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JULY 2015
FREE SHAKESPEARE
IN THE PARKS
Jul 9–Aug 9, 2015
HENRY IV PART I AS YOU LIKE IT
By William Shakespeare
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CONTENTS
JULY 2015
FREE SHAKESPEARE
IN THE PARKS
Wooden O
A2
Henry IV Part 1
Jul 9–Aug 9, 2015
As You Like It
HENRY IV PART I AS YOU LIKE IT
YOUR
SUPPORT
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Q & A with
Stephanie Timm
BY BRETT HAMIL
She’s currently working on an Elizabeth George Commission
from the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory
Theatre. (She also recently collaborated with NCTC’s Brenda
Joyner on the first edition of Encore’s One Minute Webcam
Monologue.)
Continuing our streak of notable Seattle playwrights,
Timm joined us for a handul of questions. See more
interviews with Seattle theatre artists every Friday over at
EncoreArtsSeattle.com.
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PHOTO COURTESY STEPHANIE TIMM
Stephanie Timm is a playwright and Cornish teacher with
collaborative ties to Seattle’s most esteemed theatre houses.
She was playwright-in-residence at ACT where she adapted
The Ramayana with Yussef El Guindi, an alumna of the
Seattle Rep Writers Group, a company playwright and
affiliate artist with New Century Theatre Company (NCTC)
and a member of ACT’s Affiliate Artist Working Group. Her
newest play, Tails of Wasps, premiered with NCTC last spring
and won a Gypsy Award and a Footlight Award.
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What’s the best performance you’ve seen
lately? Live! From the Last Night of My Life [by
Wayne Rawley] is the best performance I’ve
seen lately and one of the top performances
I’ve seen, ever! It’s a brilliant script, full of
comedy and pathos, about an important
subject. As Dana Perry, winner of the Oscar
for Best Documentary Short, Crisis Hotline,
said, “We should talk about suicide out
loud.” The actors, direction, and design were
superb as well.
TRUE
What’s the best meal in town? The best meal I’ve had in Seattle was the
prix fixe meal at Art of the Table in
Wallingford. Highlights were smoked
goat and a palate cleanser of raspberry
sorbet with sea salt and the chef with his
ringmaster-style mustache coming out
between each course and telling us all about
the food, the happy organic life it had before
its ultimate fate in the food chain.
What’s the ideal setting for writing a
play? Ideally, when writing the first draft of a
play, I’d have a series of quiet mornings
without interruption in which I’d crank out
a very mediocre first draft. Then, ideally, a
theater company (like New Century) would
read it, see all its potential and I’d get to
workshop it with actors. Actors are the best
dramaturgs, and my best writing occurs
when I’m submerged in conversation during
a workshop or during rehearsals. I love
playwriting best when I’m involved in this
kind of collaborative development process.
What’s the best advice anyone ever gave
you about working in theatre? Don’t take things personally, especially
rejection. This is a highly subjective art form.
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As summer winds down, the Seattle theatre
calendar heats up with world premiere
musicals, nationally touring Broadway
shows and original commissioned works.
Check out these upcoming shows.
Bloomsday
Sept. 11–Oct. 11
James Joyce’s literary masterwork Ulysses
provides the backdrop for this new play
commissioned by ACT. It’s the story of an
American man who returns to Dublin to
reconnect with the Irish woman who stole
his heart 30 years ago. Weaving through
the intervening years and divergent life
paths separating the two lovers, Bloomsday
explores heartache with humor and hope.
Written by Stephen Dietz and directed by
Kurt Beattie.
ACT Theatre
Annie
Sept. 20–26
From its humble beginnings as a Depressionera newspaper comic strip, this beloved
musical won seven Tonys and spawned three
movies including the 2014 iteration starring
Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx. Annie
never grows up and will always sing that
eternally optimistic anthem, “Tomorrow.”
With Daddy Warbucks, Sandy the dog and a
cameo appearance from FDR, this revitalized
national touring production is helmed by
original lyricist and director Martin Charnin
and choreographed by Liza Gennaro.
The Paramount
Waterfall
Oct. 1–25
The 5th Avenue Theatre presents the
world premiere of its 18th new musical.
Waterfall is based on the contemporary Thai
novel Behind the Painting, the story of a
tempestuous romance set in 1930s Thailand
and Japan as the monarchy crumbles and
Japan is on the brink of war. A young Thai
student falls in love with the American wife
of a Thai diplomat and their forbidden love
parallels the shifting world around them.
With book and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.,
music by David Shire, choreography by Dan
Knechtges and directed by Tak Viravan.
5th Avenue Theatre
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From Opera to Metal
Jeran Michael Brown’s musical journey
BY BRETT HAMIL
But the siren song of the dark arts
beckoned Brown [pictured above in a
headshot from his opera days]. He dropped
out of the opera scene and moved to
Seattle seeking new sounds. A growing
fascination with metal took over and he
exchanged his arias and oratorios for
primal screams and growls. He’s now
preparing to release his first metal album
as the singer of Whythre (pronounced
“Whither-ee”), the culmination of a long
transformation. I talked to Brown about
his unusual musical journey and the many
similarities between the two disciplines.
Readers
Tell me how you began to transition
from opera to metal. There’s something very dark, theatrical,
brutal and beautifully angry about black
metal and death metal. It evoked a darker
side of myself. I became attracted to the
lyrical concepts, the aesthetic value; an
aural assault on the senses that awakened
something really exciting in me. I began
thinking if I took my training as an opera
singer and applied it as a metal vocalist I’d
probably be able to go really far with it. It’d
be an interesting route to take.
When I started to reveal my love of metal
music to my opera peers, they always
looked at me like I had something on my
face. But there are so many similarities
between the grandiose natures of both
genres that really meet in the middle. Some
of the best operas are tragedies where the
heroine dies in the end in the name of love
or freedom. Metal music is a lot like that.
My first year in Seattle, I ran into Shon
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Jeran Michael Brown crossed over to the
dark side, from opera to metal. The son of
two musicians in Northern California, he
showed an early aptitude for singing and
received vocal training from a young age.
He worked his way up from community
theatre shows and collegiate workshops to
the Fresno Grand Opera, where he played
such roles as the Imperial Commissioner in
Madame Butterfly and the Herald in Verdi’s
Othello. He hadn’t gotten his vocal studies
degree yet and was already performing
professionally alongside world-renowned
singers.
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Petrey and we kicked it off by listening
to music and talking about our
philosophies in life musically, spiritually
and humanistically. The creative process
took off and we spent the next four years
developing this project. Now we have our
very first album coming out.
There’s a history of classically trained
vocalists who get into metal, right? There are definitely a lot of classically
trained metal musicians and rock
musicians. The lead singer of System of a
Down (Serj Tankian), modern symphonic
metal like Nightwish, Cradle of Filth—a
lot of them bring a classical influence
into their music.
There’s a high level of virtuosity there.
When you think of metal, at first you
think of this loud stuff, but if you dig
deeper— TDR 061515 cantina 1_6v.pdf
Dimmu Borgir is a perfect example.
They’re so inspired by romantic music:
Wagner, Beethoven. Chopin, Liszt, Holst.
Big, dramatic theatrical music that
evokes emotions.
The most important thing about opera
is it engages your emotions and brings
them out for the world to see. Metal does
that as well. The concept of horror and
darkness and brutality is what makes it
so attractive. It reaches in and pulls out
this seething arcane feeling that is very
peaceful but at the same time is made
of chaos. In both genres you might not
know what is being sung, you might
not even speak the language, but the
emotion is being communicated.
A lot of people will say it’s brutal and
gory and satanic and evil. Well, yes, it’s
an invocation of the brutality within man
that is put into the medium of music so
we are able to hold this force out in front
of us and view it for what it is. It’s a good
way to spiritually exorcise the filth.
Speaking of brutality, I listen to that
stuff and think: How do you protect
your voice? Do you use the techniques
you learned in opera? ST 061515 jesus 1_6v.pdf
There’s a book called The Structure of
Singing by Richard Miller. To quote him,
singing is just air escaping the body. I
was able to take that concept to metal
vocals. I do engage all of my body and my
diaphragmatic muscles especially when
I inhale to scream, but I keep my throat
open as though I’m yawning. It takes a
while for your vocal chords and vocal
folds to get used to such turbulence. It’s
not actually screaming; it’s just a high,
intense sound that comes from air being
pushed out of the body.
Which is harder, opera or metal? I’d say opera wins that one because it’s a
lifelong achievement.
You’re never done learning about your
own voice. But it’s the same for metal
vocals. Who knows how I’m going to
sound after ten or so years of doing this?
An opera singer, that’s what they do,
just like any musician. They eat, sleep
and breathe technique. They practice
and practice and practice. It’s all about
support. You have to use your body as
a vessel and manipulate all the right
muscles in order to produce the right
volume, frequency and sound.
I spent 15 years trying to perfect my vocal
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technique in opera. Now that I’ve taken
it to the metal I’d say that opera is harder
because that took 15 years of training.
