Thank you so much for your support over the past year. Summer 2025 was one of the best we’ve ever had and that’s thanks to YOU. We have already started planning a spectacular 2026.
2026 Season
GreenStage has brought Shakespeare to the heart of our city—free, alive, and shared by the community. We are thrilled to share the directors who will guide us this season through worlds of ambition and reconciliation, storms and magic, loyalty and love tested. We can’t wait to share this journey with you again–where the thrill of live theater reminds us why coming together as a community matters, and why Shakespeare still speaks to us, heart to heart, today.
Artistic Director Erin Day will be directing The Winter’s Tale. Since moving from Washington D.C., she found a home in GreenStage and finds nothing grander than playing with them and with you. Around town, she has performed at Seattle Public Theater, Theatre Babylon, Seattle Fringe Festival, The Washingtonians! and others. She is currently a member of The Midnite Mystery Players and is honored to serve as Artistic Director for GreenStage.
Coriolanus will be directed by Company Dramaturg Linda Lombardi. Linda Lombardi is a dramaturg and director attracted to work that shifts our perspective and broadens our understanding of the world. As a GreenStage company member from 1998-2005, she directed Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; and Henry V; and is thrilled to return to Seattle’s parks after 14 years in D.C. Regionally, she has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, and Intiman Theatre, among others. In three seasons as Literary Manager and Artistic Associate at Arena Stage, she served as production dramaturg and script supervisor for over 25 productions. Additional directing credits include Perfect Arrangement (world premiere), Pramkicker (DC premiere), Domestic Animals, Ajax (world premiere adaptation), and The White Devil. She is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the Artistic Council for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, and a script reader for Playwrights’ Center and Seattle Public Theater’s Distillery Festival.
And finally Garth Ball with be directing our two Barckyard Bard shows, The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Garth (AKA “Mr. Ball”) is an educator who moonlights as a theatre artist, and he’s delighted to find himself behind the table for the first time with Greenstage! Some favorite past Greenstage roles include Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (Backyard Bard), Bertram and the Fool in All’s Well that Ends Well (Backyard Bard), and Henry in Henry VI, Part One. When not in the classroom, onstage, or backstage, he enjoys reading, playing jazz, riding his bike, and Dungeons & Dragons. Huge thanks to Meredith, Dr. Meyer, Kate, and Rosa for fostering his passion for Shakespeare, to his students for tolerating his dramatic antics.
GreenStage summer shows run from July 10 through August 15 in parks in and around Seattle.
The Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival (SOTF) will also be back in July, still at Volunteer Park. This FREE three-stage, two-day event continues in its 26th year on July 25 & 26, 2026.
More details about the 26th annual Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival and dates for our complete 38th summer season will be coming soon.
In the meantime, if you can, if you are able, please give generously. Thank you so much for your support.
We believe in the transformative power of theater. Just as water slakes thirst and food satisfies hunger we believe coming together as a community and taking in the arts feeds the soul. That’s why we give these performances for FREE–so that everyone can participate without an economic barrier being in the way. If you believe that too please gift a donation to us today.
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