The Shattered Glass Project Presents The 2024 Northwest New Works Festival
For immediate release
Local Talent Featured in The Shattered Glass Project 2024 New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives: Four original plays elevating new and diverse voices: 8 nights by 9 directors and playwrights, 16 actors, and 5 designers. 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 3 women 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), with additional information available at https://www.shatteredglassproject.org/2024-new-works-festival.
About us: The Shattered Glass Project is a theatre company with a mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex by offering unique opportunities to create and grow professionally. The 2024 New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives is the culminating presentation by the participants in our core activity, the Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program. The Shattered Glass Project is unique in Seattle’s rich theatrical ecosystem in presenting a festival created by a cohort of women and non-binary directors and playwrights supporting one another through a year of skill building and play development workshops.
Press Room: https://www.shatteredglassproject.org/press-room-2024-new-works-festival
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l to r: Mia McGlinn as Carmilla and Jessica Marvin-Romero as Laura, in Carmilla by Mariah Lee Squires & S.W. Jones | directed by Aidyn Stevens
Ziara Greathouse as Professor Carmel Wes in The Uterine Files: Episode 1, Voices Spitting Out the Rainbow by Jourdan Imani Keith | directed by Rebecca O’Neil
l to r: José Amador as Daniel, Alba Davenport as Nia, and Audrey Herold as Melinda in On the Train by Lisa Price | directed by Christie Zhao.
l to r: Azadeh Zanjani as Sarah and Tessa “Cricket” James as Angelina in Out of Time by Rachel Atkins.