ACT Partners with Icicle Creek Theatre Festival

Expanding on its role of developing new works, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre today announces a new partnership with Icicle Creek Theatre Festival (ICTF), a non-profit theatre company that provides new playwrights the opportunity to develop their plays in a workshop environment with professional directors and actors, resulting in partially-staged, script-in-hand presentations read during its annual Festival (August 9-10, 2008) at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, WA.

ICTF benefits from this partnership with ACT by receiving assistance with casting, play solicitation, dramaturgy, audience development and use of ACT's space for auditions and presentations.

ACT in turn will continue to play a key role in the developmental process of a new work before it is presented in front of a live audience, either at ACT or at other venues across the nation.

Atomic Farmgirl by C. Denby Swanson, a new play presented at ICTF last year, was produced Off-Broadway last fall by The Drilling Company in New York.

For the past 43 seasons, ACT's mission has been to present a broad spectrum of the very best of Contemporary Theatre that speaks to audiences of all backgrounds. A significant part of ACT's mandate is to commission new

Icicle Creek Theatre Festival (ICTF) is a non-profit theatre company that workshops and presents new plays at Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, WA.  It exists for the primary purpose of offering opportunities for playwrights to develop new works, in preparation for those works to go on to production. It currently offers playwrights a 9-day workshop which focuses specifically on the development, with dramaturgical assistance, of new plays; and the presentation of staged readings of those plays. ICTF aims to implement and develop an expanding performing arts program at Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat over the coming years.