Theatres: Ethnic and Foreign Language Theatres

Seattle

African American

LANGSTON

Formerly Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute

Central District

104 17th Ave S

Seattle, WA 98144

(206) 251-3486

[email protected]

langstonseattle.org

facebook.com/LangstonSeattle

In 2017, the Langston Hughes Perfroming Arts Center changed its name to LANGSTON and became an independent arts organization supported by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Check website, email, or call for latest information.

 

Rainier Valley Cultural Center/SEED Arts

5117 Rainier Ave South

Seattle, WA 98118

(206) 723-7333

Box Office: (206) 725-7517

[email protected]

seedseattle.org

Contact: Kathya Alexander,
Rainier Valley Cultural Center Manager.

Seed Arts
began in 1977 as a modest undertaking that recognized the role of the arts within a community and how the arts could be used to build cultural awareness and understanding.

Asian American

Pork Filled Players

14810 Meridian N.

Seattle, WA 98133

(206) 365-0282

[email protected]

porkfilled.com

Contact: Roger Tang, Producer.

Since 1997, Pork Filled Players has been the Northwest’s premiere Asian American sketch comedy group, touring from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver, BC.

SIS Productions

9500 Rainier Ave S #302

Seattle, WA 98118

206) 323-9443

[email protected]

sis-productions.org

facebook.com/sisproductions

Contacts: Lisa Marie Nakamura, Co-Executive Producer or Kathy Hsieh, Co-Executive Producer.

Founded in 2000, SIS Productions strives to create, develop and produce quality works that involve Asian American women and Asian American issues.

Pratidhwani

[email protected][email protected]

pratidhwani.org/pratidhwani-drama.html

facebook.com/Pratidhwani.Seattle

Contact: Agastya Kohli, Artistic Director, Drama Wing.

Founded in 2003, Pratidhwani is a South Asia centric performing arts organization in the greater Seattle area. Pratidhwani functions as a collection of artistic wings – to serve and support various performing art forms—Light music, Classical music, Dance, and Drama. Eastside

Drama auditions are announced on Facebook and through email notices.

 

ReAct Theatre

(formerly The Repertory Actors Theatre)

1122 E Pike St #1111

Seattle, WA 98122

(206) 364-3283

[email protected]

reacttheatre.org/opps.html

facebook.com/ReActTheatre

Contact: David Hsieh, Managing Artistic Director.

Started in 1993 as The Repertory Actors Theatre, React Theatre produces 1 to 5 plays per season and employs multi-ethnic and non-traditional casting in every show.  Also, they produce Asian themed shows.

To audition, send a headshot and resume via regular mail to the address listed above, Attn: Casting. Auditions are announced on social media, and the ReAct and TPS websites. ReAct attends the TPS General Auditions.

 

French

L’Atelier Théâtre du Puget Sound

Email: [email protected]

L’Atelier Théâtre du Puget Sound performs improv and scripted performances in French, as well as dance.  Please send resumes to the above email.  Eastside.

Les Seagulls

(415) 248-6207

[email protected]

facebook.com/leseagulls

Contact : Sébatien Plisson, Artistic Director.

Les Seagulls was founded by Sebastien Plisson after he moved from San Francisco where he was a comedian in the compagnie “La D-Boussole.” They produce contemporary French plays in French. Fluent speakers of French can send resumés to the above email. Eastside.

Jewish American

Seattle Jewish Theater Company

5225 50th Ave NE

Seattle, WA 98105

(212) 581-8655

[email protected]

seattlejewishtheater.com

facebook.com/SeattleJewishTheaterCompany

Contact: Art Feinglass, Artistic Director.

Seattle Jewish Theater was launched in 2011 to bring contemporary Jewish theater to Seattle. SJT performs, in English translation, classics of the great Yiddish theater that delighted audiences in the 19th and early 20th centuries; holiday-based pageants from the Sephardic Jewish tradition; more contemporary award-winning plays by writers like Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, David Mamet, Herb Gardner, Donald Margulies, and Wendy Wasserstein; and cutting-edge works by emerging new playwrights. Actors do not have to be Jewish to audition or be part of the cast.

Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre

(206) 660-1996

[email protected]

alchemysts.org

facebook.com/alchemyststheatre

Contact: Shellie Shulkin, Managing Director

Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre is a performance company committed to bringing provocative and entertaining Jewish literature, Jewish writers and live music to those who have an interest in good storytelling, and a desire to explore ideas relevant to humanity.

 

Multi-Cultural

 

Mirror Stage Company (
LOA-SPT,
Staged Reading Code)

2212 Queen Anne Ave N #294

Seattle, WA 98109-2312

(206) 686-2792

Box Office: (206) 686-3729

[email protected]

mirrorstage.org

Contact: Suzanne M. Cohen, Managing Artistic Director.

