World Premiere of Keiko Green's NADESHIKO to Hit Sound Theatre Company This Spring

Sound Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Keiko Green's Nadeshiko to kick off their 2017 Season: AMPLIFY! - Raising Women's Voices, devoted to women writers and directors.

Nadeshiko follows the story of two women: A young woman in Japan during World War II, who takes on the role of caregiver to soldiers soon to be flying to their deaths. A young American woman in 2016, Risa takes on a peculiar gig from Craigslist in order to pay her rent. As personal and sexual boundaries blur, the stories of two generations of women intersect in the discovery of power within idealized Asian beauty.

The term "nadeshiko" refers to a flower which has come to symbolize the personification of an idealized Japanese woman. During the final days of World War II, young women (referred to as the Nadeshiko) were enlisted by the Japanese army to comfort Kamikaze pilots before their final mission.

Sound Theatre Company, coming off their second Gregory Award win for Outstanding Theatre Company of the Year, is thrilled to kick off 2017 with a bold new original premiere from Keiko Green as part of their 2017 Season AMPLIFY! Raising Women's Voices.

Produced in partnership with The Umbrella Project, Nadeshiko was developed with support from the Seattle Repertory Writers Group.

IF YOU GO:

Sound Theatre Company presents

the World Premiere of

Nadeshiko by Keiko Green

At Center Theatre - 305 Harrison St. Seattle WA, 98109

April 13 - May 16, 2016 - Official Press Opening Saturday April 15

Tickets: $15-$25; www.soundtheatrecompany.org or www.bit.ly/nadeshikotix

For information call - 206-856-5520 or visit the Facebook event - www.facebook.com/events/1276458772419278

CAST:
Risa - Maile Wong
Sue - Mi Kang
Nadeshiko - Ina Chang
Toshio - Josh Kenji
White Haired Man - Greg Lyle-Newton

ARTISTIC TEAM:
Director - Kaytlin McIntyre
Assistant Director - Cessa Betancourt
Scenic Design - Catherine Cornell
Lighting Design - Richard Schaefer
Sound Design - Dana Amromin
Costume Design - Hannah Larson
Props Design - Brandon Estrella
Projection Design - Luke S. Walker
Dramaturg - Sara Keats
Production Manager - Margaret Toomey
Stage Manager - Laura Owens

Keiko Green is a playwright living in Seattle, WA; having received her BFA in Experimental Theater from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a resident playwright in her second year of Seattle Repertory Theatre's Writers Group, where she presented her work Nadeshiko last year. Most recently, she co-wrote the comic con play Puny Humans and wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Bunnies, both at Annex Theatre. Her one-act Operation Hibernation was nominated for Best New Play by Broadway World Seattle, after its premiere in the 2013 Seattle Fringe Festival. Previous full-length works include Acedia (Co-writer; TheaterLab, NYC; 2011), Freak Playground (Ghost Light Theatricals, Seattle; 2012), and Life.Cycle. (Eclectic Theater, Seattle; 2013). As an actor, she was part of ACT Theatre's 2016 Core Acting Company. Other professional acting work includes: The Comparables (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Dangerous Liaisons, Stupid F@#*ing Bird, Bad Apples (ACT Theatre); Othello, Loves Labours Lost, Bring Down the House Pts 1 & 2 (Seattle Shakespeare Co); Water by the Spoonful (Theatre22).

Kaytlin McIntyre (Director) - Directing credits include: The Lost Girls (Courtney Meaker/Annex); IRL: Craigslist (Benjamin Benne/Horse in Motion); View From the Bridge (Miller/Wing Luke Museum); Zapoi! (Quinn Armstrong/Annex); What You Think You Know (Stephanie Timm/Seattle Fringe); Broken Dog Legs (Emily Conbere/Catapult); Frosty (Live Girls! Quickies); The Receptionist (Adam Bock/Webster University). Kaytlin has developed work with many playwrights including Susan Stanton, Elizabeth Heffron, Benjamin Benne, Courtney Meaker, and Josh Beerman. She serves as the Casting Director at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and is part of the Leadership for Change co-hort hosted by TPS. She received her BFA in Directing from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.

Sound Theatre Company empowers artists to give voice to the dignity and diversity of the human experience - moving audiences toward a more just and compassionate world.

Sound Theatre Company has been repeatedly praised and awarded for its high quality theatrical productions. Sound has won the Gregory Award for Outstanding Theatre of the Year twice in recent years including 2016. Sound's 2017 Season AMPLIFY! Raising Women's Voices is devoted entirely to women writers and directors.

Amplification is a method used by female staffers in Obama's White House to ensure women's voices and ideas are heard and recognized. When a woman makes a key point, other women in the administration repeat it, giving credit to its author. Sound Theatre Company strives to use this method as an inspiration for its future seasons.

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