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Intiman Announces WILD HORSES

A New American Play by Allison Gregory

Starring Dedra D Woods & Directed by Sheila Daniels

This all-women artist production team brings Intiman’s second mainstage show of its 2018 WILD, WICKED, WOKE Season.  

Sheila Daniels                Dedra D Woods                                 

SEATTLE, WA (April 10, 2018) — Intiman Theatre’s second mainstage production of its 2018 WILD, WICKED, WOKE Season, Allison Gregory’s WILD HORSES, will be directed by Sheila Daniels and feature Seattle-based actor Dedra D Woods. WILD HORSES, a savagely-­funny, one-woman play about a transitional summer in a young woman’s life, plays at 12th Avenue Arts from May 31 through June 24, 2018.

WILD HORSES, which Broadway World called “a brilliantly constructed and highly engaging tale,” is a coming ­of­ age story for all generations. The pathos and hubris of her teenage years, the struggle for identity, independence, and authenticity, and the desire to find her place in a complicated world — it all comes rushing at us as she takes us on the ride of her life.

Actor Dedra D Woods, star of Intiman’s WILD HORSES, said, “I’m excited to get in the room with Sheila Daniels, and to work with her and see how we can ignite the story.”

Dedra D Woods (she/her) is an actor, teaching artist and facilitator. She holds a BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase. She is currently in AN OCTOROON at ArtsWest. Dedra’s other credits include: THE LITTLE PRINCE (Seattle Children’s Theatre), I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS (Book-It Rep), WEDDING BAND (Intiman), A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS (Tap Root), BRING DOWN THE HOUSE, MEDEA (Seattle Shakespeare Co), VIOLET, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (ArtsWest). INTIMATE APPAREL (Artist Repertory Theater) and WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… (Pony World Theater). She has also enjoyed working with ACT’s Construction Zone Series, Hedgebrook Women’s Playwrights Festival, The Hansberry Project, Seattle Reps Writers Group Showcase, Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Playwrights’ Circle. Dedra is also a member of Barefoot Theatre Company NYC/LA.

Director Sheila Daniels (she/her) has been making theatre as a director, choreographer and educator in Seattle since 1994. She served as Associate Director to Bartlett Sher at Intiman from 2007 through 2009, and is honored to be affiliated with the company ever since. Sheila’s directing credits include: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, LYSISTRATA (Intiman), THE RAMAYANA (co-creator, A Contemporary Theatre), DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Seattle Repertory Theatre, TANTRUM Theatre), JACKIE & ME (Seattle Children’s Theatre), LYDIA, THE NORMAL HEART, BREAKING CODE, THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), ACCORDING TO COYOTE (Seattle Children’s Theatre Company, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis), A WINTER’S TALE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ELECTRA, PERICLES, MACBETH (Seattle Shakespeare Company), THIS WIDE NIGHT (Seattle Public Theatre), CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), WAITING FOR LEFTY, GOD’S COUNTRY, ARCADIA (CHAC), RUBBLE WOMEN (co-creator, UMO Ensemble), ANAPHYLAXIS (Throwing Bones/IRT, NYC) BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY (Ladykiller Productions), THE LAST STATE (On the Boards), VAYA CON LOLA, SHOCK BRIGADES; WOMEN IN COMBAT (Baba Yaga). Sheila is a four-time nominee and two-time recipient of the Gregory Award for Outstanding Director.

The Creative Team for Intiman’s WILD HORSES, who all identify as female, includes Costume & Scenic Design by Intiman’s Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl (she/her), Lighting Design by Vada Briceño (she/her), and Sound Design by Erin Bednarz (she/her).

About the Production:

WILD HORSES produced by Intiman Theatre runs from May 31 through June 24, 2018 at 12th Avenue Arts (1620 12th Avenue, Seattle WA 98122). Tickets (ranging from $28-$38) may be purchased online via intiman.org/wildhorses.

