Press Release - “SHape Of” by Zoe Barker-Aderem
Contact: Rebecca O’Neil, Artistic Director
Email: rebecca@shatteredglassproject.org
Kill Date: 06/21/2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
As part of the 2025 Plays in Progress series, The Shattered Glass Project is thrilled to present Shape Of written by Zoe Barker-Aderem , at the MLK FAME Community Center on Friday, June 20, 2025
Iris and July are in love and having an impossible baby as Iris’s brother’s flair for conspiracy theories grows darker. Oh, and there’s a pandemic. What does family mean when the world turns upside down? How do we find each other again when we don’t exist in the same reality anymore? Shape Of exists in the liminal spaces and immediacy of the early days of COVID and the racial justice movement, where each day brings one more question without an easy or truthful answer.
Plays in Progress is a series of staged readings that bring the Seattle theatre community together with emerging playwrights to share new plays, build connections and engage in conversation.
Zoe Barker-Aderem is a Seattle-based playwright whose work has been produced by theaters in Seattle and Los Angeles. Besides plays, she writes creative nonfiction and occasionally catches a poem. As a visual artist, she works mostly with mixed media and sculpture. She considers teaching part of her artistic practice: for the last ten years, she has taught creative writing in the King County Jail as part of the Golf Pencil Group. Her day job is fundraising and capacity building, including organizations building piped water systems, community for new parents, trauma-informed programming in prisons, and affordable housing. Directed by Buddy Todd, Shape Of features Isaiah Medina, Tessa “Cricket” James, and Seamus C. Smith.
For more information and to get tickets online visit our website at www.shatteredglassproject.org/2025-plays-in-progress/#Shape_of and become an integral part of bringing new works of theatre to life!
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The Shattered Glass Project is a theatre company with the mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex by providing unique opportunities to create and grow professionally. For more information, visit our website at www.shatteredglassproject.org.