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Theatre thrives on community

We love you and we want you to be our friend in making more theatre, so YOU are Invited to help us Grow and Build our community.

Our studio in an old elementary school classroom is not just kinda cool, it’s GREAT!

We want you to know where we are located so you can find us again when we do other fun things (like our Plays in Progress Script Development Workshop Performances, coming your way in winter 2025)

Being together in space revives the arts AND our neighborhoods.

We think fun events like seeing a play on a playground will help us make theatre experiences as attractive as going to movies or live music.

Money is nice, but not always the point.

It’s time to CELEBRATE!

We made it through another remarkable year and we are now a grown up 501c3 nonprofit organization!

Through the Window (& Into the Cabin)

It’s that time of year! Celebrate with us!

Join us on August 23, 24, and 25 for our 2nd Annual Friend-Raiser, featuring two brand-new, site-specific plays, six big ol’ windows, and the blacktop at the MLK FAME Center in Madison Valley! Check out our studio space, meet our current cast of theatre makers, and celebrate our new 501c3 nonprofit status!

Come to any performance or come to all the performances! Stick around or come on back on Sunday, August 25th for our closing night reception and Friendraiser!

Includes a raffle! Devised prologues, interludes, and epilogues! The excitement of maybe having to roll the roof closed (or move the audience indoors in the case of inclement weather!) And of course Many Many Opportunities to Support The Shattered Glass Project! Don't miss out!

Friday & Saturday, August 23-24, 2024

6 pm performance

Sunday, August 25, 2024

4 pm performance

5:15 pm Friend-Raising Party,
featuring music by Cyndi Moring and the Lucile St. Band

Enjoy the sunshine, make some friends and watch us perform in the liminal spaces between inside, outside, and the window sill!

Through the Window (& Into the Cabin) directed by Aidyn Stevens, features two short plays by Carolynne Wilcox and Miriam Tobin that bring together themes of family and what happens at the end of the world. 

  • Summer at the Window in the Cabin by the Lake in the Woods by Miriam Tobin

    After their father dies, sisters Alex and Moose go up to their family cabin to remember him. But things are a little . . . off. The lights are out, the water’s off, the birds are gone, the neighbors are missing, and the lake seems a bit *alive* this time of year. As Moose tries to just get through the weekend, Alex feels a special bond with the lake through the window and starts to piece together the secrets of her family.

  • Further Unexpected Events by Carolynne Wilcox

    When a mysterious catastrophe strikes in combination with the ongoing climate crisis, estranged sisters (with unsuspecting family in tow) end up having an unexpected reunion at their remote cabin in the woods, where dirty laundry is exposed and painful truths come to blinding light… as the world is possibly crumbling around them.

There are only three performances of these wacky experiments with space, time, family history, and a bunch of windows! The audience sits outside and we perform in the liminal spaces between inside, outside and the window sill. This annual site-specific event (it’s annual after two years, right?) gives us a chance to share our space with you and to challenge some of our favorite playwrights to write new theatre pieces on a specific theme. 

Creative Team

  • Miriam Tobin (she/her)

    Playwright, Summer at the Window in the Cabin by the Lake in the Woods

    Miriam BC Tobin is a playwright and theatre artist. She’s performed on stages and taught drama across the US and Europe. Honors include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, and London Dramatic Academy Fellowship. She’s a resident writer with the Seattle Public Library and an associate artist with Parley Productions and The Shattered Glass Project. Miriam also runs SCRiB LAB, a playwriting organization aimed at community and connection. www.mirbct.com

  • Carolynne Wilcox (she/they)

    Playwright, Further Unexpected Events

    Carolynne Wilcox is a Seattle-based actor/playwright whose work has been seen on local and regional stages - most recently as Warwick in Henry VI, parts 2 & 3 this summer in local parks with GreenStage. She holds an MFA in Original Works from Towson University.

  • Aidyn Stevens (she/her)

    Director

    Aidyn was recently a part of Shattered Glass Theatre’s directing incubator program and successfully and joyously directed a gay campy retelling of Carmilla. Aidyn was also recently a rookie director in the 14/48 festival. She is looking forward to directing more theatre and being a teaching artist of theatre for all ages.

  • Ana Rusness-Petersen (she/her)

    Ana N. Rusness-Petersen (she/her) is an arts leader, community placemaker, and creative producer who has worked over two decades as a venue manager and all-around production resource for theatres, festivals, arts organizations, and public spaces in Seattle, Chicago, Austin, and Fargo. She got her MFA in Arts Leadership at Seattle University in 2019, and is now working with Shunpike as Accounting & Administrative Coordinator, serving as Rentals Consultant for ZACH Theatre, and on the Board of Pottery Northwest. She is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), International Live Events Association (ILEA) and is an Alumni Advisor of the Arts Ecosystem Research Project, which also published her case study on the U District’s Neptune Theatre. Ana uses her company, Ana Noelle Creative Productions to administer her creative projects, consulting, collaborations, photography, publishing, and philanthropic efforts

CAST

  • Leah Shannon (she/they)

    Jay

    Leah Shannon is thrilled to be onstage once again, recently seen as Pandora in ‘Good Water’ and Henry Condell in ‘The Book of Will’. She has appeared onscreen as well, starring in ‘Sandpipers’ at the 504 Film Festival and in ‘Vulture’, premiering at the West Sound Film Festival in August.

  • Tim Takechi (he/him)

    Rain

    Tim is thankful to work with The Shattered Glass Project for the first time! Previously, you may have seen him in “Spider’s Web” and “Yellow Fever” at Centerstage Theatre, “Andelana” at Dukesbay Productions, “She-Devil of the China Seas” at Pork Filled Productions, and “A Christmas Carol…more or less” at Lakewood Playhouse.

  • Molly Hall (she/her)

    Alex

    Molly has been a theatre artist all her life, as an actor, choreographer, dialect coach, and educator. Favorite recent roles include: Kate, in Dancing at Lughnasa (SSR) and Judith Bliss in Hay Fever (InD Theatre). She is delighted to be back with Shattered Glass after playing Don John/Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. Love to Jason, Sadie, and Charlie.

  • Rebecca O'Neil (she/her)

    Moose

    Rebecca O'Neil is an actor, director and producer with a yen for climbing through windows. Does she get to this time? You will have to wait to find out. Right now she is spending all her time at summer camp for theatre grown-ups. Thanks to Aidyn, Caro and Miriam, and Molly, Tim and Leah for playing the games with me! And forever and always, thanks to Peter for being my rock.