Oct. 26th Featured Performer: Nick Stokes

"From Real to Surreal: A Reading of Short Plays Seldom Encountered"

Includes:

Toss, Catch, Fetch

Was Is Will Be, Music

Puttin' Him Down

Sing

Jacob's Rape

Have and Have Not (Or Cornucopia)

Six one-act plays by Nick Stokes never before seen in the South Sound. Ranging from funny to tragic and real to absurd, the plays will be read by an ensemble of three actors.

Age:

PG-13. Nothing graphic (sex, violence, language), but mature subject matter.

photo - Jason Ganwich

Bio:

Nick Stokes’ plays, shorter (JACOB’S RAPE, THE CHORE, AN/OTHER) and longer (DUELS, ROCK AND RIVER, DUSK,) have been seen and heard with Northwest Playwrights Alliance, 14/48 theater festival, Brownbox Theater, Arts Crush, Spark and Echo Arts, Blood Ensemble, Open Circle Theater, Probably Forgettable Productions, iDiOM Theater, and others. Artist Trust, the Tacoma Arts Commission, and Richard Hugo House have awarded him for his playwriting. His novel AFFAIR is currently in serial publication online at The Seattle Star and his short writings can be found in stray literary magazines such as Mixer, Waccamaw, Prick of the Spindle, City Arts, Word Riot, Opium, and KNOCK. Of his plays THE SOUND WE MAKE and WHITEOUT, staged in Old City Hall in 2009, the Tacoma News Tribune said, "Two great new plays from a Tacoma writer, about Tacoma issues, staged in a Tacoma landmark with great originality -- this is a show that deserves a full house, every night." He lives with his burgeoning family in Tacoma; he packs mules in the backcountry of Montana; he's virtually at nickstokes.net.