A series of staged readings of short plays, written by local playwrights, and filmed within the comfort (and challenges) of Zoom.
Short Play Readings – “Chivalry Is Not Dead”
“Chivalry is Not Dead” is a dark comedy set at the beginning of the pandemic that speaks to the early stages of anxiety in the face of uncertainty, and the mind games that can take us far from reality.
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Carol Gnojewski
Carol Gnojewski was acting in a play and directing one when Covid 19 hit Seattle. Members of her family have had it and recovered. She is currently in quarantine but grateful for her workplace which has given her a purpose during this pandemic, helping families and teaching remotely. She is also grateful for Zoom dance classes, puzzle makers, and the reminder note pasted inside her fridge that reads, “You just ate.” A huge thank you to As If for giving me the opportunity to write out the ups and downs of isolation. Be safe everyone!
I started writing this play for an international “bake-off,” that had some rules like mentioning hand sanitizer and a potential riot. I kept some of those parameters in. If it doesn’t become obvious, Dora and Darla are two sides of the same person. I got the idea of anthropomorphizing the virus from a conversation with a friend. Neither of us could imagine wanting to be a virus and randomly being randomly destructive. Some of this play is based on observation and avidly reading about the virus.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Cindy Giese French
Cindy is very grateful to her As If partner, Amy, who came up with this grand scheme to keep people busy and creative during a pandemic. It’s been great fun to watch people working with (and sometimes hugely failing at) using Zoom, read new works from talented local playwright folx, and take time out of her busy schedule of alcoholism and gluttony to play with the actors.
Seamus Smith
Seamus C. Smith is an actor and director from the Seattle area. He studies theatre and film at Shoreline Community College, and works as a video editor on the side. He is thankful for every opportunity he gets to step on stage or onto a film set, and wants to thank his family, friends, and cast mates for their constant support.
Short Play Readings – “Love…Exciting and New”
A couple discovers that being stuck on a cruise ship with has-been Disney performers and sickly sweet music on repeat is not only a nightmare, it’s also a great story. If they can ever get off.
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Erika Higgins Ross
Erika Higgins Ross is a marriage and family therapist / writer who lives in Western Massachusetts. She is currently spending a lot of time at home.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Carrie Schnelker
Carrie Schnelker has been upstaged by a cat in The Flight Before Xmas, laid down the law in Romeo & Juliet, sported cross-gartered yellow stockings in Twelfth Night, shredded flowers in The Seagull, wrestled with demons in Ghosts, conjured elements in The Tempest, wore the perfect Little Black Dress in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and very little in Swinging Christmas. She’s happiest on a stage – comedy or drama, classical or contemporary, two minute audition or three-act play, on stage or via Zoom!
Terry Boyd
Terry was thrilled to be in As If’s debut production, The Clean House. He has very fond memories of working with Molly and/or Cindy and/or Amy in The 39 Steps, Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike, Communicating Doors, Thugs, A Musical Mafiasco, Suite Surrender and a variety of tiny, but exciting adventures. Thanks for tuning in.
Short Play Readings – “Don’t Go To A Stranger”
When the world outside is crumbling, where will your mind send you? Into a dream? A nightmare? Into the arms of a stranger?
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Suzanne Bailie
Suzanne Bailie is many things but lately she has found it terribly challenging to keep her mind focused for more than two or three minutes. Remarkably similar to the attention span of the frolicking squirrels in her backyard. Suzanne’s time is now used to think of areas of her home she should clean but doesn’t. She excels at looking for recipes that are egg-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and actually may taste good. (But does she ever make the recipes?) Using YouTube videos, she is relearning how to dance the Salsa with her husband. Unfortunately, she has become accustomed to losing when playing Gin-Rummy and uses it as an excuse to sip cheap tequila and pout.
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom (he/him) is thrilled to be working on an As If Theatre production again, this time as a director. A recent transplant to Seattle, has directed over 50 productions over the last 25 years in Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and at Clark University (MA). Christopher primarily works as a director, playwright, and literary translator of dramatic works from 19th century Spain. Chris has a BA in Theatre Arts from Morningside College and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of New Orleans. Chris is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), the Dramatists Guild of America, and the American Literary Translators Association. He’d like to thank As If Theatre for this bright spot amongst the dark, and the actors and playwrights that made this art possible.
