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Freehold's Engaged Theatre's Laboratory Showing of A Work in Progress: OTHELLO
Join us at our laboratory showing of a work in progress of Shakespeare's OTHELLO which is being produced as part of our Engaged Theatre Program.
This year's production includes the outstanding talent of actors Annette Toutonghi, Reggie Jackson, Sylvester Kamara, Lauren Herrick,
Mariah Cane Ware, Damien Peterson, Jieun Kim, Gino Yevdjevich, Chris Bell, Bart Smith and led by Freehold's Artistic Director Robin Lynn Smith.
This year's production will include several open rehearsal showings and post rehearsal discussions on the following dates:
July 1st - The Washington Women's Correctional Facility in Purdy (not open to the public)
OTHELLO - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC on the following dates:
July 2 at 4:00 pm - at Freehold Theatre, 2222 2nd Avenue, Suite 200
July 3 at 7:00 pm - at Freehold Theatre, 2222 2nd Avenue, Suite 200
July 6 and July 7 at 7:00 pm - at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts. For more information, kate@freeholdtheatre.org or
(206) 323-7499.
Tickets: Free - Donations Accepted!
Plan on attending and being a part of the exploration and telling of one of Shakespeare's most compelling works.
Freehold's Gala Auction - Bring Your Fire
Timothy Piggee
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Thank you to all who turned out to support Freehold at our 7th Gala Auction on Saturday, June 21st. Attendees were feted with
inspired performances by Timothy Piggee, Gin Hammond and Kate Gavigan and an amazing assortment of incredible auction items.
As always, we appreciate everyone's commitment to and support of Freehold!
Spring Class Showcases at Freehold
Have you been wanting to find out what goes on in some of Freehold's classes? Here is your chance to check out the work of some of our
students:
June 26th at 7:00 pm - Meisner Showcase (students taught by Robin Lynn Smith)
The showcase is free and will be held at Freehold Theatre, 2222 Second Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98121. If you have questions, contact us
at (206) 323-7499 or info@freeholdtheatre.org
Summer Quarter is Now Open for Registration!
Whether you want to take an Introductory Acting class, an Alexander Technique, a Spoken Word class, an Intensive Improv class or work with the incredibly
talented George Lewis (one of Freehold's founders) in our Rehesarsal and Performance class ... we have it all this
summer for you! For more information about our exciting array of classes, call us at (206) 323-7499 or go to our website,
www.freeholdtheatre.org to look at our extensive and diverse spring offerings.
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And what's he then, that says I play the villain? by Reginald Andre Jackson
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Reginald has worked extensively all over Seattle as an actor and a playwright. His work has been seen at Intiman, Seattle Repertory Theatre,
ACT, Book-It and the Seattle Children's Theatre.
It is a commonly held belief that the play Othello is a battle over who will lay claim to the titular characters soul.
Desdemona is said to be all that is holy, all that is divine.
"Tempests themselves, high Seas . . . do omit their mortal Natures, letting go safely by the Divine Desdemona."
Iago, then, is all that is evil.
"I look down towards his feet; but that's a Fable, if that thou be'st a Devil ..."
Between this angel of light (come straight from heaven) and this daemon of darkness, this henchman from hell, we find Othello,
a so-called barbarian recently converted to Christianity. In the ensuing encounters either Iago or Desdemona will return to their
spiritual realm with the Noble Moore's soul safely in tow, or so it is said.
What if things were a little more complicated? What if, like the other central characters in the play, Iago and Desdemona were richly
drawn, yet, beautifully flawed human beings?
more ...
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The Benefits of Improv by Matt Smith
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Matt Smith has taught thousands of people to improvise. He has taught at Freehold since 1991, and also teaches at
Seattle University. He has improvised for 16 years as a member of None of the Above, Seattle Improv, Seattle Theatre Sports, and
Stark Raving Theatre, where he and Edward Sampson used improvisation to develop scripted performances.
