About Seattle Playwrights Studio (SPS):
Meeting regularly since February 2002, ArtsWest's Seattle Playwrights Studio (SPS) program has completed its first goal of establishing a studio space for local playwrights to develop works in progress and is well on the way to becoming an integral part of the local theatrical community

SPS meets the first, third and fourth Monday of every month at 7:00pm in the ArtsWest Rehearsal Studio. Anyone interested in the showcase, membership application or general information should contact Mavis Lamb.

Upcoming Reading schedule -
April 5:  Jeff Mandels - "Informed Consent" - 60-70 minutes-Freddie Brinster - short Dave Tucker- "Thanks For The Ride"-10 minutes
April 19:  Leonard Goodisman- "Chekov in the Sun" - 70 min
April 26:  Barbara Lindsay - full evening of shorts
May 3:  Christopher Bailey - "Eat My Shorts" - 100 min

May 3:  SPECIAL ON STAGE:  Mavis Lamb's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

May 17:  Lea Galanter - short
Len Goodisman -  short Carl Nelson - "Seattle Celebrity News" - 15 minutes John Davenport - "Special Roast" - 5 pages

June 11-13:  SPS Showcase

June 21:  Bruce McLaughlin - "Scapegoat" - 40 min.

Member Accomplishments -

Jorj Savage has won a reading of his play, "The Mules of Dry
Diggins", by the Shoreline Readers' Theater.  The date is Monday, March 2nd at
7pm

John Ruoff's Midnight Mystery Players latest evening of originally scripted live old time radio suspense…mystery…and lunacy takes place Wednesday, February 24th at 7pm at the Odd Duck Theater.

John C Davenport's one-act play "Ariel" will be produced in April at Pensacola (Fla.) Junior College. The woman who's directing it got the script from someone at a local theater where John had submitted it for a one-act festival. They didn't use it, but apparently someone liked it. The director is also a filmmaker and wants to make a short film of the play (not just a taped performance).

Also, John's one-act play "Context" will get/is getting productions in Wisconsin, Florida, Nebraska and Ohio between now and April. On the second weekend in February, it will be produced in those first three states at the same time!

Lyn Coffin's play about Camille Claudel was accepted into the Emerging Theatre's One Woman Standing show.  Lyn will be performing in New York at the end of April or early May, details still coming. And she hope you everyone will come on Feb. 27 to the Circle of Friends of Mental Health fund-raising dinner - to which Lyn just been elected their Executive Director.  They run arts programs for the mentally ill in Seattle. And her play "His Russian Wife" is being produced at Boston University's Russian Festival on Feb. 18-21, where Lyn will also be appearing on television there and performing in the festival- One or two Russian-themed pieces: one on Joseph Brodsky, and one on "Wonderful, These Russians!" She's "loopy with event".

Ann Teplick was just accepted into the Edge program for writers. This is a program focused on the business of writing, and competition for entry is stiff.

Pictured above: The Mystery Midnight Players, perform on the 24th of every month.