<p><span>Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.<br data-hj-ignore-attributes="" /><br data-hj-ignore-attributes="" />In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.</p>

<p>Join us for a virtual Q&amp;A with new School of Drama faculty member, Libby King and s<span>cenographer and</span> MFA design student Annie (Da Hye) Bang. Learn about the process of devising, designing, and producing the first show in our 2020-21 Season.</p>

<p><b><span><img src="/sites/drama/files/images/coffee_and_concepts_0_0.jpg" alt="Coffee and Concepts" width="250" height="250" align="left" />Join us for the first installation in the Center for Performance Studies' 2020-2021 Coffee &amp; Concept series: <em>Representing Actors/Defining Acting: the Role of Arbitration in the Actors' Equity Association</em> with Dr. Ann Folino White.</span></b></p>

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<p><span><em>This discussion is presented by the University of Washington Graduate School's Office of Public Lectures.</em></p>

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Kirsty Johnston, a disability performance scholar from the University of British Columbia, will offer a talk entitled “<em>Creeps</em> and the Critics: disability theatre’s challenges for journalism.” Recently produced in both Seattle (2014)  and Vancouver (2016), David Freeman’s 1971 New York Drama Desk award winning play <em>Creeps </em>has posed significant critical challenges for both artists and critics.

<div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql">Jay O’Leary Woods, Jéhan Òsanyìn, Kathy Hsieh, and Braden Abraham will engage with our students in a conversation on the state of Seattle Theatre and the path to a healthier arts ecosystem. Though this conversation is catered to college students, we welcome anyone interested in shaping a more communal artistic future for this city.</div>
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<p>Come see our graduating actors present their final works as UW students. The third-year solos shows, written and performed by the actors of the PATP class of 2021, are the culmination of three years of hard work. Come and see what they've cooked up as they prepare to enter the professional world! </p>
<p>This performance will be available to stream March 5-14. RSVP to receive the link opening day!</p>
<p>Featuring:</p>

<p><span><i>dis/re/connection</i> is a new collaborative performance that explores connection, disconnection, and reconnection. How have we, and do we, connect with each other? With ourselves? How do we disconnect from others and ourselves? And ultimately, what is reconnection? What does it feel like? What can it be? Presented through vignettes, music, poetry, movements, and scenes all created by the ensemble, this meditation poetically asks us to reckon with ourselves and to ultimately persist.</span><u></u><u></u></p>

<p>Please join us for a special post-show Q&amp;A with director Kristie Post Wallace, lighting designer Joshua Legate, and actors Joellen Sweeney and Jarron A. Williams.<strong> Sunday April 11, 2021 at 7:30 PM PDT </strong>after the closing night performance. <a href="https://www.uwdramalabs.com/accidental-death-of-an-anarchist-qa-rsvp"><… RSVP here</strong></a>.</p>