Sound Theatre Company Presents THE HUMAN FAMILY: Toward A Radical Inclusion, and More!

After claiming a third Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for 2017 Theatre of the year, Sound Theatre presents a ground-breaking season unlike anything seen on Seattle stages. In 2018, Sound Theatre is proud to mount a season of plays and events to consider the nature of THE HUMAN FAMILY. These offerings include unique productions of classic comedies, a Seattle premiere, Disability Theatre Project play-reading series of plays by disabled playwrights, art exhibitions, accessible performances and other experimental works as part of our Making Waves program.

You Can't Take It With You, By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Directed by Teresa Thuman, Assisted by Sadiqua Iman

Center Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory

February 24 - March 11, 2018

Inclusive casting and the "chosen family" will be the centerpiece of this classic 1930's comedy about a family living "to the beat of a different drum," Tee Dennard, a founding member of Seattle's Group Theatre, and Shermona Mitchell lead this cast as Grandpa and his novelist daughter, Penny Sycamore.

Appropriate for all audiences.

ASL Midsummer Nights Dream, By William Shakespeare

An ASL-Mainstream Production

Apr. 21st- May 12, 2018

Co-Directed by Howie Seago & Teresa Thuman

12th AVE ARTS Mainstage

We are thrilled to welcome Howie Seago, well known to Seattle and Oregon Shakespeare Festival audiences, who will bring his vision and vast expertise in Deaf Theatre to this version of Shakespeare's classic comedy. Seago and STC Artistic Director Teresa Thuman will team up to stage the Bard's poetic text as both spoken and signed in ASL for Deaf and hearing audiences. Recommended for all audiences. This production is also part of the Spring 2018 city wide Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare Festival.

Rules of Charity, By John Belluso

August 4 - 25, 2018

Center Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory

Seattle Premiere of this provocative and subversive play by the late John Belluso, a playwright who championed honest portrayals of people with disabilities. The older generation clashes with the younger in this "lacerating critique of altruism" (SF Weekly). Monty, a brilliant father who has Cerebral Palsy and uses a wheelchair, spars with his care-taker daughter in the haunting relationship at the heart of this play that examines what it means to be disabled and marginalized in modern American society.

Contains Mature Content.

MAKING WAVES- Sound Theatre's Experimental Performance Program

IMAGINARY OPUS

World Premiere Musical

By Rose Cano and David Nyberg

A multimedia musical about a young boy who has hard time expressing himself in words and fitting in with the other children. Prone to sensory overload, he finds solace in his vivid imagination and drawing the beautiful world as he sees it. In partnership with Seattle's premiere Latinx theatre, eSe Theatro.

Center Theatre's Black Box and Lobby

4 performances / EVENINGS

February 25 - February 28

I BEG TO DIFFER

The Visual Art of Lupito Cano

a retrospective look at abstract artist Lupita Cano's work over the past 20 years, raising awareness about artists with disabilities and the need to have more opportunities in the community to practice art featured in the Center Theatre Lobby

February 22 - March 11

DISABILITY THEATRE PROJECT

Curated by Andrea Kovich

July 12 - 28, 2018

A Play Reading Series of plays by Disabled Playwrights

Titles, Directors and Actors TBA

Center Theatre at the Armory

In preparation for this season Sound Theatre Company held the first ever in Seattle General Auditions for Actors with Disabilities, as well as a series of discussions to engage local theatre artists in this approach. "There are great innovations happening around the country in these creative, evolving dramatic forms of cultural inclusion; I believe we in Seattle are behind in embracing this exciting theatrical movement" says Sound Theatre Producing Artistic Director Teresa Thuman. "These days particularly, everybody needs to be invited to laugh, to love, to celebrate family and to dream of a better world. We also look forward to a long overdue conversation about the importance of people with disabilities in our art, our theatre, our storytelling and every aspect of our modern lives."

THE HUMAN FAMILY: Toward A Radical Inclusion

will include accessible performances in 2018, which can be challenging for a producing company that survives on a small budget. Tickets for all performances go on sale January 1st, 2018, and we recommend seeking more information on our website as we confirm the details regarding accessible performances and accommodations provided by Sound Theatre Company.

Sound Theatre Company is proud to partner with Deaf Spotlight for its ASL production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Deaf Spotlight mission is to inspire, encourage, and showcase creative works of, by, and for Deaf people in the Pacific Northwest through events that celebrate Deaf Drama Camps for youth, and classes at local community colleges and theatres. For more information of DEAF SPOTLIGHT visit: www.deafspotlight.org

Seeking to foster new work though its Experimental Performance Program, MAKING WAVES Sound Theatre Company is thrilled to partner with eSe Theatro in presenting the their multi-media musical Imaginary Opus. Founded in 2010, eSe? ?Teatro's? mission is to empower local Latino artists to create, produce and promote professional theater in English, Spanish, bilingual and Spanglish and honors self-definition and inclusion, striving to represent "all the colors in the rainbow of brown", and to provide a voice for Latinx artists and communities by sharing culturally and socially relevant stories through innovative programming, workshops, and initiatives. Affiliated artists range from immigrants to U.S. born, Spanish-speaking and non-Spanish-speaking, representing cultures and heritages from all over The Americas and Caribbean.

Howie Seago is professional credits include acting, directing, pr

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