About the Playwright:

Plays by Allison Gregory (she/her) have been produced all over the US. Allison has received commissions, grants, and development from Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Kennedy Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Skirball-Kenis Foundation, GEVA, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, New Harmony Project, National New Play Network, Northwest Playwright’s Alliance, Seattle Children’s Theatre, LATC, Amphibian Stage Productions, Theatre Lab@FAU, BANFF Playwright’s Center, and Austin Scriptworks. Her work has been the recipient of the Julie Harris Playwriting Award, South Coast Repertory’s Playwright’s Award (Forcing Hyacinths), Garland & Dramalogue Awards (Fall Off Night, Breathing Room), Seattle Times Best New Play Award (Burning Bridget Cleary). NOT MADEA (O’Neill & BAPF finalist), and WILD HORSES (O’Neill semi-finalist) received National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere productions across the country. MOTHERLAND (O’Neill finalist, American Blues Blue Ink Award finalist, Harriet Lake Playfest selection) was selected for NNPN’s Showcase of New Plays.

About Intiman Theatre:

Intiman Theatre wrestles with American Inequities. Intiman Theatre is a professional theater company in Seattle, Washington who won the 2006 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.  Since its founding in 1972, has presented over 225 productions to Seattle audiences.

Among the more recent of these are ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner, TROUBLE IN MIND and WEDDING BAND by Alice Childress, BOOTYCANDY and BARBECUE by Robert O’hara, and DRAGON LADY by Sara Porkalob.

Intiman produces in various venues throughout Seattle, which include the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Central District, 12th Avenue Arts, Velocity, UW Jones Playhouse, Seattle Center Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.          

Intiman kicked off its 2018 WILD, WICKED, WOKE Season with a SOLD-OUT co-production with ArtsWest of HIR by MacArthur “Genius” award-winning writer Taylor Mac, and directed by Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl. Intiman is proud to follow this successful production with WILD HORSES by Allison Gregory playing at 12th Avenue Arts from May 31-June 24, 2018, and with NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarías playing at The Jones Playhouse from September 6-September 30, 2018.

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Who: Intiman Theatre presents WILD HORSES

Where: 12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Avenue, Seattle WA 98122

What: WILD HORSES written by Allison Gregory, directed by Sheila Daniels and featuring Dedra D Woods

When: May 31-June 24, 2018; Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm | Sundays at 2:00pm

Tickets: $28-$38

Tickets are now on sale via intiman.org/wildhorses

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Intiman Theatre Announces Its 2018 Season:
WILD, WICKED, WOKE
Intiman will produce three mainstage productions in 2018 — including HIR, a co-production with ArtsWest — along with other programming.
Season subscriptions go on sale today, Monday, February 26 at intiman.org.
Single tickets for WILD HORSES and NATIVE GARDENS will be offered on March 19.

Seattle, WA (February 26, 2018) — With a new mission statement declaring Intiman Theatre wrestles with American inequities, Intiman has announced its 2018 Season with the theme: WILD, WICKED, WOKE.

“In 2018, we will lean into our mission more intensely than ever,” said Intiman’s Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl. “We will hold underrepresented stories to the light, look at issues of identity, race, visibility, gender, coming-of-age, microaggression and colonization. All of this while centering new artists, unlikely combinations and lived true stories, reminding our audiences and artists alike that we are what makes America great.”

Intiman’s Wild, Wicked, Woke 2018 Season will begin with HIR (pronounced ‘here’) by MacArthur “Genius” award-winning writer Taylor Mac. This co-production with ArtsWest is directed by Intiman’s very own Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl. HIR, the riotous tale of a family in revolt, opens on February 28 and plays through March 25, 2018 at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery.

Following HIR is WILD HORSES by Allison Gregory, a savagely-­funny play about a threshold summer that forever alters an adolescent girl, as portrayed by her grown­up self. WILD HORSES, directed by Sheila Daniels, is playing at 12th Avenue Arts from May 31-June 24, 2018.

Closing out the Wild, Wicked, Woke 2018 Season is NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarías. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. NATIVE GARDENS, directed by KJ Sanchez, is playing at the Jones Playhouse from September 6-September 30, 2018.

In addition to producing three major productions that wrestle with American inequities, Intiman is working to champion diversity onstage and off by creating new learning opportunities for theatre artists with a variety of backgrounds, identities and abilities.
For the fourth year, Intiman will produce the Intiman Emerging Artists Program (IEAP), a no-cost to participant program that brings up-and-coming diverse local artists together during the summer for professional training and development that prepares them to work professionally in the region.

The Seattle community will also have the opportunity to help support Intiman’s 2018 goals during its #SHOWTHELOVE campaign, which launches on March 22. #SHOWTHELOVE is a fun, online giving campaign that builds a vibrant community to empower a lot of people to give a little and make a huge difference.

