Rain City Projects

Bret Fetzer writes plays and fairy tales. His plays (including The Three Policemen, Planet Janet, The Story of the Bull, Mars is a star who defies observation, and Passport) have been produced by small theaters around the U.S. Avalanche, co-written with Juliet Waller Pruzan, was published in the Fall 2006 edition of the Kenyon Review. Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, adapted from the picture book by Jay Williams, will be produced by Seattle Children's Theatre in March, 2007. Bret is a company member of Annex Theatre in Seattle, WA. He wrote the narration for the documentary Le Petomane: Fin de Siecle Fartiste, directed by Igor Vamos. He has written film, theater, and art criticism for Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, Amazon.com, and various other journals. His collections of original fairy tales, Petals & Thorns and Tooth & Tongue, are available
at www.pistilbooks.com.

Darian Lindle Darian Lindle is a freelance director, dramaturg and playwright. In the Pacific Northwest, she has worked with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, VIA, Theatre Babylon, City3, Cornish College of the Arts, Steeplechase Productions, Poisonous Toy Theatre, and is an Associate Artist with The Shunpike. She had directed many productions with her company, Fresh Goods, including the critically acclaimed [sic] by Melissa James Gibson. Darian's theatrical adaptation of The Westing Game was presented at the 2003 FringeACT. Most recently, Darian has written an epic play about the life of 1,000 year old Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu, Genji: The Light Behind the Clouds. Darian graduated from Indiana University in 1999 with a degree in Theatre, French, and Film Studies and has interned with Cahiers du Cinéma the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the Seattle Rep.

K Brian Neel directed and performed with Kings' Elephant Theatre, America's premiere improvisational ensemble, for nine years. He became Artistic Foreman of the Seattle Mime Theatre -- an internationally renowned touring company stretching the definitions of mime, touring with them to Hong Kong in 1999. In Seattle, Brian has worked with On the Boards, Consolidated Works, Empty Space Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Theater Simple, Annex Theatre, One World Theatre, The Tumbling Tumbo Brothers and many more. He has written two screenplays and six stage plays, including The Devil's Mile which was workshopped at the FringeACT Festival in 2002. He has directed several plays, including the multiple award winning Pieces of the First, comprised of text from free-speech Supreme Court cases; the west coast premiere of the Off-Broadway sensation The Erotica Project by Lillian Anne Slugocki and Erin Cresida Wilson; 52 Pickup by TJ Dawe which was accepted to the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; Unhinged and Low Flying by Mark Boeker; and most recently Kentucky Ghosts based on the collected social anthropology of William Lynwood Montell. Brian has toured his inimitable solo plays all over the United States and around the globe, including Australia and several Canadian tours. He also teaches improvisation, acting, physical theater and stage combat to students of all ages. Please visit his web page at www.kbrianneel.com.

Sean Ryan is a director, actor, dancer and teacher. He is currently the Arts Services Coordinator at On the Boards. He is a founding member of the dance theater company VIA touring internationally. Sean Ryan curates VIA's Play Lab series supporting contemporary playwrights by presenting stage readings and feedback sessions at R.E.D. Performance Space. VIA's Play Lab has presented stage readings of local national and international plays, several of which Ryan directed, and "Solo Shorts", an evening of contemporary monologues featuring works by Northwest playwrights. Directing credits include: award winning Always by Angela DiMarco at the 2003 Seattle Fringe. The West Coast premiere of Crave by Sarah Kane haled by the Stranger's Adrian Ryan as "Graceful & poetically structured"; Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy and Other Affairs by Jessica Litwak headlined at the 1999 Seattle Fringe by the P.I. as "Truly good theater has the power to surprise. Emma Goldman' does just that and Escurial by Michel de Ghelderode recieving "Most Outstanding Direction" at the 2000 Calgary One-Act play festival. He is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston.