120 professional productions, commissioned and directed over 20 new plays, and worked for over 3 decades at the intersections of professional theater, youth development, and social justice.

Shana is the founder and Executive Director of Penguin Productions, a community theater organization dedicated to empowering youth through unique leadership opportunities, professional mentorship, and ambitious creative projects. She currently serves as ACT Contemporary Theatre's Artistic Associate, leading Education, Engagement, and New Works initiatives. Through her creative adventures, Shana strives to increase our capacity for connection, discovery, and ability to forge a more curious, compassionate and imaginative world. www.shanabestock.com

by Nelle Tankus | directed by Zenaida Smith

Animate and Brim have both survived massive loss. Now, they’re in The Hole, literally and figuratively. Animate can no longer feel pan, Brim forgot what happened to them, and The Hole is newborn and has no idea how to even exist. Their old way of living is gone. Now that these three have been thrust together, they’re must remember who they are, what happened to them, and how to grieve a pain they’ve never felt before. 

Content information: grief, discussions of death and dying.

Playwright

Nelle Tankus (she/her) is a playwright & performer whose work explores queerness, the absurd, and metamorphosis. Her full-length work has been seen in Seattle at Annex Theatre (Tenderness, dir. Grace Carmack and E. Pike), The Umbrella Project (Slack Water, dir. QuiQui Dominguez), and Parley Productions (Yom Kippur, dir. Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth). Her shorter works have been seen most recently at 12 Minutes Max, Parley, and MirrorStage. She was a semi-finalist for the Jerome Fellowship (2021/2022), Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series (2019), and the Eugene O'Neil National Playwright's Conference 2018). Most recently, she was a cohort of the 2021 María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. She is based on Duwamish Land [aka Seattle], and is a proud member of Parley Playwrights Group.

Director

Zenaida is a mixed Filipinx producer, director, and actor. Recent Seattle acting credits include Mrs. Caliban, Little Bee (Book-It); The Thanksgiving Play (Seattle Public); Trevor, Year of the Rooster (MAP); The Neverborn, The Lost Girls, Puny Humans (Annex). They are also Production Manager at ArtsWest, producing staff at 18th & Union and MAP Theatre, and a board member with 14/48 Projects.

by Miriam Tobin | directed by Adrienne Mackey

In order to fulfill the obligations of a research grant, a scientist reluctantly presents a 12-year study of a human-like species on an outer planet that led to the devastating end of two groups of people; while the only survivor, a young child, learns to accept her evolutionary fate on her new home of Earth.

Inside the Head of Mimp is a cheeky lens into the dangers of scientific curiosity and our boundless hunger for knowledge - and it's as much about those big dangerous human acts as it is about the small personal ones that make us “human.”

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Playwright

Miriam BC Tobin (she|her) is a Seattle-based playwright, theatre artist, and educator. She has performed on stages and taught drama across the US and Europe. Honors & awards include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, and London Dramatic Academy Fellowship. She is a resident writer with the Seattle Public Library and an associate artist with The Shattered Glass Project. Miriam also runs SCRiB LAB, a playwriting organization aimed at community and connection. www.mirbct.com

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by Carolynne Wilcox | director to be announced

Two strangers  wake up in an unfamiliar and unsettling place that keeps changing as they try to figure out where they are, what they’re doing there. Every shift is a small clue…if they can stop arguing long enough to figure it out. As they travel through the nightmare landscape, with help of two ciphers who take on different aspects from both their pasts and the landscape, they slowly begin to figure out the puzzle of where they are, and more importantly, who they are to each other.

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Carolynne Wilcox (she/they) is a bilingual, Latine theatre artist based in Seattle. Their playwriting work has been seen on stages both locally and throughout the US. Recent performances include Warwick in Henry VI, Parts 2 & 3 with GreenStage (2024), Manuel in Miss You Like Hell at Strawberry Theatre Workshop,  Doña Dede in In the Time of The Butterflies at Book-It Rep (2022), and Ana (understudy w/performances) in The Book Club Play at Village Theatre (2022).

 Also a world traveler from birth, Caro is an avid student of world mythology, and a kick-ass home chef with a BFA in Acting from United States International University in San Diego, CA and an MFA in Theatre/Original Works from Towson University in Baltimore,MD. More info available at www.carolynnewilcox.com.

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by Coco Justino | director to be announced

After years of estrangement, Claudia Dalog's brother shows back up in her and her daughter, Molly's, lives-- in the form of healthcare logistics to coordinate for his coma. In this distinctly Filipinx American tragicomedy, it is up to Claudia, Molly, and the comatose Uncle Manny to carve their autonomy out of hand-me-down American Dreams, Catholic Guilt, and a recipe for real Pinoy fried rice.

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Coco Justino (she/they) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Seattle. As an actor, you may have seen her in Book-It's The Bonesetter's Daughter or in Village Theatre's Festival of New Works. Coco's plays Rat Cage, The White Gaze, and The Last Rites of Uncle Manny have been developed at Cornish College of the Arts, 18th & Union, and The Underground Theater. Holding a BFA in Acting/Original Works from Cornish, Coco's storytelling is greatly influenced by her ever-intersectional identities.

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by Zoe Barker-Aderem | director to be announced

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Zoe Barker-Aderem is a playwright whose work has been produced by theaters in Seattle and Los Angeles. Besides plays, she writes creative nonfiction and occasionally catches a poem. As a visual artist, she works mostly with mixed media and sculpture. She considers teaching part of her artistic practice: for the last ten years, she has taught creative writing in the King County Jail as part of the Golf Pencil Group. Her day job is fundraising and capacity building, including organizations building piped water systems, community for new parents, trauma-informed programming in prisons, and affordable housing.

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