* Monday Feb. 13 - 7:30 p.m. at Plenty! 200 4th Ave. W (corner of Columbia & 4th), downtown Olympia
* Free Admission (early seating highly advised)
* Contact: 360/754-2818

About the Playwright: Elena Hartwell wears many hats in theatre, including playwright, director, designer, and producer. Currently she is the director of the drama department at Seattle Central Community College. Her work has been seen in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Athens (Georgia), San Diego, Detroit, and Edinburgh Scotland. Her most recent project is drafting the second of this trilogy, "The Devil's Chord," set during Black Sunday - April 1935 - during the worst storm of the dust bowl years.

About the Play: "The Wondyrechaun" juxtaposes a family drama against the backdrop of the environmental disaster currently occurring in the oceans. With many species of fish, and other marine life, on the verge of extinction, the severity of conditions are only now coming to light outside the scientific community. Jessica Dodd returns to the Maine village of her youth to try to work on the fishing industry from the inside, creating havoc for her family - longtime fishermen - and the man she had left behind.

Heidi Rider Scholarship - Thank You for helping us raise $1,000! All best wishes to Heidi, who is flourishing with Hunter College's Theater Program in NYC. Special thanks to Chie Yuhara and the Academy of International Education for their $500 matching grant.

UPDATE: DANO MADDEN'S In the Sawtooths After its initial reading with NPA in January '05, Dano's In the Sawtooths was developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho last June. In July it was read at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York. This past fall, In the Sawtooths was nominated for Primary Stages’ 2005 Bug N’ Bub playwriting award (for which he received a bottle of champagne) (http://www.primarystages.com/bugandbub.htm).

This February, In the Sawtooths will be read at Boise Contemporary Theatre in Boise. Dano is in his second year as a graduate student at Rutgers where he studies playwriting with Lee Blessing.