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| Last updated on October 4, 2008 |
Macha Monkey Productions is a non-profit arts organization showcasing exceptional artists, delivering innovative education programs, and staging new theatrical works which feature strong female characters.
Macha Monkey Productions envisions a future where new works focusing on the female experience are produced widely and the arts are integrated throughout educational curriculum.
Description:
Macha Monkey incorporated as a non-profit in July 2001. We create and produce inventive, original work with strong female characters, raw emotion, and fierce humor.
Our seasons consist of quarterly multidisciplinary cabarets and three full-length productions. The company tours on occasion. In the past, Macha Monkey productions have performed across Canada, in Washington state, Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico.
Macha Monkey also has a growing education program at Hawthorne Elementary. The program is called Monkey Works and it takes an interdisciplinary approach to learning, weaving classroom curriculum with theatre arts training.
History:
Macha Monkey's Resume
2001
- Macha Monkey debuts with Bret Fetzer's The Story of the Bull
- Revolutions International Theatre Festival invites the company to present an original work in January 2002
- Themed cabaret series MEOW founded connecting community artists
2002
- Live Girls Do Elektra (Sutherland & Prewitt)is published & performs at Revolutions in Albuquerque
- Intensive stage combat and writing workshop for University of New Mexico students
- On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival chooses Macha Monkey to showcase a developing work
- First involvement in Chicks Play Hard, an annual community mentoring program for girls aged 9-12
- Taught stage combat workshops at the American College Theatre Festival
2003
- R - The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read is published & performs at On the Boards
- Buntport Theatre in Denver invites Macha Monkey to present R in their season, and at a partner school
- First Monkey Works education program at Hawthorne Elementary
- GameGirl, an original Macha Monkey work by Jennifer Pratt, is presented in Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival & invited to perform at Idaho State University (ISU)
- Macha Monkey teaches an intensive stage combat and experimental theatre workshop for ISU students
- Continuing programs: second annual Chicks Play Hard, three themed MEOW cabarets
2004
- Macha Monkey's production of Melancholy Play garners a Footlight Award from the Seattle Times
- Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary, yielding Sacagawea's Adventure with Lewis and Clark
- R (Sutherland & Prewitt) tours the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals
- Continuing programs: third annual Chicks Play Hard, three themed MEOW cabarets
2005
- Invitations to write theatre curriculum for Experience Music Project & the Sci-fi Museum's summer programs
- On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival showcases The Cowgirl Play by Sutherland & Prewitt
- John Kaufmann, nominee for a Genius Award from The Stranger, asks Macha Monkey to collaborate on a new gender-reversal update of the Gawain legend, Green Night
- In September 2005 a full stage production of Green Night premiers at Seattle's Chamber Theatre
Contact people:
Address:
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915 E Pine Street Suite 430
Seattle, WA 98122
This location is handicap accessible
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Web Site: http://www.machamonkey.org
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Nearest Bus Stop: 7, 10, 8, 5 minute walk |
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