Jack Lush
Jack is grateful to be working with As If Theater Company for the second time. The first in The Cake as Tim (opening in October!!). This is his 15th year in the Pacific Northwest and he is happy to call it home. Jack wishes everyone To stay super safe and healthy, and he would like to thank Amy, Cindy and Molly for this wonderful opportunity.
Cecelia Frye
Cecelia Frye – performed with local companies Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theatre, UMO Ensemble and most recently with VelMar Projects. She was a founding member of Ardeo Theatre Project, former artistic director of Ear to the Ground, and is part of Foster and Frye, theatrical clown duo. She studied in NY with veteran actor Ted Forlow (of The Actor’s Studio) and at Freehold. She holds a certificate from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
Short Play Readings – “Bitter Cantaloupe”
Inspired by true events, Bitter Cantaloupe proves that sticking to your guns and living your ethics can propel you forward.
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David K. Farkas
I have attended theater regularly throughout my life, starting (I believe) with Mary Martin’s Peter Pan in 1954. My (academic) career was in technical writing, not the worst preparation for writing plays. I began writing plays quite recently as a retirement activity. I learned about 10-minute plays—and discovered that I like that format—in Catherine Rush’s playwriting course, which was organized by the AS IF folks. Much appreciation to AS IF and Cappy. This play got started when I recalled that my wife, as a young part-time waitress, steered her customers away from the cantaloupe on the days when they were too green.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Amelia Peacock
A “best coast” transplant from Minnesota, Amelia has called Seattle home for almost six years. She is an arts marketing and communications professional with a passion for community building and storytelling. Amelia received a B.A. in Theatre Arts and English from the University of Iowa. Quarantine has allowed her to reconnect with her love of cooking and British TV dramas, but she’s looking forward to hugging family and friends again as soon as possible. Special thanks to Amy and the As If crew for championing creativity together apart.
Terry Boyd
Terry was thrilled to be in As If’s debut production, The Clean House. He has very fond memories of working with Molly and/or Cindy and/or Amy in The 39 Steps, Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike, Communicating Doors, Thugs, A Musical Mafiasco, Suite Surrender and a variety of tiny, but exciting adventures. Thanks for tuning in.
Dan Niven
Dan is thrilled to participate in As If Theatre Company’s Quarantine Quickies! Making discoveries with actor friends and telling stories in character is always a welcome enterprise. Favorite roles along the way have been Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Harold in The Music Man, Jesus in Godspell, El Gallo in The Fantasticks, and Prospero in The Tempest. Among Dan’s other pursuits are playing trombone in the UW Husky Alumni Band, scuba diving, boating in the San Juans, visiting schools and retirement homes as a registered therapy animal team handler, and singing with the Silverbells Carolers during the holiday season.
Kerry Jacinto
Kerry Jacinto is a recent graduate of UCSB’s BFA acting program. Her most recent works include Prague Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck and Karen Zacarias’ Into the Beautiful North as Nayeli. She moved to Seattle to continue her journey of doing creative works with staged (and now virtual) Theatre. She hopes to see more of Seattle’s unique art scenes in the near future in whatever form it may come!
Short Play Readings – “A Handful of Hope”
What gets us through the difficult times? Hope. A HANDFUL OF HOPE is all these two sisters need to come together to find the lives they were meant to live.
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Gretchen Douma
Gretchen Douma is thrilled to be part of the AS/IF Quarantine experience. She has been a stage, screen, and voice actor for more years than she’ll admit to, here in Seattle and the Twin Cities, and NYC. Some recent roles include Lieutenant Rooney (Arsenic and Old Lace, Taproot Theatre), Virginia Carpolotti (Three Viewings, 18th and Union), the Nurse (Shakespeare in Love, Seattle Shakespeare Company). Anne (Hospice: A Love Story, Grief Dialogues), Lydia (Still Life, Forward Flux) and Sheila (Terra Incognita, Annex). Also a playwright, she is working on her second play, Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down, a dark comedy about the ghosts and memories that just won’t leave us alone. She’s also the Communications Manager for Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. She is working from home these days and sequestering in North Seattle where she lives with her wife, Nina, and their two Doodles.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Carol Sage-Silverstein
Carol Sage-Silverstein has been in and out of the theater for over 40 years. When not acting she works as a cross cultural trainer and career coach. She enjoys meeting very strange and intriguing people and studying them closely. In the spirit of art imitating life or the other way around, Carol enjoys immersing herself in other people’s experiences and world views. It’s given her a deeper understanding of the characters she plays. She has performed on stage in her one woman play, Sabinka in New York City, Ethel Klayman in the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay at Book it Repertory, Judy Curlington in R&B singer Allen Stone’s Karaoke Extravaganza music video , Gingy in Love,Loss and What I Wore at the Pocket Theater, Studio 4, The Seattle Jewish Theater, radio and voice overs and most recently as Sharon in a short film Sharon and Vicente shot in Montivideo, Uruguay.