Since its founding in 1972, Intiman Theatre has presented over 225 productions to Seattle audiences. Intiman produces classic American stories, world masterpieces, contemporary plays and new writing — exceptional theater created by artists who make their homes in Seattle and artists from across the country, recognized masters of their craft and exciting new voices. These great stories encourage civic dialogue and personal reflections about the issues we face as a community, in our country and on the planet. Intiman believes there is a connection between what we choose as entertainment and the questions we ask about what it means to be human; that connection is the foundation of every play in Intiman’s season.

Since the Intiman Theatre Festival emerged in 2012, Intiman has produced plays that wrestled with American inequities and celebrated untold stories. These include Sara Porkalob’s DRAGON LADY in 2017, 20 plays by Black women in 2016; Robert O’Hara’s uproarious satire BOOTYCANDY in 2015; Tony Kushner’s epic ANGELS IN AMERICA in 2014; the premiere of STU FOR SILVERTON, a new musical about the first openly transgender mayor in America in 2013; and MIRACLE!, created and directed by Dan Savage, in 2012. Intiman produces in various venues throughout Seattle, which include the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Central District, 12th Avenue Arts, Velocity, UW Jones Playhouse, Seattle Center Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.

Today, guided by the vision of Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl and Executive Director Phillip Chavira, Intiman is one of the preeminent theaters in the country, recognized for its work and commitment to the community and its audiences.

Chavira said, “I am so fortunate to work with Jennifer Zeyl as my business partner. Together we bring over 30 years of professional experience with theatre companies across the US, advanced degrees in arts, business, and languages, multiple awards, and a genuine visionary alignment to make great work happen.”

Intiman’s 2018 Season is also led by Co-Curator KJ Sanchez, acclaimed playwright and director. “Jennifer and I dove head-first into thinking about programing for all of Intiman’s audiences – past, present and future,” said Sanchez. “I have been a huge fan of Intiman’s bold, inclusive and high-spirited work for years and to be a part of the 2018 Season is an honor and absolute delight.”

A leader in the Seattle community, Intiman has received national recognition and many honors, including the 2006 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Intiman will have additional programming and special events throughout the year, stay tuned for more announcements to come.

INTIMAN THEATRE
WILD, WICKED, WOKE 2018 SEASON
PRESENTS

HIR
Co-produced by Intiman and ArtsWest
February 28-March 25, 2018
Written by Taylor Mac
Directed by Jennifer Zeyl
At ArtsWest, 4711 California Avenue SW, Seattle
Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has returned from the wars to help take care of his ailing father, only to enter a different warzone: a household in revolt. His mother, liberated from an oppressive marriage – with Isaac’s newly out transgender sibling as her ally – is on a crusade to dismantle the patriarchy. But in Taylor Mac’s sly, subversive comedy HIR, annihilating the past doesn’t always free you from it.
“Gloriously skewed vision of the toxins fouling the American family” -The New York Times

WILD HORSES
May 31-June 24, 2018
Written by Allison Gregory
Directed by Sheila Daniels
At 12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Avenue, Seattle
WILD HORSES is a savagely-­funny play about a threshold summer that forever alters an adolescent girl, as portrayed by her grown­up self. Complex and timeless, it is a coming ­of­ age story for all generations. The pathos and hubris of her teenage years, the struggle for identity, independence, and authenticity, and the desire to find her place in a complicated world — it all comes rushing at us as she takes us on the ride of her life.
“Feels like being released from the pen to run wild into the night” -Austin Chronicle

NATIVE GARDENS
September 6-September 30, 2018
Written by Karen Zacarías
Directed by KJ Sanchez
At the Jones Playhouse, 4045 University Way NE, Seattle
You can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
“Challenges audiences to look beyond petty differences and rediscover our shared decency” -DC Theatre Scene

TICKETS
Season subscriptions go on sale today, Monday, February 26 at intiman.org. Single tickets for WILD HORSES and NATIVE GARDENS will be offered on March 19.

ABOUT INTIMAN THEATRE
Intiman Theatre is a professional theater company in Seattle, Washington that wrestles with American inequities. Intiman won a Tony Award in 2006 for Outstanding Regional Theatre and has presented over 225 productions to Seattle audiences. For more information, visit www.intiman.org.