I took those concepts and put them
into metal and that just shot it off like a
rocket. It’s getting easier and easier to
sing the metal stuff.
What would growth look like in terms
of metal vocals, having already been
through that process in opera? Basically, challenging ourselves to
write more agile music. I’d see myself
succeeding in metal vocally if I continue
to increase my volume every day. The way
I see the entire project working out is to
be able to hook that inspiration and meet
the dark side of music and love it. We
wanna be able to turn heads and make
people happy with our music, which is
the lifelong goal. Listen to more of Whythre’s music at
https://soundcloud.com/whythre
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A Summer Tradition
Did you know that Seattle Shakespeare Company’s relationship with free outdoor theatre in summer started before
merging with Wooden O in the 2008? The 1996 Free Willy production of The Taming of Shrew gave the company of a
taste of Shakespeare in the great outdoors. Many memorable summers make for a tradition of free theatre that we
(and many others!) look forward to each year. It’s our way of giving back and making sure that everyone, no matter
their financial situation, can enjoy these wonderful stories.
1994
Wooden O’s
inaugural production,
Much Ado About
Nothing, has
3 performances at
Luther Burbank Park.
THE DOOR IS OPEN TO YOU
1996
Seattle Shakespeare
Festival’s “Free Willy”
production of The Taming
of the Shrew performs at
Denny Playfield.
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
commitment to accessibility is not
limited to our summer shows.
Groundling Rush Tickets
Our Groundling program allows
members to purchase up to two $10
rush tickets (available in person, one
hour before curtain).
Pay-What-You-Will Previews
The first public performance of
each of our indoor productions is a
pay-what-you-will preview.
2001
Wooden O,
GreenStage, and
Theater Schmeater
organize the first
Seattle Outdoor
Theater Festival at
Volunteer Park.
Teen Tix
Teen Tix members can purchase $5 rush
tickets (available in person, one hour
before curtain).
More information about these
programs can be found at
8 theatres participate.
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2008
Accessible Performances
Our indoor venues are ADA accessible
and assisted listening devices are
available for patrons.
Seattle Shakespeare Company
and Wooden O merge.
PICTURED 1996: The Taming of the Shrew.
2001: The Tempest and As You Like It. 2008: A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.
2013: Henry V and Romeo and Juliet (tour).
2013
Wooden O celebrates its
20th anniversary season.
Seattle Shakespeare’s tour
of Romeo and Juliet has 3
performances at Olympic
Sculpture Park.
2015
Wooden O has grown to 39
performances in 12 cities.
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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
Adam / Sir Oliver Martext / Musician
Eric Ray Anderson*
Director
Annie Lareau
Corin / Musician
Amy Fleetwood
Stage Manager
Xandria Barber
Silvius / Charles the Wrestler / Musician
Spencer Hamp
Set Designer
Craig Wollam
Duke Senior / Duke Frederick
Heather Hawkins
Costume Designer
Kelly McDonald
Audrey
Kate Jaeger
Sound Designer
Harry Todd Jamieson
Rosalind
Brenda Joyner
Composer
Edd Key
Jaques
Kelly Kitchens*
Properties Designer
Robin Macartney
Celia
Hana Lass*
Choreographer
Crystal Dawn Munkers
Orlando
Jason Sanford
Fight Choreographer
Casey Brown
Touchstone
Brian Simmons
Music Director
Jon Lutyens
Phebe / Musician
Maya Sugarman
Technical Director
Seattle Scenic Studios
Le Beau / Amiens / Jaques de Boys /
Musician
Sean Patrick Taylor
Assistant Director
Victoria McNaughton
William / Dennis / Musician
Duncan Weinland
Oliver
Evan Whitfield
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Assistant Stage Manager
Emma Pihl
SPECIAL THANKS
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Parks and Recreation, Sam Saunders
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Rosalind and Celia are the daughters
of a pair of sisters, Duke Senior and
his usurper, Duke Frederick. The
daughters are best friends, and,
for Celia’s sake, Frederick has kept
Rosalind at court.
Orlando wins the fight, and he and
Rosalind fall in love. Frederick banishes
Rosalind, and Celia plans to escape
with her. Rosalind disguises herself
as Celia’s brother, and, along with
the Duke’s clown, Touchstone, they
head into the forest of Arden, where
Duke Senior and his friends are living
happily as outlaws. Orlando, warned
that he is in danger, also heads to the
forest and joins the outlaws.
Rosalind and Orlando meet, but
he mistakes her for a boy. She
encourages him to woo her as if she
were Rosalind so that she can put
his true feelings to the test.
Oliver is sent by Frederick to retrieve
Orlando. He is attacked by a lion,
and Orlando saves him but is badly
injured. Oliver brings Orlando help,
and they are reconciled. Oliver is
introduced to Celia, and they fall
in love. Her “brother” promises to
produce Rosalind if Duke Senior
will let her marry Orlando. He
agrees, and Rosalind reveals her
true identity. Duke Frederick has a
miraculous religious conversion and
becomes a hermit.
Adapted from Shakespeare Genealogies by Vanessa James
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SYNOPSIS
Oliver is jealous of his popular
brother, Orlando, who has
challenged Charles the Wrestler to
a fight. Oliver urges Charles to kill
Orlando during the match.
Henry IV Part 1
by William Shakespeare
CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
Peto / Douglas
Tom Dewey
Director
George Mount
Lancaster
Michael Dreger
Stage Manager
Susannah Butler*
Bardolph / Glendower
Brandon Felker
Set Designer
Craig Wollam
Mortimer / Poins
Matthew Gilbert
Costume Designer
Jocelyne Fowler
Falstaff
Tim Hyland*
Sound Designer
Robertson Witmer
Lady Percy
Jessica Kiely
Properties Designer
Robin Macartney
Lady Mortimer / Messenger
Danni Krehbiel
Fight Choreographer
Tom Dewey
King Henry IV
David Anthony Lewis*
Technical Director
Prince Hal
Conner Neddersen
Assistant Stage Manager
Pamela Campi Spee
Hotspur
Joe Ngo
Gadshill / Vernon / Northumberland
Michael Patten*
Blunt
Lorenzo Roberts
Westmoreland / Sheriff
Nikki Visel
Worcester / Mistress Quickly
Kate Witt
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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MAKING OF RECORDINGS OF ANY
KIND DURING THE PERFORMANCE
IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
SPECIAL THANKS
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SYNOPSIS
Henry Bolingbroke has taken the
crown from his cousin King Richard
II and faces uprisings in Scotland
and Wales. The Scots are defeated
by Henry Percy, known as Hotspur,
son of Northumberland. After the
battle, Hotspur refuses to hand
over his prisoners. He insists his
brother in-law, Mortimer, who has
been taken prisoner by the Welsh,
must be ransomed. King Henry
refuses. He fears that Mortimer,
who was named King Richard II’s
successor, might lay claim to the
throne. The Percy family changes
sides and plots a rebellion against
Henry, who unfavorably compares
his own irresponsible son, Prince
Hal, to the valiant young Hotspur.
During a riotous escapade with Sir
John Falstaff and his disreputable
friends at the Boar’s Head tavern, Hal
is summoned to help lead the royal
forces against the rebellion.
Mortimer, Hotspur, and the Welsh
prince, Glendower, plan to divide
England among themselves. Just
before the battle, Hotspur’s father
and Glendower withdraw from the
fight. Henry offers the rebels a pardon
if they will disband, and Hal offers
to fight Hotspur in single combat.
Neither offer reaches Hotspur who
sees no choice but to fight. During
the battle, Hal kills Hotspur and
also saves his own father’s life.
Henry is victorious and dispatches
troops to fight Northumberland,
while he and Prince Hal depart for
Wales to destroy Glendower and
Mortimer’s supporters.
Adapted from Shakespeare Genealogies by Vanessa James
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Cast Bios: As You Like It
Eric Ray Anderson
Adam / Sir Oliver Martext / Musician
Eric is happy to be back in the parks with
Wooden O, where he last appeared as Sir John
Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Other
Seattle Shakespeare Company performances
include the Dukes in As You Like It and Stephano
in The Tempest. He moved from his hometown
of Tacoma all the way to Seattle in 1981, and
has performed at just about every local Equity
Theatre you can name, living or dead, as well
as many round and about the country. Recent
roles include John in Why Do We Keep Broken
Things? at SOAP Fest 2015, Fred in Riverside Drive
and Blue Morphan in The Unseen Hand at ACT
Theatre, and Owen Musser in The Foreigner at
Village Theatre. He plays ukulele in a couple
of rockin’ local bands: Miss Mamie Lavona, the
Exotic Mulatta, and her White Boy Band, and
Eray and the Lost Positives.
