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The deadline for submission of plays for the 2008 Icicle Creek Theatre Festival of new plays is February 15, 2008. See our Submit a Play page for guidelines. ICTF is looking for plays that tell original and compelling stories, and we welcome communication from playwrights with unproduced projects.

The 2008 Icicle Creek Theatre Festival is scheduled for nine days, August 2 -10, 2008.

ICTF continues, in its second year, its effort to create a national reputation for performing arts development at Icicle Creek. ICTF will again take place at Icicle Creek Music Center and Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.

ICTF affords all artist-participants a unique opportunity to work creatively in an extraordinarily beautiful natural setting. ICTF will again provide two to three new playwrights the opportunity to develop their plays as they live, work and share meals with professional directors and actors (a balance of Equity and non-Equity). The workshop will culminate in partially-staged, script-in-hand presentations on the final weekend.

Seattle's renowned ACT Theater will announce in the press (on Feb. 12th) the establishment of an official alliance with ICTF. This important collaboration has already begun, and is profoundly affecting the operation. ICTF and ACT are exchanging plays and hiring dramaturgs, and preliminary discussion has begun on the scheduling of presentations, at ACT, of ICTF offerings. ACT Theatre, established in 1965, is a renowned Seattle theater which has received dozens of awards including the Washington State Governor's Arts Award, Seattle's Best Theatre Award from Seattle Weekly, and grants from the NEA, Hearst Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Kennedy Center Fund.

ICTF benefits from this formal association with ACT by receiving assistance with casting, play solicitation, play-reading, dramaturgy, marketing, audience development, donor development, and the use of ACT's Seattle space. It is our first and vitally important step towards initiating an influx of visitors from other cities and building a national reputation, a goal on which ICTF is very focused. We are committed to doing our part to make Sleeping Lady a nationally-known arts destination.

New work is the cornerstone of American theatre, and ICTF is committed to helping writers prepare their scripts for production in regional theatres around the country: ICTF makes every effort to see that plays presented at the Festival are seen by those who are in a position to get those plays produced. ICTF is connected with a number of regional theaters in the Seattle area (besides ACT) which are aware of our work, and who attend our presentations.

In 2007, ICTF presented "Atomic Farmgirl" by C. Denby Swanson, and "Dov & Ali" by Anna Ziegler. Readings of both those plays were presented, after the Festival, in Seattle; these subsequent presentations used ICTF actors and were shown to Seattle theater professionals in hopes of getting the plays into production. "Atomic Farmgirl" was subsequently picked up and produced off-Broadway in the fall by The Drilling Company (Hamilton Clancy, Producing Artistic Director), in New York.

Both of ICTF's 2007 playwrights felt that the opportunity the Festival afforded them was extraordinary. Ms. Ziegler wrote: "Not only was the setting incredibly conducive to getting my work done, I also loved the people at the Festival. My cast could not have been better actors or collaborators. We became a real team, and their encouragement and feedback was invaluable. I've never before felt such excitement and enthusiasm from a cast, and that excitement deeply inspired me. I had a terrific experience... and I hope that playwrights will get to benefit from this experience for years to come. It is so rare to find something like this -- a beautiful setting; encouraging, supportive and super-talented actors; and the time and space to really dig into a play. Thank you so much for an amazing week."

ICTF plans to expand its program of offerings to include in August 2009 a 2-week workshop for theater students. ICTF also plans to add performances of new plays at other times during the year. ICTF is now a non-profit corporation but is also currently still a program of the Community Foundation of North Central Washington; we are working towards obtaining our 501(c)3 this year.

Actors should visit our Auditions page, which is frequently updated. Headshots and resumes may be sent electronically to: info@iciclecreekact.com