Solo endeavors include My Last Year With The Nuns, Helium and Beyond Kindness: Essays in Childrearing.
Screen credits include Sleepless in Seattle, Spiderman, Almost Live and Outsourced. Matt also designs communication
training programs for businesses and organizations using the concepts of improv as a foundation.
I took an improv class in 1985 because I wanted to make an attempt at being
a comedian. What excited me most about the class was that there is an
actual craft to it. There is an identifiable, learnable, repeatable
approach to communicating that lends itself to spontaneity and genuine
comedy.
more ...
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Freehold Faculty/Alum Shows and News
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FREEHOLD FACULTY NEWS
Daemond Arrindell. Every Wednesday night at ToST in Fremont, The Seattle Poetry Slam hosts a spoken word extravaganza.
8 p.m., $5 cover, 21 & over IC required, go to www.seattlepoetryslam.
Elizabeth Heffron playwright for Foxy Populi, the piece she did for Annex's show Keep The
Light On is going to be published in the next edition of KNOCK Literary Journal.
Tim Hyland will perform in A Streetcar Named Desire at Intiman opening July 9. For more information:
www.intiman.org.
John Jacobsen just completed his screenplay adaptation of E. Nesbitt's
"House of Arden" for a Los Angeles production company and is starting
research for a studio feature, a film based on the infamous WWII battle in
Huertgen Forest. He is also scheduled to start production in '08 on
"Sweat", a PBS documentary on the history of the famous saunas and spas
around the world.
Jessica Jobaris is currently working with Robin Lynn Smith on Freehold Theatre's upcoming laboratory showing of Othello,
which runs July 2 at 4:00 pm and July 3 at 7:00 pm at Freehold (2222 2nd Avenue, Suite 200) and on July 6 and 7 at 7:00 at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts. For more information, go to
www.freeholdtheatre.org or call (206) 323-7499.
Marya Sea Kaminski will be performing in the following:
THE DOOM SERIES: A Collection of Three New Works by Marya Sea Kaminski
HAND2MOUTH'S RISK/REWARD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
How I Became Such A Quitter (A Tap Dance Part One)
Someday Lounge, 9pm; Portland, OR
June 27 & 28
-STRIKETHROUGH-
Four Letter Words (My Tap Dance Part Two)
Do not come to the Jewel Box Theater at the Rendezvous.
Not in Seattle, WA
Anytime except June 30
NEXT STAGE'S NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
The Last in the Doom Series
written and directed by Marya Sea Kaminski
Hugo House; Seattle, WA
August 15 - September 15 2008
BUMBERSHOOT
Unicycle Collective at the Centerhouse Theatre
Saturday August 30, 2:45 - 3:45 & Monday September 1, 3 - 4pm
Cheap Wine and Poetry on the Leo K Stage at the Seattle Rep
Monday September 1st, 5:15pm (Labor Day)
Darragh Kennan will be doing a season with American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, appearing in
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV Parts One and Two, and The Belle's Strategem.
Cyrus Khambatta, Artistic Director of Phffft! Phffft! will be rolling, sliding, bouncing and dancing around the sound
(WA and OR) with several new pieces - Body of Water, a commission using HUGE rubber balls for the Bellevue Crossroads
Waterpark Opening - Mass Movement which will take over Kent Station Mall by surprise (you have to be there to find out)
as well as for the 2nd edition of Artopia in Georgetown, and much more. June 2, Performance, Body of Water, Crossroads Water Park Opening
Ceremony, 16000 NE 10th St., Bellevue, WA, Admission is Free, info: 425-452-6881. For more information about the other
performances around town, go to: www.PHFFFT.org.
Shelley Reynolds will be performing in A Streetcar Named Desire at Intiman Theatre. For more information, go to,
www.intiman.org.
