Where We Belong originally premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in London as part of a festival featuring multidisciplinary Indigenous arts and culture.

Madeline Sayet is a member of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut, where she was raised on a combination of traditional Mohegan stories and Shakespeare. Learn more on her website.

For her work, Madeline has been named a TED Fellow, recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30, and received the White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama.

The show is based on playwright Heidi Schreck's personal experience participating in American Legion debate competitions about the Constitution when she was a teenager.

What the Constitution Means to Me was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and received two Tony Award nominations for its five-month Broadway run.

While sometimes billed as a one-woman play, each performance also features a live debate between playwright Heidi Schreck’s character and a local high school debate student.

Seattle Rep commissioned author Samantha Silva to create a world premiere stage adaptation of her critically acclaimed novel of the same name.

This will be the 64th world premiere production in Seattle Rep history.

While Seattle Rep has never produced A Christmas Carol, this will be our second world premiere related to that classic story. The first was Inspecting Carol, created by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre Resident Company in 1991 and most recently staged in 2012.

Director Juliette Carrillo’s work was last seen at Seattle Rep in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running (2018), The Brothers Size (2011), and The Cook (2007).

When the world premiere of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter at Steppenwolf Theatre was cut short in March 2020, playwright Isaac Gómez helped adapt an audio version of the play, which was shared with teachers and students throughout Chicago. 

It was recently announced that America Ferrera will be directing a film adaptation to be released on Netflix.

Shana Cooper returns to Seattle Rep having previously directed Venus in Fur (2014).

Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, and Sabrina Mahfouz wrote the play in 2019 during their Scriptorium residency at the Globe Theatre—the first resident writers in 400 years—and premiered it there in 2021.

Seattle Rep’s production of Metamorphoses will be the U.S. premiere.

The script is the verbatim transcript (including every cough and breath) of the FBI’s interrogation of Reality Winner, an intelligence specialist who leaked classified information regarding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

The production was originally staged in 2019 at The Kitchen Theatre and Vineyard Theatre and just wrapped up its Broadway debut in November 2021.

Tina Satter is also the leader of the New York City-based Obie-winning ensemble Half Straddle.

The 1491s are an acclaimed intertribal sketch comedy troupe best known for their work on the hit television series “Reservation Dogs,” available for streaming on Hulu.

They rose to fame in 2009 after making a video called “Wolf Pack,” a spoof audition video about the Twilight series, and their YouTube videos have since had over 1 million views.

Director Eric Ting’s work was last seen at Seattle Rep when he directed The Great Leap (2018).

Originally scheduled for Seattle Rep’s 2018/19 season and then delayed by the pandemic, this production will finally make its debut! Co-creators Justin Huertas and Ameenah Kaplan have continued to develop it over the past four years.

This will be Huertas’ second world-premiere musical at Seattle Rep, following his popular 2015 production of Lizard Boy.

Huertas has been busy at Seattle Rep, performing in Tiny Beautiful Things (2019) and our Public Works productions of The Odyssey (2017) and The Winter’s Tale (2021).