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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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:


Desiree Prewitt, Managing Co-Artistic Director, (phone), (email) Kristina Sutherland, Executive Artistic Director, (phone), (email) Molly Boettcher, Board President, (email)

Address:


915 E Pine Street Suite 430 Seattle, WA 98122 This location is handicap accessible (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.machamonkey.org

Directions:

Nearest Bus Stop: 7, 10, 8, 5 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

Liability
	Yes
Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes

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