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#SharetheLove Spotlight on The Hansberry Project

Today’s #SharetheLove Spotlight is The Hansberry Project! The Hansberry Project is a professional black theatre company dedicated to the artistic exploration of African American life, history and culture. Intiman is proud to have partnered with Hansberry for many projects including BULRUSHER and TROUBLE IN MIND. Valerie Curtis-Newton sat down to talk with Jennifer Zeyl about the formation of Hansberry and what is coming up next! Intiman is making a $500 donation to The Hansberry Project today with thanks for all of their partnership through the years.

Spotlight #6 of 18!

Learn more about our partner at hansberryproject.org.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

#SharetheLove Spotlight on The Williams Project

Today’s #SharetheLove Spotlight is The Williams Project! We have been big fans of this ensemble theatre since they were part of our 2015 Festival with ORPHEUS DESCENDING. They continue to raise the bar for actor pay in Seattle and innovate on accessible ticketing. Next up, they have a series of socially distanced encounters with actors called the CAMPFIRE FESTIVAL. Intiman is making a $500 donation to The Williams Project today with thanks for all they do in our theatre community.

Spotlight #5 of 18!

Learn more about our partner at thewilliamsproject.org.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

#SharetheLove Spotlight on TeenTix

Todays #SharetheLove Spotlight is TeenTix! We love partnering with all of the incredible teens at this organization and reading their reviews. TeenTix exists to break down the barriers that prevent teens from accessing art in our community – and YOU can be part of that by joining their online Gala TONIGHT (April 10th). Intiman is making a $500 donation to TeenTix to support their work connecting teens to art. THANK YOU!!

Spotlight #4 of 18!

Learn more about our partner at teentix.org.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

#SharetheLove Spotlight on Chief Seattle Club

Today’s #SharetheLove spotlight is Chief Seattle Club! They are a Native-led human service agency and day center. Recently, Deputy Director Derrick Belgarde talked with Intiman board member Farheen Siddiqui Ahmed about the work their organization is doing, and how they have increased their services during COVID. Intiman is making a $500 donation to Chief Seattle Club today, with thanks for all they do serving the Native community in Seattle.

Spotlight #3 of 18!

Learn more about our partner at chiefseattleclub.org.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

#SharetheLove Spotlight on Food Lifeline

Today’s #SharetheLove spotlight is Food Lifeline! They are doing incredible work feeding people facing hunger today and working to end hunger for tomorrow. Members of the Inti-fam have been so proud to support their food distribution efforts at Rainier Valley Food Bank during COVID. Intiman is making a $500 donation to Food Lifeline today, with thanks for all they do making our community stronger and more resilient. 

Spotlight #2 of 18!

Learn more about our partner at foodlifeline.org.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

#SharetheLove Spotlight on Seattle Central College

Today we are kicking off our #SharetheLove campaign Spotlight series – we will spotlight 18 different nonprofit partners by highlighting their work and making a $500 donation to their organization. Today’s Spotlight is: Seattle Central College! Intiman is a community sponsor for their Believe Gala on June 5th, making a donation to their Central Commitment program which supports students with financial need.

We can’t wait to move to Capitol Hill this summer. Our offices will be on the campus of Seattle Central, and we will produce at Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall. PLUS, we are partnering with the college to offer an AA degree in Technical Theatre for Social Justice.

Learn more about our partner at seattlecentral.edu.

When YOU #SharetheLove, WE #SharetheLove!

#SharetheLove

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Join in today.

Letter from Jennifer Zeyl

#SharetheLove April 7-24

Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl kicks off Intiman’s #SharetheLove campaign with a letter to the community. Read JZ’s vision for what comes next at Intiman, reflections on 2020, and why your support is so vital at this stage in our reopening.

The #SharetheLove campaign runs April 7th – 24th and is raising $100,000 in support of:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Dear Inti-fam,

Hop in the way-back machine with me.   

In fall of 2019, our decision to furlough production for all of 2020 was not an easy one to make. What is a theatre company when we aren’t making theatre?  

