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UPDATE JULY 1, 2008

Second annual Icicle Creek Theatre Festival announces its Company of Actors

Leavenworth, WA - The Icicle Creek Theatre Festival recently announced its company of professional actors who have been hired for this summer's workshop and staged readings. The ICTF workshop week will culminate in presentations to the public of each new play on the weekend of August 9-10.

The acting company is headlined by Broadway veteran Anne Allgood, who appeared on Broadway in Carousel, The Sound of Music, The Most Happy Fella, Imaginary Friends, and Beauty and the Beast, and in many National Tours. She is one of Seattle's finest and most renowned professional actresses. ICTF is also delighted to welcome David Pichette, a legendary Northwest actor who has appeared over the last 25 years with every major Seattle theatre, and MJ Sieber, artistic associate of The New Century Theatre Company, who returns to ICTF following his triumphant performance in last summer's Festival as "Dov" in "Dov & Ali." They will be joined by two very exciting young actors, recent graduates of the University of Washington's School of Drama: the up-and-coming Jessica Martin and Ben Harris. Rounding out the company are three very accomplished actors –- Gretchen Krich, who acted on NY stages for 25 years; Terry Edward Moore, who has enjoyed a long and illustrious stage career in the Northwest; and Todd Licea, currently performing in Our American Theater's production of Three Hotels.

This ensemble will work with playwrights Stephanie Timm and Kathleen Cahill, and dramaturgs Liza Comtois and Paul Morgan Stetler, to bring these new plays from the page to the stage for the first time. The company will rehearse from Aug. 2-8 at Icicle Creek Music Center, adjacent to Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in the Cascade Mountains of Washington.

UPDATE MAY 16, 2008

The second annual Icicle Creek Theatre Festival announces this summer's offerings

Between Feb. 15 and April 15, 2008, with assistance from Seattle's ACT Theatre, ICTF read and evaluated hundreds of plays submitted from all parts of the country. Between April 15 and May 14, the selection was narrowed down and a final decision was made on May 15. ICTF wishes to express its deep gratitude to each and every playwright who submitted a play for consideration this year. All playwrights will receive a communication from ICTF before the end of May.

The Festival's first offering, "Kingdom of Dust" by Stephanie Timm, is the highly entertaining, extraordinary tale of Clara Bliss -- a typical teenager until she turns into an ape. When Clara begins to devolve into more and more primitive species, her mother Shirley sets out on a crusade to "cure" Clara that quickly turns into a crisis of faith. This highly theatrical and absurd comedy explores the tensions between science and religion through the lens of a mother coming to terms with her daughter's transition into adulthood and independence.

The Festival will also present "Charm" by Kathleen Cahill, an award-winning playwright and currently Visiting Professor in Playwriting at the University of Utah. "Charm" is a magical dance through the life of the writer and women's rights activist Margaret Fuller, which focuses on a brilliant imagining of Ms. Fuller's personal life. As our hearts are pulled into her personal passions, we are given a first-hand view of her robust and complex relationships with the writing and philosophical giants of her time -- Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and others. A clever and spirited play, with often beautifully poetic language.

ICTF will present readings of these plays on August 9th and 10th at Canyon Wren hall on the grounds of the Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth. ICTF expects to re-mount readings in Seattle of both plays on August 11th and 12th at Seattle's renowned ACT Theatre.

ICTF's VERY FIRST OFFERING GOES DIRECTLY TO NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTION!

New York City, 11-14-07 -- "Atomic Farmgirl," first workshopped and presented at ICTF in August 2007, gets its first New York production!! The play is being produced by The Drilling Company, and is being performed at the 78th Street Theatre Lab at 236 W. 78th Street. Hamilton Clancy, the company's Artistic Director, and Karen Kitz, Producing Associate, both are featured in the play, which began its run on Nov. 14th.

A great triumph for ICTF's very FIRST production ever to go directly to a New York production, within three months of its Leavenworth workshop!! ICTF is committed to taking any and all steps to have plays, first developed at ICTF, moved on to full production in other venues.

Visit the Drilling Company's website.

October 8, 2007
YouTube video of the 2007 Festival: Watch video

PHOTOS OF THE 2007 FESTIVAL:
Gallery 1 and Gallery 2

On Aug. 11 and 12th, 2007, seven months of hard work and careful planning came to fruition when nineteen artists-in-residence collaborated to present staged readings to the public of two new plays at Canyon Wren performance hall on the grounds of Icicle Creek Music Center, at Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, Washington.

The Icicle Creek Theatre Festival posted completely open submissions on this site and elsewhere in January of 2007 and received submissions of 101 new plays. "Atomic Farmgirl," by C. Denby Swanson, dealing with environmental issues (at the Hanford nuclear site) which deeply concern many Washington residents, seemed perfect. For our other selection, we chose "Dov & Ali," by NY playwright Anna Ziegler, because of its very topical examination of how religion can affect relationships.

A mix of Equity and non-Equity actors from Seattle, New York City, Ellensburg (WA) and Leavenworth (WA) participated in the readings, which were directed by (Seattle) Town Hall's Executive Director, Wier Harman, and Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Artistic Director, Allen Fitzpatrick.

Both plays received substantial opportunity for development over the 8 days preceding their public presentation, and both plays were enthusiastically received by the audiences who attended them.