Mission & Vision Artistic Statement The Book-It Style Book-It Strategic Plan 2009-2012 Book-It in the Press Founding Co-Artistic Directors JANE JONES and MYRA PLATT Book-It Repertory Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read. Book-It All Over, Book-It Repertory Theatre's Educational Outreach Program's mission is to provide an interactive relationship between youth and literature through theatrical productions and educational programs that promote the joy of reading, embrace diversity, enhance teacher and student learning, and inspire the imagination. For more information about Book-It All Over click here Back to Top * A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults in the 21st century | PDF, Back to Top What is the Book-It Style™ of theater? For a full production history click here. Back to Top Book-It Theatre seeing increase in play sales, even in tough economy Book-It Repertory Theatre Selected for The Kennedy Center's Partners in Education Program. Among 14 Partnership Teams from Across the Nation, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and South Kitsap School District #402 will Represent the Puget Sound Area at the Partners in Education Institute at the Kennedy Center, May 5-8, 2010Book-It Has Been Honored With a 2009 Theatre Communications Group/MetLife Aha! Think It Grant Think It/Do It Blog to read more about all five organizations chosen as we journey through our projects. Book-It is Honored in the 2009 Footlight Awards for Excellence in Local Theatre Best of Puget Sound, 2008: Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius Book-It Repertory Theatre: A Tale of Two Women Seattle Woman by Ellen HastingsBack to Top JANE JONES and MYRA PLATT Founding Co-Artistic Director The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules , which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane recently directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant , and A Tale of Two Cities. Book-It performances include roles in Ethan Frome, Silver Water, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Breathing Lessons , and Rhoda: A Life in Stories. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is also a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award.MYRA PLATT Founding Co-Artistic Director The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and adapted and directed the world-premiere production of Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She has also adapted Persuasion by Jane Austen. She has adapted and directed The House of the Spirits, Giant, Red Ranger Came Calling, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call , and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. She directed Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country , and Sweet Thursday . She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Awakening , the first workshop production of The Cider House Rules, A Telephone Call , and I Am of Ireland. In 2008 she, Jane Jones, and Book-It, were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. Back to Top
