About Key City Public Theatre

Key City Public Theatre is your place to meet new friends and explore new worlds.

• Award-winning live performances
• Educational community, family and youth programs
• Year-round programming
• 400+ volunteer opportunities each year

KCPT is the Olympic Peninsula's premier theatre.  Feeding minds and fostering friendships for over fifty years, KCPT was proclaimed "Best Theatre of 2010" by the Kitsap Sun.

We are celebrating our past and building toward our future as we actively work towards our goal of a new theatre facility to better serve our community.

We are funded in part by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, but the majority of our support comes from the annual financial contributions and season subscriptions of local businesses and individuals like you.

Key City Public Theatre is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

Our 2010 Annual Report (PDF)

Our Mission

Key City Public Theatre fosters artistic expression that entertains, educates and engages our community while developing an accessible and relevant theatre that produces new works, contemporary plays and innovative interpretations of classics that captivate, challenge, and celebrate our audiences and artists.

 

Read more about how KCPT enriches our community through education and outreach.

About our community -- Port Townsend

Key City Public Theatre is located in the heart of beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, the Olympic Peninsula’s Victorian Seaport and Arts Community.  Key City Playhouse is located in the heart of the historic downtown district, adjacent to Point Hudson Marina and within walking distance of dozens of fine restaurants and many charming inns, hotels and bed-and-breakfast accommodations.

Our theatre adds to a vibrant local arts scene of renowned visual artists and galleries, musicians, filmmakers, writers and poets.  Over 10,000 audience members, students, and visitors throughout the Puget Sound region enjoy KCPT’s performances and programs each year.  Read more about how KCPT enriches our community.

For Port Townsend visitor and event information, see www.enjoypt.com and www.ptguide.com.  Free color maps of Port Townsend are available at www.NWPlaces.com.

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Artistic Director

In 2005, Key City Players hired Denise Winter as Artistic Director, bringing an end to our long all-volunteer history and ushering in a new era of professionalism.

Denise Winter brings 20 years of professional theatre experience to KCPT. Before arriving in Port Townsend, she served on the artistic staff of six Tony Award-winning regional theatres and performed in 48 states, plus Canada and China, with companies such as the New York City Opera, The Children’s Theatre Company and American Repertory Theatre, along with Radio City Entertainment's Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes.

At KCPT, Denise directed the Northwest premieres of Constance Congdon's "So Far:The Children of the Elvi," and Gip Hoppe's "A New War." She most recently directed and workshopped Wendy MacLeod's new play "Birnham Woods" and directed KCPT's Shakespeare in the Park productions of "The Comedy of Errors" and "As You Like It." Denise received her BA in drama and literature from Kenyon College.

Denise was the focus of a recent cover story in the "Peninsula Woman" section of the Peninsula Daily News.  Read the article...

 

A message from Artistic Director Denise Winter for the 2012 season...

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Contact us

By phone:

    Our Playhouse phone number is the best number for pre-recorded show information

    and day-of-show inquires:  (360) 385-7396.

    Our Administrative Office number is the best number for all other inquiries:(360) 379-0195.

    Our fax number is (360) 379-1653.

By ground mail:

    P.O. Box 194, Port Townsend, WA  98368

By e-mail:

•     For general inquiries: info@keycitypublictheatre.org
•     For comments or suggestions: feedback@keycitypublictheatre.org
•     For media inquiries: publicity@keycitypublictheatre.org
•     To contact individual members of the staff, see staff list below.

On the web:

    www.keycitypublictheatre.org

    We can accept donations online on this page.

In person:

    Playhouse and Box Office  (See map)

    419 Washington Street
    Port Townsend, WA  98368
    (360) 385-7396

Administrative Offices (and future theatre location):

    1128 Lawrence Street

    Port Townsend, WA  98368  (See map)
    (360) 379-0195

    Office Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Mon - Fri. 

    (Office is closed on major holidays)

    (Office will be closed Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, and Mon Dec 26.)

    (Office will close at 2:00 p.m. on Fri Dec 30.)
 

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Board of Directors

KCP board meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at our administration offices.  All are welcome to attend.

July meeting has been cancelled.  Next board meeting is Tuesday, August 9.

President
David Hundhausen

Vice President
Don DuBose

Treasurer
David Parris

Secretary
Amanda Steurer

Board Members At Large

Artistic/Administrative Staff

Denise Winter

Artistic Director

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David Schroeder

Publicity Co-Director

Webmaster 

E-mail to webmaster

Erin Lamb

Production Coordinator

e-mail

 Zhaleh Almaee

Publicity Co-Director

For media inquiries, contact:

publicity@keycitypublictheatre.org

Adam Matthew

IT Tech

e-mail

Angela Amos

Assistant to the Artistic Director

e-mail

Mara Lathrop

Literary Manager

e-mail

Terry Tennesen

Graphic Designer

Amy Sousa

Education Assistant

Maggie Hastings Clifford

Development Apprentice

Nancy Krieg    

Audience Services Coordinator    

Production Staff

Karen Anderson

Lighting Coordinator

    Colleen Dobbin

    Costume Coordinator

    Kana Okabe

    Production Apprentice

Volunteer Staff

Catherine McNabb

PT Shorts Program Administrator

e-mail

Patricia Earnest

WordPlay Administrator

David Schroeder

Playwright Works-in-Progress (PWIP) Administrator

PWIP@keycitypublictheatre.org

Dianne Diamond

Ad/Sponsorship Coordinator

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                               Cheryl Cashman

                               Group Sales Coordinator

Phil Baumgaertner

Photography Coordinator

                               Karen Gale

                               Program Layout Coordinator

                               Sheila Khalov

                               Program Content Coordinator

Richard "Mail Shark" Weston

Postal Pick-up

                               Diane Delmar

                               Sharon Wenzler

                               "Key Bee" Office Assistants

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Production History

You can browse some of the show pages from our archives...

2010 Season

14th Annual Playwrights' Festival

The Seagull

Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Tempest

Boyce and Melinda Peterson's Investment Strategies for the Post-Money World

Here's to the Ladies!

Holiday Sampler

2009 Season

13th Annual Playwrights' Festival

Birnham Woods

What the Butler Saw

The Comedy of Errors

Scrooge: The Musical

2008 Season

12th Annual Playwrights' Festival

The Conference of the Birds

Where's My Money?

As You Like It

Working the Musical

A Golden Age Radio Christmas
 

2007 season

11th Annual Playwrights' Festival

Tartuffe

So Far: The Children of the Elvi  (Northwest Premiere)

Romeo and Juliet

The Spitfire Grill

A Golden Age Radio Christmas
 

2006 Season

10th Annual Playwrights' Festival

The Threepenny Opera

A New War   (Northwest Premiere)

The Taming of the Shrew

Mrs. Warren's Profession

A Golden Age Radio Christmas

2005 Season

Crimes of the Heart

9th Annual Playwrights' Festival

A Perfect Ganesh

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Cocktail Hour

A Golden Age Radio Christmas
 

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