August 23-24, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. 
Running Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
In the Allen Theatre

Enjoy a unique, one of a kind event: the fifth annual Icicle Creek Theatre Festival (ICTF) presents staged readings of two new plays and a discussion with the playwrights. 2011's selected plays are Mia Chung's You for Me for You and Sam Hunter's The Whale. 

August 23
In You for Me for You, Mia Chung explores the lives of two sisters from North Korea who escape one harsh and unforgiving reality only to enter another very foreign world; a world where a smuggler and a paper balloon can shape a woman's fate. Sheila Daniels, renowned Seattle director and former Associate Director of Intiman Theatre, will direct.

August 24
The Whale
 is a poetic, disturbing and strangely beautiful journey through the life of a small-town shut-in named Charlie, whose self-imposed exile is the result of a brutal and disturbing form of internalized homophobia. 
Andrew K. Russell, former Associate Producer of Intiman Theatre, will direct.

Anita Montgomery, Literary Manager of ACT Theatre and director of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in The New World (Icicle Creek Theatre 2010, and part of ACT's 2011 Mainstage season) will be the Festival’s dramaturg.

Learn more about Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, as well as this year's plays and playwrights, in the Tabs below!

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The Icicle Creek Theatre Festival offers playwrights the space, time and support they need to develop new plays, as they work alongside professional actors and seasoned directors, and present their work to live audiences. All of ICTF's plays have continued on to full performances in London, Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country. ACT's Mainstage production of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World (June 17 - July 17, 2011) came directly out of development at 2010's Icicle Creek Theatre Festival.

This year's plays will be presented at Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth, WA, on Saturday, August 20.  Reserve your seats now online or by calling 509-548-2278.

ICTF announces a New York presentation of an ICTF play!  ICTF hosts a staged reading of THE JEWEL IN THE MANUSCRIPT by Rosemary Zibart, first presented by ICTF in 2009. Ticket Information

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August 23:

In You for Me for You, Mia Chung explores the lives of two sisters from North Korea who escape one harsh and unforgiving reality only to enter another very foreign world; a world where a smuggler and a paper balloon can shape a woman's fate.

With whimsy and magic, the play journeys through time, space and evolving identities, crossing borders of the mind and heart, and examining what it takes to create and sustain a family and a life in a new world.

Mia Chung's work has been developed by the Magic Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Mu Performing Arts, the Brandeis Theatre Company, Rites & Reason Theatre, and PlayGround in San Francisco. She received a Creative Arts Council grant for a video project on Aristotle's Poetics, a Sloan commission for a play about science fraud, and had a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is a graduate of Brown's MFA playwriting program.


August 24:

The Whale is a poetic, disturbing and strangely beautiful journey through the life of a small-town shut-in named Charlie, whose self-imposed exile is the result of a brutal and disturbing form of internalized homophobia.  His fascination with Melville's Moby Dick, and his literal, and figurative connection with the solitary, hunted beast bring poignance  and power to this startling and lovely new play.  The Whale was recently awarded the Marin Theatre Company's Sky Cooper New American Play prize for best new American play.

Samuel D. Hunter is a graduate of NYU, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and the American Play-wrights Program at Juilliard.  His plays have been developed or produced at London's Arcola Theatre, Montana Repertory Theatre, the Flea, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Missoula Colony, Juilliard New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Page 73, Ars Nova, Lark Theater, the Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, NNPN National Showcase, Rattlestick, the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ontological-Hysteric, LAByrinth Summer Intensive, and 24Seven Lab.

Titles, dates, ticket pricing, and venues subject to change.