As 2020 revealed its challenges, every arts organization in the world was suddenly confronted by this same question. By the time COVID hit, Intiman had been working for 6 months evolving toward the future: developing our board, investing in our education programs, engaging in a community-led strategic planning process, and building a significant partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC). The need for equity and justice in our sector is not new nor was it a new awareness at Intiman.    

Lack of representation onstage (actors, directors, writers) has begun to be addressed more widely on Seattle stages. But backstage? We have barely started. In 2017, I developed Intiman’s STARFISH Project with Sawhorse Revolution – a free, after-school technical theatre training program at high schools in the South End. The next step in cultivating the diverse backstage workforce of tomorrow is our new Associate of Arts degree in Technical Theatre for Social Justice – and there is support from the union and mounting excitement at other theaters to hire these AA graduates!  

We are overdue for bold action in the arts to address structural inequity. This is a first of its kind partnership, and affordable access to this training is almost non-existent. Looking back at a challenging year, I am certain that the work we put in was worth it. We developed curriculum in collaboration with multiple SCC departments, weaving together a rich and well rounded experience for our future students. An unprecedented national roster of guest speakers has been drawn together. We cultivated relationships with our new neighboring organizations and businesses in the Capitol Hill area. We have an updated mission, a new Managing Director, and our board of directors has been completely transformed. 

All of this planning and work needs your support. We can’t afford to have a “wait and see” mentality when it comes to signing on. Structural change is never easy – it takes all of us, together, saying: “Yes, this is possible.” National eyes are on us. The great work is here, now.  

-XOjz
Jennifer Zeyl, Artistic Director

Join in today.

Writing Fantasy Worlds

Writing Fantasy Worlds & Creating the Black Superhero

A #SharetheLove Panel Conversation with Inda Craig-Galván, Donte Felder, and hosted by Lisa Marie Rollins

Intiman Theatre invites you to join us for a #SharetheLove campaign event: Writing Fantasy Worlds & Creating the Black Superhero. We will be joined by playwright Inda Craig-Galván, comic book aficionado Donte Felder, and Intiman Visiting Artistic Associate Lisa Marie Rollins (moderator). Our conversation will explore historic Black superheroes and fantasy worlds / dream spaces as places to imagine ourselves in and outside our current lived experiences, and as a critical tool for liberation. How can we create stories that reimagine Black realities while pushing against traditional tropes? The conversation will touch on various comic book and superhero narratives, as well as Inda’s play “Black Super Hero Magic Mama.”

Wednesday, April 21st 2021, 5pm-6pm pacific.

Tickets are Free for Everyone. Reserve yours today to receive the Zoom link to join. Donations accepted with thanks, and will go towards our #SharetheLove campaign.

This event will be live captioned. Open to all ages.

Watch ON DEMAND

About #SharetheLove

In support of our reopening, Intiman invites you to #SharetheLove as we raise $100,000+ in 18 days from April 7-24, 2021!

#SharetheLove to support:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Meet the Panelists

Inda Craig-Galván

Inda (she/her) is happy to be back at Intiman, where she developed Black Super Hero Magic Mama in the 2016 Intiman Emerging Artist Program cohort. Her work has been developed/produced at Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights’ Arena, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and others.  Honors: Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, Blue Ink Playwriting Prize, Jane Chambers Student Award for Feminist Playwriting, Stage Raw Best Playwright Award, Kilroys List, and Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Mix. MFA in Theatre, University of Southern California.

Donte Felder

Donte is the founder and Executive Director at South End Stories (one of Intiman’s new community partners) where they focus on “Trauma-Informed Arts Practice: Healing Through History and Creativity”. Donte is a former Seattle Public Schools educator and has been the recipient of WEA’s Humanitarian Award as well as Washington’s Golden Apple Award. Donte comes from a family of seasoned educators and community leaders focused on pursuing social justice by developing anti-racist and anti-oppression practices in schools and communities. Learn more by visiting www.southendstories-artsed.com

Lisa Marie Rollins

Lisa Marie (she/her) is a freelance director, writer and new play developer.  She is a Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow (Directing) and an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Regional directing /dramaturg work include Hedgebrook Women’s Play Festival, Crowded Fire Theater, American Conservatory Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, TheatreFirst, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Shotgun Players, Custom Made Theatre, Magic Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, TheaterWorks (CO). She has been a writing fellow with Hedgebrook, Djerassi, SF Writers Grotto, CALLALOO London, VONA, Just Theater Play Lab and Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency. She is currently the Visiting Artistic Associate at Intiman Theater in Seattle, a Community Arts Panelist for Zellerbach Family Foundation, and a Resident Artist with Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco.  

