Agency Details:

Macha Monkey Productions

Fearless, Funny and Female Theatre

Our Mission: Macha Monkey Productions is a non-profit arts organization showcasing exceptional artists, delivering innovative education programs, and staging new theatrical works which feature strong female characters.

Our Vision: Macha Monkey Productions envisions a world where fearless female voices thrive.

Description:
Macha Monkey Productions is a small, dynamic theatre company founded in 2001. Macha Monkey's work features powerful themes, strong humor and rough and tough female characters. We emphasize content over imposing sets and posh accoutrements.

Our seasons consist of quarterly multidisciplinary cabarets and three full-length productions. The company tours on occasion. In the past, Macha Monkey productions have performed across Canada, in Washington state, Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico.

Macha Monkey also has a growing education program that we call Monkey Works. Monkey Works is a two-month playwriting and performance residency for 4th and 5th graders that integrates theatre arts with a social studies topic. Past topics have included land rights, suffrage, immigration, labor, and the U.S. election process.

History:
Macha Monkey's Resume

2001

• Macha Monkey debuts with Bret Fetzer's The Story of the Bull
• Revolutions International Theatre Festival invites the company to present an original work in January 2002
• Themed cabaret series MEOW founded connecting community artists
  
  

2002

• Live Girls Do Elektra (Sutherland & Prewitt)is published & performs at Revolutions in Albuquerque
• Intensive stage combat and writing workshop for University of New Mexico students
• On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival chooses Macha Monkey to showcase a developing work
• First involvement in Chicks Play Hard, an annual community mentoring program for girls aged 9-12
• Taught stage combat workshops at the American College Theatre Festival
  
  

2003

• R - The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read is published & performs at On the Boards
• Buntport Theatre in Denver invites Macha Monkey to present R in their season, and at a partner school
• First Monkey Works education program at Hawthorne Elementary
• GameGirl, an original Macha Monkey work by Jennifer Pratt, is presented in Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival & invited to perform at Idaho State University (ISU)
• Macha Monkey teaches an intensive stage combat and experimental theatre workshop for ISU students
• Continuing programs: second annual Chicks Play Hard, three themed MEOW cabarets
  
  

2004

• Macha Monkey's production of Melancholy Play garners a Footlight Award from the Seattle Times
• Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary, yielding Sacagawea's Adventure with Lewis and Clark
• R (Sutherland & Prewitt) tours the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals
• Continuing programs: third annual Chicks Play Hard, three themed MEOW cabarets
  
  

2005

• Invitations to write theatre curriculum for Experience Music Project & the Sci-fi Museum's summer programs
• On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival showcases The Cowgirl Play by Sutherland & Prewitt
• John Kaufmann, nominee for a Genius Award from The Stranger, asks Macha Monkey to collaborate on a new gender-reversal update of the Gawain legend, Green Night
• In September 2005 a full stage production of Green Night premiers at Seattle's Chamber Theatre
• Continuing programs: fourth annual Chicks Play Hard, three themed MEOW cabarets
  
  

2006

• Created Fights of Spring, a stage combat and movement workshop in partnership with UW.
• Produced The Cowgirl Play and Fall Off Night.
• Our education program, Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary.
• Produced three themed MEOW cabarets.
  
  

2007

• 2nd year of Fights of Spring, a stage combat and movement workshop in partnership with UW.
• Produced We Are Not These Hands and Franklin and Figaro.
• Our education program, Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary.
• Produced three themed MEOW cabarets.

2008

• 3rd year of Fights of Spring, a stage combat and movement workshop in partnership with UW.
• Produced Don't You Dare Love Me.
• Our education program, Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary.
• Produced three themed MEOW cabarets.
  
  

2009

• Produced Kid Simple, a radio play in the flesh and Nancy, Frank and Joe.
• Our education program, Monkey Works is presented at Hawthorne Elementary and Thorton Creek Elementary.
• Produced three themed MEOW cabarets.



Contact people:


Desiree Prewitt, Managing Co-Artistic Director, (phone), (email) Kristina Sutherland, Executive Artistic Director, (phone), (email) Lee Murray, Board President, (phone), (email)


Main office number: (206) 860-2970

Address:


2222 2nd Ave #200 Seattle, WA 98121 (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.machamonkey.org

Directions:

Macha Monkey's office is located near the corner of Bell Street and 2nd Ave in the heart of Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. The office is next door to Buddha Bar and is up a flight of stairs.   Nearest Bus Stop: many buses stop within a block including 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 18, 39, 121, 358, 2 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

Liability
	Yes
Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes

Last updated on November 5, 2009