Gary Schwartz is producing the Ha-Ha Sisterhood - Stand-up Comedy with Amy Alpine,
Bryley Hull, Robin Fairbanks, and Jeanann O'Brien at Valley Center Stage in
North Bend, www.valleycenterstage.org and will be a presenter at the
Applied Improv Network conference in Trondheim, Norway June 5-8.
Matt Smith can be seen in the nationally released feature film "Outsourced" produced by local film company Shadowcatcher.
For more information, go to www.outsourcedthemovie.com.
Amy Thone will be seen in Strawberry Theatre Workshop's production of Leni. It opens July 10th, and plays through August 19th. Leni
is a two-person piece (Amy Thone and Alex Tavares) by Sarah Greenman about the Nazi cinematographer, Leni Riefenstahl . . . .
Fascinating subject matter, plus the "play" is multi-media, . . . Directed by Rhonda Soikowski. For more information, go to:
www.strawshop.org
Annette Toutonghi will be seen in Othello as part of the Engaged Theatre Program with Freehold Theatre which runs July 2 at 4:00 pm and July 3
at 7:00 pm at Freehold (2222 2nd Avenue, Suite 200) and on July 6 and 7 at 7:00 pm at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts. For more information, go to
www.freeholdtheatre.org or call (206) 323-7499.
FREEHOLD STUDENT/ALUM NEWS
Michelle Flowers will be in Mother Courage and her
Children, produced by The Edge Theatre Ensemble, playing July 5,
6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20, 2008, at Youngstown Cultural Arts
Center. For more info, go to www.edgetheatre.org.
Irwin Galan just completed a TV commercial for Credit Union of Washington and will be playing Eilif in Mother Courage
with EDGE Theatre Ensemble in July and in September will be in LA MAriposa with Book-It All Over.
Jodie Knowles
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Jodie Knowles will be featuring at the Seattle Poetry Slam on July 2nd. She will be performing all new work and debuting her chap book
'Contribution to a Human Revolution'. Jodie is passionate about personal truth, strong female voices, and sharing the arts to under privileged (forgotten)
communities. She believes the arts have the capacity to move a society forward and help keep children from being statistics.
She is proof of its power. She is an alumni of Freehold Theater were she studied acting for 5 years.
She has volunteered alongside acting mentor Robin Lynn Smith at the women's prison in Purdy helping facilitate poetry and
acting workshops with the women. In her first year writing poetry won a spot on the 2007 Seattle Grand Slam stage alongside
nationally awarded poets . . . In the same year became one of the four rotating hosts for the Seattle Poetry Slam.
Her mission as an artist is to share her personal truth and struggles to encourage and inspire everyone to find their voice.
Jodie will be featuring at the Seattle Poetry Slam July 2nd.
She will be performing all new work and debuting her chap book
'Contribution to a Human Revolution'. Please join Jodie as she celebrates art, life and her 30th birthday. For more information, go to
www.seattlepoetryslam.
Kate Parker will be in Wooden O's production of Romeo and Juliet playing Benvolio.
The show is free and runs from July 10 - August 3rd in parks all around the greater Seattle area. For more information, go to,
www.seattleshakespeare.org. Note that Wooden O and Seattle Shakespeare have merged organizations.
Louise Penberthy will be seen in Angels in
America: Millennium Approaches with Absurd Reality Theatre. It
opens July 24th and runs through August 9th, at the Poncho Forum at
the Seattle Rep. For more info, go to www.absurdreality.com.
Stephanie Rouge is performing in The Rocky Horror Show playing in Olympia at Harlequin Productions-State Theater,
opening June 5th. Here is the link, www.harlequinproductions.org.
Andy Tribolini and John Paulson can be seen in a film called Visioneers playing as part of SIFF June 12th and 14th.
Trailer: www.visioneersthemovie.com.
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Freehold Theatre Guild
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Freehold Theatre Guild
The Theatre Guild is composed of a group of Freehold students and alumni who have shared in the unique Freehold experience.
