The Manifesto Series is an anthology of Northwest plays edited by Erik Ehn, featuring plays by Glen Berger, Heidi Schreck, Yussef El Guindi, Bret Fetzer &amp; Juliet Waller Pruzan, Amy Wheeler, and Sung Rno. This is the first edition of what will be a biannual compilation, each volume edited by a different nationally recognized playwright. Volume 1 includes- Great Men of Science, No. 21 &amp; 22 by Glen Berger "A remarkable piece of sustained, intelligent and archly comic writing...a delightful and thought-provoking intellectual adventure, anchored in amour, outrage, provocations and curiosities..." New Haven Advocate Back of the Throat by Yussef El Guindi "Playwright El Guindi puts a human face on the people we read about in the newspapers (or perhaps more importantly, that we don't fully hear about). He demonstrates theatrically the all-too-high price of 'homeland security.' " San Francisco Bay Times Tornado &amp; Avalanche by Bret Fetzer &amp; Juliet Waller-Pruzan "Two charming, funny fables that use natural disasters as vehicles for exploring the cataclysmic act of a god called love." The Stranger Cleveland Raining by Sung Rno "Cleveland Raining has a Volkswagen beetle with a psychedelic paint job, a trunk full of beer and kim chee, and a moter that runs on the energy of emotional loss. I loved it at once." San Jose Mercury News Stray by Heidi Schreck "...there is something elemental and affecting in it - somthing that gets under your skin, the way the pared-down, concentrated works of Harold Pinter and Maria Irene Fornes do." The Seattle Times Two Birds and a Stone by Amy Wheeler "[Amy Wheeler] has distilled brutal reality and presented it to us in a way that helps us see the world differently and inspires us to think beyond ourselves and the televised version of war that comes into our living rooms." U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, speaking on the opening night performance, Feb 28, 2004

Manifesto Series V.1: What's the Story? Mourning Glory.

Erik Ehn (Editor)

Rain City Projects

THE MANIFESTO SERIES To create a Manifesto Series volume, Rain City Projects commissions a nationally recognized playwright to write a mission for or vision of what theater could be. They then edit a compilation of 5 to 8 plays, culled from the ranks of works with a link to the Pacific Northwest that best illustrate their personal manifesto for the theatre. 
 VIVID IMPACT As a young playwright I was given two small lapel pins. The first of these pins read: Art is anything you can get away with. The second read: Just because no one understands you doesn't make you an artist. In the wide gulf between these two sentiments rests the defining principle of this anthology." Steven Dietz from the Manifesto Series Volume 2 VIVID IMPACT (OR: HOW SIX DEEPLY ENGAGED PLAYWRIGHTS STUCK AN ARROW IN THE COLD HEART OF IRONIC DETACHMENT) edited by Steven Dietz represents Rain City Projects second foray into the Manifesto Series project. According to Steven the second Manifesto Series anthology glows with a boldness of theatrical vision thanks to the six theatrical treasures waiting in its pages including: 24 Pictures of a Pilot by Holly Arsenault Texarkana Waltz by Louis Broome Burning Bridget Cleary by Allison Gregory The Secret Recordings of Lenin to his Lost Love Mary Ann of Topeka, Kansas by Brendan Healy The K of D by Laura Schellhardt Crumbs Are Also Bread by Stephanie Timm 
 MORE ABOUT RAIN CITY PROJECTS RCP is dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing professional playwrights and their work in the Pacific Northwest. Our goals include raising the profile of the playwright within the working theater community and furthering an understanding of the playwright's role to the larger community. We encourage the presence and participation of the playwright in the rehearsal process, and work to educate audiences around the relationship of text to performance. Our current programs include Sweetness Grants that provide travel stipends for playwrights to attend rehearsals and premiere performances of their works and publishing the Manifesto Series, a unique Biennial anthology of new works.

Manifesto Series V.2: VIVID IMPACT (OR: HOW SIX DEEPLY ENGAGED PLAYWRIGHTS STUCK AN ARROW IN THE COLD HEART OF IRONIC DETACHMENT)

Steven Dietz

Holly Arsenault

Louis Broome

Allison Gregory

Brendan Healy

Laura Schellhardt

Stephanie Timm

THE MANIFESTO SERIES To create a Manifesto Series volume, Rain City Projects commissions a nationally recognized playwright to write a mission for or vision of what theater could be. They then edit a compilation of 5 to 8 plays, culled from the ranks of works with a link to the Pacific Northwest that best illustrate their personal manifesto for the theater. A THEATER OF DEFIANCE Here's to a theater of defiance A message in a bottle A virus in the system A warrior cry across the wilderness of the bland, the safe, and the familiar. - So begins Naomi Iisuza's manifesto for Manifest Series Volume 3 HERE'S TO A THEATER OF DEFIANCE. It's not about naturalism or magical realism or any other ism. Rain City Project's third volume includes: Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi; Clubfoot by Bret Fetzer and Stephen McCandless; Mitzi's Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron; Vera Wilde by Chris Jeffries; An American Book of the Dead by Paul Mullin; Live! From the Last Night of My Life by Wayne Rawley; and Wizzer Pizzer by Amy Wheeler MORE ABOUT RAIN CITY PROJECTS RCP is dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing professional playwrights and their work in the Pacific Northwest. Our goals include raising the profile of the playwright within the working theater community and furthering an understanding of the playwright's role to the larger community. We encourage the presence and participation of the playwright in the rehearsal process, and work to educate audiences around the relationship of text to performance. Our current programs include Sweetness Grants that provide travel stipends for playwrights to attend rehearsals and premiere performances of their works and publishing the Manifesto Series, a unique Biennial anthology of new works.

Manifesto Series V.3: A THEATER OF DEFIANCE

Yussef El Guindi

Naomi Iizuka

Bret Fetzer

Stephen McCandless

Elizabeth Heffron

Chris Jeffries

Paul Mullin

Wayne Rawley

Amy Wheeler

For over two decades, Rain City Projects has been proud to be a member of a community that embraces the risky endeavor of new theater work. In the Pacific Northwest, it is possible for a playwright to create a piece, pull together a reading or two, take advantage of a community workshop, and then to present their work on their own dime or under the umbrella of one of our many new works theaters. The bold failures become a learning ground for everyone involved. And the successes? What of the successes? One hopes that a success in our community will go on to other productions, in other places, and will help develop playwrights on a national level. But that doesn t always happen. In 2006, Rain City Projects decided to sing the praises of our successes, of our playwrights who are talented and bold and risky and funny, artists who are being shaped in the Northwest. The goal is to expose them to a wider audience and encourage the world to take notice. So, we launched the Manifesto Series. We begin with an endorser, a playwright with roots in the Pacific Northwest who has a national voice and presence. We ask them to write a manifesto of what theater is, what it should be. Then we let them choose scripts by Northwest playwrights which fulfill that manifesto. And then we publish the collection in an anthology and widely disperse the anthology with a thumbs-up. With this, our fourth collection, we are certain we are on the right track. We are delighted with Chay Yew s manifesto and in awe of the quality of scripts in the collection he chose. Read them with our blessings. Love them with the knowledge that we do, too. Becky Bruhn Rain City Projects

Manifesto Series V.4: A People's Theatre

Chay Yew

Samuel D. Hunter

Trieu Tran

Robert Egan

Keri Healey

Dan O'Brien

Mildred Ruiz-Sapp

Steven Sapp

William Ruiz

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