Power to the Playwright

Rain city Projects

Manifesto Series

Over 500 books mailed FREE to theaters, universities, libraries, and arts organizations across North America.

The Manifesto Series is not a "greatest hits" anthology -- each editor has an axe to grind, a chip on the shoulder, a vision of how theater would be better if only it had more of THIS.

Each editor looks over the body of work written and produced in the Pacific Northwest and chooses plays that embody, articulate, or make manifest that editor's particular THIS.

Manifesto No. 6

10 to places

The sixth volume
Edited by A. Rey Pamatmat
2024.

Playwrights included:

  • Suzanne Bailie

  • Kelleen Conway Blanchard

  • Anuhea Brown

  • Brian Dang

  • Bret Fetzer

  • Mikki Gillette

  • Ki Gottberg

  • Emily Haver

  • Maggie Lee

  • Barbara Lindsay

  • Willow McLaughlin

  • July Monday

  • Beth Raas-Bergquist

  • Wayne Rawley

  • Matt Smith

  • Ozzy Wagner

  • Matthew Weaver

  • Ky Weeks

  • Michael Yichao

A. Rey Pamatmat’s Manifesto release party was held 24 February 2024 at Seattle Public Theater.

Manifesto No. 5

A People's Theatre

The fifth volume
Edited by Lauren Yee
2018.

Plays included:

  • TERRA INCOGNITA by Benjamin Benne

  • NADESHIKO by Keiko Green

  • ROZ AND RAY by Karen Hartman

  • BO-NITA by Elizabeth Heffron

  • SOUND by Don X. Nguyen

  • DO IT FOR UMMA by Seayoung Yim

Lauren Yee's Manifesto release party was held on 22 April 2018 at Seattle Repertory Theater.

Manifesto No. 4

A People's Theatre

The fourth volume
Edited by Chay Yew
2014.

Plays included:

  • UNDO by Holly Arsenault

  • TORSO by Keri Healey

  • THE WHALE by Samuel D. Hunter

  • BODY OF AN AMERICAN by Dan O'Brien

  • UNCLE HO TO UNCLE SAM by Trieu Tran with Robert Egan

  • PARTY PEOPLE by Universes

Chay Yew's Manifesto release party was held 25 October 2014 at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington.

Manifesto No. 3

Here’s to a Theatre of Defiance

The Third volume
Edited by Naomi Iizuka
2014.

Plays included:

  • LANGUAGE ROOMS by Yussef El Guindi

  • CLUBFOOT, OR, TALES FROM THE BACK OF AN AMBULANCE by Bret Fetzer & Stephen McCandless

  • MITZI'S ABORTION by Elizabeth Heffron

  • VERA WILDE by Chris Jeffries

  • AN AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE GAME SHOW by Paul Mullin

  • LIVE! FROM THE LAST NIGHT OF MY LIFE by Wayne Rawley

  • WIZZER PIZZER by Amy Wheeler

Cover to Manifesto Series Number 2

Manifesto No. 2

Vivid Impact

The Second volume
edited by Steven Dietz
2010.

Plays included:

  • 24 PICTURES OF A PILOT by Holly Arsenault

  • TEXARKANA WALTZ by Louis Broome

  • BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY by Allison Gregory

  • THE SECRET RECORDINGS OF LENIN TO HIS LOST LOVE MARY ANN OF TOPEKA, KANSAS by Brendan Healy

  • THE K OF D by Laura Schellhardt

  • CRUMBS ARE ALSO BREAD by Stephanie Timm

Manifesto No. 1

What's the Story? Mourning Glory.

The first volume
edited by Erik Ehn
2008.

Plays included:

  • GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE, NOS. 21 & 22 by Glen Berger

  • BACK OF THE THROAT by Yussef El Guindi

  • TORNADO & AVALANCHE by Bret Fetzer & Juliet Waller Pruzan

  • CLEVELAND RAINING by Sung Rno

  • STRAY by Heidi Schreck

  • TWO BIRDS AND A STONE by Amy Wheeler