Board of Directors

Meghan Arnette is the Founding Artistic Director of Live Girls! theater and a freelance director, educator, vocalist and actor. As a director she has worked on numerous local and world premieres including the critically acclaimed productions of Hardball by Victoria Stewart Family Stories by Biljana Srbjanovich, and Scab by Sheila Callaghan. She has directed plays for Youth Theater Northwest, 14/48, Cornish College, Freehold, Seattle Dramatists and Northwest Playwrights Alliance and is a curriculum specialist for the Museum of History and Industry. Meghan is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts and a 2007 member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab.

Becky Bruhn has both an MBA and a passion for playwriting and has utilized that unusual combination to be involved in theatre-related community service. She founded two play competitions, a parenting newsletter, and two non-profits, most significantly Seattle Dramatists. Becky has served on play selection committees, arts organization hiring committees, and arts organization board committees. She has organized dozens of fundraising events for theaters and arts organizations. Her plays have been produced and read at several Seattle venues. She is a Seattle native.

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 Cinema the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the Seattle Rep.

K Brian Neel directed and performed with Kings' Elephant Theatre, America's premiere experimental improvisation ensemble, and was Artistic Foreman of the Seattle Mime Theatre. In Seattle, Brian has performed at Annex Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Consolidated Works, Empty Space Theatre, INTIMAN, Live Girls!, On the Boards, One World Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Theater Simple, and 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; Kentucky Ghosts based on the collected social anthropology of William Lynwood Montell; and the opera Luisa Miller for Puget Sound Opera. Brian's solo plays include The 42nd Floor, Crazy 8, Double Climax, PRYK, and the ukulele operetta Vaud Rats. These shows have performed across the United States, Canada and Australia. He also teaches improvisation, acting, physical theater, playwriting and stage combat. www.kbrianneel.com.

Juliet Waller Pruzan is a playwright, dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist. Her plays, many co-written with long-time collaborator Bret Fetzer, have been presented in Seattle and New York. They have been published in the Kenyon Review and The Manifesto Series Volume 1. As a dancer, she has performed her work and the work of others throughout the Pacific Northwest and in Memphis, Los Angeles, Europe, Ecuador, and Indonesia. For the past few years, she has collaborated with Stephen Hando, making quirky dance theater pieces. She is a teaching artist for ACT Theater, Macha Monkey, and Gage Academy.

RCP Advisor

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.

RAIN CITY PROJECTS was founded by Mark Lutwak. Previous board members include Steve Alter, Nikki Appino, Scot Augustson, Lenore Bensinger, Susanna Burney, Morgain Cole, Drew Emery, Warren Etheredge, Adam Greenfield, Wier Harmon, John Holyoke, Andy Jensen, Brendan Kiley, Robin Kilrain, Tod McCoy, S. P. Miskowski, Allison Narver, Madeleine Oldham, Olga Sanchez, Meg Stevenson, Stephanie Timm, Montana Von Fliss, Y York