Seattle Playwrights' Collective Rebrands to 'Seattle Theatre Works' and Presents PROCESS AT THE POCKET READING, 9/24

The newly re-branded Seattle Theatre Works - formerly the Seattle Playwrights' Collective - has a few announcements about an upcoming reading on September 24, a playwriting opportunity through those wild kids over at Fantastic Z Theatre Company, a word about our name change, and some information about our next Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets event.

Seattle Theatre Works continues supporting local playwrights by joining forces with the Pocket Theatre's new program Process at the Pocket for a reading of a truly unique and otherworldly play.

Process at the Pocket

Wednesday September 24 at 7:00 pm
The Pocket Theatre - 8312 Greenwood Ave. N.

Joyless Eye
By JC Pankratz
Directed by Daniel Tarker
Featuring Daniel Brockley, David Hsieh, Erin Ison, Sarah Milici, and Jen Moon with stage directions by D'Arcy Harrison

Set in an alternate history where the '69 lunar landing fails, "Joyless Eye" follows ex-VA nurse Myra Ann Combs as she tends a lingering obsession with the moon and struggles with homelessness, unemployment, PTSD, and a girlfriend who is quickly losing her patience. Help comes in the form of the spirit of comet astronomer Caroline Herschel, who appears in Myra Ann's motel room with simple, inspired purpose: to build a telescope.

J.C. Pankratz is an Indiana-raised playwright currently living in the Puget Sound region. Last year, she saw her one-act play "Honest to God" on the stage of the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. Her play "Joyless Eye" was runner-up for the Jean Kennedy Smith Award at ACTF and her fifteen-minute play "Autobiography" was performed as part of Valley Rep's Annual 15 Minute New Play Festival. She recently graduated from DePauw University.