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Macha Monkey's work features powerful themes, strong humor and rough and tough
female characters. We emphasize content over imposing sets and posh
accoutrements.
Our season runs September to June and consists of two developed plays, one
developmental piece in collaboration with a playwright, and a themed cabaret
series called MEOW.
Macha Monkey's
2008 – 2009 Season
of Fearless, Funny, Female Theatre
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 Don't You Dare Love Me
by Keri Healey
directed by Carol Roscoe
October 24 – November 22, 2008
The Stranger recommends Don't You Dare Love Me, calling Keri Healey's script "smart" and "funny" among other things. To read the whole rave review go to The Stranger.
For most of us, the small moments in our livings rooms, bedrooms, offices, and backyards are the epics that fill our lives. Playwright Keri Healey takes on matters of the heart in single and non-committal Seattle in her new play, "Don't You Dare Love Me."
Everyone in this play wants desperately to fall in love, but only one of them makes the first move. For his trouble, shy customer service agent Glen is roundly rejected but refuses to take "no" for an answer. Kirk is a real estate agent looking for home in empty houses, Evan wants perhaps too much of a good thing, CJ hides from romance behind an alcoholic brother and a mountain of self-doubt, Paige is a sage but slippery barkeep who leaves broken hearts behind her, and Tristan is caught between the fantasies of his past and the undeniable reality that will come from his next kiss.
What happens to Glen—and to the loosely connected collection of his peers who refuse to take "yes" for an answer—makes up this series of pathetic dates, late night phone calls, threesome negotiations, love compromises, and lies that get people through the night. Part comedy, part tragedy. Just like all relationships.
Opening night Friday, October 24, 2008 at Macha Monkey's home in Belltown:
2222 2nd Ave #200, Seattle, WA 98121 (Map it!)
Shows Friday and Saturday evenings October 24 through November 22, 2008.
Tickets are available now at Brown Paper Tickets.
For more information, e-mail the monkeys at info@machamonkey.org.
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Macha Monkey Productions in partnership with Theatre Off Jackson proudly present
 Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh
by Jordan Harrison
directed by Kristina Sutherland
February 6 – February 28, 2009
Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. A quirky fable of innocence and experience, featuring live sound effects, mutinous onomatopoeia, and a host of woodsy temptations.
"Jordan Harrison has written a rangy, complex and intellectually titillating play infused with the sheer joy of creation." – Dominic Papatola, The St. Paul Pioneer Press
Opening night Friday, February 6, 2009 at Theatre Off Jackson:
409 7th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104 (Map it!)
Shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings February 5 through February 28, 2009.
Tickets will be available through Theatre Off Jackson.
For more information e-mail the monkeys at info@machamonkey.org.
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 Nancy, Frank and Joe
by Kristina Sutherland and Desiree Prewitt
June 18 – June 20, 2009
A weekend of staged readings of a new work in progress.
Looking for adventure? This new play by artistic directors Desiree Prewitt and Kristina Sutherland is a fast-paced ride through a juvenile fiction empire. Going back to their roots, Sutherland and Prewitt will create and play a whole world filled with bumbling detectives, teenage sleuths and dastardly villains.
This work will be fully produced by Macha Monkey in the fall of 2009.
Shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings 7:30pm at our Belltown home. 2222 2nd Ave #200, Seattle, WA 98121 (Map it!)
Tickets will be free for this event. Donations will be accepted at the door.
For more information e-mail the monkeys at info@machamonkey.org.
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Script Submissions
We are currently accepting play submissions. You may send scripts to
info@machamonkey.org
or
Macha Monkey Productions
Attn: Scripts
2222 2nd Ave #200
Seattle, WA 98121
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People
Keri Healey
Keri Healey is a playwright, director, and actor living in Seattle. Her most recent work includes the plays ONE TWELVE, THE IKEA CYCLE: TINY DOMESTIC DRAMAS (co-written with Bret Fetzer), the teen musical HIGH TIDE AT THREEFORKS; PARROT FEVER (OR, LIES I'VE TOLD IN CHAT ROOMS), NO DEMERITS FOR DANCING, CHERRY CHERRY LEMON, and PENETRALIA. Her plays have been performed in Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Vail (Colorado), Adelaide (Australia), and Singapore. CHERRY CHERRY LEMON was cited as Best Production in Seattle's The Stranger's "Best Seattle Theatre" list of 2001, and in 2002 was named "Best Touring Production" by the Austin American-Statesman. PENETRALIA was given a "Best New Play" runner-up nod by The Seattle Times in 1998. Keri is also the author of a collection of short stories entitled Jealous of Boys. In 2002 and 2006 she was a writer-in-residence at the Espy Foundation in Oysterville, WA. In 2004, she was chosen by Seattle Dramatists as one of its five inaugural Principal Playwrights. In 2005, she was selected by The Stranger as "One to Watch" in their annual Genius Awards issue. Her next play, a musical thriller about a motel lounge cover band's murderous spree, is being developed by Printer's Devil Theater, where she is a company member.
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Carol Roscoe
Carol Roscoe is an accomplished Seattle based actor and director. Her recent directing credits include The Vertical Hour and The Retreat From Moscow at Arts West and Halcyon Days and Betrayal at Seattle Public Theatre.
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Jordan Harrison
Jordan Harrison is a Seattle native. His plays, which include Kid-Simple, The Museum Play, and Finn in the Underworld, have been produced and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sledgehammer Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Empty Space Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Polybe+Seats, and the first Summer Play Festival at Theatre Row. Kid-Simple premiered in the 2004 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Harrison is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights' Center, the 2003 Heideman Award, a 2001-2002 Lucille Lortel Fellowship, and residencies with the Djerassi Program and Commonweal Theatre Company. A graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. Playwriting program, Mr. Harrison is a member of New Dramatists.
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Kristina Sutherland
Kristina is the co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Macha Monkey. Her recent directing credits include the critically acclaimed production of Fall Off Night by Allison Gregory, The Cowgirl Play by Sutherland and Prewitt, Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl, GameGirl by Jennifer Pratt, and Dukthul by Red Eagle Soaring. Kristina has co-created three plays with Desiree Prewitt: The Cowgirl Play, R (The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read) and Live Girls Do Elektra. Macha Monkey has produced these works in Seattle, across Canada and in Albuquerque's Revolutions Festival. Macha Monkey produced her latest solo creation, Franklin and Figaro, in October 2007. In June of 2009, Kristina will direct a production of Franklin and Figaro at The Whidbey Island Center of the Arts.
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Kristina Sutherland and Desiree Prewitt
Desiree and Kristina are the co-founders and Co-Artistic Directors of Macha Monkey. Nancy, Frank and Joe will be their fourth co-created play. Their other critically acclaimed co-created works are The Cowgirl Play, R (The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read) and Live Girls Do Elektra. Macha Monkey has produced these works in Seattle, across Canada and in Albuquerque's Revolutions Festival.
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