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Seattle Public Theater, 2024-2025 Season


Here at Seattle Public Theater, we are looking forward to an incredible year of theater for the 2024-2025 Season. Do you want to be part of that line up? We are working to create one streamlined system for processing and reviewing the pitches we get for next season. We hope that this can help us connect with amazing partners and review all pitches we get in an equitable way. Here is how it works:

Getting to Know Us 

Before you send us your pitch, it’s important that you feel like Seattle Public Theater is the right collaborator for you and your show. Here is a bit about us:

Our Mission

Embracing historically excluded identities and emerging artists, Seattle Public Theater produces compelling work that sparks conversation and ignites empathy.

Our Vision

We see an ecosystem of artists that consciously nurtures and celebrates women and diverse identities through:

  • promoting racial equity, 

  • female leadership and artistic vision,

  • inclusion of all gender and sexual identities,

  • building a national reputation for high quality, progressive work, and

  • accessibility for all.

Our History & Future

For more than three decades, actors, directors, and audiences with a passion for exceptional theater have found a home at Seattle Public Theater on the shores of Green Lake in the Historic Bathhouse. We were established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on June 27th, 1989. Today, we’re building on our past and broadening our reach to make theater that speaks to life in this moment.

In recent years, Seattle Public Theater has transformed into a vital arts center whose productions and programming extend beyond North Seattle and into citywide, national, and global conversations.

At the heart of every organization’s mission there ought to be a vision of a better world.

We want to create an inclusive community that actively engages with ideas and people by producing compelling and socially relevant theater to spark conversation and ignite empathy.

That’s our mission. That’s what Seattle Public Theater is today. Our future is bright, and it belongs to everyone.

We also ask that all artists and collaborators with whom we work sign an anti-harassment agreement. 

Please take some time to find out more about us and review our website seattlepublictheater.org. 

Getting to Know You (AKA THE PITCH PART!)

Now that you know us, it is time for us to get to know you! We are currently accepting pitch submissions for the 2024-2025 Season. We hope this process will give you the chance to share your vision and help us understand what we might expect from working together. Pitches will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the submission form will close December 15th. Extension requests will be considered.

To keep our pitches organized, we invite you to fill out ONE of the following forms:

  1. CO-PRODUCTION MAINSTAGE PITCH (intended for producing theater companies/production entities that are interested in full-length, mainstage co-productions for the 2024-2025 Season): https://forms.gle/NmCEBu7hfRuRKbCC9

Deadline for submission: Rolling basis, submission form closes Dec 15, 2023

  1. INDIVIDUAL MAINSTAGE PITCH (intended for individuals or small teams–NOT connected to a full theater production company/entity–who are pitching a full-length, mainstage show that you would like Seattle Public Theater to produce as part of the 2024-2025 Season): https://forms.gle/bieoshxP95QTKqY69 

Deadline for submission: Rolling basis, submission form closes Dec 15, 2023

  1. OTHER COLLABORATION PITCH (intended for any other type of collaboration with Seattle Public for the 2024-2025 Season, including but not limited to limited-run co-pros, special presentations, rentals, off-night solo shows, one-day or weekend long events, classes, etc.): https://forms.gle/QxhiFYGNw1vfA35K7 

Deadline for submission: Ongoing/rolling

If you are not sure which pitch submission category is right for you, we encourage you to take a detailed look at the questions we ask in each form. After doing so, if you are still not sure where your idea fits, feel free to reach out to our Literary Manager Leah Jarvik (literary@seattlepublictheater.org) and ask.

What to Expect

Here is our plan! Know that this is a new process and the plan may shift:

  1. Review pitches: We will accept pitches for our mainstage shows on a rolling basis until our pitch submission deadline, December 15. Extension requests will be considered. We plan to review mainstage pitches as they come in and throughout December and January.

We plan to review non-mainstage/other collaboration pitches on an ongoing basis throughout both this and next season. 

  1. Hold interviews: We plan to narrow down our mainstage pitch options, then send invitations to select groups/individuals to invite them to participate in a “Pitch Week.” This will involve in-person or Zoom interviews, likely during early February 2024. We hope these pitch interviews can give us a chance to hear your pitch from you directly, discuss what a collaboration would look like in more detail, and answer any questions you might have about working with us. 

  2. Decisions: Our goal is to make mainstage production and co-production decisions by the end of March. Know that we plan to reach out to everyone to let you know our decision either way. 

Once we have decided our mainstage season, we will begin programming non-mainstage/other collaboration events for 2024-2025.