About Theater of Possibility
Theater of Possibility (“TOP”) aims to create theater for a more just and inclusive world. TOP offers both educational programs and professional productions of new works or new takes on stablished works. Since 2010, TOP has run drama programs for youth with autism and other disabilities and youth living in subsidized housing. It has also combined with the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society to host two summer production camps for teens. When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered theaters and in-person teaching, TOP turned its attention to innovative new ways to create theater. In 2020, TOP partnered with Hearts: Health & Arts to create a semi-virtual film of Pamela Gerke’s new musical Nightingale, about Florence Nightingale. In summer 2021, TOP will produce an in person, COVID-19 safe, staged production of Abraham’s Land, by writer Lauren Goldman Marshall & composer Roger Ames, which tells a story of hope set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. TOP founding director Lauren Goldman Marshall is a produced and published playwright and was previously the producing artistic director of Seattle Public Theater for five year before stepping down to start a family in 2001. Whether educational or professional in nature, TOP programs celebrate human potential, and the possibilities for a better world! In the future, TOP aims to build community and foster artistic innovation through the continuation of its educational programs and the implementation of large-cast professional productions that invite the participation of youth and emerging actors, inspired by the saying “a healthy village creates its own art.”
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