Rebecca O'Neil
Rebecca O’Neil is a Seattle-based actor with a profound interest in using the theatre to tell stories about all kinds of women – old, young, middle-aged, at all the intersections in their lives. She is the artistic director of The Shattered Glass Project. She loves working with Cindy, Amy, and Molly at As If Theatre; she most recently appeared as Kimberly in As If Theatre’s production of Kimberly Akimbo, and as Gussie in Asylum in Georgia at Red Rover Productions, both directed by the fabulous Ms. Giese French. Selected roles: Jessie/Jackie/Jamie, Leaving Iowa; Dotty, Noises Off; Ouiser, Steel Magnolias (Driftwood). Ada/Corin, As You Like It (Ghostlight Theatricals). Karen/Joconda, To the Naked Eye (Playwright’s Theatre). Ensemble, Family: A New Play Festival (Fantastic Z Theatre).
Short Play Readings – “ADA Case No. 34-03-Z
Two detectives on the hunt for mysterious activity find themselves in its grasp (or should we say tentacles?).
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Curtis Rawls
Curtis Rawls is a software developer, writer and filmmaker living in Seattle. Originally from North Carolina, he is a graduate of NC State University. He recently directed In the Woods All Around for As If’s Kenmore Quickies and Death Tax for Edmonds Driftwood Players. He loves to travel and enjoy the outdoors with his wife Jen and daughters Violet and Fiona.
Sophe Friedman
Sophe has loved theatre since she was five years old. She was an actor and dancer through High School in Colorado, after High School she moved to California and received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from Chapman University. After college, Sophe was admitted to the 2016 Teach for America Corps. While teaching in LA, Sophe graduated with her Masters of Arts in Urban Education and Literacy from Loyola Marymount University. During her time teaching High School in LA, Sophe was tasked with creating and leading the theatre department. Sophe now is a director and educator in Seattle. She is the Lead Teaching Artist and Curriculum Developer at We.APP (We. Act Present Perform), an instructor at North Seattle College teaching devised theatre, a teaching artist and director at Stone Soup Theatre, and is a director as part of the Director and Playwright Mentorship Incubator Program at The Shattered Glass Project. Sophe's greatest passion is directing and bringing stories to life.
Jana Rae Blumberg
Jana (She/Her) is absolutely delighted to participate in another first for As If Theatre! Being a part of the Quarantine Quickies has been both fun and eye-opening to a new venue for performing. She is thankful that Amy Gentry asked her to participate in the Quarantine Quickies since performing in the Kenmore Quickies last summer. Jana moved to the Seattle area 4 years ago from the Chicago burbs and loves that her theatre circle of friends continue to grow.
Jalyn Green
Jalyn Green is thrilled to be working with As If for the first time! An actor and director who’s work has been seen up and down I-5 his more recent acting credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Frost Nixon at SecondStory Rep, God of Carnage at the Phoenix Theatre, Bat-Hamlet at the Fern Shakespeare Company and the honor of playing Atticus Finch in Driftwood’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Recent directing credits include Goodnight Moon and Around the World in 80 Days both with Secondstory Rep’s Theatre for Young Audience Series. He was also featured in a supporting role in the independent film Return to Seattle and his voice was featured in the video game Battletech. An Aries/Taurus cusp, he studied at Centralia College and the University of Washington. He’s also a member of Split Second Improv and the Midnight Mystery Theatre. Love to you all and be safe!