Amy Fleetwood
Corin / Musician
Amy last appeared with Wooden O playing
Lord and Lady Capulet rolled into one in
Romeo and Juliet. More recently, she played
in Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s Our Town
and Paul Budraitis’s The Salesman Is Dead and
Gone. Other plays with Strawshop include
Woody Guthrie’s This Land, Sarah Turing in
Breaking the Code, and Dr. Stockmann in An
Enemy of the People. She has also worked with
Book-It Repertory Theatre (Mrs. Dashwood in
Sense and Sensibility and Barb Wiggin in An
Owen Meany Christmas) and Intiman Theatre
(Lucy Stark in All the President’s Men). She was a
long-standing company member of A Theatre
Under the Influence. Amy is the mother of two
beautiful, fast-growing daughters.
Spencer Hamp
Silvius / Charles the Wrestler / Musician
This is Spencer’s first Wooden O show.
Recently, he appeared in The Flick with New
Century Theatre Company, The Seagull
Spencer Hamp
Heather Hawkins
Project’s The Three Sisters at ACT Theatre, The
Libertini’s Yer Cheatin’ Heart, and in Twelfth
Night at Seattle Shakespeare Company. Last
summer, he performed in a new work entitled
The Waste Land Sisters at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival. This fall, Spencer will be seen in The
Comedy of Errors with Seattle Shakespeare
Company. He is a company member of The
Seagull Project and has a BA in drama and
sociology from the University of Washington.
Heather Hawkins
Duke Frederick / Duke Senior
Heather is thrilled to be back at Seattle
Shakespeare Company/Wooden O. Previous
Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O
credits include Othello, The Merry Wives of
Windsor, The Tempest, two productions of Julius
Caesar, and three different productions of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other Seattle theater
work inlcudes Gideon’s Knot (2014 Gregory
Award Nominee for Best Actress), Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mauritius, The
Sweetest Swing in Baseball, End Days at Seattle
Public Theater and Angry Housewives, The Little
Dog Laughed, Shirley Valentine, Distracted, Love
Song, As Bees in Honey Drown (2006 Seattle
Times Footlight Award) at ArtsWest. Heather
has also worked at Book-It Repertory Theatre,
Taproot Theatre, Village Theatre, ACT Theatre,
Mirror Stage, and Theater Anonymous. Her
favorite role remains Wife and Mom in The Life
and Times of Jay, Duncan, and Tessa Weinland.
Kate Jaeger
Audrey
Kate is active in the Seattle theatre community
as an actor, director, educator, and improviser.
Favorite roles include Darzee in The Garden
of Rikki Tikki Tavi at Seattle Children’s Theatre,
Karen in August: Osage County with Balagan
Theatre, Annie in Evil Dead: the Musical at
ArtsWest, and Madame Thénardier in Les
Misérables at Village Theatre (for which she won
a Gregory Award). Kate has been a member of
Jet City Improv since 2004.
Brenda Joyner
Rosalind
Brenda has appeared in the parks with
Wooden O in The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About
Nothing, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as
well as many indoor productions with Seattle
Kate Jaeger
Shakespeare Company. Other Seattle credits
include: Tails of Wasps and On The Nature of
Dust (New Century Theatre Company); The
Glass Menagerie (Seattle Repertory Theatre);
Titus Andronicus (upstart crow collective);
Black Comedy and The Bells (Strawberry
Theatre Workshop); and The Understudy
(Seattle Public Theater). She is a member of
New Century Theatre Company and can be
seen in their upcoming fall production of
Festen, directed by Wilson Milam. Originally
from Alaska, Brenda made Seattle her home
after graduating from Western Washington
University and snagging a Canadian.
Kelly Kitchens
Jaques
Kelly is proud to a be a part of the Wooden O
family where over the years she has directed
The Tempest and performed the roles of Kate
(The Taming of the Shrew), Titania/Hippolyta
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Olivia (Twelfth
Night), Princess of France (Love’s Labour’s Lost),
and Hermione (The Winter’s Tale). Also at Seattle
Shakespeare Company she has directed
statewide touring productions of Othello, Julius
Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet. On the main
stage she has performed the roles of Olivia
(Twelfth Night), Portia (Julius Caesar), and Nerissa
(The Merchant of Venice). Kelly is a professional
director, actor, adaptor, and teaching artist.
She is the Associate Artistic Director at Seattle
Public Theater, a member of the Sandbox
Artists Collective, a member of Actors’ Equity
Association, and the recipient of the 2014
Gregory Award for Outstanding Director.
Hana Lass
Celia
Hana happily returns to Wooden O, with
whom, many moons ago, she tread the grass
as Juliet. In the meantime, she has kept busy
indoors with Seattle Shakespeare Company in
many roles, including Cecily in The Importance
of Being Earnest, Rosalind in As You Like It,
Ariel in The Tempest, and more. Recent work
elsewhere in Seattle includes Robin Hood
and Dick Whittington and His Cat at Seattle
Children’s Theatre, An Evening of One Acts at
ACT Theatre, The Explorers Club at Taproot
Theatre, and The Hound of the Baskervilles
at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Her favorite
summer picnic companion is Connor Toms.
Brenda Joyner
Kelly Kitchens
Jason Sanford
Orlando
Jason is excited to appear with Wooden O
again. Recent credits include Little Bee (BookIt Repertory Theatre) and We Are Proud to
Present a Presentation (Pony World). He last
appeared with Wooden O as Canterbury in
Henry V. He is a graduate of the PATP at the
University of Washington.
Brian Simmons
Touchstone
Brian is pleased to be making his return to
the Wooden O family. Brian last appeared
as Caliban in The Tempest. Brian was most
recently seen at Theater Schmeater in The
Twilight Zone: Live and has been fortunate to
appear locally with ACT Theatre, Seattle Opera,
and Seattle Musical Theatre. Before moving
to Seattle, Brian worked in Chicago with First
Folio, Circle Theater, Oak Park Festival Theater,
and The Bailiwick Theater where he played
Jerry Springer in the North American premier
of Jerry Springer: The Opera, which won the Jeff
Award for outstanding musical.
Maya Sugarman
Phebe / Musician
Maya is thrilled to be playing in the parks with
Wooden O this summer. A Seattle native, Maya
grew up performing at ACT Theatre, Book-It
Repertory Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, and
Seattle Children’s Theatre. Most recently Maya
was seen in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
production of Tartuffe and in Mary’s Wedding
with New Century Theatre Company. Other
credits include productions with Fort Point
Theater Channel and the American Repertory
Theater Institute in Boston. She is very grateful
to her parents for their support.
Sean Patrick Taylor
Hana Lass
Jason Sanford
and Cyrano de Bergerac for Seattle Shakespeare
Company and teaches medieval and ancient
literature at the Creative Retirement Institute
and through UW Extension.
Duncan Weinland
William / Dennis / Musician
Duncan is thrilled to be making his Wooden
O/ Seattle Shakespeare Company debut
this summer. Recent work includes shows
at Seattle Public Theater: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead and two productions
of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Duncan
also played Edmund in King Lear for Seattle
Public Theater’s youth program last fall. Other
favorite roles include Judas in Godspell and
Danny in Grease. Duncan will be a junior at
Roosevelt High School this fall where he has
played a Chimney Sweep in Mary Poppins,
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid, Austin in The
Other Room, Honza in I Never Saw Another
Butterfly, and ensemble in Kiss Me Kate .
Evan Whitfield
Oliver
Evan is back for his quinquennial turn with
Wooden O where he played Orsino in Twelfth
Night (2005) and Don Pedro in Much Ado
About Nothing (2010). He has performed
on Seattle stages with ACT Theatre, Seattle
Children’s Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre,
Seattle Shakespeare Company, 14/48, and
many more. Favorite roles include Matt Prior
in The Financial Lives of the Poets with Book-It
Repertory Theatre; as well as Jeff in Lobby Hero
and Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain, both at
Seattle Public Theater. He is a member of New
Century Theatre Company.
Cast Bios: Henry IV
Le Beau / Amiens / Jaques de Boys / Musician
Tom Dewey
This is Sean’s eighth show with Wooden O,
and he hopes to keep up this tradition until
they carry him out in his own guitar case.
Recent Seattle Shakespeare Company credits
include The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of
Windsor, and Twelfth Night. Other recent credits
include Telegin in Akropolis Performance Lab’s
production of Uncle Vanya and Pony World’s Or,
the Whale. A scholar of language and literature,
he provided the translations of A Doll’s House
Tom is delighted to be joining Wooden O for
the first time in Henry IV. An actor and a fight
choreographer, Tom’s work has been seen
throughout the Puget Sound region. Favorite
roles include Titus Lartius in Coriolanus
with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Fisher
in Border Songs with Book-It Repertory
Theatre, and Brian in The Gingerbread House
with Theater Schmeater. Tom holds the
Peto / Douglas
Brian Simmons
AS YOU LIKE IT THEME
Mothers and daughters, husbands
and wives,
Finding our place in each other’s lives.
Every time you think you’re near,
you find yourself alone,
Lookin’ in the hearts of others for a
place you can call home.
Seeking what she lost, she is on the run.
