"This is a stunning, disturbing, and altogether superb piece of theatre"

"This is stunning work -- visceral and funny and startling and sad -- often all at the same time."

"The way this play isolates and engages the senses is theater at a whole new level!"

Photo by Rick Liu

The Brother and the Bird by Alissa Nutting

Directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe

Featuring Sammy Rat Rios and Briana Ratterman Trevithick

April 20th - May 18th



"The Brother and the Bird" by Alissa Nutting first appeared in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer (Penguin Books, 2010).

Video by Rob Martinez

Sessions are drop in

Cost: $10-20 per session (scholarships available)

Facilitator: Rebby Yuer Foster

(20 participants max)

Focusing on the work of Asian-American playwright, Young Jean Lee. 

Upcoming sessions:



May 6th, 6-9pm: Church, & We're Gonna Die 

May 13th, 6-9pm: Untitled Feminist Show, & Yaggoo

Each week participants will read through a different Young Jean Lee play and have a discussion afterwards. For each play, the roles will be placed on slips of paper in a hat, and upon arrival, participants will each pick a slip of paper, and will either read a part or be an audience member.

Workshops will be held in StT’s office/rehearsal space (2136 SE 8th Ave).