Team Of Heroes: No More Heroes

Written by Alexander Harris
Directed by Jaime Roberts

Thu-Sat at 8 pm, April 26-May 25 (Thu PWYC)
$20 general / $12 TPS, senior, military / $5 student
PWYC Preview Dress Rehearsal: Thursday, April 25
PWYC Industry Night: Monday, May 13

Contains strong language.

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Following the collapse of the world’s most famous professional superhero team, the remaining Heroes come together to uncover the mysterious forces behind their former employers. Team of Heroes: No More Heroes is the final installment in Annex Theatre’s satirical trilogy exploring the dark underbelly of Doing Good. It features superhero spectacle created through lean theatrics, lurid desires, out-of-control egos…and skintight spandex.

The same creative team that brought you Annex Theatre’s surprise hit Alecto: Issue #1 and its hit sequel Team Of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors returns with the conclusion to the saga.

“Big, stupid fun done smartly and with tremendous intimacy… Anyone who loves theatre should see this show. Anyone who makes theatre should go learn something from it.” –The Sunbreak of Team Of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors

CAST
Libby Barnard Alecto
Nik Doner Shockwave
Curtis Eastwood Piggy Pig
Sam Hagen H8/The Accountant
Rachel Jackson Chaos Theory
Alyssa Keene Melody Knox
Tracy Leigh Madame Mayhem
Jason Sharp The Cap’n
CREW
Playwright Alexander Harris
Director Jaime Roberts
Production Manager Kristina Volkman
Assistant Director/Fly Master Mike Gilson
Stage Manager Lisa Stahler
Composer/Sound Designer Michael Hayes
Set Designer/Special Effects Emily Sershon
Lighting Designer Tess Malone
Costume Designer Candace Frank
Graphic Designer/Geek Consultant Cole Hornaday
Assistant Stage Manager Jessamyn Bateman-Lino
Videographer Ben Laurance
Special Effects/Photography/TD Ian Johnston
Projection Artist Dominick DiGregorio
Lead Seamstress Meaghan Darling
Assistant Props Designer Jodi Sauerbier
Fight Choreographer Ryan Higgins
Movement Consultant Kerry Christianson

Team of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors

Written by Alexander Harris
Directed by Jaime Roberts

Thu-Sat at 8 pm, April 20-May 19 (Thu PWYC)
$15 general / $10 TPS, senior, military / $5 student
PWYC Industry Night: Monday, May 14

Contains strong language.

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The gleaming teeth and bulging muscles of America’s preeminent superheroes hide a dirty past and a fractured present.
HOW DID MADAME MAYHEM AND THE CAP’N GET THEIR POWERS?
IS MISS DIXIE AS SWEET AS SHE SEEMS?
WILL SHOCKWAVE’S MOVIE CAREER TAKE OFF?
AND HOW DO GORILLAS FIT INTO ALL THIS?
The same creative team that brought you Annex Theatre’s surprise hit Alecto: Issue #1, returns with another spandex-clad tale of media manipulation and super-heroics.
NEW PLOTS! NEW VILLAINS! NEW HEROES!

“Big, stupid fun done smartly and with tremendous intimacy… Anyone who loves theatre should see this show. Anyone who makes theatre should go learn something from it.” –The Sunbreak

“Cheeky and dark…delightfully self-conscious comedy.” –Seattle Times

“It’s definitely a night to enjoy, and you can puzzle out the deeper meanings later.” –Seattle Gay News

“The real treat of the evening was the main villain, ‘Chaos Theory’, superbly played with great comic timing by Rachel Jackson who also…enacts Chaos Theory’s Scottish Puppet Henchman/Lover ‘Randy’. Ms Jackson’s love scene between her own felt covered hand, and herself, was pretty damn brilliant.” –Seattle Gay Scene

CAST
Tracy Leigh Madame Mayhem
Jason Sharp The Cap’n
Nik Doner Shock Wave
Rachel Jackson Chaos Theory
Ashley Bagwell Ace Johnson
Jana Hutchison Black Swallow
Danielle Daggerty Miss Dixie
Angela DiMarco Melody Knox
Sam Hagen Vladimir/8
Ryan Higgins Mikhael/Dick Engelbert
CREW
Writer Alexander Harris
Director Jaime Roberts
Production Manager Kristina Volkman
Stage Manager Lisa Stahler
Scenic Designer Devin Petersen
Sound Designer Michael White Hayes
Graphic Designer/Geek Consultant Cole Hornaday
Fx Team Max Reichlin, Emily Sershon, Ian Johnston
Fly Master Mike Gilson
Projection Artist Dominick DiGregorio
Costume Designer Candace Frank
Assistant Costume Designer Jenn Hill
Lead Seamstress Meaghan Darling
Lighting Designer Regan MacStravic
Props Designer Amy LaZerte
Assistant Props Designer Jodi Sauerbier
Fight Choreographer Casey Brown
Assistant Director Katherine Karaus
Dialect Coach Pamala Mijatov
Videographer Ben Laurance

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Hardball

Live Girls! Theater Presents
The World Premiere of:

Hardball by Victoria Stewart
Directed by Meghan Shalom Arnette

March 4th-26th, 2011 | Fri-Sat at 8 pm
Monday March 14th at 8pm, Saturday March 19th at 2pm
ASL interpreted performance March 19 at 8pm
$5-$18

Hardball is a complex exploration of modern day news and commentary and the maneuverings of those who provide it. In this timely and provocative play, Stewart turns her razor sharp pen toward the rise of opinion journalism in the 24-hour cable news landscape. Hardball tracks the transformation of a young woman from budding journalist to celebrity pundit and the sacrifices she makes on the way up.

