THE POSSIBLE an experiment beginning
LOGOS or Good Morning
THE END a story of the undead
ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE
an attempt to consciousness
YOU CHOOSE
an (anti)-choose-your-own-adventure
AFFAIR a novel
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Free Short and Long Stories
The Seattle Star's Affair (from their serialization)
RECENTish PLAYS:
CARRY WE OPENLY
produced by amador/stokes
Seattle Fringe Fest 2017
dominant culture, violence, guns
CLOSE
oppression, violence, economy
King's Books Tacoma, 10/23, 7pm
funding from the City of Tacoma
World Premiere Production of DUELS, 2016
by Nick Stokes, directed by José Amador, produced by amador/stokes
featuring Daniel Christensen, Marianna de Fazio, and Carter Rodriguez
garden produce by Nick Stokes; 6 cu-ya of soil
The Seattle Times: "An absorbing work of agricultural absurdity..."
The Seattle Star: "Mr. Stokes’ play asks people to flex their moral muscles,
and imaginatively."
Seattle Gay Scene: "A fascinating and smart piece of theater making...”
Broadway World: "A vibrant, surreal production ... an impressed 5/5 stars..."
The Stranger: "Come the fuck on with this shit."
OLD NEWS
- Writing again for 14/48, the world's quickest theater festival, at ACT, Jan 2018.
- Adjust, a nothing, at Creative Colloquy Nov '14.
- Hold, a short play script first performed for 14/48, at Seattle Star.
- Interview by Elena Hartwell at Arc of a Writer.
- What Caused the Scream, a You Choose excerpt, pub'd by BUMF, out of AU.
- The nothing She Thinks published by Creative Colloquy, May '14.
- A recording of The Woman as the first audiocast in NPA's new series.
- The once upon a time story Rise, then Descend can be found in Crab Orchard Review, Vol.18 No. 1.
- Amador/Stokes brings it to On the Boards' NW New Works Festival June 14-16 2013. DUELS: Orange, a selection. Promo pic at left.
- Vanishing wor(l)ds in space in the 5/13 Wrist. Square words in the 4/13 Wrist. V-shaped prose: "The Voice of Bernard and The Water Spider (by Marcel Béalu)" by Nick Stokes in the 2/13 Wrist. All pic'd at left.
- The Father of Sighs, a prose lucky to be exhaled into being at Atticus Review.
- Contributing words and developmental assistance to Pandora's Box Theater Project: workshopping now, with production forecasted for NY and Seattle.
- Writing for Doubleshot Theater Festival: Tacoma, Sep 22-23, BCPA, Free!
- Rebuild, an ensemble performance piece commissioned by Spark and Echo Arts.
- Smalling, a short (flash? sudden? nothing?) prose, up at Word Riot.
- Writing again for 14/48, the world's quickest theater festival, at ACT, Jan 2012!
- And a staged reading of Duels at Seattle Rep through NPA, Nov 8, 7 pm, directed by Erin Kraft!
- 1 Day, a novelette, due out in Issue #1 of Prick of the Spindle's Print Edition.
- Video and script of the commissioned short play Sing, which Spark and Echo Arts premiered in New York in July 2011.
- What Never Happened, a short story, is up at Waccamaw! Check it out.
- Losing Place, a short piece of prose, appeared in City Arts, April 2010.
- KNOCK published and produced Nick's short play Jacob's Rape in May. Finalist in the 2010 KNOCK International Play Competition.
- Blood Ensemble produced a new Stokes play in a hotel room at The Maxwell Hotel for the TPS Arts Crush Theatre Week Kickoff in October. Sold out!
- Whiteout and The Sound We Make, Probably Forgettable Productions, Tacoma's Old City Hall, 2009. Hugo Writers Award, 2007. TACID Benefit, 2010.
Nick Stokes writes novels and experiments and plays and fictions and nothings.
Contact Nick here.
