Annex Theatre Company Presents MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING, 10/29-30

Annex Theatre pops a cap in its 2010 Season with the true crime play Money Changes Everything written by Rachel Atkins and directed by Daniel Morris. Money Changes Everything opens Friday October 22nd and runs Fridays & Saturdays through November 20th, PWYC Oct 29th & 30th and Industry Night Monday November 8th, 8pm at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & E. Pike St. on Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military. Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Money Changes Everything is a true crime play based on the actual events of the 2nd largest cash robbery in US history. Three trailer park dwellers saw a chance to get rich quick and took it, but they botched their plans at every turn: buying mansions and boob jobs with cash, and even trying to have their inside man killed. It's a hilarious, heart-breaking story about ordinary people trying to jack the good life and live it before they get caught!

Rachel Atkins (Playwright) is the scriptwriter for Living Voices, the educational theatre company with whom she has 11 different multi-media productions in ongoing national tours. Her adaptations for Book-It Repertory Theatre include Emma, Rhoda: A Life in Stories, Rebecca, Minty, The Journey That Saved Curious George, Johnny Appleseed, Women's Votes, Women's Voices, and The Saar Pioneer Cemetery Story. An Annex Theatre Hothouse 2004 playwright, her plays have also been seen at Seattle Children's Theatre, The Empty Space, and 14/48. Rachel was the Scriptwriter/Dramaturge for Ardeo Theatre Project in St Julien l'Ars, France. She currently works as a master teaching artist for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It, and Arts Impact, and is honored to be a 2010 TPS Gregory Awards nominee for Outstanding Playwright.

Daniel Morris (Director) is the Artistic Director of Fat Yeti Theater and is the owner, operator and sole employee of Fat Yeti Photography. Daniel's previous directing credits include: Bunny Crawford's Barbie Doll World, Oh! That's the Second Hand, Breaking the Code and an award winning production of Shadowlands. He is proud to be making his Annex debut with Money Changes Everything, a passion project in the works for the last 12 years. He studied theater at the University of Maryland and at Freehold in addition to serving on their staff as Director of Operations for three years.

Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness and risk.

In addition to new plays, Annex Theatre produces radical reinterpretations of classic scripts, ensemble-generated performances and non-linear wild-ass spectacles. Also kicking off the first Friday of every month is our late-night variety show Spin the Bottle, now entering its 13th year!

Now in its new Capitol Hill venue, Annex originally opened its doors in 1987 in a former dance studio on 4th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Since then the theater has produced hundreds of world and Northwest premieres, including new plays by Stranger Genius Award winners Chris Jeffries and Paul Mullin; dozens of local playwrights, including Jeff Resta, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Keri Healey, Scot Augustson, John Kaufmann, Elizabeth Heffron, Heidi Heimarck, and Suzanne Maynard; and nationally recognized playwrights such as Erik Ehn, Naomi Iizuka, Glen Berger, Anne Washburn, Jeffrey Jones, and Nicky Silver.

Former Annex company members alumni can be found throughout the Seattle arts community including Seattle Children's Theatre Teaching Artist and former Annex Artistic Director Gillian Jorgensen, former Artistic Director of the Empty Space Allison Narver, Executive Director of Town Hall Weir Harman, Development Director of ACT Josef Krebs and Education Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre Andrea Allen as well as in the local and national film industry such as directors SJ Chiro, Garrett Bennett, Mike Shapiro and actors Jillian Armenante and Paul Giamatti.

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