…from the Artistic Director

Hi friends!

We’re thrilled that the 2024 New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives will open next week, and run for 8 nights between May 9 and May 19th. Please put this #1 on your To-Do List: Get your tickets today! Advance purchase of tickets is important! Let us know you support our Incubator/Mentor Cohort Members who are bringing their brand new works to the stage for the first time. We recommend full evenings of theatre: check the schedule and buy your tickets here.

But, you ask, “What is #2 on my list of things to do today?” Make your early gift to The Shattered Glass Project for GiveBIG! The actual dates are May 7-8, 2024, but GO AHEAD! Donate TODAY! Check out our GiveBIG page!

Why should you donate when you’re already buying tickets? Ticket sales don’t cover all our costs, not for us or any other theatre company. Your additional gift not only amplifies the voices of the emerging directors and playwrights in the Incubator/Mentor Program, it provides stipends for our actors, designers, and stage managers! It pays the rent at our performance venue at 18th & Union as well as the rent for our rehearsal venues at MLK FAME Center and Theatre Puget Sound (and thereby indirectly supporting all three of these extremely important community resources!)

So we invite you to make your community investment now - GiveBIG Today!

Rebecca

P.S. We are also still looking for volunteer ushers for the Festival - support TSGP with four hours of your time, see the shows for free, and help pass out the popcorn for some of them! Sign up here!

Give. BIG!

Why should you give big now? Because…

Our Incubator/Mentor Program empowers new voices in Seattle theatre. It’s free to those who are accepted, but we still need to pay for classroom space, teachers & more.
TSGP has helped bring 19 new plays to life and we’d love to continue producing more!
Ticket prices don’t cover all our income.
You have a vested interest in a local, thriving arts community here in Seattle.
You like us and want us to continue running our programs and productions!

Early giving has already begun, so you don’t even have to wait until May 7th & 8th - won’t you help us get to our goal of $8000? We have a group of anonymous donors (cough…including the board!) offering a $4000 match - so we need help with the remaining $4K - whether you’re able to give a dollar or a MILLION dollars, (wishful thinking…) we’re happy to accept any amount you’re willing to send our way. Thank you, in advance, from the bottom of our hearts.

The 2024 New Works Festival Starts May 9

The Shattered Glass Project Proudly Presents The 2024 New Works Festival, with 4 Brand-New World Premiere Plays!

Laugh. Weep. Celebrate.

The Shattered Glass Project is pleased to announce the four world premiere plays opening for the 2024 New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives. Ranging in style from lyrical to camp to realism, all four plays elevate new and diverse voices re-examining traditional narratives and socially relevant topics through the powerful medium of live theater.

Featuring diverse, local casts & production teams of varying intersections, plays include The Uterine Files: Episode One, Voices Spitting Out the Rainbow (by Jourdan Imani Keith, directed by Rebecca O’Neil), a choreopoem focusing on stories of disruption moving in time from 1863 to the present, asking the question “what are they doing with our uteruses?”; Carmilla (by Mariah Lee Squires & S.W. Jones, directed by Aidyn Stevens), a campy queer/female-centric horror play based on a pre-Dracula vampire novella; On the Train (by Lisa A. Price, directed by Christie Zhao), a tale of medical racism where 3women fight to secure women’s reproductive rights; and Out of Time (by Rachel Atkins, directed by Divya Rajan), where 3 women along different timelines struggle to make sense of their losses together and survive the aftermath.

Opening May 9 and running through May 19, 2024 at 18th & Union, the plays will perform in rotating repertory Thursday-Saturday nights; a marathon performance of all four shows will be offered on Sundays. Tickets are now on sale (sliding scale, suggested donation of $15 per show, festival passes available).

More Info & Tickets

Through the Window Journal

Well, we’ve written first drafts, revised them, met a few times and have now come to the conclusion we really need to hear them aloud to revise or change them further. Towards that end, we’d love to have an in-person reading of both pieces on the afternoon of Sunday, May 26th, at the SGP space in the MLK Fame Center, and we need actors! Four or five actors of all genders, to be precise, for the following Roles:

Alex: F, 50’s

Rain: M, 40’s

Moose: F, 50’s

Jay: F/NB, 20’s/30’s

Stage Directions

The same characters are in both plays (though there is some variation between them). Please send an email to carowilcox@earthlink.net if you’re interested in reading one of these parts, and are available on the 26th, we’ll meet from 2-5 - might get done before then, but this gives us a little wiggle room. There is no pay as it’s only an informal reading for now, but you’ll have our undying gratitude and there will be SNACKS! Plus, we’ll think of you first when casting the production later on this summer, if that’s something you might be interested in.

Upcoming Events & Opportunities

Here are a few opportunities and events to attend! If you’re a local playwright, not only can you submit a monologue to ACT Theatre, but you can also register for and attend the Seattle Playwriting conference coming up in July - more info below! Also, catch former cohort member Alannah Pascual at Seattle Public Theatre in Unrivaled, and catch SGP Associate Artist Kirsten McCory in The Savannah Sipping Society coming up at Driftwood Players in Edmonds. May promises to be a month of wonderful shows to attend and opportunities to take part in as the rains dry up and the sun shines down - go out and take advantage of this embarrassment of riches!

ACT Contemporary Theatre invites local playwrights to submit monologues for our 2024 New Works Northwest Festival!

Following the inaugural success of ACT's New Works Northwest last year with sold out houses - and 3 festival plays making it to full productions! - we are expanding the festival with an exciting kick off event spotlighting local talent.

Welcome to: Monologue Night: The Choice! October 30, 2024

Our 4-day NW2 festival will kick off with this night of 12 amazing monologues curated in partnership with our partners SCRiB LAB and Rain City Projects.

Please send your 3-minute monologue based on the theme “The Choice” via THIS FORM. Submission Deadline August 1st. Monologues will be anonymized for the selection committee. Please limit your submissions to no more than 5 per playwright.

Selected monologues will be paired with a professional actor and director. Writers will receive a $50 honorarium and 2 tickets for all festival shows.

ScribLab and Parley Productions Present a Seattle Playwriting Conference

Hello playwrights and friends,

SCRiB LAB is partnering with Parley to bring you this all-day conference aimed at professional development, resource sharing, and networking. There will be representatives from companies around the Seattle area, workshops and panels, lunch will be provided, and we'll end with a party.

date: Sat 7/13

time: 9 am - 5 pm

location: Hugo House on Capitol hill

more info: www.scriblab.org/event/playwritingconference

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE:

as an individual: Go to the website below and register. Tell your friends, like us on social media, and share the info with every- and anyone!. Volunteer on the day of and help us set-up or clean-up.

as an organization: Share a table with other locals orgs and bring all your best swag and info to handout. Meet local playwrights and introduce what your org does. Contact me if you'd like to be on a panel.