Forward Flux Announces 2017 Season

Forward Flux Productions announces their 2017 season, running from February to October. This marks the company's third full year of programming in Seattle. Forward Flux is a dynamic live arts Production Company that presents innovative projects designed to connect people with art in unexpected ways. The company is focused on presenting new works by women and artists of color, and cultivating a new, younger audience.

"When selecting our 2017 season, we asked ourselves, 'Why is this story relevant right now?' and landed with six plays that provide an escape, while also challenging our deeply progressive city," said Founder + Producing Artistic Director Wesley Frugé. "Each of these plays contains truth that speaks to questions about our relationships with other people, places, cultures, and our own identity."

The 2017 season will culminate with the return of the popular Double Feature, in its' new home at West of Lenin in Fremont. Both main stage theatrical productions will show September 19th - October 7th, with show times at 7pm and 9pm on most nights, allowing audiences to catch two new plays in one evening. Both plays feature live music and singing, and each examines the complicated intersection between culture and identity in deeply moving ways. They are the Seattle premiere of Hansol Jung's No More Sad Things and Benjamin Benne's Flux commissioned world premiere play las mariposas Y los muertos. In No More Sad Things, a woman takes a trip to Maui and falls in love with a Hawaiian native. In las mariposas Y los muertos, we go backstage to witness the most intimate moments between the members of a buzz band on the verge of a breakout.

In April, a diverse group of 20 artists including Markeith Wiley, trans-playwright Nelle Tankus, photographer Angel O'Leary, dancer Angel Alviar-Langley (aka Moonyeka) and more, will come together for the 8th Cycle of collaborate create. This program is also moving to a new home in Capitol Hill: Fred Wildlife Refuge (presenting partner). collaborate create is an artist residency series that brings artists together across disciplines to create new works in 21 days that center on one socially relevant theme. For this cycle, the artists will be exploring identity and our shifting relationship with gender, sexuality and community. The program will be guest curated by Barry Johnson, and the exhibition will feature an immersive installation of the artists' works, a full bar and live music.

Also returning for 2017 will be The Flux Salon series, featuring new play readings, live music and drinks in unique venues throughout Seattle. The plays featured at the Salon in 2017 will be Lindsay Joelle's A Small History of Amal by Amal, Age 7 about a boy who dreams of Bollywood in the midst of the Mumbai train bombings, Jeremy O. Harris' "Daddy" about an L.A. artist who moves in with his older boyfriend to spend his days poolside, and a play about a pair of sisters living in an English mansion whose lives forever change when a governess arrives under mysterious circumstances (Jen Silverman's The Moors). There will also be a Salon playwright in residence who will present their new play at a one night only Salon event in July. The playwright will be announced later this year.

Also this year, Forward Flux is thrilled to introduce the Studio 45 workshop series. Studio 45 will give a creative team and actors 4 weeks to workshop a new play working closely with the playwright, with 5 public performances. The focus of this series will be on acting craft and storytelling, but production elements will also be included (lighting, costumes, sound, etc). The inaugural Studio 45 production will be Claire Kiechel's Pilgrims. In this sci-fi thriller, a soldier, a girl, and a robot are quarantined in a spaceship while traveling to colonize a newly discovered planet. The program will be held at the West of Lenin Studio.

Engagement programming is also returning including the silent disco What the Float, the free podcast Live from The Flux Salon, and the secret pop-up Speakeasy series.

The entire season kicks off on February 20th with the roller skate party, Skate Yo Face Off TOO! Forward Flux has rented out the entire Southgate Roller Rink for the second year in a row, and invites you to join us for this free event.

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