The Intiman Playhouse was founded in 1972 by Margaret Booker, whose study of theater in Sweden lead her to name it after the Swedish word for "intimate". With a focus on a resident acting ensemble, fidelity to the playwright's intentions and a close relationship between actor and audience, the Intiman established itself as Seattle's "classic" theater. It's debut season in 1972 included Rosmersholm, The Creditors, The Underpants, and Brecht on Brecht. Since that time, the theater has been host to Tony-nominated Director Bartlett Sher (who serves as both a director and artistic director), Tony-nominated actress Celia Keenan-Bolger, and movie actor Tom Skerritt. It was also home to the world premiers of the Tony-winning Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza and Craig Lucas's Singing Forest. Lucas is also the associate artistic director. City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Rosmersholm is a tragedy that was written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1886. ... The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hosen by playwright Carl Stenheim. ... Tony can mean any of the following: Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, and Anthony. ... Celia Keenan-Bolger was last seen in the world premiere of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical The Light in the Piazza. ... Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Musical theatre (sometimes spelled theater) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... The Light in the Piazza is a musical drama by Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Craig Lucas (book). ... Craig Lucas is a Tony winning American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film director. ...

History

The Intiman's original location was in Kirkland, Washington in a 65-seat theater. Under the leadership of artistic directors Megs and John Booker, the Intiman officially incorporated as a non-profit theatre in 1973. Over the next few years, the company mounted productions at Cornish College and Gary Austin's Second Stage Theatre in Seattle, growing — in attendance and budget — each season. By 1976, Intiman was established as "Seattle's Classic Theatre" and featured a resident company of 14 actors, including Megan Cole, Clayton Corzatte, Ted D'Arms, John Gilbert, Patricia Healy, Richard Riele and Jean Smart. The name Kirkland has multiple uses: People Rev. ... Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 385 km 580 km 6. ... Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Regrade and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree. ... We dont have an article called Gary Austin Start this article Search for Gary Austin in. ...

In 1977, Intiman opened year-round administrative offices in Pioneer Square and hired its first general manager, Simon Siegl. With a season of five classic plays, Intiman also embarked on the second year of "New Plays Onstage," a program that featured staged readings of contemporary works directed and performed by members of the ensemble. Over the next several years, INTIMAN's audience and budget continued to grow, and the Theatre was awarded institutional status by the King County and Washington State Arts Commissions and a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1982, it enjoyed the culmination of a three-year planning process with its participation in Scandinavia Today, an international exposition of Nordic culture that took place in five American cities. Intiman presented staged readings of five contemporary works and two great classics on its main stage, The Wild Duck and A Dream Play, in collaboration with top Scandinavian directors, designers and playwrights. Pioneer Square Pergola, 1914 Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ... King County is the name of a number of counties in the United States of America: King County, Texas: named for William Phillip King, who lost his life in the Battle of the Alamo. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ... The Wild Duck is a play by Henrik Ibsen, written in 1884. ... A Dream Play was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright, August Strindberg. ... See also the Nordic countries. ...

Led by Megs Booker and Simon Siegl, Intiman began to prepare for a move to a new performance space after it was announced that the Second Stage — Intiman's home for nine seasons — would be demolished to make way for the Washington State Convention Center. Intiman was established as a cornerstone of the Seattle arts community, but was the only professional resident theatre in the area that did not have a permanent home. Instead, over the next few years it operated in locations all over the city, including the Broadway Performance Hall, on short-term rental agreements.

In 1985, Peter Davis joined Intiman as its first managing director and engineered a complete restructuring of the financial and administrative areas of the company. A former scenic designer who had worked for both Intiman and Seattle Repertory Theatre, Davis negotiated a plan for Intiman to operate and manage its own facility — the Seattle Center Playhouse, located in the cultural heart of Seattle. Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Playhouse was given new life with a $1.2 million renovation. For the first time, all of Intiman's operations were in one location — performance, rehearsal, production, shop and administrative areas. Holding a 22-year lease from the City of Seattle, Intiman moved into the renovated Intiman Playhouse at the Seattle Center in 1987. For the Mayor of Melbourne 1856–57, see Peter Davis (Mayor of Melbourne), for the husband of Helen Clark see Peter Davis (New Zealand). ... Center House, Seattle Center Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ...

In 1994, Intiman became the first regional theatre company in the country to be awarded the rights to produce Tony Kushner's two-part epic Angels in America after it won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play. Part One: Millennium Approaches closed Intiman's 1994 season, and Part Two: Perestroika opened the 1995 season. Directed by Shook, the complete Angels in America was the most successful production ever to be produced at the Theatre, reaching more than 63,000 attendees over its two-year run. Over the next decade, Intiman produced plays by such provocative and influential American writers as Edward Albee, Moisés Kaufman, Ellen McLaughlin, Terrence McNally, David Rabe, Anna Deavere Smith, Paula Vogel, and Chay Yew. Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America. ... Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Moisés Kaufman (born 1964) is a playwright and director. ... Ellen McLaughlin is an American playwright and actor for stage and film. ... Terrence McNally is an openly gay American playwright. ... David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... Anna Deavere Smith as Nancy McNally in an episode of The West Wing Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. ... Paula Vogel (16 November 1951-) is an American playwright. ...

The Intiman Today

The Intiman's current project is entitled The American Cycle, a series of five plays written by prominent Americans. As of yet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town and the adapted John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath. The roster for the following three years is Native Son (2006), All the King's Men (2007), and To Kill a Mockingbird. Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American novelist and playwright. ... Our Town is a play by Thornton Wilder that is set in the fictional community of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire. ... John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) was one of the most famous American novelists of the 20th century. ... The cover of The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. ... Native Son (1940) is a novel by African-American author Richard Wright. ... All the Kings Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946 and made into a film in 1949 and again in 2006. ... To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. ...

Notable Intiman Artists

Bartlett Sher - Artistic Director

Craig Lucas - Associate Artistic Director Craig Lucas is a Tony winning American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film director. ...

Tom Skerritt - Actor Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ...

Celia Keenan-Bolger - Actor Celia Keenan-Bolger was last seen in the world premiere of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical The Light in the Piazza. ...

Patti Cohenour - Actor Patti Cohenour recently portrayed Signora Naccarelli in the Intiman and Goodman Theatre productions of The Light in the Piazza. ...

Laurence Ballard - Actor

Jeanne Paulson - Actor

External links

• http://www.intiman.org