Looking for true love, he heads out
towards the sun.
Trippin’ over words, gettin’ lost in
the woods,
They’d love to find a hand to hold if
they only could.
CHORUS
You need to find a life as you like it.
Keep movin’, stay strong, and don’t
fight it.
Step out on the farthest ledges,
Love will come in the frayed edges
If you build your life as you like it.
You’ve got to live your life as you like it.
Her momma left her to find another life.
Left her in a household full of
sadness, pain, and strife.
In her dearest cousin she finds a
faithful friend,
Someone who can help to get her
‘round the next bend.
Before she knows it, her man is
speeding after,
But seekin’ his true love, he blindly
sails right past her.
She plays the game, she risks her heart,
Just hopin’ and a-prayin’ her
disguise will play its part.
CHORUS
Maya Sugarman
Sean Patrick Taylor
rank of Actor/Combatant with the Society
of American Fight Directors and is a proud
graduate of the Theatre Arts and History
Departments at the University of Puget
Sound.
Michael Dreger
Lancaster
Michael is incredibly excited to be taking his
summer internship with Seattle Shakespeare
Company! Recently, Michael put up acting,
writing, and directing work in Cornish
College of the Art’s Original Works Festival.
Michael’s favorite production to date has to
be Horton Footes’ The Dancers, directed by
Kelly Kitchens, wherein he played Horace.
He is an honored member of The Core
Ensemble Generative Group and has slated
for September a fully staged production of
two solo shows, of which he is co-director,
that were seen as staged readings last
April. Michael has one tremendous, loving
boyfriend and two quirky, mischievous cats.
Brandon Felker
Bardolph / Glendower
Brandon has been acting and improvising in
and around Seattle for the last few years. He
previously worked with Seattle Shakespeare
Company on their state-wide educational tour.
He is a member of the all-improv company,
Unexpected Productions, and a founding
member of the horror movie improv group,
Blood Squad. This is his first production with
Wooden O, and he’d like to thank everyone
involved for a lovely experience.
Matthew Gilbert
Mortimer / Poins
Matthew is ecstatic to be once again playing
with Wooden O with such an amazing cast
and crew. Previous roles with Wooden O
include Fluellen in Henry V and Sebastian
in Twelfth Night. Matthew recived his BA in
Acting at LAMDA in 2007. Past credits include:
John Merrick in The Elephant Man with
STAGEright, Beethoven in 33 Variations with
ArtsWest, and Clov in Endgame with Ghost
Duncan Weinland
Evan Whitfield
Light Theatricals. Matthew would like to thank
his friends and family for their unwavering
support through his theater adventures. To
Sam, for always making him laugh, and to all
of you for supporting live, outdoor theater.
Enjoy the show!
Tim Hyland
Falstaff
Previous Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare
Company credits include Macbeth (director),
Henry V (Fluellen), and The School for Scandal
(Rowley). In his 25 years in Seattle, Tim has
performed at most of the theaters in town.
Favorite roles include Galileo, Hamlet, Jake
(Stones in His Pockets), Pa (Into the West), and,
of course, Falstaff! Around the country, he
has performed at Stages Repertory Theater,
Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Tygres
Heart, and Montana Shakespeare in the
Parks. He now encourages children around
the world to be champions, performing and
training The NED Show, a character building
assembly for elementary school students. He
is the real life husband of fellow actor Tracy
Hyland and the proud father of Gus who will
turn 5 in August and start kindergarten!
Jessica Kiely
Lady Percy
Jessica is thrilled to make her Wooden O
debut this summer! She has her BFA in
Theater from Cornish College of the Arts and
is a graduate of the Acting program at PCPA.
Favorite credits include Marlene in Top Girls,
Enid Hoopes in Legally Blonde, Eve/Mama
Noah in Children of Eden, Beatrice in Much
Ado About Nothing, and Cathy Hyatt in The
Last Five Years. Jessica will also be performing
this Fall in Sound with Azeotrope. She is
engaged to Zach Danneker and has an
adorable dog named Finbarr.
Danni Krehbiel
Lady Mortimer / Messenger
Danni just graduated from Cornish College
of the Arts this spring. She is thrilled to be
a part of this incredible ensemble, making
her Wooden O debut! She was last seen in
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (The
5th Avenue Theatre) and can be seen in
American Idiot (ArtsWest) in the fall.
Tom Dewey
David Anthony Lewis
King Henry
David is making his Wooden O debut this
summer. He is a graduate of the rigorous
acting program at Cornish College of the Arts.
Local acting credits include roles at Seattle
Shakepeare Company, Book-It Repertory
Theatre, ACT Theatre, and Seattle Repertory
Theatre. Regional credits include roles in
Maine, Oregon, and Idaho. Favorite roles: Duke
of Vienna in Measure for Measure, the Dentist
in Little Shop of Horrors, Ghost of Christmas
Present in A Christmas Carol, Pap Finn in Big
River, Franz Liebkind in The Producers, Tybalt in
Romeo and Juliet, and le Vicomte de Valmont
in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. His wife Sarah
was recently Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
Production Manager and his daughter Anna
was on-stage with him in Measure for Measure!
Conner Neddersen
Prince Hal
Conner is an actor and teaching artist. He
graduated Cornish College of the Arts in
2010. He is a member of New Century Theatre
Company. Recent credits include Lucius
Fretway in The Explorers Club at Taproot Theatre,
Feste in Twelfth Night at Seattle Shakespeare
Company, and Charlie in Mary’s Wedding at
New Century Theatre Company. Conner spent
three years touring with Seattle Shakespeare
Company’s statewide touring program as
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Caius Cassius in
Julius Caesar, Laertes in Hamlet, and Demetrius
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Look for him
this fall in New Century Theatre Company’s
production of Festen, a Seattle premiere.
Joe Ngo
Hotspur
Joe is originally from Monterey Park, CA,
and is a recent graduate of the University of
Washington’s MFA/Professional Actor Training
Program (2015) where he has performed in a
plethora of roles on UW’s many stages. His most
notable roles include Feste in Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night, Ken Talley Jr. in Lanford Wilson’s
Fifth of July, and Dr. Bennett in E.M. Lewis’ world
premiere of Reading to Vegetables. As a solo
performer, he wrote and performed two pieces
at UW titled Words, Words…, which explored his
connection to his other native language, Teo
Chew, and Way Past Hungry, an investigation
Michael Dreger
Brandon Felker
of the human condition of loneliness. Before
coming to Seattle from LA, he received a
BA in Acting from Cal Poly Pomona and has
worked with the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble,
Shakespeare by the Sea, and as head writer
with the improv/sketch comedy group, Evil
Monkey Empire.
Michael Patten
Gadshill / Vernon / Northumberland
Previously for Wooden O: Hamlet (Claudius);
The Winter’s Tale (Leontes); Henry V (Pistol);
The Merchant of Venice (Antonio). Recent
Seattle stage credits include All the Way and
The Great Society (Seattle Repertory Theatre),
Black Comedy (Strawberry Theatre Workshop),
and The Importance of Being Earnest (Seattle
Shakespeare Company). Locally, Michael has
worked with New Century Theatre Company
(founding company member/board member),
Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre,
Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Opera,
Intiman Theatre, and Strawberry Theatre
Workshop, among others. Regional credits
include McCarter Theatre Center, Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre,
Mill Mountain Theatre, Camden Shakespeare
Festival, Interplayers, and Tacoma Actors Guild.
Film and television credits include Prefontaine,
Georgia, Highway, Grimm, Leverage, and The
Commish, among others. AEA, SAG-AF TRA
Lorenzo Roberts
Blunt
Lorenzo began his career in Seattle in January.
You may have seen him in Seattle Shakespeare
Company’s Othello or at ACT Theatre’s Young
Playwrights Festival as Owen in Faults. He
received his BFA in Acting from the University
of North Carolina School of the Arts in May of
2014. He is honored to be working with such a
phenomenal cast and crew.
Nikki Visel
Westmoreland / Sheriff
Nikki is glad to be back in the park performing
this summer. Other work with Seattle
Shakespeare Company includes last summer’s
Julius Caesar and two seasons of the statewide
touring productions. In addition, she teaches
a Shakespeare class for Path with Art through
Seattle Shakespeare Company. Most recently
Nikki was seen in Olympia as Bev/Kathy
Matthew Gilbert
Tim Hyland
(Clybourne Park) at Harlequin Productions.
Favorite roles include Athena (The Odyssey),
Mrs. Chevely (An Ideal Husband), and Joy
Gresham (Shadowlands) all at Taproot Theatre.
Also Rosemary (Picnic) at ReAct and Claire
(Proof) at Seattle Public Theater.
Kate Witt
Worcester / Mistress Quickly
Kate is a Seattle-based actress and was
most recently seen in the premiere of For
All That at Centerstage. Kate has worked
with Wooden O, SecondStory Repertory,
New Century Theatre Company, Arouet,
ArtsWest, and Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Favorite roles include Casca (Julius Caesar),
Elizabeth McKellen (The Long Road), Nancy
Gorden (Third), Emilie (Emilie: La Marquise
Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight), Feste
(Twelfth Night), and Lisa Kron (Well). She
holds an MFA in Theatre from the University
of Mississippi. Kate lives in Magnolia with her
husband, Steve, and their daughter, Molly.
