Join Bleecker St. Playhouse for our first annual fundraiser, Women of a Certain Age! This play festival will feature four brand new plays written by women identifying playwrights that embrace our mission of telling stories that emphasize the experiences of women, especially those over 40.

Event Information

Date: June 30th, 2026

Where: Theatre Off-Jackson
409 7th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98104

6:30pm- Doors open for cocktail hour and silent auction. Featuring live music by Camaira Metz

7:00pm- Play festival begins

8:00pm- Intermission with remarks, silent auction results, and raise the paddle

9:00pm- Festival ends

Playwrights

Kate Danley

Kate Danley is a USA TODAY bestselling author and award-winning playwright. Building Madness – Winner, Panowski Playwriting Award. Working for Crumbs – Winner, B Street Comedy Festival. The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Critic’s Pick by the Star Tribune. Power – Winner, Renegade Theatre Festival. Her Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker book series is optioned for film and television. She trained in on-camera puppetry with Michael Earl (Mr. Snuffleupagus) and organized Playwrights on the Moon, a time capsule of plays aboard the Griffin Lander to be left on the moon. Madam(e) Lou will be making its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026. katedanley.com

Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel’s play BLUE TO BLUE was a 2025 mainstage production at Annex Theatre and nominated for a Gregory Award for Outstanding Original Script and a Sound on Stage Award for Original Production. Her work has been included in the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Short Play Festival, Aspire Repertory Theatre Creator’s Series, and 18th & Union’s Portable Play Festival. With J.W. Marshall she co-authored the play VICINITY/MEMORYALL, which received an Artist Trust GAP Award and was published by Entre Ríos Books. Her poetry collection "Woodnote" was the recipient of the Washington State Book Award.

Emily Golden

A Seattle native, Emily Golden holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University where she is now an Assistant Teaching Professor. Emily has had work produced all over the country (and is having her international debut in Australia this summer!) Locally, you may have seen Bethany Sees the Stars at Copious Love, The Best We Can Do at Edmonds Driftwood Players, Gale at Shoreline Community College, or Bear Hunt read by Bleecker St. Playhouse. Emily is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Darian Lindle

Darian Lindle (she/her) is a Seattle-based playwright whose work blends mythology, speculative fiction, and science into deeply human stories. Her adaptation of The Westing Game (Dramatic Publishing) has been produced 70+ times nationwide. Her historical sci-fi epic SILON in The Baltimore Plot earned a 2018 Gregory Award nomination and is available as a podcast. A Mazen Award and 4Culture grant recipient, she collaborates regularly with Infinity Box Theatre on science-based plays and serves on the board of The 14/48 Projects. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Directors

Bryar Golden

Bryar Freed-Golden has been an actor, director, producer, and drama educator for over 37 years in New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle. She has directed and produced over 20 stage plays, and her experience runs the gamut from musicals and operas, to drama and farce.

As an actor, Bryar trained in New York at the neighborhood playhouse and studied with Michael Shurtleff and Stella Adler. She has performed in a number of productions Off-Broadway, and in LA and Seattle, and has appeared in various films and television series.

Greg LoProto

Greg LoProto is a long-time writer, director and performer with credits in New York and Seattle. Currently, he is directing the Seattle premier of 'Continuity' by Bess Wohl, which marks his third production with Blue Hour Theatre Group, having served as set designer on 'boom' by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and as writer/director for the Gregory Award nominated 'The Plague Master General'. He is very happy, flattered, and grateful to have been invited to working with Bleecker Street Playhouse for the very first time.

Danielle Reinkens

Danielle Reinkens is so honored to be working with Bleecker Street on this fantastic evening of theatre. After receiving her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts she dove into youth theatre instruction with Dandylyon Drama and also made the foray into Theatre Marketing at Seattle Rep. She is so grateful to get to know all of these amazing artists over the last few weeks, and to share our work here tonight! Thank you for being here, your support makes it all possible!

Amanda E. Rountree

Amanda E. Rountree is a Seattle-based director from Southern California. Select directing credits include: Ellen McLaughlin's The Oresteia, Photograph 51, (UW School of Drama); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Taproot Theatre Company - touring production); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard's Friends. (Strawberry Theatre Workshop's SJAM); Medea (The Homespun Players); and The Crucible (New Threads Theatre Company). She has also worked with Village Theatre, Seattle Public Theatre, Copious Love Productions, and Critical Mass Performance Group. MFA Directing, University of Washington. aerountree.com

Actors