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Is This A Room at State Theater

Dates: (3/7/2025 - 3/23/2025 )

Theatre:

State Theater

Harlequin Productions

202 4th Ave E
Olympia,WA 98501

Phone: 360-786-0151

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A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections. Reality subsequently received a record-breaking sentence.

The verbatim FBI transcript of her interrogation is the heart of Is This a Room, conceived as a play by Obie Award-winner Tina Satter, in which an extraordinary human drama unfolds between the complex and witty Reality, and the agents who question her. As Reality’s autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges, asking what it is to have honor in this American moment, and how the personal can reverberate globally.


Ages: 12 and older

Is This A Room at State Theater Schedule

March 7 7:30pm, March 8 7:30pm, March 9 2pm, March 13 7:30pm, March 14 7:30pm, March 15 7:30pm, March 16 2pm, March 19 2pm, March 20 7:30pm, March 21 7:30pm, March 22 7:30pm, March 23 2pm

Cast and Creative team for Is This A Room at State Theater

Cast

Olivia Finkelstein

Reality Winner


Matt Shimkus

Special Agent Justin C. Garrick


Scott C. Brown

Special Agent R. Wallace


Ann Flannigan

Unidentified Male


Creative Team

Aaron Lamb

Director


Tina Satter

Concept and Original Director


Jeannie Beirne

Set Designer


Melanie Ransom

Costume Designer




State Theater Frequently Asked Questions FAQ

A group of five people—James L. This, Scot Whitney, Linda Whitney, Phil Annis and Ronna Smith—got together in 1991 and decided that they wanted to produce a more challenging style of theater than was available locally. We wrote our mission statement, pooled our start-up capital—a whopping $400 cash—and began producing individual shows at the Washington Center Stage II, a “black box” venue that seated about 100. Seventeen months after beginning our capital campaign, we opened the doors on the beautifully remodeled State Theater. Suddenly we had a theater, a mortgage and a staff. Our budget jumped from $150,000 annually to $750,000. Our full-time staff increased from one to eight. To keep up with the bills and the building, we knew we had to increase income, so we planned to expand from a four-show season to a six-show, year-round season, but the first year we panicked and added two additional shows for a total of eight. And these were not small shows. It was as close as we ever came to failing as a result of driving all human beings involved to near collapse. Then… a bunch of years passed, during which no one has had the time to keep this up to date. But that’s how it started.

State Theater is at 202 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA.

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