Founded in 1991, Mirror Stage Company is a professional theatre company presenting staged readings and performances.  MSC attends TPS generals and operates under an AEA Letter of Agreement in reference to the Small Professional Theatre Agreement and the AEA Staged Reading Code.

ReACT

(see above and Non-Union Professional)

Native American

Red Eagles Soaring Native Youth Theatre

Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center

Discovery Park

3801 West Government Way

Seattle, WA 98102

Mailing Address:

PO Box 70386

Seattle, WA 98127

(206) 390-2603

[email protected]

redeaglesoaring.org

Contact:
Fern Renville, Managing Director.

Red Eagles Soaring Native Youth Theatre provides performing arts education and performance experience for Native youth ages 11-19.  Programming is integrated with traditional performing arts that define Native American culture, such as drumming, singing and storytelling.  RESNYT has a 2-week summer intensive and a touring spring play that travels thoughout the Northwest to tribal settings, schools and conferences.  Click Here for education information.

 

Russian

Theatre 33

243-169th Ave NE

Bellevue,WA 98008

(425) 633-0970

Contact:  Vyacheslav Chernysavskii. Theatre 33 started in 2014 as a small company with one desire: to enrich the lives of Russsian speaking community of Great Seattle through live productions. Since then we’ve expanded  to youth  audience and multicultural performances. Now our goal is to present classic and modern  plays, to see social problems from different points of view, to present people with various cultural backgrounds in their struggle to find the common ground

 

Spanish Language/Latino

eSe Teatro

Seattle

[email protected]

eseteatro.org

Seattle-area collective of Latin American theatre artists.

 

Latino
Theatre Projects

PO Box 24082

Seattle, WA 98124

(206) 718-5077

[email protected]

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Contact: Fernando Luna, Artistic
Director

Founded in 2011, Latino Theatre
Projects (LTP) presents Latin American and Spanish theatre in the Puget Sound
region as well as the rest of Washington State. LTP produces thought-provoking
“useful theatre” or “Teatro Util.” LTP engages the Latino community a variety of
theatre-based activities to empower and integrate its members through these
artistic expressions. LTP also partners with government and community
organizations to provided theatre arts education to underserved Latino
youth.

Auditions announced on social media and the TPS Audition Service.

 

Portland

French

Fabulations French Language Theatre

(347)
762-5390

[email protected]

fabulations.org

Fabulations was founded in 2007 by Jane Fabulet-Roberts and Carine Zimber in order to provide the growing Francophone and Francophile community in Portland, OR with an artistic endeavor that would also promote the language.  In addition to producing plays, Fabulations offers educational programs for youth and adults.  Portland

Spanish/Latino

Miracle Theatre Group

425 SE 6th Ave

Portland, OR 97214

(503) 236-7253

milagro.org

Contact:
José Eduardo González, Executive Director & Founder.

Founded in 1985, Miracle Theatre Group is an active component of the Hispanic arts community.  MTG produces an array of programming including public performances as well as specialized touring and education projects.

 

Greater United States

Théâtre du Rêve

P.O. Box 78341

Atlanta, GA 30357-8341

(404) 875-3829

[email protected]

theatredureve.com

The mission of Théâtre du Rêve is to bring the language and cultures of the French-speaking world to life on the American stage.
Theatre du Reve also strives to bring live theater and the French language and Francophone culture to students of all ages. TDR performs classical and contemporary plays and company-created productions, and has served over 8,000 students from across the Southeast United States through workshops, student matinee performances and educational programming

 

Canada

French

 

2PAR4

Mailing Address:

Productions 2par4

7-2295, 1st Avenue West

Vancouver, BC V6K 1E9

(604) 726-7605

[email protected]

2par4.org

facebook.com/2par4

Contact: Gilles Poulin-Denis, Artistic and General Director

Founded in 2015, 2PAR4 creates, produces and tours new works in French or in French and English. The company supports collaborations between artists from different sectors—both geographically and artistically—in order to create new and bold work. Auditions announced on Facebook.

Théâtre la Seizième

226-1555, 7e Avenue Ouest

Vancouver, C.-B. V6J 1S1

Canada

+1.604.736.2616

[email protected]

seizieme.ca

facebook.com/seizieme

Contact: Esther Duquette, Artistic and Managing Director.

Founded in 1974, Théâtre la Seizième is the main French language, professional theatre company in BC. Every year, Théâtre la Seizième presents a mainstage season, a young audiences season, a series of drama workshops and a training and dramaturgical development program for local artists.

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