Programs of Theatre Puget Sound
Audition listings
TPS connects talent with organizations by providing theatre, film and video audition notices to members via an online audition listing service. Members can also request to be emailed audition announcements automatically as they become available.
Arts Crush
Arts Crush is a monthlong festival throughout the Puget Sound region, featuring hundreds of events in theatre, dance, literature, music and visual arts. It is managed by Theatre Puget Sound in cooperation with a consortium of arts organizations from across Western Washington.
Bumbershoot Stage
Since 2004, Theatre Puget Sound has run a stage at Seattle's annual Bumbershoot festival, highlighting local companies and providing an outlet for them to showcase their productions before an audience of thousands.
General auditions
TPS holds yearly general auditions, which are attended by a large number of theatres throughout the area. Auditioners must meet one of the following conditions: (a) be members of Actors' Equity Association, (b) have attended a professional training program, (c) be a recent graduate from an undergraduate program, or (d) have at least 4 non-academic stage credits.
Gregory Awards
The Gregory Awards are a set of honors dedicated to theatre in Western Washington State. The Gregory Awards present an opportunity for the professional theater community to come together to celebrate theatre in the region, honor the outstanding achievements of the region's theatre practitioners, and to raise the visibility of the local theatre scene as a whole.
The Gregory Awards began with a single category, the Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award, in 1998. As of 2011, the awards have grown to encompass 12 categories, 11 of which recognize outstanding contributions over the previous season.
TPS manages two performance spaces located at Seattle Center's Center House building. The smaller of these, Theatre4, seats 75 and is also available for hourly rehearsal rental. The larger of these, the Center House Theatre, seats 192 and is generally available only for production runs of a full day or more. The Center House Theatre is also home to Book-It Repertory Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Rehearsal rooms
Theatre Puget Sound manages eight rehearsal spaces located at Seattle Center in the Center House building. These are available for hourly rental and range in size from 663 square feet to 1043 square feet.
Workshops
Throughout the year, Theatre Puget Sound and its partners offer workshops in various theatre-related subjects. In the past, these have included topics such as marketing, tax preparation and auditioning.
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1935 by Angus L. Bowmer. The Festival now offers matinee and evening performances of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays not limited to Shakespeare. During the Festival, between five and eleven plays are offered in daily rotation six days a week in its three theatres. It welcomed its millionth visitor in 1971, its 10-millionth in 2001, and its 20-millionth visitor in 2015.
Intiman Theatre is a resident theater company in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1972 by Margaret "Megs" Booker, who named it after Strindberg's Intimate Theater in Stockholm. Through its history, the professional theatre company has been based at various venues in Seattle; since 2021, it has been located as theatre-in-residence at Seattle Central College, performing in two venues on that campus.
The Paramount Theatre is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue located at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington, United States. The theater originally opened on March 1, 1928, as the Seattle Theatre, with 3,000 seats. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974, and has also been designated a City of Seattle landmark.
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Virginia Tanner was an American dance instructor and founder of the University of Utah Children's Dance Theatre. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, she began her formal dance training at the University of Utah. She studied with Doris Humphrey in New York City before returning to Salt Lake City in the early 1940s to establish her school for creative dance for children.
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Tacoma Arts Live is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in the historic Theater District of downtown Tacoma, Washington. Encompassing the Pantages, Rialto, and Theatre on the Square, Tacoma Arts Live manages the largest complex of theaters between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Additionally, Tacoma Arts Live Conservatory and Education Department provide one of the largest performing arts education programs in Washington state.
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Desdemona Chiang is a Taiwan-born American theatre director, and co-artistic director of Azeotrope in Seattle, Washington. Her directing credits include the Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Playmakers Repertory Company, and ACT Theatre. She directs in a variety of genres, including Shakespeare, new plays, and musicals.
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