Seattle Playwrights' Collective

Coming January 24 & 25

The Greatest Literary Boxing Match of the Year!

Find out more about the event including process, participants, and prizes on our Medicine Ball Production Blog.

To purchase tickets, please visit Brown Paper Tickets.

$20 General

$10 TPS Members, and Students, Seniors.

Call for Submissions: iPlayz

The Seattle Playwrights’ Collective (SPC) is currently seeking submissions from Northwest playwrights for our next short play festival “iPlayz: Short Plays about Surviving in the Digital Age” slated for production at Annex Theatre in June 2014. Plays should be 8-10 pages long, and run no more than 10 minutes. Please read the guidelines here before submitting.

Share Some Love With SPC This Holiday Season

How would you like to have a playwright write a custom made play just for you? And have it presented during our reading series? This is just one of the rewards we are offering for our annual fundraising campaign. Funds raised will go to support upcoming projects like Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets, our annual short play festival – this year’s theme is IPlayz: Short Plays About Surviving the Digital Age – and our First Look Reading Series. Anything helps from $1 to $100. And if you can’t afford to contribute, you can still help by sharing our campaign with others.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/show-the-seattle-playwrights-collective-some-holiday-love/x/5484160?show_todos=true

First Look Reading Series
Up Next....

Joyless Eye
by J.C. Pankratz
Directed by Daniel Tarker

Sunday December 8, 2013
6:00 pm
Elliott Bay Bookstore
$5 Suggested Donation

Set in an alternate history where the ’69 lunar landing fails, “Joyless Eye” follows ex-VA nurse Myra Ann Combs as she tends a lingering obsession with the moon and struggles with homelessness, unemployment, PTSD, and a girlfriend who is quickly losing her patience. Help comes in the form of the spirit of comet astronomer Caroline Herschel, who appears in Myra Ann’s motel room with simple, inspired purpose: to build a telescope. But the more time and energy Myra Ann spends pursuing the moon, the harder her memories pull her back into the past, loosening her grip on reality and causing her to confront, at the end of all things, why she must continue to build.

Featuring: Patty Bonnell, Tom Fraser, Jana Hutchinson, David Hsieh, and Jen Moon,

J.C. Pankratz is an Indiana-raised playwright currently living in the Puget Sound region. Last year, she saw her one-act play "Honest to God" on the stage of the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. Her play "Joyless Eye" was runner-up for the Jean Kennedy Smith Award at ACTF and her fifteen-minute play "Autobiography" was performed as part of Valley Rep's Annual 15 Minute New Play Festival. She recently graduated from DePauw University.

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