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INTIMAN THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST SHOW OF THE 2018 SEASON, A COLLABORATION WITH ARTSWEST PLAYHOUSE AND GALLERY

Intiman Theatre, in collaboration with ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, is proud to co-produce the Seattle premiere of Taylor Mac’s HIR directed by Jennifer Zeyl as its first show of the 2018 Season.

SEATTLE, WA (January 8, 2018) — Intiman Theatre is thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration with ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery co-presenting the Seattle premiere of Taylor Mac’s HIR, playing February 28 through March 25, 2018 at the ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery in West Seattle. HIR is Intiman’s first show of its 2018 Season. The play will be directed by Intiman’s Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl.

Intiman Artistic Director Jennifer Zeyl said, “I am thrilled to be directing Taylor Mac’s HIR in collaboration with ArtsWest, a company for which I have deep admiration. This is a unique opportunity to co-mingle our audiences and artists while exploring this hilarious, dark comedy. HIR follows in the tradition of great American plays by great American playwrights like Sam Shepard and Edward Albee while thoroughly updating the given circumstances in which the traditional American family finds themselves today.”

ArtsWest’s Artistic Director Mathew Wright added, “We couldn’t be more excited to be joining forces with Intiman, an organization whose work and mission so closely aligns with our own, and who have been incredible friends and colleagues over the past few years.”

After winning acclaim in New York, Taylor Mac’s HIR premieres in Seattle in this co-production. Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac (who uses “judy” as a gender pronoun) is a MacArthur “Genius” award-winning writer and performance artist at the forefront of alternative responses to American culture. Author of seventeen full-length plays, Taylor Mac has received rave reviews for the extraordinary 24 hour durational concert, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, which reframed and re-enacted 240 years of US history. In HIR, Taylor Mac tears apart the kitchen sink genre by challenging gender expectations and subverting all notions of the typical American family.

About the Production

HIR runs from February 28 through March 25, 2018 at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery (4711 California Ave SW, Seattle WA 98116). Tickets (ranging from $17-$38) may be purchased online via intiman.org/hir, by phone at 206.938.0339, or at the ArtsWest Box Office Thursday-Saturday from 2-7:30pm.

Press Information

Press tickets are available for Opening Weekend, March 2-4. Please contact Michael Wallenfels at michaelw@artswest.org to arrange. Photos are available by request – please contact Michael Wallenfels at michaelw@artswest.org.

For Calendar Listings

Who: ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery and Intiman Theatre co-present Taylor Mac’s HIR

Where: ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, 4711 California Ave SW, Seattle WA 98116

What: HIR, written by Taylor Mac and directed by Jennifer Zeyl

When: February 28 through March 25, 2018; Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm | Sundays at 3:00pm

Tickets: General Admission: $38.00 | Seniors (65+): $33 | Students: $17 | TeenTix (door only): $5

Tickets on sale now via intiman.org/hir

ABOUT INTIMAN THEATRE

Intiman Theatre is a professional theater company in Seattle, WA that boldly produces work that is relevant and continually wrestles with American inequities. Intiman won a Tony Award in 2006 for Outstanding Regional Theatre and has presented over 225 productions to Seattle audiences.

Over the last six years Intiman Festival has produced and celebrated untold stories, to include: Sara Porkalob’s DRAGON LADY in 2017, 20 plays by Black women in 2016;  Robert O’Hara’s uproarious satire BOOTYCANDY in 2015; Tony Kushner’s epic ANGELS IN AMERICA in 2014; the premiere of STU FOR SILVERTON, a new musical about the first openly transgender mayor in America in 2013; and MIRACLE!, created and directed by Dan Savage, in 2012.

ABOUT ARTSWEST PLAYHOUSE AND GALLERY

ArtsWest is a vibrant center for both performing and visual arts located in the West Seattle Junction. This 149-seat theatre provides a unique setting for audiences and artists as stories of human emotion unfold in an intimate space. Winner of the American Theatre Wing’s 2012 National Theatre Company Award, ArtsWest has produced such diverse work as Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT, CHINGLISH, last fall’s critically acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS and the smash hit PETER AND THE STARCATCHER. ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination and use live theater as a powerful agent of change. www.artswest.org