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Live Girls! present The Bakery - Spring Readings

6 new Plays for your listening enjoyment

June 1-3 Thurs-Sat 7:30pm

Tickets are $5 a night or $10 for a pass to see all 3 nights of new work.

Tickets are available at the door or in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

The Bakery series is Live Girls! new work development series. The Spring Readings, our festival of new plays (formally know as the Play Lab) will be the first Bakery event of 2006. Two new plays will be presented each night, one short or one-act from a teen writer and one from an adult playwright. Watch throughout the year for additional new play workshops and writing challenges to be added to the Bakery agenda.  Live Girls! is a theater company dedicated to producing and developing new work by women.

The 2006 Reading Schedule

June 1

American Girls by Gabrielle Nomura

Directed by Mimi Katano, Artistic Director, Youth Theatre Northwest

AND

Genji: The Light Behind the Clouds by Darian Lindle

Directed by Erin Fortier

June 2

Hungry by Claire Hosterman

Directed by Anita Montgomery, Literary Assoc. & Education and Outreach Director, ACT

AND

We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan

Kristina Sutherland, Co-Artistic Director Macha Monkey Productions

June 3

Romefin and Juliegill by Silke Bachhuber

Directed by Maria Glanz, Artistic Director Rainier Valley Youth Theatre

AND

Piece of You by Sue Peters

Directed by Brooke Cochran, Live Girls! Company Member

More about the featured plays and playwrights

American Girls by Gabrielle Nomura is a Live Girls! pick from ACT’s Young Playwrights Program 2005/2006. Gabrielle Nomura is a Senior at Summit High school. 

Genji: The Light Behind the Clouds by Darian Lindle is based on the life story of 11th century Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu. She wrote the Tale of Genji 1,000 years ago. Darian Lindle is a freelance director, dramaturg and playwright. She has worked locally with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, VIA, Theatre Babylon, City3, Cornish College of the Arts, and is an Associate Artist with the Shunpike. Darian's theatrical adaptation of The Westing Game was in the 2003 Fringe/ACT and her theatre company, Fresh Goods, has produced many shows in the Seattle Fringe Festival.

Hungry by Claire Hosterman is also a Live Girls! pick from ACT’s Young Playwrights Program.  Claire Hosterman is a student at Bainbridge Highschool.

We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan is the story of Moth and Belly.  Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet café in the hopes of one day being allowed in. They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the café.  Leather is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret. Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth... but what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill-prepared for it.  Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, and  Moving Arts, among others. Sheila is a member of the Obie winning playwright's organization 13P and resident of New Dramatists.

Romefin and Juliegill by Silke Bachhuber was selected from the Rainier Valley Youth Theatre’s Playwriting Progam.  Silke Bachhuber is a student at Lake Washington Girls Middle.  

Piece of You by Sue Peters tells the story of a rising young actor and a fading socialite who meet in a Hollywood diner one night in 1955. He's just finished his first film and is on the brink of celebrity, while her limelight is waning. Lust and loneliness lead them back to her Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow where they unravel the seductions of fame and fortune and the empty promises of both. "Piece of You" is based on the little-known, true story of a chance encounter between James Dean and the glamorous Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton. Sue Peters is a writer, playwright, and journalist who recently moved to Seattle from San Francisco. She is a founding member of the Saucy Algonqs Writing Circle, a San Francisco writing and performance collective and a recent member of the Playwrights Center of San Francisco. An abridged version of this script was featured in Venue 9 Theater’s Women on the Way Festival, San Francisco.