Arwen Dewey
When not sheltering at home, Arwen performs around the Puget Sound in diverse theater and music projects. Favorite roles include Susan in Company (Renton Civic), Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods (New Muses), multiple woodland creatures in A Year with Frog and Toad (SecondStory), Cathy in The Last Five
Years (Act One), and Mabel in Pirates of Penzance (STAGEright). Arwen has also written and performed several cabaret shows in English and French, and is featured on The Victor Janusz Band’s latest album, Café Pluvieux. www.arwendewey.com
Dan Niven
Dan is thrilled to participate in As If Theatre Company’s Quarantine Quickies! Making discoveries with actor friends and telling stories in character is always a welcome enterprise. Favorite roles along the way have been Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Harold in The Music Man, Jesus in Godspell, El Gallo in The
Fantasticks, and Prospero in The Tempest. Among Dan’s other pursuits are playing trombone in the UW Husky Alumni Band, scuba diving, boating in the San Juans, visiting schools and retirement homes as a registered therapy animal team handler, and singing with the Silverbells Carolers during the holiday season.
Short Play Readings – “The Call”
What happens when a wrong number turns out to be very right? Go on, take The Call.
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Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom (he/him) is thrilled to be working on an As If Theatre production again, this time as a director. A recent transplant to Seattle, has directed over 50 productions over the last 25 years in Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and at Clark University (MA). Christopher primarily works as a director, playwright, and literary translator of dramatic works from 19th century Spain. Chris has a BA in Theatre Arts from Morningside College and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of New Orleans. Chris is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), the Dramatists Guild of America, and the American Literary Translators Association. He’d like to thank As If Theatre for this bright spot amongst the dark, and the actors and playwrights that made this art possible.
Danette Meline
Danette has acted throughout the Pacific Northwest. Recent credits include Mrs Bradman in Blithe Spirit at Red Curtain, Mrs Bramson in Night Must Fall at Valley CenterStage, and Susan in Anywhere but Auschwitz at Burien Actors Theatre. She looks forward to being onstage again soon!
Kerry Jacinto
Kerry Jacinto is a recent graduate of UCSB’s BFA acting program. Her most recent works include Prague Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck and Karen Zacarias’ Into the Beautiful North as Nayeli. She moved to Seattle to continue her journey of doing creative works with staged (and now virtual) Theatre. She hopes to see more of Seattle’s unique art scenes in the near future in whatever form it may come!
Short Play Readings – “Just A Robin”
A couple quarantined together discovers that looking out the window can lead to seeing more than Just a Robin.
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Caitlin Gilman
Caitlin Gilman is a local playwright, actor, and dramaturg who works in a sushi restaurant when that is
an option. She wrote Wish Bone for the Kenmore Quickies last year and is delighted to be part of
another As If Theatre festival. Other plays include My Dear Miss Chancellor (Annex Theatre) Life is a
Dream (Ghost Light Theatricals) J.D. Salinger is my God (Driftwood Players First Draft!) and a couple
shorts for Phoenix Theater’s 24 Hour Play Festival. She is spending quarantine experimenting with the
contents of the kitchen and the liquor cabinet.
Sophe Friedman
Sophe has loved theatre since she was five years old. She was an actor and dancer through High School in Colorado, after High School she moved to California and received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from Chapman University. After college, Sophe was admitted to the 2016 Teach for America Corps. While teaching in LA, Sophe graduated with her Masters of Arts in Urban Education and Literacy from Loyola Marymount University. During her time teaching High School in LA, Sophe was tasked with creating and leading the theatre department. Sophe now is a director and educator in Seattle. She is the Lead Teaching Artist and Curriculum Developer at We.APP (We. Act Present Perform), an instructor at North Seattle College teaching devised theatre, a teaching artist and director at Stone Soup Theatre, and is a director as part of the Director and Playwright Mentorship Incubator Program at The Shattered Glass Project. Sophe’s greatest passion is directing and bringing stories to life.
Jason Gingold
Jason Gingold is a huge fan of As If Theater Company and was delighted to work with them on these Quickies. Jason has an MFA from UW’s PATP and has appeared in plays and musicals throughout Seattle. Some favorite recent roles include Mr. Wormwood in Matilda at Bainbridge Performing Arts and Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps with Lamplight Productions. When he’s not on stage, Jason enjoys doofing around with his amazing wife, Molly, and his talented, hilarious kids, Sadie and Charlie.
