On Aug. 8 and 9, SecondStory Repertory located at 16587 NE 74th St. in Redmond Town Center, will show two new plays written and directed by 2010 Redmond High School (RHS) graduate Thomas Moore.
“Stone Sheep,” a 10-minute comedy of misdirection on a mountaintop, will open each evening, followed by “Bare,” a one-act play in which a young woman, well-versed in pop culture’s fictional vampires, captures a real one.
Performances for both evenings are at 7 p.m. General admission is $10. Tickets are available at www.SecondStoryRep.org or at the theater box office. Students with identification are $5 (if ordering online, choose the number of general admission tickets and then apply discount on the next screen). The plays’ subjects and themes are suitable for audiences age 14 and older.
Both plays are produced by One Summer Theater Company, which was founded by Moore, 19, and other Redmond High graduates and students to produce new work by young adults in the local community.
Moore is a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University studying acting. While at RHS, he also studied technical theater and playwriting with drama teacher Misty Doty and wrote and directed plays for the annual Drama Fests. In 2009 his one-act play, “Meeting Robert,” won an award for excellence at the Washington Thespians State Conference. Moore also received the RHS Playwriting Award in 2010.
Actors in One Summer include Dalton Broback, who is currently studying at the University of Washington (UW) and was most recently seen on stage in “And Then There Were None” and this summer’s Redmond Academy of Theatre Arts production of “A Chorus Line.” Other One Summer actors include 2011 RHS graduates Savannah Ledgerwood, Keith Roper and Amelia Samson and RHS senior Emma Broback. All four were featured in RHS’s “The Wedding Singer” last fall and “A Servant of Two Masters” this spring. Ledgerwood will be a freshman at UW; Samson will attend Western Washington University; and Roper will enter Columbia College of the Arts in Chicago this fall. Sophie Thoma, RHS class of 2009 and current costume design student at Cornish College in Seattle, is designing the shows.