Freehold Theatre Guild's (FTG's) stated mission is "To help members of the Freehold Theatre Guild make the transition from student
to active participant in the greater theater community". For those interested in joining Freehold's Theatre Guild, email Andy Tribolini
at atribolini@hotmail.com with your desire to join. You will receive confirmation of membership
by receiving notices about monthly
meetings and activities in which you are strongly encouraged to participate. The Theatre Guild would love to have you be a part of the group!
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About Freehold
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A group of artists, who after years of professional work felt that the full potential of the theatrical event
had yet to be realized, founded Freehold Theatre in the summer of 1991 when two prominent actor studios-the
Pasqualini-Smith Studio (est. 1985) and the Mark Jenkins Actors' Workshop (est. 1985) joined forces. The
founders, Robin Lynn Smith, Mark Jenkins and George Lewis, among others, are professional actors and directors
whose credentials include recognized work on and off Broadway, as well as in major films, television, and regional
theatre. They formulated the following mission: Freehold engages artists of all levels in training and experimentation
so that they may become more innovative and heartfelt in generating theatre that has a lasting impact on the community we serve.
As a center for the development and practice of theatre, Freehold Theatre is committed to art that embraces the full
range of human experience and that inspires performers and audience to connect more deeply to themselves and to each other.
We move toward this goal in four ways:
- Our Studio provides a place for actors, from inspired novices to working professionals, to train.
- Our Theatre Lab provides a forum for mature artists to research and develop new work and to re-interpret classics.
- Our Engaged Theatre Program reaches out to culturally under-served communities.
- Our rehearsal and performance facilities located in Belltown comprises of three rehearsal and
performance studios, including a fully equipped 49-seat black box theatre.
Here we strive to provide our artists with the tools necessary to make a deep and lasting impact on the community based on
organic esthetics. Freehold has become an integral part of Seattle's thriving theatre community, having gained a reputation
as the place for serious young artists to train and take the leap into performing and creating original work.
In 2003 we developed an Engaged Theatre program in which we reach out to culturally under-served communities. The program
comprises an annual tour to organizations that represent culturally under-served populations and a four-month residency at
Washington Corrections Center for Women, in which the women create, rehearse and perform a theatre production. This year
for the first time, George Lewis has developed a similar pilot program at the Monroe Correctional Center for Men.
For more information about our programs and services see our website: www.freeholdtheatre.org.
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What is the Freehold Forum?
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The Freehold Forum E-Newsletter was born out of our desire to respond to requests from you, our Freehold community,
to hear about the innovative and powerful work being done at Freehold Theatre by our incredibly talented and diverse
faculty and alumni. The Forum will provide you with a wealth of information that will serve you in your work as an artist.
The monthly Freehold Forum will include insightful interviews with talented actors, directors and playwrights, compelling
articles on a wide array of topics to assist you in your artistic growth, cutting edge news on upcoming Freehold Faculty and
alumni performances, highly newsworthy articles by Freehold's Theatre Guild and Freehold Calendar Highlights showcasing
upcoming must-see Freehold Calendar events.
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Become A Part of the Freehold Community!
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Freehold is always looking for people interested in joining our team of committed and enthusiastic volunteers.
Whether you have time, wisdom, strength, money, a desire to be involved in your community, or any combination thereof,
we would love to have you join in our efforts. Here are some ways you can participate in our work at Freehold:
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers are highly treasured at Freehold!! We rely on and appreciate the invaluable and diverse skills
our volunteers contribute which enable us to further our mission. We are currently seeking volunteers to help
us with our administrative functions, staff performances and fundraising events!! If you have the desire to be
part of a committed group of staff and other volunteers, please give us a call at 206-323-7499.
Donations
Freehold is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We rely on philanthropic donations from the community to help us
continue to be a part of the theatre community and to keep the cost of our classes affordable. Donations may be
sent to: Freehold Theatre, 2222 2nd Floor, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98121.
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