Rebecca O'Neil
Rebecca O’Neil is a Seattle-based actor with a profound interest in using the theatre to tell stories about all kinds of women – old, young, middle-aged, at all the intersections in their lives. She is the artistic director of The Shattered Glass Project. She loves working with Cindy, Amy, and Molly at As If Theatre; she most recently appeared as Kimberly in As If Theatre’s production of Kimberly Akimbo, and as Gussie in Asylum in Georgia at Red Rover Productions, both directed by the fabulous Ms. Giese French. Selected roles: Jessie/Jackie/Jamie, Leaving Iowa; Dotty, Noises Off; Ouiser, Steel Magnolias (Driftwood). Ada/Corin, As You Like It (Ghostlight Theatricals). Karen/Joconda, To the Naked Eye (Playwright’s Theatre). Ensemble, Family: A New Play Festival (Fantastic Z Theatre).
Short Play Readings – “Off Book”
Does life imitate art? Does art imitate life? Is life just a script we’re all following? What if we’re not Off Book?
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John C. Davenport
John C. Davenport is a career journalist and former stand-up comic who veered into playwriting, which he usually does while seated. He has had full-length and one-act plays, mostly comedies, produced in 23 states, London, Australia, Canada and Panama. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Seattle Playwrights Circle and co-founder of Red Rover Theatre Company.
Sophe Friedman
Sophe has loved theatre since she was five years old. She was an actor and dancer through High School in Colorado, after High School she moved to California and received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from Chapman University. After college, Sophe was admitted to the 2016 Teach for America Corps. While teaching in LA, Sophe graduated with her Masters of Arts in Urban Education and Literacy from Loyola Marymount University. During her time teaching High School in LA, Sophe was tasked with creating and leading the theatre department. Sophe now is a director and educator in Seattle. She is the Lead Teaching Artist and Curriculum Developer at We.APP (We. Act Present Perform), an instructor at North Seattle College teaching devised theatre, a teaching artist and director at Stone Soup Theatre, and is a director as part of the Director and Playwright Mentorship Incubator Program at The Shattered Glass Project. Sophe’s greatest passion is directing and bringing stories to life.
Jack Lush
Jack is grateful to be working with As If Theater Company for the second time. The first in The Cake as Tim (opening in October!!). This is his 15th year in the Pacific Northwest and he is happy to call it home. Jack wishes everyone To stay super safe and healthy, and he would like to thank Amy, Cindy and Molly for this wonderful opportunity.
Paula Wilson Nitka
Paula Wilson Nitka’s theater career spans the last six years, with her most recent roles including: Ceres/Bauces in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses (DACHA), Marty in Patricia Kane’s Float (Mistresspiece Theater), and Alex in Kayfabe (Ghost Light Theatricals). She is so delighted to be part of this Quarantine Quickies experience. The script is so endearing, and the group of people are collaborative, creative and fun to work with. Paula hopes these stories bring you joy during this time.
Jana Rae Blumberg
Jana Rae Blumberg, aka Rae Blumberg (She/Her), is absolutely delighted to participate in another first for As If Theatre! Being a part of the Quarantine Quickies has been both fun and eye-opening to a new venue for performing. She is thankful that Amy Gentry asked her to participate in the Quarantine Quickies since performing in the Kenmore Quickies last summer. Jana moved to the Seattle area 4 years ago from the Chicago burbs and loves that her theatre circle of friends continue to grow.
Short Play Readings – “So Far Away”
What does quarantine look like for a woman in her house with her mother and one feisty dog when her daughter is So Far Away?
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Jane Ryan
Jane Ryan is a professional actor, director, playwright, and teaching artist who has taught extensively in Seattle area theatres and schools. Recent directing credits include The Book Club Play, Twelfth Night, and Becky’s New Car for Twelfth Night Productions, Streetcar Named Desire for Second Story Rep, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Crimes of the Heart for Woodinville Rep, as well as numerous new plays for Infinity Box, As If, and the Seattle Fringe Festival. One of her favorite writing projects is The Saturday Afternoon Trilogy: The Big Feet, The Invasion of Sci-Fi High, and Windwagon Sam, all of which involve generous doses of physical comedy and stage combat.
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom (he/him) is thrilled to be working on an As If Theatre production again, this time as a director. A recent transplant to Seattle, has directed over 50 productions over the last 25 years in Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and at Clark University (MA). Christopher primarily works as a director, playwright, and literary translator of dramatic works from 19th century Spain. Chris has a BA in Theatre Arts from Morningside College and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of New Orleans. Chris is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), the Dramatists Guild of America, and the American Literary Translators Association. He’d like to thank As If Theatre for this bright spot amongst the dark, and the actors and playwrights that made this art possible.