Production Bios
Xandria Barber
Stage Manager (As You Like It)
Xandria is delighted to return to Wooden O
for her second summer. You may have seen
her last year with the women of Julius Caesar.
Other regional stage management credits
include The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
(2014, 2013) at Seattle Public Theater, The
Mountaintop at ArtsWest and Returning to
Albert Joseph with The Satori Group. Assistant
Stage Management credits include Twelfth
Night with Seattle Shakespeare Company
and Little Bee with Book-It Repertory Theatre.
Next, she’ll return to Seattle Shakespeare
Company in the fall for The Comedy of Errors.
She graduated from Stephens College with
her BFA in Stage Management and as always
would like to thank her incredibly supportive
fiancé Kori.
Casey Brown
Jessica Kiely
include Seattle Vice (Marxiano Productions),
Horse Girls (Annex Theatre), The 4th Graders
Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (Ghost
Light Theatricals), A Gogolplex (Ghost Light
Theatricals), Team of Heroes: Behind Closed
Doors (Annex Theatre), and Macbeth (Animal
Fire Theatre). He is a certified member of
the Society of American Fight Directors
and the International Order of the Sword
and Pen. His acting credits include work
with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle
Opera, Harlequin Productions, Tygres Heart
Shakespeare, Artists Repertory Theatre, and
Shakespeare and Company. Casey is also
on staff as Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
Education Associate and Touring Manager.
Susannah Butler
Stage Manager (Henry IV)
Susy is thrilled to return to the parks for another
summer of Wooden O, having most recently
worked on last summer’s Julius Caesar. Recent
credits include Outside Mullingar at Seattle
Repertory Theatre, Twelfth Night with Seattle
Shakespeare Company, Spring Fever and
Epiphany with Sandbox Radio, The Iceman
Cometh with Endangered Species Project, Truth
Like the Sun at Book-It Repertory Theatre, and
High Society with Showtunes Theatre Company.
Tom Dewey
Fight Choreographer (Henry IV)
See cast bios.
Jocelyne Fowler
Costume Designer (Henry IV)
Jocelyne has designed for Seattle Shakespeare
Company (Richard II), Wooden O (Two
Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, The Tempest),
Book-It Repertory Theatre (Pride and Prejudice,
Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, Hotel on the Corner
of Bitter and Sweet), SecondStory Repertory
(Legally Blonde, Chess: The Musical, Moon Over
Buffalo, etc.), Bellevue College (Carnival, Into the
Woods, Dead Man’s Cell Phone), Seattle Musical
Theatre (Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde),
Harlequin Productions (Clybourne Park, Jesus
Christ Superstar), Youth Theatre Northwest
Fight Choreographer (As You Like It)
Casey’s past fight choreography includes
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s statewide
touring productions of Romeo and Juliet, Julius
Caesar, Othello, and Macbeth. Further credits
Danni Krehbiel
David Anthony Lewis
(Little Shop of Horrors, Spring Awakening, Shrek:
The Musical, Little Women, The Sound of Music),
Vashon Opera (Albert Herring, Werther, Eugene
Onegin) and other local theatres. Upcoming
work can be seen in Tumbleweed Zephyr with
Pork Filled Productions and The Lion in Winter
with SecondStory Repertory.
Harry Todd Jamieson
Sound Designer (As You Like It)
Harry’s recent work for Seattle Shakespeare
Company/Wooden O includes sound design
for Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
and three years of the statewide touring
productions, as well as acting in Measure for
Measure and Macbeth. Harry is a freelance
sound designer, actor, and director and has
worked in these disciplines at many local
theaters and institutions. Local sound design
credits include Pride and Prejudice (Book-it
Repertory Theatre); The Mountaintop and
Chinglish (ArtsWest); Gideon’s Knot and Brokeology (Seattle Public Theater); SOAPfest OneAct festival (Sandbox Artists Collective); The
Phantom Tollbooth, Pink and Say, Never Forgotten,
A Day’s Work, Skippy-Jon Jones, and Thank You Mr.
Falker (all for Book-It Repertory Theatre’s touring
program). Harry received his BA in Drama from
Western Washington University.
Edd Key
Composer (As You Like It)
Edd’s music spans genres ranging from
classical to the southern sounds of his
Kentucky roots. In the mid-70s, he composed
and recorded in West Berlin for the
experimental Delta-Acustic label. In 1977,
he co-founded the Ohio rock group, Spittin’
Image, and recorded on the MCA label. In
Seattle, Edd has worked as actor, composer,
and musical director for some of the city’s
favorite theatres. He and Myra Platt co-created
the musical Red Ranger Came Calling for BookIt Repertory Theatre. His collaborations with
Eddie Levi Lee for The Empty Space include
The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge, Rodeo Radio, and
Wuthering! Heights! The! Musical!. He appeared
in W!H!T!M! at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s
main stage 2000 season. In 1998, he was a
Conner Neddersen
Joe Ngo
member of the ensemble at the Mark Taper
Forum in Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John
Irving’s The Cider House Rules.
Annie Lareau
Director (As You Like It)
Annie is a professional director, actor,
adaptor, and teaching artist. She is an
Associate Member of the Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society, recipient of two
Seattle Footlight awards in acting, is a member
of the Sandbox Artists Collective, and, most
recently, served as the Interim Artistic Director
of ArtsWest Playhouse. She holds a BFA in
Acting and Directing from Syracuse University
and an M.ED in Arts Education from Harvard
University. She most recently directed Doktor
Kaboom: Live Wire at the Kennedy Center for
the Arts in Washington, DC and a remount
of her adaptation of Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet at the Nevada City Theatre in
California. She has worked locally with BookIt Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle
Shakespeare Company, ArtsWest, 14/48, Annex
Theatre, SOAP Fest, Theater Schmeater, the
former Empty Space Theatre, and Cornish
College of the Arts.
Robin Macartney
Properties Designer (As You Like It / Henry IV)
This is Robin’s sixth time working with the great
folks at Seattle Shakespeare Company. When
not working as a technical assistant/front of
house manager at the Theatre Off Jackson, she
can be found at the University of Puget Sound
where she is the Theatre department’s scene
shop supervisor. Professional credits include
design work with Cafe Nordo, Youth Theatre
Northwest, Pork Filled Productions, Live Girls!,
Annex Theatre, Macha Monkey, Printer’s Devil
Theatre,14/48, and Ese Teatro.
Kelly McDonald
Costume Designer (As You Like It)
Kelly is delighted to be a part of Wooden O
for her second year in a row. Last summer she
designed costumes for the all-female cast of
Julius Caesar. She has also previously assisted
on King Lear and The Importance of Being
Earnest for Seattle Shakespeare’s indoor season.
Other designs include Chinglish (ArtsWest),
In the Heights (Village Theatre), SOAP Fest
(Sandbox Artists Collective), Something Burning
(Café Nordo), and The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Michael Patten
(Cherry Manhattan Presents). With a strong
emphasis in educational theatre, she regularly
designs at Cornish College of the Arts and
Village Theatre Kidstage.
Victoria McNaughton
Assistant Director (As You Like It)
Victoria was seen last summer in Julius Caesar.
A recent graduate of the Original Works
program at Cornish College of the Arts, she
appeared as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Cornish College for the Arts) directed
by Annie Lareau. Other credits include
dramaturg for Vanessa Miller’s production of
The Penelopiad by Margret Atwood (Cornish
College for the Arts) and Terri Weagant’s
recent production of The Amish Project.
She also assisted with the founding of The
Operating Theatre Company in the fall of
2013 and their production of The Memory of
Water by Shelagh Stephenson.
George Mount
Director (Henry IV)
For Seattle Shakespeare Company, George
has appeared in Twelfth Night, Richard II, Love’s
Labour’s Lost, A Doll’s House, The Comedy of
Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Richard
III, and Macbeth and directed Waiting for Godot,
Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The
Tempest and statewide touring productions of
Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
and Othello. George is the founding Artistic
Director of Wooden O, where he has played
Malvolio, Iago, Richard III, Shylock, Hamlet,
Cassius, Benedick, Caliban, Romeo, and Feste
and directed Henry V, The Comedy of Errors,
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Much Ado
About Nothing. Other credits include work at
ACT Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle
Public Theater, SecondStory Repertory Theatre,
and Village Theatre.
Crystal Dawn Munkers
Choreographer (As You Like It)
Crystal, long-time lover of Seattle Shakespeare
Company, recently choreographed mainstage productions Much Ado About Nothing,
Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Gregory Award
“Best Production” Nominee As You Like It.
