Stepping Forward: What’s Next in 2025
…A Note from the Artistic Director
I know you all have holiday shopping still to do, so this will be a short note from me (because I still have holiday shopping to do, and as much as I like the food, our family Christmas tree, and wrapping up in a blanket with a cup of tea and a Georgette Heyer romance, shopping is the genuinely horripilacious part of the season).
Thank you so much for being part of The Shattered Glass Project in 2024. This is our 5th year. We’ve become a 501c3 with your support as artists, volunteers, donors and audience members.
The bulk of this newsletter is about what’s next in 2025. We’re immensely grateful to the 33 individual donors who made gifts totaling $3280 on Giving Tuesday, to support our upcoming Plays in Progress workshops.
If you missed out on making a gift, there’s still time to help us reach our $5000 end of year goal - click here and help amplify the voices of the unique theatre makers who are part of TSGP’s programming. With your continued support for what’s next, we’re excited to step into 2025.
Happy holidays!
Rebecca
4Culture Grant
The Shattered Glass Project is thrilled to have received a sustained support grant from 4Culture, through the new King County Doors Open funding stream, totalling 65,493.00 over the next three years. Our immense gratitude to the entire King County Council, especially our own councilmember Girmay Zahilay, for ensuring that arts in our cities and neighborhoods not only survive but thrive in a way that allows us to give back to our neighbors, our communities and our local economy.
Festival of New Works
We are pleased to announce the six new plays which will be coming to you through our 2025 Plays in Progress script development workshops. And we need YOU in the audience to support and provide feedback for our playwrights as their scripts come to life on stage!
Every month through June, TSGP is pairing a playwright with a director and a cast to explore their script and see where it goes. Tickets are now available for our first reading of A Scythe and a Sandglass the Skeleton Bore written by 2024 Incubator/Mentor cohort members Mariah Lee Squires and S.W. Jones, and directed by my dear friend Shana Bestock. The big marketing burst is coming soon.
A special, special thanks to board member Buddy Todd for leading the selection process and our selection committee including Emily Stone, Cara Thomas, and Alison Kozar, for all their help.
See more below about all our Plays in Progress:
January 24, 2025
A Scythe and a Sandglass the Skeleton Bore
Mariah Lee Squires & S.W. Jones
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.
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February 21, 2025
Rochefort Girls
Nelle Tankus
Animate and Brim have both survived massive loss. Now, they’re in The Hole, literally and figuratively. Animate can no longer feel pain, 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 must remember who they are, what happened to them, and how to grieve a pain they’ve never felt before.
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March 21, 2025
Inside the Head of Mimp
Miriam Tobin
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.
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April 18, 2025
In Between Places
Carolynne Wilcox
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.
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May 23, 2025
The Last Rites of Uncle Manny
Coco Justino
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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June 20, 2025
Shape of
Zoe Barker-Aderem
Description coming soon!
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The staged-reading format offers the playwright an opportunity to learn how their script is handled in a basic production format by a director and cast; collaborate with a director and cast to answer questions and guide the interpretation of their script; witness the impact on their story of minimal production elements, as determined by the director, and build connections with Seattle-based directors and actors.
Perhaps most importantly, the playwrights have the opportunity to see how their play lands with an audience. Post-show discussions following each staged reading integrate feedback from audience members as well as other theatre artists and give them usable information to refine their script. Your participation as audience members is key to creating polished stories for future production.
Local Holiday Theatre you can still catch
Thru Dec 22
Beauty & The Beast Holiday Panto - Centerstage
*Featuring work by SGP Associated Artists Meghan Ames, Jasmine Flora, Mia McGinn & Carolynne Wilcox
Victorian Christmas Cards - Latitude Theatre
*Featuring work by SGP Associated Artists Montse Garza & James Lyle
Thru Dec 29
Mary Poppins - 5th Ave Theatre
*Featuring work by SGP Board Member Cristin J. Hubbard
Thru Dec 30
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Taproot Theatre
*Featuring work by SGP Associate Artists Rhys Daly & Tessa “Cricket” James
#GivingTuesday Extends through Dec!
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who contributed to our #GivingTuesday campaign! With your help, we were able to raise over 3K of our ambitious 5K goal…but December’s not over, and the giving site is still accepting donations, and you know, the holidays are HERE, if you wanted to donate but didn’t, or feel yourself moved to spread a little more love our way, we will gratefully accept all donations, tiny and enormous - click the link below to visit our donation site!