Gretchen Douma
Gretchen Douma is thrilled to be part of the AS/IF Quarantine experience. She has been a stage, screen, and voice actor for more years than she’ll admit to, here in Seattle and the Twin Cities, and NYC. Some recent roles include Lieutenant Rooney (Arsenic and Old Lace, Taproot Theatre), Virginia Carpolotti (Three Viewings, 18th and Union), the Nurse (Shakespeare in Love, Seattle Shakespeare Company). Anne (Hospice: A Love Story, Grief Dialogues), Lydia (Still Life, Forward Flux) and Sheila (Terra Incognita, Annex). Also a playwright, she is working on her second play, Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down, a dark comedy about the ghosts and memories that just won’t leave us alone. She’s also the Communications Manager for Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. She is working from home these days and sequestering in North Seattle where she lives with her wife, Nina, and their two Doodles.
Christie Lynn Devoe
Christie Lynn Devoe has performed regularly in the NYC area in theatre, opera, television, film, sketch comedy and improv at venues including Broadway’s George Gershwin Theatre, Madison Square Garden, and the Original Improv Comedy Club. Now a Seattle local performer, she was most recently seen at As If Theatre Company in Kimberly Akimbo (Pattie). She is also a teaching artist, music director, and voice teacher previously on faculty at NYU and now in the Seattle area at places like Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, and her private voice studio, www.rotariusvoice.com. She is also the founder of Play the Part, bringing master classes with Broadway artists to the Seattle theater community. www.playthepartseattle.com.
Stephanie Spohrer
Stephanie was to appear in As if Theatre Company’s production of, The Cake. The show has been rescheduled to the fall, keep an eye out! Since venturing to Seattle from New York, Stephanie has worked with: Annex Theatre, Fantastic.Z, Parley, ReAct Theatre, Ghost Light Theatricals, Pacific Play Company, SecondStory Rep, Burien Actor’s Theatre, Driftwood Players. Stephanie received a BA in Theatre Performance from SUNY New Paltz, NY. She really enjoyed having a creative outlet with this project and is SO excited to be part of the As If family!
Seamus Smith
Seamus C. Smith is an actor and director from the Seattle area. He studies theatre and film at Shoreline Community College, and works as a video editor on the side. He is thankful for every opportunity he gets to step on stage or onto a film set, and wants to thank his family, friends, and cast mates for their constant support.
Short Play Readings – “The Bench”
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Romney Humphrey
I was inspired to write it as my husband and went to visit the bench in the Arboretum dedicated to his best friend who passed away a number of years ago. Usually it’s free, but it was a hot day and there were some folks sitting on it, so we went to a bench opposite, watched and waited – for some time, actually, enough to give me the idea for the play.
As for my bio, I’ve had plays produced in NYC, California, Washington and Massachusetts. I’m a former media writer/producer and my book, How I Learned I’m Old is a big hit with Baby Boomer women.
Cindy Giese French
Cindy is very grateful to her As If partner, Amy, who came up with this grand scheme to keep people busy and creative during a pandemic. It’s been great fun to watch people working with (and sometimes hugely failing at) using Zoom), read new works from talented local playwright folx, and take time out of her busy schedule of alcoholism and gluttony to play with the actors.
Jason Gingold
Jason Gingold is a huge fan of As If Theater Company and was delighted to work with them on these Quickies. Jason has an MFA from UW’s PATP and has appeared in plays and musicals throughout Seattle. Some favorite recent roles include Mr. Wormwood in Matilda at Bainbridge Performing Arts and Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps with Lamplight Productions. When he’s not on stage, Jason enjoys doofing around with his amazing wife, Molly, and his talented, hilarious kids, Sadie and Charlie.
Molly Hall
Molly has been a theatre artist all her life as an actor, choreographer, writer, and drama educator. Favorite recent roles include Miss Honey in Matilda (Bainbridge Performing Arts), Debra in Kimberly Akimbo (As If Theatre Co.), and Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Kitsap Forest Theater). She has her MFA in Acting from the University of Washington and is a proud co-founder of As If Theatre Co. She is thrilled to be making art in whatever way possible during this unprecedented time, and is beyond thankful to all the artists involved with AITC who have lent their energy and talent to make that possible.
Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the Managing Director of As If Theatre Company. She was seen in their first production, The Clean House, and will be performing in The Cake this fall. Amy currently spends her days managing marketing for area theatres, “teaching” her kids, enjoying her pets, and mastering being a homebody.