Past Wooden O credits include Julius Caesar,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tempest,
Lorenzo Roberts
Nikki Visel
Comedy of Errors, and A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Assistant Director). Most recently, her
choreography was featured in No Way to Treat
a Lady (Village Theatre), Dick Whittington and
His Cat (Seattle Children’s Theatre), and Passing
Strange (ACT Theatre/Sidecountry Theatre).
Crystal received her graduate certification in
Directing for the Stage and Screen from the
University of Washington.
Emma Pihl
Assistant Stage Manager (As You Like It)
Emma is happy to join the Wooden O family
with As You Like It. Emma’s recent credits
include Cabaret with Village Theatre, The
Flick with New Century Theatre Company,
The Explorer’s Club with Taproot Theatre,
and several shows with Book-It Repertory
Theatre, including Pride and Prejudice, I Am
Of Ireland, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay, Truth Like the Sun, Frankenstein; or,
the Modern Prometheus, and Pink and Say,
one of Book-It’s educational touring shows.
Pamela Campi Spee
Assistant Stage Manager (Henry IV)
Pamela is excited for her first season
of Wooden O! Previously with Seattle
Shakespeare Company: Tartuffe. She works
in stage management in the Seattle area
at ArtsWest, Village Theatre, The 5th Avenue
Theatre, and others. When not living the
backstage life, she is the Production Manager
at ArtsWest, a professional photographer and
puppy mom to an adorable lab mix. Undying
love and thanks to her favorite leading man!
Technical Director (As You Like It / Henry IV)
Seattle Scenic Studios is the only non-profit
scenic fabrication organization in the United
States. They provide technical support to
non-profit theatres and museums throughout
the state, including Seattle Shakespeare
Company. Seattle Scenic has supported
productions from Washington to New York,
from Lincoln, NB, to Spoleto, Italy. They also
train the next generation of technical theatre
artists, supporting programs including
Roosevelt High School, Kamiak High School,
the Bush School, Evergreen Middle School,
Billings Middle School, Seattle Prep, and
Islander Middle School.
Kate Witt
Robertson Witmer
Sound Designer (Henry IV)
Rob’s recent work for Seattle Shakespeare
Company includes Othello, Tartuffe, Waiting
for Godot, King Lear, and Much Ado About
Nothing. Other recent shows include The
Three Sisters (The Seagull Project); Venus in Fur
(Seattle Repertory Theatre); and Humble Boy
(Seattle Public Theater). Recent performance
credits include A Doctor in Spite of Himself
(Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, and Intiman Theatre); and Fiddler on
the Roof (Village Theatre). Rob received the
2013 Gregory Award for Outstanding Sound
Design for New Century Theatre Company’s
production of The Trial.
We’re teaming up with Tuxedos
and Tennis Shoes Catering and
Events to offer gourmet picnic
meals for performances at Luther
Burbank Park. Order online in
advance and pick up a perfect
picnic meal when you arrive at
the park. It’s as easy as that!
Order at seattleshakespeare.org
Craig Wollam
Set Designer (As You Like It / Henry IV)
Craig is happy to be designing his 30th
production for Wooden O. As a freelance scenic
and lighting designer, Craig’s work has been
seen at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Langston
Hughes, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Opera,
Centerstage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, BookIt Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle
Children’s Theatre, Spectrum Dance Theater,
Civic Light Opera, ArtsWest, Bellevue Opera,
Wing Luke Museum, The Bruce Lee Exhibit for
Inter*Im, Centerstage, The Empty Space, Seattle
Public Theater, Youth Theatre Northwest, Seattle
Shakespeare Company, and Tacoma Actors
Guild here in Washington. Out of town, Craig
has designed for Arizona Theatre Company,
Chicago Theatre Center, Atlanta’s 14th Street
Theatre, Boston’s Lyric Theatre, Dance Theatre
Workshop of NY, the Spoleto Festival of Italy, the
Colony in Miami, the Zephyr in LA, Kohler Arts
Center in Sheboygan, and the Actor’s Playhouse,
NY. Craig is co-founder and Technical Director
of Seattle Scenic Studios, a non-profit serving
non-profits and education throughout Western
Washington including Seattle Shakespeare
Company/Wooden O.
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA),
founded in 1913, represents more
than 45-thousand actors and stage
managers in the United States. Equity
seeks to advance, promote and foster
the art of live theatre as an essential
component of our society. Equity
negotiates wages and working conditions, providing
a wide range of benefits, including health and
pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and
is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of
performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our
mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
Leadership Bios
John Bradshaw
Managing Director
Now in his fourteenth season with Seattle
Shakespeare Company, John is a graduate of
the University of Washington and has spent
nearly his entire career as part of the Seattle
theatre community. Prior to joining Seattle
Shakespeare, he was Managing Director at
The Empty Space Theatre and Director of
Endowment and Planned Giving for Seattle
Repertory Theatre. John served as General
Manager and Development Director during
construction and initial operations at Kirkland
Performance Center. At Seattle Children’s
Theatre, he was part of the development
staff during the capital campaign to build the
Charlotte Martin Theatre. Prior to going into
administration, John served as an AEA stage
manager at several professional theatres in
Seattle. John is on the Honorary Advisory Board
for the School of Drama at the University of
Washington and the Advisory Board for TeenTix.
George Mount
Artistic Director
See production bios.
NEXT ON STAGE
SEPTEMBER 16–OCTOBER 11
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
A fast and funny comedy filled with
mixed up mayhem. Searching for
the family they lost years ago in a
shipwreck, Antipholus and his servant,
Dromio, find themselves in a strange
city where nearly everyone thinks they
know them. Are folks seeing double?
Maybe! This comic knot of jealous
wives, quack doctors, mysterious nuns,
and double trouble untangles just in
time with the nuttiest family reunion
you’ve ever seen.
Directed by Jane Nichols
WHERE IT’S PERFORMING
The Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Repertory
155 Mercer Street
WHO YOU’VE SEEN
Kevin Bordi: The Two Gentlemen of
Verona (Wooden O), Love’s Labour’s Lost
David Brown King: Richard II,
As You Like It
Samie Detzer: The Two Gentlemen
of Verona
Spencer Hamp: As You Like It (Wooden O),
Twelfth Night
Julie Briskman: Twelfth Night, The
Threepenny Opera
Todd Jefferson Moore: Waiting for
Godot, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Electra The Miser, Much Ado
About Nothing, Richard III, As You Like
It, Pericles
Linda Kay Morris: King Lear
Michael Patten: Henry IV Part 1
(Wooden O), The Importance of Being
Earnest, Henry V (Wooden O), A Doll’s
House, The Winter’s Tale (Wooden O),
Wittenberg, The Two Gentlemen of
Verona, The Taming of the Shrew
Jay Myers: Twelfth Night, Much Ado
About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Bloodlines
This season we’re delving into the domestic. The affairs of kings and
queens won’t be found. Families will be the focus. Our bloodlines.
Directed by Jane Nichols
Mother Courage
and Her Children
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Jeff Steitzer
Titus
Andronicus
Directed by David Quicksall
Mrs. Warren’s
Profession
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Victor Pappas
Romeo and
Juliet
Directed by Vanessa Miller
Sept. 16–Oct. 11, 2015
A comic knot of mistaken identities.
Leo K. Theatre at
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Oct. 27–Nov. 22, 2015
A powerhouse anti-war satire
peppered with music and song.
Center Theatre at Seattle Center
Jan. 12–Feb. 7, 2016
A swift and savage tale of
bloody revenge.
Mar. 15–Apr. 10, 2016
A mother-daughter battle of wits
and wills.
May 4–May 22, 2016
An intimate love story to enchant
us again and again.
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
All titles, dates, and artists subject to change.
Painting by Helen Klebesadel, klebesadel.com
The Comedy
of Errors
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Bob and Sarah Alsdorf
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Wearing Memories
Owuor Arunga reflects his
experiences around the globe.
BY AMANDA MANITACH
WHO Owuor Obi Otieno Arunga, musician, producer, ac-
tivist and rockstar dad. Born and raised in Kisumu, Kenya,
Arunga has called Seattle home for 15-plus years. “I convinced my parents to move [to the U.S.] after I watched
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video,” he says.
GLOBAL VISIONARY Arunga began studying music when
he was nine, going on to earn a degree in contemporary
music from The New School in New York. His career as
a jazz trumpeter has taken him around the world—touring
with the Physics and Black Stax, and playing the New
Years show in Times Square with Macklemore & Ryan
Lewis. He recently worked on the “Music To Empower
Youth” campaign with One Vibe Africa, a global initiative
that brings the arts to orphans and disadvantaged youth in
Kisumu. He’s producing two TV episodes for Coke Studio
Africa, a Pan-African cross-cultural exchange between
African musicians in the diaspora.
THE LOOK “My number one aesthetic rule: wear the
clothes, don’t let them wear you. A man makes the
clothes. My favorite trademark look is a kilt, leather vest
and black boots. Makes me feel primal, masculine, rockstar. In general I wear clothing I associate with a time and
place or a life experience, whether that’s a trip to Monaco,
a shoe-shopping spree in Tokyo or a T-shirt from a festival
in Kenya. I love to wear my memories.”
