Buy Tickets here
(Run time: two hours, including a ten minute intermission)
(For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, printed scripts will be available at the box office)
Buy Tickets here
(Run time: two hours, including a ten minute intermission)
(For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, printed scripts will be available at the box office)
To show our commitment to the community, we are having an AAPI celebration night on Oct 24th catered by a local Filipino restaurant. We are inviting local AAPI artists to perform, sing, and dance. We will also be announcing our 2024 season and how much we raised! It is Pay what you can so please come by and celebrate this wonderful community with us. Please join us!!!
Peak Behind the Scenes!
Meet the full cast of our upcoming MainStage, Bloodletting by Boni B. Alvarez!
Under the watchful moon, estranged siblings Farrah and Bosley reunite in the Philippines to spread their father’s ashes in Palawan’s treasured underground river. They take shelter from a storm in a local café, where they open old family wounds and encounter an aswang, a Filipino vampire, who awakens in Farrah an ancient, terrifying, and innate power. Will she embrace her new-found power? Or let it destroy herself and her brother?
Sam Prudente as Jenry
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Unleashing, in association with Theatre Off Jackson, a staged reading of Good Enemy by Yilong Liu!
A father learns that closing the door to his past may mean shutting his daughter out in his future. When Howard makes a surprise cross-country trip to visit his college-aged, TikTok-loving daughter, he’s forced to confront the realities of their relationship and the rift between them—a rift caused by Howard’s refusal to face memories of his life as a young man in China.
“A mélange of a play about getting a second chance, and being wise enough to grab it.”
The New York Times
Directed by Christie Zhao (Yun Theatre) and featuring Owen Yen, Lola Rei Fukushima, Yuelan, Mike Wu,Van Liu, Maile Wong, Gabriel Fitzpatrick and Karis Ho
(Staged readings are presentations where actors have scripts in hand and minimal staging)
Buy tickets at pork-filled.ticketleap.com/good-enemy/
Pork Filled Productions announces auditions for our 2023 mainstage show, Bloodletting, by Boni Alvarez and directed by Zenaida R. Smith (a white haunting).
Siblings Farrah and Bosley Legazpi are forced to make a journey back to the Motherland. Their father’s last wish was for his ashes to be sprinkled in the newly minted ‘natural wonder’ – the Underground River of Palawan in the Philippines. During the tension-filled journey, the two must sort out their father’s affairs as well as their own relationship. When they discover that one of them is an aswang (a Filipino witch), 30+ years of feelings come to a boil. Is it easier to accept a sibling’s cruel nature if it is steeped in the supernatural?
Bloodletting will be performed at Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle’s International District – 409 7th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98104 – October 19 to November 4. Performances will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings with one (1) Sunday matinee and one (1) Monday industry night performance. There will be one week of streaming approximately two weeks later.
Audition/Interview Dates: Saturday, May 20, Theatre Puget Sound, Studio E, starting at 10 am to 6 pm.
Audition sides are available below.
Actors will be paid a stipend of $500.
If you are unable to make it on the 20th, please give some idea on availability for a Zoom appointment.
SETTING: Princess Cafe in Puerto Princesa, Island of Palawan, Philippines.
Note that the characters are either Filipino or Filipino Americans.
Ability to speak any of the Palawanic languages a plus
Knowledge of the Palawan region also a plus.
Theatre Puget Sound
4th Floor of the Armory, (Seattle Centerhouse)
Studio E
Please email BloodlettingAudition@porkfilled.com with headshot and resume, and to make an appointment for an audition, by giving general availability during the day. If you are unable to make it on the 20th, please give some idea on availability for a Zoom appointment.
Aiming to begin the latter part of August (depending on cast availability)
Boni B. Alvarez is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor and faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed, Nicky, Dallas Non-Stop, Dusty de los Santos, Ruby, Tragically Rotund, The Special Education of Miss Lorna Cambonga, Marabella, Driven, The Debut of Georgia, Emmylu, and Refuge for a Purple Heart.
His plays have been produced at Center Theatre Group – Kirk Douglas Theatre, Echo Theater Company, Coeurage Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company, and Playwrights’ Arena. His plays have been developed/given readings at Chalk Rep, Moving Arts, Artists At Play, The Vagrancy, Los Angeles Theatre Center, EST/LA, The Blank, Pork Filled Players (Seattle), Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco), Second Generation (2g, NYC), InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project, and Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission.
Alum of the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Moving Arts’ MADlab, Echo Writer’s Lab, Skylight Theatre’s Play Lab, and the Humanitas Play LA Workshop. He is currently in the Geffen Playhouse’s Writer’s Room and a Resident Playwright with New Dramatists.
He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA (Acting) from A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University, and an MFA (Dramatic Writing) from USC.
Early giving for GiveBIG is now live! Presented by 501Commons, GiveBIG carries the banner for Seattle’s non-profits, large and small, to magnify and gather funding for groups like PFP.
Our goal for 2023 is $6500 to produce and develop geek theatre (like last year’s She Devil of the China Seas). The first $500 in gifts gets matched, so scheduling your donation today can double your impact on May 2 and 3!
And we have a great lineup for 2023!
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Mark your calendars for GiveBIG on May 2 AND 3. Or avoid the rush and schedule your donation now! Keep an eye on our Facebook or Instagram accounts to stay current.
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Jet City Improv is proud to present Joy Market, premiering April at West of Lenin. Joy Market is a collaboration with Pork Filled Productions. The oldest Asian American theatre group in the Pacific Northwest, Pork Filled Productions centers Asian American and POC artists to imagine fantastical, inclusive and FUN universes. The show will run from April and into May (Asian American Heritage Month).
At Joy Market, dating, fate, and traditions are the key cultural commodities. The show’s all-AAPI cast will dive into the lives of vendors and use a combination of sketch and improv to create portals centered around AAPI voices and stories.
“Jet City Improv is dedicated to strengthening and deepening our community relations in the PNW,” says Joy Market director Mario Orallo-Molinaro. “That is why we are grateful to partner with Pork Filled Production, a powerhouse theater company, to empower and lift AAPI voices and stories. This will be the first cast of all improvisers of color production in JCI’s thirty-year history, it is a major milestone in our efforts to evolve the comedy scene in Seattle. We are blessed to work with amazing artists and can’t wait to share this piece with you. Comedy heals. And our hope is Joy Market can not only heal but bring laughter and joy along the way.”
Longtime Pork Filled producer Roger Tang says, “It’s good to return to comedy—it’s been eleven years since we did Porktacular! And its great to see so many new faces diving into comedy.”
Co-director Kendall Uyeji adds, “There has been so much joy happening in the rehearsal room. It’s beautiful. This show is going to be so fun! So many AAPI bodies on stage sharing their truths and their JOY! It’s going to be a wonderful show to see.”
DIRECTORS:
Mario Orallo-Molinaro Kendall Uyeji
CAST:
Daphne Liu
Richard Lee Xiaohan Zhang Alice Wong Minki Bai Erika Lowe Freddie Wu Pearl Lam Corinne Marie Winnie Yeung Andrea Zaborac Michael KwanPerformances @ West of Lenin
203 N 36th St #204, Seattle, WA 98103
Thursday, April 27th @ 7:30pm
Friday, April 28th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 29th @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May 4th @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 5th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 6th @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May 11th @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 12th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 13th @ 7:30pm
Tickets available here.