9/12/01—the first day of the new era.
After the shock, every creative artist was summoned to fulfill the traditional responsibility of lifting humanity to:
- Understand this new time,
- Make order of perceived chaos,
- Reassess complacent values, and
- Heal the past to embrace a progressive step forward.
Theatre9/12 productions are chosen to challenge audiences through thought-provoking plays having relevant themes to today’s issues.
Theatre9/12 produces contemporary, classic, musical, international, and original plays interpreting them for their universality and urgency.
Theatre9/12 utilizes “all” Seattle’s talented actors both professional and non-professionals.
Each Theatre9/12 performance is “donation only” in Seattle’s “pay what you can” tradition every night.
Theatre9/12 is created for Seattle’s trained and working actors, both union and non-union, who long to develop their talents and skills through workshops and performance.
Invited Theatre9/12 members take the Company Class between projects on a purely “pay what you can” basis.
Workshops will be selected specifically for the Seattle working actor and taught by credentialed professionals.
Theatre9/12 is not a conservatory or training program, but a theatre-affiliated workspace for professional actors to:
- Continue artistic growth between projects,
- Develop craft in workshops
- Perform in smaller, safer venue
- Expand limitations in roles not offered
- Prepare audition
- Utilize these techniques through productions.
As a “teaching theatre,” Theatre9/12 actors will unite traditional acting styles fathered by Stanislavsky with modern techniques developed through generations of disciples. The early abandoned experiments with “affective memory” and emotional recall will not be used, favoring rather the emphasis on creative imagination, physical embodiment of the given circumstances, manifestation of the play’s largest themes, and affective inspiration chosen to stimulate passion.