ICONS “African Sapeurs. My parents. Slash. Diana
Vreeland’s audacity, Fela Kuti’s swag, Miles Davis’ edge.
Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire for consistency.
Amsterdam and Milan are my favorite cities for style.”
UP NEXT Arunga is putting the final touches on “Pamoja,”
LAUREN MAX
a song and music video made with Otieno Terry, Naomi
Wachira, Dadabass, Naomi Wamboe and Tendai Maraire,
the proceeds of which will benefit young African artists.
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The Human Web
BY STEVE SCHER
AM FEELING very lucky. I was in a coffee shop,
thinking I had been waiting a bit too long for the
brew. A little gurgle of impatience was working its way
up and I thought it better to turn around and wander.
An artist’s paper cuts were on display, as artists’
work is everywhere these days. Art is the lingua
franca of our modern hipster economy, as ubiquitous
as homemade bitters and kale chips—and we are
lucky for it. All these opportunities for humans to
share what they make and craft, what they carve and
snip and blow and chip, all these chances to point at
themselves and at each other (and at all of us) wrap us
in the warp and weft of our own hopes and fears.
We are Homo Urbanus now, remaking the world in
the Anthropocene, and here, out of the smoldering
pits of copper and coal comes some miner making
something that burns and shines. From the acidifying
oceans swarming with jellyfish, some fisher has
hooked one of the last salmon and turned it into
sculpture.
Or here, while I waited for my short decaf latte,
a paper cutter presents me with what feels like
Victorian scenes of a modern Seattle: Here is the
space needle in cardboard, the
towers looking like the row
houses of Amsterdam; here is a
ferry plying the sound, a kayak
across its bow, the piers along the
waterfront, even the Ferris wheel.
The artist had snared me in her
web—my grumble of discontent
replaced by her delightful sense
of the city.
Price tags are posted next to
each artwork and I’m glad for
that. Creative offerings are real but payment would
be too, thank you very much. Artists don’t just reflect
the evolving culture, they shape it. Their work is an
important part of the economy.
A woman was showing a basket on Antiques
Roadshow the other night. She had bought it in a
secondhand shop for a week’s salary. It was Yokut,
a California People, circa 1900, the appraiser told
her, pointing out the quail feathers and red yarn that
ringed the rim. When the tourists arrived, weavers
started cranking them out—they were apparently very
popular with the white shoppers and sold for $100
each. Pricey stuff back when that could be a month’s
wages for the clerking classes.
Commerce helps keep art alive. But there is so
much, and added to all the other stuff we manufacture
it’s easy for people to feel overwhelmed and forlorn.
So much stuff gets made that it seems too hard to
I
separate the great from the lousy. You could just
dismiss it, or ignore it all, and hunker back down.
But then, you can’t really. You reach for a bottle
to drown your dismay, twist out the cork and there,
tattooed in ink, a filigree pattern from the cork-maker,
the company name surrounded by swirling borders
and finely crosshatched lines.
Why do that, on a cork, hidden in a bottle, if not to
send a message? I made this, the creator says, I made
this for you, tourist to my world, to admire, and maybe
to be warmed by it, as I was warmed in the making.
People can’t help it. We create. In the city, tossed
against one another like dogs in the back of a
dogcatcher’s van, rather than snarling and tearing
at each other, we sing songs, we pound out rhythms.
We turn the sidewalks over to metalworkers to adorn
the sewer covers with stories. We gobble up blank
walls, leaving behind, in archly patterned smears and
stains, our identities.
Humans are weeds and our efforts pop up in the
cracks of even the smoothest edifice. Art erupts
from our surroundings, connecting us to each other
and to our past. In front of the Museum of History
& Industry’s new digs on the
southern shore of Lake Union
are modern obelisks, honoring
the people who used to fish
and weave there. Like the ribs
of a beast presumed extinct,
they rise to reclaim their place.
Wander through them, imagine
the life those folks lived. Then
turn and walk on, steps away is
the Center For Wooden Boats’
artist-in-residence, Saaduuts.
The Haida carver and boat builder is steaming a cedar
canoe, teaching another generation a skill that chips
through layers of living culture. Wander further, onto
the docks where yet another layer of the past holds
fast against the chrome and steel crafts that crowd the
shore.
That’s the thing about the artist, crafter, singer.
There’s no giving up. There is too much work to do.
One shift ends, another begins. The fingers that plug
your information into the big modern machine of our
society, these are the same fingers that weave the
basket, the same hands that weld the sculpture, paint
the paintings, spin the tales.
When my coffee came, it was decorated with a
foamy puppy, one eye winking. Another barista
well trained in this emerging art form, sharing her
ephemeral creation, rewiring our city with a
simple act. n
Humans are weeds
and our efforts pop
up in the cracks of
even the smoothest
edifice.
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Podcaster Aaron Roden Can’t Stop Talking
“I’ve created a hobby out of needing people,”
says Aaron Roden, which is a clever quip though
not entirely true. Roden’s hobby is podcasting
and his show, Air Raid, recently logged its 249th
episode in five-plus years. Those numbers testify
to Roden’s unwavering dedication (obsession?) to
conducting conversations with people he doesn’t
know very well—chiefly luminaries of Seattle
music, filmmaking and comedy—and making
those conversations available to the public.
Born and raised on the Kitsap Peninsula,
Roden, 34, is a married father of two and cityemployed geologist by trade. His gregarious
nature—“I’ve always had a knack for picking up
and talking to a stranger,” he says—makes him a
natural interviewer, whether or not he’s behind a
microphone.
“When someone tells me, ‘You’re good at talking,’ I don’t take that as a compliment,” he says.
“It’s gotten me into trouble and made me late a lot
of times because I don’t know how to get out of a
conversation.”
Whether driven by bravado or ignorance, when
he first started Air Raid Roden aspired to the
top-dog status enjoyed by seasoned podcasters
like Mark Maron of WTF and Luke Burbank of Too
Beautiful to Live. Unlike his heroes, he entered the
game without any preexisting celebrity to boost
his credibility. Early interviews with filmmaker
Lynn Shelton and musician/writer Sean Nelson
snowballed into subsequent interviews with performers like Trailer Park Boys and Bob Saget.
Roden developed an interview style—part
armchair psychologist, part just-happy-to-behere superfan—to tease out the kind of offbeat,
humanizing insights his subjects rarely give to
fact-finding journalists. His conversations need
to be discursive to fill Air Raid’s 45–50 minutes
of airtime. Roden says his guests are roughly 75
percent Seattle talent, 25 percent national names
that draw attention to the show. The mix of local
and national names puts Air Raid guests on an
equal playing field.
In the past few months, he’s disarmed some
notoriously prickly subjects to elicit unique, affecting on-air moments: Ishmael Butler revealed
the story behind his first-ever performance, at a
Garfield High School talent show, for example,
and he inadvertently bonded with Montage of
Heck director Brett Morgen who was fervently
missing his kids during an 18-hour press junket.
Most recently, while recording episode 249 at the
Crocodile “all hopped up on Dayquil,” he pissed
off Jon Spencer of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
by referring to his music as “lo-fi.” Roden rarely
edits out his flubs from the finished podcast.
“People enjoy hearing me fail,” he says.
Not enough so that his reputation suffers.
Roden says that these days, publicists and artists
like Spencer are requesting appearances on the
show. To Roden, that’s validation in its own right.
The show is a featured podcast on KIRO Radio’s
website and occasionally, when featuring a
bigger-named guest, gets top billing on iTunes.
“That’s something I’m always concerned
about,” he says. “Do I have any cred at all? I don’t
know.” JONATHAN ZWICKEL
IRMA VEP,
THE LAST BREATH
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South Lake Union, noon, any
given weekday: dozens of
food trucks and thousands of
people looking for lunch.
Food Truck Safari
JASON JUSTICE
Wandering South Lake
Union in search of lunch
ONLY A HANDFUL of years ago, South Lake
Union was a ghost town of warehouses where
you couldn’t get a bowl of soup or sandwich
to save your life. Now the food options are
mind-boggling.
Food trucks are especially ubiquitous.
During the lunch-rush hours of 11 a.m.–2
p.m., they crop up curbside and cluster in
parking-lot pods, a convenient sampler of the
city’s food-on-wheels scene. Along Westlake
Avenue at noon on a weekday, thousands of
lanyard-clad diners pour onto the sidewalks
in pursuit of sustenance. The eating is good
and the people-watching even better.
In a small lot at Westlake and Lenora, the
line to the NaanSense truck winds down
the sidewalk nearly 30 people deep. Nearby
Biscuit Box, a petite vehicle with a tan-andrusset striped awning, demands less of a
wait. I order a ham and cheese biscuit ($8)
made with trotters, rosemary and Beecher’s
cheese fondue. The flaky golden biscuit
is lodged in a cardboard boat filled with
melted cheese and thick chunks of ham, and
garnished with a healthy helping of fresh microgreens—more a pop of color and a nod to
the notion of a balanced meal than a crucial
component.