Is it possible to deliver news without an angle? Is journalism as we once knew it dead? When Washington Post reporter Virginia Eames is fired for openly displaying her politics in the office, she sets off on a crusade to prove that bias in media is inevitable. As she fights to make her voice heard, she embarks on a very public crash course in the rules of the news commentary game. In an age where some media outlets claim to be “fair and balanced,” while others unapologetically “lean forward,” this timely piece will leave you questioning the power of truth in journalism.

Stewart’s play 800 Words: The Transmigration of Phillip K. Dick was a smash hit with Live Girls! audiences in 2007. Hardball was the winner of the 2007 Francesca Primus Award and a finalist for the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Live Girls! has the honor of producing the World Premiere of this dynamic play.

Hardball features the local acting talent of: Shawn Belyea, Alyssa Keene, Jaime Roberts, Jill Snyder, Roy Stanton and Shawnmarie Stanton.

Hardball features the local design talent of: Erin Stewart, Michele Hallman, Mike Lindgren, Melinda Short and Brian Stricklan

About Victoria Stewart:

Before graduating from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Victoria Stewart was a professional stage-manager, working with David Rabe, Anne Bogart and Peter Sellars among others. Victoria was the 2008-09 recipient of a McKnight Advancement Grant at the Playwrights’ Center and she has received the Francesca Primus Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, the Martha R. Ingram Artist-in-Residence: New Work for the Theatre Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. She’s been in residence at Ucross/Sundance, Donmar Warehouse, the Hermitage and Hedgebrook. Her plays include Rich Girl, Hardball (SPF), 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick, (Workhaus Collective, Hourglass Group, Live Girls Theater, named one of the top ten productions of 2009 by Citypages), LIVE GIRLS (Urban Stages, WHAT, Stage Left), Leitmotif (South Coast Rep, Page 73), Nightwatches (Overlap Productions), The Last Scene and an adaptation of Henry James’ The Bostonians. She is a producing member of the Workhaus Collective and she was one of the collaborators on Fissures (lost and found) presented at the 2010 Humana Festival. She is now working on a screenplay for HBO about the recording industry’s battle with Napster and a play based on the Mercy Watson series for the Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis.

Alecto Issue #1

Check out the Team of Heroes at http://facebook.com/teamofheroes

written by Alexander Harris
directed by Jaime Roberts

Jan 22 – Feb 10, 2010
Friday and Saturday 8pm
$15 gen / $5 stu

A troubled heroine with an incredible power discovers that the popular superhero team she’s joined has questionable notions of good and evil. Alecto, Issue #1 translates the world of comic books to the stage, mixing social satire, physical spectacle, sly comedy, and an imaginary pig.

CAST
Jessica/Alecto Maridee Slater
Diana/Greta Carrie McIntyre
The Cap’n Jason Sharp
Madame Mayhem Tracy Leigh
Shock Wave Nik Doner
Piggy Pigg Chris Bell
Melody Megan Ahiers
Nathan/Nigel Banton Foster
Baz William Hardyman
Chaos Theory Rachel Jackson

Tracy Leigh, Maridee Slater, Nik Doner, Jason Sharp

CREW
Stage Manager Noelle Wilcox
Assistant Stage Manager/Fly Master Mike Gilson
Set Design Ann Marie Caldwell
Light Design Allysa Thompson
Costume Design Afton Pilkington
Props Design Emily Sershon
Sound Design Michael Hayes
Sound Board Operator Regan MacStravic
Technical Director/Fly Engineer Ian Johnston
Production Manager Kristina Volkman
Graphic Designer/Geek Consultant Cole Hornaday
Fight Choreographer John Lynch
Dialect Coach Pamala Mijatov
Seamstress Meaghan Darling
SPECIAL THANKS

Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Teri Lazzara and Theatre Schmeatre, Jodi Sauerbier, David Baum, Meghan Darling, Mark Siano and the Freedom Dancers, Ouchey, Balagan Theatre, All the actors who participated in the many readings, Austin Elston, Emily Gallagher, Sue and Dick Harris, Jennie Harris, Angela Cherry, Washington Lawyers for the Arts, Arya Bahrami, James L. Vana, Ed Sershon, Bret Fetzer, Scotto Moore, Ben Laurance, Nicolette Butler, Joel and Cora Caldwell, Craig Bradshaw, Michael LoSasso and Stone Soup Theatre Village Theater, Rick Miller, Jane Stratton and Tom Champoux, Marilyn Fox, Jolene Obertin, Marty Spiegel, Jesse Card

S2

written by Edward Mast | directed by Robert G. Leigh
May 9 – June 7, 2008 | Fri-Sat at 8 pm

Juniper Berolzheimer & Alex Garnett

Sardonic, action-packed satire S2 follows sexy teen hustler Slate, who wants to sell a suitcase full of mysterious white powder and finds himself plunged into a head-spinning world of prostitution, murder, mind-control, criminal and corporate syndicates, government conspiracy, guerilla warfare, space-walks, and international subterfuge.

Fusing stylized language in the vein of A Clockwork Orange with the crazed retro-futurism of movies like Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik!, blurring the lines between spy thrillers and Noh drama, S2 eats up consumer culture, sneers at conventional morality, and gives a deep wet kiss with tongue to romantic love.

CAST
Terry Chris Bell
Diana Juniper Berolzheimer
Lewis Isaiah Crowson
Slate Alex Garnett
Pita Ciara Griffin
Rosalya / Teacher Jaime Roberts
John Spencer Thorson
Nicky Julie Westlin-Naigus
CREW
Stage Manager Suja Hart
Lighting Design Kate Jordan
Costume Design Marta Olson
Props Design Emily Sershon
Projection Design Alex Harris
Mask and Puppet Design Rachel Jackson
Sound Design Scotto Moore
Movement Coach Jaime Roberts