Rain City Projects

Mission

Rain City Projects supports playwrights and their work in the Pacific Northwest. We develop projects to raise the profile of the playwright within the working theater community, and build relationships between theater artists and producers. We publish. We grant. We ignite solidarity in the Seattle playwriting community with lively brunches, salons, readings, and speed dating between writers and directors.

What We Do

CURRENT EVENTS AND PROJECTS: 

• Publishing! Manifesto, Volume 6 was published in late 2023!  Ten to Places, edited by playwright, A. Rey Pamatmat, is a collection of ten-minute plays. Volume 6 features a manifesto written by A. Rey Pamatmat and these 19 amazing playwrights:  Anuhea Brown, Barbara Lindsay, Beth Raas-Bergquist, Bret Fetzer, Brian Dang, Emily Haver, July Monday, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Ki Gottberg, Ky Weeks, Maggie Lee, Matt Smith, Matthew Weaver, Michael Yichao, Mikki Gilette, Ozzy Wagner, Suzanne Bailie, Wayne Rawley, and Willow Mclaughlin
  
• Book Distribution! We mail the Manifesto, Volume 6 to hundreds of theaters and college theater departments across the country! 
• (Re)Treats! (Re)Treats are three-hour long writing in-person retreats hosted by Rain City Projects. We provide writing prompts and timed sections of writing.  
• Play Party Challenge! Our first PPC was a hit! Playwrights wrote three page plays based on a prompt we provided. A crowd gathered at Jules Mays in Georgetown, scripts were cast, and grand performances followed! There will be more of these in the future!
• Business Development Workshop! Donna Hoke (Emanuel Fried Award, Kilroy List) has joined us for two workshops on submissions and getting plays produced. We have more workshops in the near future! 
• Community Collaborations! Rain City Projects participated in this year's Playwright Pitch Day by reviewing scripts. We will participate in panels for the Scrip Lab on June 2nd.

• PANDEMIC ERA EVENTS:
• New Plays | No Pants Required gave playwrights and opportunity to hear their work read out loud and receive constructive, moderated feedback. All done over Zoom from your cozy living room. 
• Project Big Pants gave playwrights the opportunity to hear their play read out loud, take time to revise, then come back and hear it out loud again! This was a Zoom event.
• PRE-PANDEMIC EVENTS WE HOPE TO REVIVE SOON: 
  •Speed Dating introduces playwrights and directors with the goal of putting together creative pairs who would not otherwise have met.
  •Our Playwright Brunches serve as a fun social activity to meet and talk and also connect playwrights with each other as professionals.
  •We support established playwrights with Sweetness Grants, giving financial support so they can travel to see one of their plays produced out of town.

Rain City Projects is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.