Yes, our 20th Anniversary announcement means that longtime PFP playwright and producer Maggie Lee is sailing off for new challenge, but it also means new hands on deck to guide the PFP ship!

Anthea Carns is an actor/stage manager/dramaturg/playwright, who stage managed Unleashed, our staged reading festival of pulp-inspired plays by playwrights of color. Born in Alaska and educated at Carnegie Mellon, Anthea brings a sharp organized mind to PFP. Around town, she was part of the 2015 class of Emerging Arists at Intiman and is a founding member of the HERON Ensemble.

Mara Elissa Palma  is an actor, playwright,director, and producer. She comes to Seattle via Boston, Massachusetts, and was born in the Philippines and has lived in California, New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts. Part of the 2017 class of Emerging Artists at Intiman, she has been working all over the Seattle theatre scene, from Annex Theatre and elsewhere. She has written for SIS Productions’ Represents!, a multi cultural playwrights festival and appeared in SIS’s  American Hwangap.