Seattle, WA
"The Leah/Rachel Play"
2017
Bridged Division(s):
Ashkenazi + Sephardic Jewish communities in Seattle
Project Summary: "
The Leah/Rachel Play" combined live theater with a documentary-film collaboration, starring "Sisters of the Seattle Jewish Community" on screen alongside live performers. Co-created with Emmy Award winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman, ITP spent 9 months working with partners throughout Seattle’s Jewish community with little kids and elders and everyone in between to explore concepts of sisterhood, twinning, and what it means to see the same thing through different eyes.The project's community art initiative, "Art Around Town: Seattle," led by local artist sooze bloom deLeon grossman, worked with lens painting in pairs of glasses, exploring vision and perspective. The premiere was staged as part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
Stats:
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5 paid local artists
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33 local actresses aged 5 to 95
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10 partner organizations
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572 process participants
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300 performance audience members
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$1,400 box office raised.
Partner Organizations:
Seattle Jewish Film Festival; The Stroum JCC Theater; Kline Galland Home; The Summit; Seattle Hadassah; Kadima Reconstructionist Community; Congregation Beth Shalom; The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle; Seattle Hebrew Academy; The University of Washington Hillel.
Funders:
The Covenant Foundation
In the Media:
"The Making of the Leah/Rachel Play", Jewish in Seattle Magazine (Feb 12, 2017)