Penguin Productions

Penguin Productions Penguin Productions unites youth leadership and adult mentorship to co-create theater.

- Empowering confident, thoughtful youth leaders
-Making invigorating, inspiring, joyful theater
-Creating diverse, inclusive spaces where everyone belongs
-Nurturing artistic discovery and growth
-Providing cost-free programming

The Midsummer audition form is OPEN!Just outside town, there's a forest running rampant with magical chaos. Join us for ...
05/21/2026

The Midsummer audition form is OPEN!
Just outside town, there's a forest running rampant with magical chaos. Join us for a reimagining of Shakespeare's hilarious comedy directed by Fish Harrison!

Auditions are June 13 from 3-5pm at TPS Studio A. Sign up at https://forms.gle/tRwuZrUXtteD2MJN6 🌲

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: MEG LEDFORDMeg Ledford (she/her/hers) is a playwright who got her start doing s...
04/23/2026

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: MEG LEDFORD

Meg Ledford (she/her/hers) is a playwright who got her start doing sketch comedy and improv. She has her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Her work has been featured at Lenfest Center of the Arts, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. In 2021, she won the Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition. Because of her sketch background, Meg approaches topics through a comedic lens, believing that humor often leads us to the deepest truths. During her time pursuing her masters, she developed a love for analyzing structures, and is often drawn to narratives that explore archetypes or transform well-established formats.

See her play and more at Project Playground, April 25, 7pm at the University Heights Center! PWYC tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/project-playground

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: INDIRA RAMPERSADIndira Rampersad (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre artis...
04/22/2026

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: INDIRA RAMPERSAD

Indira Rampersad (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and educator based in Seattle. Since graduating from UT Austin with a BFA in Theatre Education, she’s worked at several theaters and schools as an Assistant Stage Manager, Props Designer, Teacher, and Playwright. She currently serves as the Education Coordinator at Seattle Public Theater, where she mentors students in performance and playwriting. She recently participated as a writer in 14/48, Winter 2026 and she is thrilled to get this opportunity to continue storytelling!

See her play and more at Project Playground, April 25, 7pm at the University Heights Center! PWYC tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/project-playground

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: M. K. WESSELM. K. Wessel holds an MA in Theatre Directing from the University o...
04/21/2026

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: M. K. WESSEL

M. K. Wessel holds an MA in Theatre Directing from the University of East Anglia and BA in Theatre from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Their first play, Tony the Fantastic Fireman! LIVE: One Show Only, was produced at their undergrad and nominated for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding One-Act Play at KCACTF (2019). In 2024, their one-act Thank You For Knowing Me premiered off-off-Broadway. Their full-length play, wild, mysterious forces, received a stage reading in Seattle Public Theater’s Distillery New Works Festival in 2025. Wessel’s writing has been featured in the Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, Writer’s Playground, The Raven Review, and Empyrean Magazine.

See M. K.'s play and more at Project Playground, April 25, 7pm at the University Heights Center! PWYC tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/project-playground

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: EMILY HAVEREmily Haver (she/her) is a Seattle-based playwright and actor. She h...
04/20/2026

Project Playground Playwright Highlight: EMILY HAVER

Emily Haver (she/her) is a Seattle-based playwright and actor. She has her B.A. in Theatre from Seattle University and an M.A. in Intercultural Communication Studies from Shanghai Theatre Academy. Emily lived in Shanghai and Taipei from 2017-2025, and remains deeply connected to her artistic communities in Asia. As an artist, she collaborates across cultures, making ensemble and experimentation-based work that provokes social questions and is emotionally grounded. She is deeply passionate about authentically and lovingly telling stories about women and q***r communities and hopes that her work makes people feel more alive and a little less alone in the world!

Her work has been produced at One World Theatre (Shanghai), Taipei Shorts, and Taipei Fringe Festival, and her short play "little moons" was published by Rain City Projects in Manifesto Series Volume 6: Ten to Places (2024). Most recently, her work was performed at 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival and Centrifuge at Theatre Off Jackson, and her play “little moons” will be performed at HEART Repertory Theatre in May 2026. Learn more: emilyhaver.com

See her play and more at Project Playground, April 25, 7pm at the University Heights Center! PWYC tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/project-playground

For so long, Penguin has noticed a hole in the theatre community: a big lack of opportunities for emerging young adult a...
04/19/2026

For so long, Penguin has noticed a hole in the theatre community: a big lack of opportunities for emerging young adult artists, after aging out of youth programs but before getting their professional footing. Enter Project Playground!

Project Playground is a new one-act festival designed to uplift new and emerging playwrights & to provide skilled actors a supportive, non-competitive environment to reconnect with their creativity. This showcase features four new one-acts + a playwright talkback!

April 25, 7pm at University Heights Center

Get PWYC tickets at www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/project-playground

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to see Eurydice! We are so proud of this beautiful and ambitious show and grateful to...
04/11/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to see Eurydice! We are so proud of this beautiful and ambitious show and grateful to those who supported us – we couldn't do it without you!!

Couldn't see the show? Help support productions like this going forward by donating on our website.

Cast/creative picture, l to r:
(front)
Vincent DeLaura – the Nasty, Interesting Man / Lord of the Underworld
Emmett Driscoll – Eurydice's Father
Adelyn Anderson – Eurydice
Sage Lang-Woodward – Orpheus
Misaki Teranishi – Loud Stone
Forrest Cole – Big Stone
Annika Chesnutt
(back)
Milo Miller – Lighting Designer
Lainie Schwartz – Props Designer / Artisan
Amelia Lindberg – Stage Manager
Tess Berger – Director
Tera Winter – Production Manager
Not pictured (but very loved) - Josephine Kreger-Stickles – Assistant Director

Photos by Giao Nguyen

12/13/2025

Join us in looking back at Penguin's past year, and help us look forward to 2026! We're aiming to raise $1,000 to support next year's programming - if you'd like to support us, Venmo @ penguinproductions or make a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal partner Shunpike ! We'll also be announcing next year's titles over the next few weeks - stay tuned!

Help us reach our goal at https://www.poweredbyshunpike.org/c/PBS/a/penguinproductions

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