Sync
Directed by Caroline Shaffer
Synopsis
Who
| Role | Actor |
| Allison | Kjerstine Rose Anderson * |
| Sadie | Ellen D. Williams * |
| Josh | James Ryen * |
| Jessica | Tamra Mathias * |
| Carol | Vilma Silva * |
| Stage Directions | Elise Harrison |
*Appearing through an Agreement between ANPF and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Shanna Allman (she/they) is a Texas bred, Seattle based playwright, performer, teaching artist, and professional therapeutic healthcare clown. She is the founder of Act V Scholars, a company created for the purpose of exploring Shakespeare with residents in retirement communities and assisted living facilities and is in the process of completing The William Cycle, a three play series written in verse. The first of this series, Quintessence of Dust, set in 1599 and centered around the building of The Globe theatre, has been in workshop, development, and staged readings with Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Central to Shanna’s writing is their passion to create roles for women over the age of thirty-five as well as characters who are open to any interpretation of gender, race, age, or physiological capacity. Some of their plays include The Lobby (Selection – Strawberry Jam Festival; Production – Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Midnight Miscreants (Selection – Playbytes by Playwrights Festival; Production – Lowell Arts), Soiled (Commission – Thalia’s Umbrella), and Blessings in Disguise (Commission; Production – Latitude Theatre). She is a founder and creator of The Rowdy Table New Play Cooperative and a company member with Seattle’s oldest all- improv company, Unexpected Productions.
However, to the patients, families, and staff at Seattle Children’s Hospital she is simply Dr. So-n- So, Clown MD.
Caroline Shaffer* is thrilled to be participating in another season of the discovery and nurturing of new plays with ANPF. A passionate lover of all theatre and an armchair dramaturg, she has been involved with ANPF almost since its inception, directing or acting regularly since 1991. Caroline was a member of OSF’s acting company for 12 seasons and has also directed locally for Oregon Stage Works, Actor’s Theatre, and Southern Oregon University. She has acted in regional theatres across the country as well as Off-Broadway and at Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has the requisite commercial, film, TV, and voiceover credits, but the accomplishment she is most proud of is her job as mom to the enchanting, engaging, challenging, and endlessly understanding Ethan, Emily, Corin, and Finnegan. Without them theatre would have no meaning.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
