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Seattle Times feature on Mark Haim Mar 27, 2012

The Sunday edition of the Seattle Times included a feature on Mark Haim that covers everything from how he got started at Julliard to how he made X2, the work that's opening this weekend. Check it out.

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Revisit This Land Is Your Land Mar 23, 2012

Did you miss the 2010 NW New Works Festival? Or just Mark Haim's hit This Land Is Your Land? Check out this video of excerpts to get a sense of what he's been working on as part of X2!

 

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5 things to know about Mark Haim Mar 22, 2012

It's been two years since Mark Haim was last seen on the OtB stage as part of NW New Works. Refamiliarize yourself before X2 with these things to know about him:

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Set model for X2 Mar 22, 2012

LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA shared a photo of their set model that they developed for X2. The ubiquitous brightly colored banner from the 2010 NW New Works Festival will make its reprise for the expansion of This Land Is Your Land, but the design duo came up with a brand new concept for the first act of the evening. Take a look:

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"The woman's answer to Woody Allen's Love and Death" Mar 16, 2012

The first 2 reviews are in! Check out what The SunBreak and Crosscut have to say:

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Comments in my inbox! Mar 16, 2012

Here's what some other audience members had to say about last night's opening of Michelle Ellsworth's Phone Homer:

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and then....Unplug! Mar 16, 2012

Clytemnestra, the hyperventilating version by Michelle Ellsworth, has spent the last 45 minutes trapped in the information age, surrounded, saturated, over-stimulated, and then….unplug.

She stands covered in dirt, a decision, a devastating moment of decision inside her, no hamburger and for the first time alone.  I nearly leapt out of my chair to cheer! Unplug and trust the hamburger!

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Fries With That Shake! Mar 16, 2012

The story, as they say, had already been written. The predictable unraveling, eventual demise and subsequent iconic theme: Philandering husband gets away with murder. Noble, neglected wife looses it and everything falls apart. So obvious is the outcome, so ingrained is the pattern that you can see it from far away...it has it's own shape, it's own recognizable shade of black. One doesn't even have to know all the details, the sad arc is projected with every misstep.

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Reflections on Phone Homer Mar 16, 2012

I can't even begin to track everything that was part of Michelle Ellsworth's Phone Homer. The attention to detail in the work was just absurd. I would gladly go back and watch it again just to explore every minute facet of the fake websites, Pandora stations (in a lovely nod to further Greek myth) and Google search results that were woven throughout the brilliantly executed techno-myth. 

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What Just Happened?!?! The Transformative Power of Michelle Ellsworth Mar 16, 2012

Last week, my boyfriend decided that we should take a break.  He did so without establishing any parameters for said break.  He is apt, as most men are, to go to his metaphoric cave and stoically assess his problems.  Women, on the other hand, are often impetuous information-gatherers in times of stress.

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