From the Directors desk: We are in need of two dressers to assist our actors in the quick changes of the many characters they are performing. We open on March 8 and the commitment is as follows: Mar 4 – 9 7 PM -10 PM Mar 10 1 PM to 5:30 Pm Mar 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 at 7 Pm to 10 PM Mar 17, and 24 from 1 Pm to 5:30 PM The duties are to lay out costumes for the quick changes and to assist each actor to get them on and off the stage quickly. If you can do these...
Read MoreGreater Tuna Starts Rehearsing for the Woodinville Rep!
Greater Tuna was written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. It was the first play in a series of 4 comedies followed by A Tuna Christmas, Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Does Vegas. Each play is set in the town of Tuna, Texas, the “third-smallest” town in the state.. All of the plays are characteristic that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages. Greater Tuna debuted in Austin, Texas, in the...
Read MoreDirector’s Notes – Bold Grace
My name is Steve and on behalf of the creative team (Ashley Schalow/playwright, Anna Richardson/Actress, Steve Cooper/director/designer) behind Bold Grace, the voyages of the pirate O’Malley, I want to tell you all how excited we are to be able to bring this show to Woodinville Rep. Ashley wrote this show while still in college, and in April 2011 she entered it into Burien Little Theatre’s Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival, consequently winning first place in the one...
Read MoreRest, Refresh and Revisit…GO!
I’m ready! Bring on tech week–I will eat my Wheaties, gets some rest, and refresh and revisit our vision for Almost, Maine. We are dangerously near Opening Night ready! Now we’re down to fine-tuning and obsessing about details. This is my calling–picking at details, driving cast and crew crazy, nagging where there is nothing to nag at. (Sorry for ending in a preposition–some times correct grammar doesn’t have the same edge.) I wish we...
Read MoreI have a confession. This is a great show.
Ok. I confess. I am having too much fun at rehearsals. I love that magical moment in the process when you are aware that all of the pieces have come together. Talent, costumes, props, music, set–each element fitting into place to tell the story. Nightly I marvel at our talented cast. Stage Manager, Sarah Ross, and I sit immersed in the tale they weave–we are compelled to laugh, smile, grieve, and rejoice. At times I sit smugly thinking that I can’t wait...
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