Live Girls! Theater is celebrating 10 years of producing new work by women in Seattle and has announced its season lineup.

From raucous comedies, to provocative dramas, the “spunky” Live Girls! are launching a season of local and world premier plays that are smart, entertaining and highly theatrical. All shows are at the Live Girls! 60-seat venue in Ballard, 2220 N.W. Market St. in the lower level.

"In 2009 Live Girls! will continue it’s tradition of bringing together the national new work community and the local theater scene to celebrate voices, stories of an incredible group of up and coming female writers," according to a release from the theater. "Intentionally diverse in the styles and themes of our shows, our 10th anniversary will challenge ideas of how women write and themes they explore while creating exciting events that everyone will be talking about."

The 2009 Season:

Quickies Volume 10
April 10 to May 2
Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Mon, April 20, 27 at 8 p.m.

Quickies is Live Girls! trademark event and longest running program. Volume 10 will feature seven exciting new plays from all over the country and the U.K. as well as a two new commissioned pieces from local playwrights and Quickies veterans, Erin Stewart and Darian Lindle. As always, Quickies will include up and coming local directors and actors as well as tons of gratuitous entertainment in between the plays. It all adds up to a fantastic not to be missed event. Short and sassy, the Quickies always leave you begging for more!

"Duellette" By Celene Ramadan / Directed by Raymond Williams 
"The Education of Macaloco" by Jen Silverman / Directed by K. Brian Neel 
"Form vs Content" by S.P. Miskowski / Directed by Nikki Przasnyski
"For A Button" by Rachel Barnett / Directed by Chrystian Shepperd 
"Alone Not Lonely" by Darian Lindle / Directed by Erin Kraft 
"Cold Soup" by By Christin Siems / Directed by Nik Perleros  
"Changing" by Erin Stewart / Directed by Meghan Shalom Arnette 

"Vrooommm!  A Nascomedy"
By Janet Allard
Directed by Shawn Belyea
June 19 to July 11
Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Mon, June 29, and July 6 at 8 p.m.

A super charged spoof of America’s fastest sport! When a female driver takes the lead in the NASCAR season standings, egos are bruised, mullets are ruffled and all hell breaks loose on the circuit. An all female cast portrays the all-male universe of NASCAR daredevil antics—in an all-out race for love and money with some crazy gender-fender-benders.

Commission Project
Fever- Plays inspired by Peggy Lee
Sept. 11 to Oct. 3
Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Mon, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

This year, Live Girls! will commission three female playwrights to write a new one act play inspired by the music of Peggy Lee.  Each writer will choose a song recorded by the “Queen of Cool” and create a play inspired by that song.   These three new plays will be produced together in one evening along with live music from new special guests each week as a tribute to this iconic songstress known as a mentor and inspiration to such diverse artists as Paul McCartney, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Costello, and Madonna.  Confirmed writers include Joann Horowitz and Molly Best Tinsley.
 
"Bone Portraits"
By Deborah Stein
Directed by Meghan Shalom Arnette
Oct. 17 to Nov. 14
Fri, 8 p.m., Sat, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Mon, Nov. 9  at 8 p.m.

“People got a hunger, but once they’ve seen all there is to see, they’ll still be hungry, and then what?” Bone Portraits
In 1895, a hapless inventor stumbles upon a light that burns through skin: in a flash, the X-ray is born. Lead by Edison through the fairs, festivals, and drawing rooms of the America of the 1890’s, Bone Portraits is wild ride of gothic horror, old-time vaudeville, and sweeping romance taking us back to this moment of discovery. To a time when scientific discoveries began to revolutionize society at a blistering pace, when the world split open like an atom and nothing could ever seen the same way again.
 
Returning programs:
 
The Bakery- Spring Readings
Your chance to be a part of the development process and discuss new works! Many of the plays chosen for past festivals have been slated for production by Live Girls! or other local companies. Our audience truly sees it first!  This year five full-length and one-act plays were chosen along with 3 plays by teen writers from the ACT Young Playwrights Program.

This year’s Line-up includes:
"Home/Land" by Joy McCullough- Carranza
"Emerald City" by S.P. Miskowski
"Slasher" by Allison Moore
"Midnight to five at the Maizey Day" by Holly Arsenault
"Fracture Mechanics" by Mallery Avidon
 
Youth Playwrights Program Plays
"Rain" by Caitlin Cassot
"Fatalism" by Danielle Mantello
"Debutant" by Rachael Severtson