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Are you ready for a leap into the unknown?

That was the question facing our UW School of Drama students last spring when they first met with Whit MacLaughlin, Artistic Director of the nationally renowned and experimental New Paradise Laboratories of Philadelphia. What they found when they leapt will be brought to inspiring life in this season’s opening show: Cold Empty Terrible.

Our second offering is another kind of leap. It’s the inaugural offering of the School of Drama’s thrilling new collaboration with the Dance Program and the School of Music—a program for the study of Musical Theater. This fall we launch the program’s first full production with the dazzling Sweet Charity.

In the theatre, even exploring classics is a journey into new territory. What will third-year MFA directors Leah Adcock-Starr and Tina Polzin find when they confront great plays like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or Irish playwright Brendan Behan’s extraordinary The Hostage, which was itself first developed—like our Cold Empty Terrible—improvisationally?

For first-year MFA directors Malika Oyetimein and Sean Ryan the unknown is the University of Washington itself, so please help us welcome them by seeing what they make of William Inge’s searching one-act plays. And for the characters in Howard Korder’s darkly comic Boy’s Life, directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, Head of Performance, the mysterious future is adulthood itself.

All this adventuring certainly resonates for me, as I begin my first year in Seattle as Executive Director of UW’s amazing School of Drama. After more than twenty years working with new playwrights and new plays in New York, I know something about the unknown. Please join me—and everyone here at the School of Drama—for the leap. I can’t wait to see what we discover together!

Until we meet in midair,

Letter From Todd London

W E L C O M E

Todd LondonExecutive Director, UW School of Drama

Created in collaboration with and directed by Whit MacLaughlin, Artistic Director of the OBIE award-winning New Paradise Laboratories, Cold Empty Terrible is a resuscitation of a theatrical debacle embedded inside Anton Chekhov’s 1896 masterpiece, The Seagull. Members of our Professional Actor Training Program turn molehill into mountain by devising an original work for the stage that aims to prove that a century of theatrical experimentation must be good for something. Is it a moving spectacle of a ruined world 200,000 years in the future? Or a complete waste of time? You be the judge.

Cold Empty Terrible

Directed by Whit MacLaughlinGuest Artist

Opening Night Friday, October 17; 7:30pm

Post Show Talk Thursday, October 23

Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

OCT 15–26

Devised By Whit MacLaughlin and Members of our Professional Actor Training Program

M A I N S TA G E 1 / 5

Guest Artist

Twelfth Night

Directed by Leah Adcock-Starr (Professional Director Training Program)

Opening Night Friday, January 30; 7:30 pm

Post Show Talk:Thursday, February 5

Meany Studio Theatre

JAN 28–FEB 8

By William Shakespeare

M A I N S TA G E 2 / 5

Beloved for its rebellious portrayal of gender ambiguity, William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy about a cross-dressing shipwreck survivor who finds herself at the center of a not-so-ordinary love triangle. Third-year MFA directing candidate Leah Adcock-Starr takes this delightfully comic tale of mistaken identities and weaves it into the jazz-infused world of The Roaring Twenties.

MFA in Directing Thesis Production

The Hostage

Directed by Tina Polzin(Professional Director Training Program)

Opening Night Friday, March 6; 7:30 pm

Post Show Talk:Thursday, March 12

Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

MAR 4–15

By Brendan Behan

M A I N S TA G E 3 / 5

Directed by third-year MFA directing candidate Tina Polzin, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage masks topical politics and serious discourse with slapstick, satire, and musical numbers. It’s 1959 and Leslie Williams, a British soldier, is being held as a hostage in a Dublin whorehouse in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. This delightful, joyous, heart-wrenching play reminds us to look at the people before us—and to choose humanity over religion and politics.

MFA in Directing Thesis Production

William Inge, regarded as one of the masters of the American theatre, achieved unprecedented success during one short decade. In the 1950s, one after another, his plays—Come Back Little Sheba (1950), the Pulitzer-prize winning Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957)—became Broadway hits and successful Hollywood films. For their UW Drama mainstage debut, our first-year MFA directing candidates, Malika Oyetimein and Sean Ryan, tackle a curated selection of Inge’s most poignant and potent short works.

M A I N S TA G E 4 / 5

William Inge One Acts

Directed by Malika Oyetimein and Sean Ryan (Professional Director Training Program)

Opening Night Friday, April 24; 7:30 pm

Post Show Talk: Thursday, April 30

Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

APR 22–MAY 3

By William Inge

Directed by Valerie Curtis-NewtonProfessor, Head of Performance

Howard Korder’s Boy’s Life is a bitingly funny comedy of manners, which follows three former college buddies as they stumble through their 20s—and their various relationships with women—attempting to come to terms with life and the meaning of manhood. Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton directs our talented undergraduate students in this smart, modern story of what it means to grow up.

M A I N S TA G E 5 / 5

Boy’s Life

Opening Night Friday, May 29; 7:30 pm

Post Show Talk Thursday, June 4

Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre

MAY 27–JUN 7

By Howard Korder

MFA Director Debut Production

Undergraduate Production

From Helen of Troy to the Kardashian sisters, celebrities, or (in Joseph Roach’s definition) “abnormally interesting people,” have fascinated the public imagination over the centuries. This series of lectures from scholars and art practitioners across academic disciplines considers why certain historical figures or fictional characters have possessed a special power to fascinate their public.

For its inaugural production, the UW’s Musical Theater program brings to the stage Neil Simon’s Sweet Charity, a tender, poignant, and funny look at the love adventures—or rather misadventures—of the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine. The ideal vehicle to demonstrate the collaborative spirit on which the Musical Theater program is founded, Sweet Charity will allow the strength of each member of the cast and creative team to shine.

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Sweet Charity

Directed by Wilson Mendieta Program Coordinator,Musical Theater

Meany Studio Theatre

NOV 14–23

Book by Neil Simon; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields; Music by Cy Colman

Musical Theater Program in association with

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Drama, School of Music, and Dance Program

Celebrity and Its Discontents

Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre

OCT 7, OCT 21,NOV 4

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