Rain City Projects

Darian Lindle is a playwright, theatre director and actor living in Seattle, WA. She is the Artistic Director of FreshGoods Theatre, a company that produces work focused on elevated language. Ms. Lindle is a board member for the playwright support organization Rain City Projects, producer of The Manifesto Series. Ms. Lindle’s plays grapple with subjects ranging from mistaken identity in a Vegas honky-tonk to the royal court in 11th century Japan. MURASAKI follows the journey of Murasaki Shikibu as she creates The Tale of Genji, the first physiological novel. MURASAKI has been read as part of several festivals including those for Kick-Ass Women Playwrights (2005) and Live Girls! The Bakery Series (2006). JACKSON, a commission for Live Girls! Theater inspired by the song by June Carter Cash, was produced as part of their 2008 season. THE WESTING GAME, a murder-mystery adaptation of the young adult novel by Ellen Raskin, was selected to be a part of the prestigious Fringe/ACT reading performance series (2003) and fully produced by Prime Stage Theatre in Pittsburgh in May 2009. In November 2009, Bellingham’s Idiom Theatre has commissioned Ms. Lindle to write THE BALLAD OF SISTER AIMEE about the rise and fall of the world’s first evangelical media magnate. Ms. Lindle’s 10-minute plays include A WHOLE NEW WORLD and NEVER KILL A CATERWAULING CRANE GOD, AND OTHER LIFE LESSONS for 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, VAMPYRE, produced as a part of Balagan Theatre’s Death, Sex and The Little Red Studio's Erotic Shorts. Recent directing credits include: the critically acclaimed [SIC] for FreshGoods, MUD ANGEL and APRICOT SUPERNOVAS for Live Girls! and four shorts for 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival. Recent acting credits include: LES ROMANESQUES for Playing French/Seattle, 800 WORDS: THE TRANSMIGRATION OF PHILIP K. DICK and YOG SOTHOTH for Live Girls!. Ms. Lindle graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Theatre, French and Film Studies. She has interned with Cahiers du Cinéma in Paris, the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and the Seattle Repertory Theatre.