New Play Development as a Tool for Community Building

New Play Development as a Tool for Community Building

A #SharetheLove Panel Conversation with Sara Porkalob and Andrew Russell, hosted by Justin Huertas

Intiman Theatre invites you to join us for a #SharetheLove campaign event: a panel conversation about developing and sharing new plays with Sara Porkalob and Andrew Russell, hosted by Justin Huertas. The panelists will discuss the power of storytelling for building community and advancing social change, while reflecting on Sara’s journey with DRAGON CYCLE and sharing exciting updates about the project. Intiman produced DRAGON LADY, the first play of the DRAGON CYCLE, in 2017. The event will feature a sneak peek performance from Sara Porkalob’s DRAGON BABY.

Wednesday, April 14th 2021, 5pm-6pm pacific.

Tickets are Free for Everyone. Reserve yours today to receive the Zoom link to join. Donations accepted with thanks, and will go towards our #SharetheLove campaign.

This event will be live captioned. Open to all ages.

Watch ON DEMAND

About #SharetheLove

In support of our reopening, Intiman invites you to #SharetheLove as we raise $100,000+ in 18 days from April 7-24, 2021!

#SharetheLove to support:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Meet the Panelists

Sara Porkalob

Sara (she/her) is a theatre maker, cultural worker, and creator of the DRAGON CYCLE. She’s based in Seattle but soon will be working all over the nation. She was Intiman’s 2017 Co-Curator and Emerging Artist Program Director. Intiman produced DRAGON LADY, the first play of the DRAGON CYCLE. DRAGON LADY is the recipient of three 2018 Gregory Awards for: Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and Outstanding Musical Production. The second in the cycle, Dragon Mama, premiered at American Repertory Theatre (ART) and won Best Original Script and Best Solo Performance for the 2019 Elliot Norton Awards. ART has commissioned the third in the cycle, Dragon Baby; it will premier on their stage in the near future. She will be making her Broadway debut in 2021 playing Edward Rutledge in the official revival of the musical 1776. Website: www.saraporkalob. Social @sporkalob

Photo by Justin Huertas.

Andrew Russell

Andrew is the former Producing Artistic Director of Intiman Theatre where he directed Hedda Gabler, Stu for Silverton, Angels in America: Parts 1 and 2, Dragon Lady and co-wrote John Baxter Is A Switch Hitter. His work has been featured at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, The Public Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, On The Boards, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and more. In addition to developing The Dragon Cycle with Sara Porkalob he’s currently developing projects for stage, TV, and film that include: the coming-to-age journey of New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia, the fabulous and tragic diva-turned-detective tale of Dorothy Kilgallen, and the powerful story of America’s first trans mayor in Silverton, Oregon. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon.

Justin Huertas

Justin (he/him) is a Seattle-based award-winning playwright, composer-lyricist, actor, and musician who last appeared with Intiman in Caught. Justin is a Filipino-American artist-activist committed to creating original hero stories that center Black, Brown, and Queer joy, empowerment, and love. His first original musical Lizard Boy world-premiered at Seattle Rep, toured to San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre, presented at NAMT’s Festival of New Musicals, and returns to the stage this fall at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Justin also wrote The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion and A Very Merry Kraken Tea Party (both co-composed with Steven Tran) for ArtsWest Playhouse & Gallery and Lydia & the Troll (co-created by Ameenah Kaplan) for Seattle Rep. He is composer-lyricist for Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle and The Lamplighter (co-written with Kirsten “Kiki” deLohr Helland and Sara Porkalob). He is currently under commission at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Building Back Bolder – A #SharetheLove Event

Building Back Bolder

Creating an Equitable Arts Recovery
A #SharetheLove Panel Conversation with Margie Johnson Reese and Randy Engstrom, hosted by Marcie Sillman

Intiman Theatre invites you to join us for a #SharetheLove panel conversation event: Building Back Bolder. We will be joined by national arts leader Margie Johnson Reese, recently departed Director of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Randy Engstrom, and our host will be veteran art’s journalist Marcie Sillman. The panelists will discuss the current state of the arts and share their assessments and their hopes for the sector as a whole. How can we build back with the lessons we have learned to create a more inclusive cultural sector?

