Key City Public Theatre | Port Townsend's Community Theatre

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Key City Public Theatre | Port Townsend's Community Theatre

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 Port Townsend and Jefferson County’s premier theatre – Feeding minds and fostering friendships for over 50 years.

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.

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 8,000 residents and visitors throughout the Puget Sound region enjoy KCPT’s performances and programs each year.  Read more about how KCPT enriches our community.

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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.


Artistic Director Denise Winter

 

A message from Artistic Director Denise Winter

 

When you subscribe to Key City Public Theatre’s
season, you do more than guarantee your
seat at every mainstage performance. You express
your support for quality theatre created for and
by your community. You embrace our vision of an
artistic forum that offers the stimulating community
dialogue and exhilarating entertainment that only
live theatre can provide. This season we continue
our commitment to artistic excellence. Please join us

for your next great escape during Key City

Public Theatre’s 2010 season.

See you at the theatre!

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Contact us


By Phone:

 

Our Playhouse phone number remains 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

 

 

By Mail:

 

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

 

 

By Email:

 

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  (See map)

 

1128 Lawrence Street

Port Townsend, WA  98368
(360) 379-0195

 

Office Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Mon - Fri.  (Office will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday May 31.)
 


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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.

 

President
David Hundhausen

 

Vice President
Don DuBose

 

Treasurer
David Parris

 

Secretary
Don Knapp

 

Board Members At Large

JoAnn Bussa
Marie Campanoli

Abbie Greene

Heather Dudley Nollette

Angelyn Redstone

Staff


Denise Winter

Artistic Director

denise@keycitypublictheatre.org

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Matthew

Production Coordinator

production@keycitypublictheatre.org

 

 

Erin Lamb

Production Coordinator

erin.lamb@keycitypublictheatre.org

 

David Schroeder

Publicity Director

Webmaster 

E-mail to webmaster

 

For media inquiries, contact:

publicity@keycitypublictheatre.org


 

    Lou Salsbury

    Concessions Manager

 

 

    Jolene Sunding

    Graphic Designer


Volunteer Personnel

Catherine McNabb

PT Shorts Program Administrator    e-mail

 

Patricia Earnest

WordPlay Administrator

 

Mara Lathrop

Literary Manager    e-mail

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dianne Diamond

Ad/Sponsorship Coordinator    e-mail

 

 

Angela Gilbert

Artistic Assistant

 

Rowen Matkins

e-mail    Education Assistant

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Gilbert

Stage Technician

 

Starr Peters

Production Apprentice

 

Maggie Wegener

Administrative Apprentice

 

Richard "Mail Shark" Weston

Postal Pick-up

 

David Schroeder

Playwright Works-in-Progress (PWIP) Administrator

PWIP@keycitypublictheatre.org

 

"Key Bee" Office Assistants

Diane Delmar

Freeman Luoma

Tanner Matthew

Sharon Wenzler

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Our Past -- Production History

You can browse some of the show pages from our archives to read reviews and audience comments.

 

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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Key City Public Theatre  -  Denise Winter, Artistic Director  -  Playhouse: 419 Washington St  -  Admin: 1128 Lawrence St  -  Port Townsend, WA  98368


KCPT is a member of:

PT Chamber of Commerce

PT Chamber
of Commerce

PT Main Street Association

PT Main Street
Association

Theatre Puget Sound

Theatre Puget
Sound (TPS)

Washington State Community Theatre Association

Washington State
Community Theatre
Association (WSCTA)

KCPT partners with:

Northwind Arts Alliance

 

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Totera Web Systems

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