Overcoming the gut-bomb biscuit fondue,
my lunch partners and I delve into the biscuit
bread pudding with citrus-rosemary caramel ($6). The dense biscuit is drenched with
sugar, the top caramelized to a tinge of crème
brûlée. As time evaporates, so does the caramel, which thickens to candy-apple sludge.
In the same pod, Napkin Friends offers a
Jewish twist to traditional sandwiches, replacing bread with crispy, gluten-free potato
latkes; imagine a sandwich between two
hash brown patties. Their O.G. ($10) is made
with house-cured pastrami, Mama Lil’s peppers, arugula, 1000 Island dressing, horseradish creme and gruyere cheese. Arriving in
a paper sleeve, the thing is as delicious as it is
unwieldy. For those sitting in front of a computer screen after lunch, both the oil-soaked
O.G. and the biscuit fondue are on the heavy
side, which might explain the long line for
lighter Indian food at NaanSense.
Down Westlake Avenue and around the
corner of Republican, Cheese Wizards offers
“grilled cheese magic” in a flamboyant yellow vehicle designed to wring the hearts of
D&D-obsessed nerds, its hood embellished
with leering plastic owls and Medieval battle
axes, every dish named with a fantasy or scifi reference. The “Ark of the Condiments”—a
gold-winged station of mayo and mustards
stored in inverted rubber tubes like pendulous udders—is stationed on the adjacent
sidewalk. Deeper in the interior of SLU at
Boren and Harrison, a truck called Peasant
Food Manifesto serves global fusion items
like Tillamook cheddar mac ’n’ cheese with
kimchi and a pho French dip sandwich with
house-made roast beef brined in Asian fivespice and Sriracha-hoisin-ginger sauce.
The windows on Jemil’s Big Easy truck billow with steam as it churns out a steady flow
of Cajun/Creole food even as the hour creeps
toward 2 p.m. Their Cajun sampler plate is
a mandatory splurge, heaped with jambalaya, red beans and a choice of blackened
chicken or catfish ($12.50). The cardboard
container arrives sizzling hot, a mountain of
rice, plump beans and savory sausage topped
with a slab of catfish covered in piquant,
fresh-ground spices. The side of hushpuppies—denser and less ethereal than I’d hoped
for—leave this Southern girl unsatisfied.
The only thing left to do after cruising the
food truck jungle is seek postprandial stimulation in the form of an iced Americano from
Uptown Coffee. This may be the only time
the SLU food tourist dips out of the elements
and into a brick-and-mortar store— though I
bet there’s an espresso truck parked around
here somewhere. AMANDA MANITACH
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Clockwise from top left: installation for
Dolce Vita at Neumos; Hexagon Pendant
fixture, the first in Noble Neon’s new retail
line; pizza slices for Garlic Jim’s
Glow-rious
The artists of Noble
Neon illuminate Seattle.
IT’S HOT INSIDE this Rainier Ave. studio,
but Cedar Mannan doesn’t break a sweat as
he ignites two small open flames. They flare
brightly before settling into a pale blue blaze.
Mannan, who runs the boutique studio
Noble Neon with his wife Lia Hall, quickly
rotates a section of glass tubing in one of the
flames until it’s the consistency of honey.
Then, with sure, efficient motions he bends
the tube into a right angle. And repeat. In
minutes, the glass turns from a rigid tube
into a looping letter, on its way to becoming a
piece of neon art.
Mannan and Hall are both native
Northwesterners—she’s from Seattle, he grew
up without electricity in rural Washington
near Menlo. Mannan studied neon art at
Evergreen State College; after graduation he
repaired and installed neon for Western Neon,
a local industry giant, and interned with “an
old Hungarian dude in Shoreline who bends
glass out of his garage.” In 2004 Mannan
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moved to New York to help launch Lite Brite
Neon Studio in Brooklyn, which is where he
and Hall met on the night she graduated from
the New School with an MFA in poetry.
Returning to Seattle in 2012 with an
inheritance from Mannan’s grandmother as
their seed money, Noble Neon first opened in
a live/work space in the old Rainier Brewery.
(They’re now near Jackson and Rainier.) The
shop started with a lot of subcontracting
work—for a Marc Jacobs store in New York,
at Sundance installing something for James
Franco (“He does neon, too,” cracks Mannan).
They still do installations and repairs—
Mannan was recently in Venice helping on an
install at the Biennale—but now they focus
more on custom designs and art pieces.
“[The neon field] is like a bug zapper,”
Mannan says, laughing. “Weird people are
attracted to it.”
Recent projects include a dripping knotlike fixture in a suite at the Sorrento Hotel
(designed by Brian Paquette Interiors)
and a series of geometric pendants for a
pop-up shop. They’ve also done signs for
LoveCityLove, the Spectacle exhibit at EMP
and Pilchuck Glass School’s offices, among
many others. Their art piece “This Is About
the Stories” took first place at City Arts’ 2015
Spring Art Walk Awards.
Working in neon is a complex amalgam of
sculpture and science. “It’s like a geometry
problem, because you have to plan your
moves many steps ahead,” says Hall, who
designs the templates on which the glass
is sculpted. Every bend has to be precisely
plotted so that heat never touches a section
of glass that’s already been worked. After the
glass is bent into its shape the whole thing
is capped with electrodes, evacuated of air
and filled with an inert noble gas—sometimes
mixed with phosphor or mercury for color—
and electrified. Sometimes the glass itself is
colored or coated with phosphor to give it a
different hue.
“You can really geek out on the science of
it,” Hall says. “Not just the physics but the
chemistry. What’s happening in the tube is a
microcosm of what’s happening in a nebula
where stars are being born.”
Once up and running, neon lights can last
for decades. They put off little heat, draw less
electricity than a standard incandescent bulb
and, because they contain the full spectrum
of light, ward off seasonal affective disorder.
If you’re in the market for signage, LED or
rope lighting is cheap and bright. But neon
offers something more. Says Hall, “We want
people to see it as lighting and also appreciate
it as art.” GEMMA WILSON
ENCORE ARTS NEWS
The Common Acre Swarms City Hall
On the rooftop of Seattle’s City Hall on a Thursday
afternoon in early May, hundreds of bees oscillate
against a downtown background of steel girders and
reflective windows. The bees buzz around two bluegreen box hives provided by the Common Acre, a
three-year-old nonprofit that connects agriculture to
creative culture. Three floors below, in the lobby and
the Anne Focke gallery, the Common Acre’s exhibit
“Flight Path” officially opens today, capturing the
strange fascination and pull of pollinators.
Bob Redmond, founder and executive director
of the Common Acre, installed the hives. He and
beekeeping partner Dave Schiefelbein inspect each
one, looking for the queen and signs of overcrowding. The bees circle in hypnotic, zen-like loops in
the air above.
When he’s not delivering bees, Redmond helps
organize the Common Acre’s artistic efforts and
community outreach.
“We build food culture using arts as a mechanism,” Redmond says.
The group’s goal is to lower reliance on
industry and return to agricultural traditions—
“rehabitation,” as Redmond describes it—that were
lost during mankind’s transition to industrialized
society. According to the Common Acre’s principles, art is the key.
“Flight Path” builds a comprehensive exhibit
about the beauty of bees. It features enlarged
photos of delicate wings and flowers, exquisite
encaustic layering, letterpress, sculptures, comics,
giant glass mosaics and quilts embroidered with
bee facts. Contributors include Joey Veltkamp,
Kristin T. Ramirez and Julia Haack. What could
be a didactic, one-dimensional exhibit comes to
life through lush and varied approaches by artists
looking at nature through a bee-themed lens.
“We tried to find work that people would be attracted to, knowing the battle that bees face,” says
Common Acre curator Kate Fernandez.
Before opening at City Hall, the exhibit was
staged at SeaTac Airport for almost a year. The
Common Acre installed hives in long swaths
of SeaTac’s roadside land, replacing scrub and
blackberry bushes with wildflowers to benefit the
new pollinators, fixtures which have become a
permanent addition to the area.
With the move downtown, Fernandez expanded
the exhibit, adding new pieces and artists. She also
tailored the work to a different audience. “City Hall
is a very civic-minded, maybe even hive-minded
collection of people,” she says.
The Common Acre hosted weekly beekeeping
classes on City Hall’s roof through June. On June
17 it sponsored a Town Hall talk with author Eric
Lee-Mäder, a member of Portland-based invertebrate conservation group the Xerces Society, who
discussed pollinator conservation efforts.
Redmond says the Common Acre’s next major
project will center on water—a vague and ambitious statement. But for now, he says, their plan
is to launch an artist-in-residence program with
local farms,” like a Works Progress Administration
project. Artists will create works inspired by their
time on the farms and present at an event that
brings together farmers and artists in the same
space. CAT McCARREY
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