Wednesday, April 7th 2021, 5pm-6pm pacific.

Tickets are Free for Everyone. Reserve yours today to receive the Zoom link to join. Donations accepted with thanks, and will go towards our #SharetheLove campaign.

This event will be captioned. Open to all ages.

Watch ON DEMAND on the Seattle Channel

About #SharetheLove

In support of our reopening, Intiman invites you to #SharetheLove as we raise $100,000+ in 18 days from April 7-24, 2021!

#SharetheLove to support:

  • Establishing our new partnership with Seattle Central College (SCC) as the professional theatre-in-residence
  • Moving our operations to Capitol Hill 
  • Launching our new Associate of Arts degree, emphasis in Technical Theatre for Social Justice at SCC
  • Continuing our free education programs online, including STARFISH Project and South End Stories
  • Resuming production this fall at the Erickson Theatre and Broadway Performance Hall

Meet the Panelists

Margie Johnson Reese

Margie has a thirty-year portfolio as an arts advocate and arts management professional. She is an advisor to the International Council of African Museums based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a Fellow at the Salzburg Global Institute in Salzburg, Austria and a long-time board member of Americans for the Arts. Margie served a six year tenure as Director of the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of Dallas. After her time in Dallas, she relocated to Los Angeles to serve as the General Manager for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She held that position under three Mayoral administrations. During her time in LA she developed Music LA!, which provides quality music instruction to young people throughout the city.
Margie’s expertise as a grantmaker was tapped by the Ford Foundation to advance cultural projects in West Africa. Based in Lagos, Nigeria and serving 14 West African countries, her work centered on cultural policy development and conservation of West Africa’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Her leadership led to the creation of an unprecedented collaboration between the British Museum and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. The partnership established an initiative to strengthen technical conservation skills of Nigerian museum professionals, and contextualized the pre-museum existence of West African objects held in the collections of the British Museum. She was the driving force that enabled the scholarly work of the late Nigerian historian Dr. Ekpo Eyo’s Masterpieces of Nigerian Art, published in 2008. Through her vision and commitment to restoring dignity to West African antiquities, she became known as the “mother of the Lagos Museum.”
Margie is a faculty member for leadership programs organized by the National Guild for Community Arts Education and the Western States Arts Federation. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas and at Goucher College in their graduate schools of arts administration.

Randy Engstrom

Randy (he/him) has been a passionate advocate and organizer of cultural and community development for over 15 years.  He is currently an Adjunct Faculty at the Seattle University Arts Leadership Program and an independent consultant focused on cultural policy, organizational development and racial equity. Most recently he served as Director of the Office of Arts and Culture for the City of Seattle from 2012 to 2020 where he  expanded their investments in granting programs and Public Art, while establishing new programs and policies in arts education, cultural space affordability, and racial equity. Previously he served as the Founding Director of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, a multimedia/multidisciplinary community space that offers youth and community member’s access to arts, technology, and cultural resources (www.youngstownarts.org).. In 2009 Randy received the Emerging Leader Award from Americans for the Arts and was one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

Marcie Sillman

Marcie (she/her) is a long-time friend of Intiman. In her many years as KUOW public radio’s Senior Arts and Culture Reporter, Marcie covered Intiman through its artistic and institutional evolution, filing stories about these transformations both locally and for NPR. Marcie continues to be an ardent supporter of both Intiman’s mission and its leaders and looks forward to chronicling the stories that unfold in the future.

Photo by Megan Farmer for KUOW Public Radio.