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Swing State - Staged Reading | New Works

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Swing State - Staged Reading (Rights Pending)

This new American play is just off Broadway and onto our stage in a professional stage reading directed by Vito Zingarelli. In ‘Swing State,’ Rebecca Gilman looks for hope to outweigh despair in this contemporary portrait of America’s heartland in a time when it feels like everyone’s way of life is in danger of disappearing.

Friday, June 21 | 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 22 | 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 23 | 2:00 PM

Tickets available:
WICA Star: $30
Standard: $20
Youth 18 and Under: Free

Rebecca Gilman’s plays include Swing State, Luna Gale, Boy Gets Girl, Twilight Bowl, Spinning Into Butter, Blue Surge, The Glory of Living, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Dollhouse, The Crowd You’re in With and A Woman of the World. Her plays have been widely produced, including by the Goodman Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Audible Theater, the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Hampstead Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Acting Company, New York Theatre Workshop and MCC Theater. Among her many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Harper Lee Award, the Scott McPherson Award, the Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, the Roger L. Stevens Award, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and the George Devine Award. Boy Gets Girl received an Olivier nomination for Best New Play, and she was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for The Glory of Living. Gilman received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa, and she is an artistic associate at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Vito Zingarelli is a director and producing director who championed new play development and mounted dozens of seasons of Classical, Contemporary and Musical Theater across North America since 1980.  On the WICA stage he has directed love is a place: an e.e cummings cabaret, The Understudy, Red and the premiere of Apostrophe.  Vito also served as Executive Director for WICA when it was first opening in 1997/98.  He served more recently as program director at Hedgebrook for 13 years and prior to that, taught at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and was Director of Production for North America's largest resident theatre company, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.  Vito served as Seattle Repertory’s first Production Manager when the Bagley Wright Theater was built and where he worked with Robert Egan to create their new play development program, NP3, New Plays in Process Project.

Earlier Event: June 20
Swing State - Staged Reading | New Works
Later Event: June 22
Swing State - Staged Reading | New Works

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.