
2025
jULY 11-12
July 18-19
7:30pm & 10:00pm
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival
digital program
We’ve been producing 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival since 1997 in venues all around Seattle. And now The 14/48 Projects has expanded our reach with festivals in the UK and Austin, TX.
Here’s how 14/48 works:
Early Thursday night:
After tapping the ceremonial 14/48 keg, all the participants choose a theme by completing this sentence: “Theatre wouldbe a lot more interesting if there were seven ten-minute plays about .”
One answer is chosen at random and that becomes the theme for the following evening.
Seven terrified, excited, caffeinated writers must submit a brand new 10-minute play based on the theme by 8am Friday morning.
Friday morning:
Seven directors gather and each randomly draws one play. Thirty minutes later, the directors blindly choose actors’ names on slips of paper to cast the show.
That day:
The band shows up to provide music and sound, designers create all technical
aspects of each show as the directors and their casts rehearse all day. Each play gets 20 minutes of tech rehearsal.
Friday evening:
The seven plays have their World Premiere at 7:30pm and Final Performance at 10:00pm.
The 7:30pm audience provides the theme for Saturday’s show via a random
drawing and the seven writers go home to start the process all over again to
culminate with seven brand new scripts for Saturday evening at 7:30pm and
10:00pm, thus creating 14 plays in 48 hours.
* = Mazen Award Winner. Learn more HERE.
INVITATIONS COMMITTEE
Megan Ahiers
Shawn Belyea
Stan Shields
Jodi-Paul Wooster
Charlotte Peters
Alexei Cifrese
Rhonda J. Soikowski
Suz Pontillo
Angelo Domitri
Jasmine Joshua
14/48 staff
President and Founder
Jodi-Paul Wooster
Producing Director
Shawn Belyea
Marketing Director
Rachel Delmar
Production Manager
Ryan Higgins
Project Manager
Charlotte Peters
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Production Assistant
Ayo Tushinde
Artistic Director
Stan Shields
Operations Director
Megan Ahiers
Web and Graphic Designer
Corinne Park-Buffelen
Bar Manager
Chad Sommerville
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UK Liaison
Kerri Brown Wooster
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Associate Produer
Lamar Legend
14/48 FESTIVAL STAFF
Artist Liaisons
Megan Ahiers
Shawn Belyea
Charlotte Peters
Jodi-Paul Wooster
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Front of House Manager
Nick Edwards
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Sound Engineer
Conor Fortner
14/48 board
President
Gabriel Ayerza
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Secretary
Erin Bednarz
Vice President
Pamala Mijatov*
Treasurer
Stella Stamenova
Joe Iano
Coby Jackson
Jasmine Joshua
Mimi Katano
Kathryn Jean Keller
Darian Lindle*
Brendan Mack
Allanah Raas-Bergquist
Zenaida Rose Smith
Mariah Lee Squires
Jodi-Paul Wooster
wine & stein club
Kiki Abba
Jenn Baggs
Lesley Bain
Kaya Bekiroglu
Corey Bell
Vic Bondi
Linda Breneman
Tom Challinor
Amy Chasanov
Chris Comte
Amy Danneker
Trick Danneker
Meaghan Darling*
Marianna de Fazio
Jennifer Dice
Peter Eberhardy
Monica Galarneau
Peggy Gannon*
Mike Gilson
Daniel Glenn
John Gray
Julia Griffin Sagoian*
Chris Haddad
William Hall, Jr.
Cale Haskell
Tim Hyland*
Joe Iano
Andy Jensen
Rob Jones
Kathryn Keller
Kaeline Kine
Mariko Kita
Becca Knox
Josef Krebs
Sam Lamb
Frank Lawler
Teri Lazzara*
Carolyn & Steve Lindle
Laura Lindle
Darian Lindle*
Troy Lund
Jill and Jason Marr
Amelia Meckler
Jen Moon
Scotto Moore*
K. Brian Neel*
Bruce Oberg
Nik Perleros
Sal Ponce
Desiree Prewitt
Alan Pruzan
Jaime Roberts
Julia* and Kiki Sagoian
Carl Sander*
Greg Scheiderer
Cynthia Scheiderer
Eric Schreiber
Larry Setlow
Stan Shields
Ben Simmons
Judy Simmons
Leigh Simpson
Matt Smith
Ryan Spickard
Stiliyana Stamenova
Shawnmarie Stanton*
Tonia Steed
Garth Stein
Nicole Stellner
Steven Sterne
Rachel Theriot
Cynthia Thomas
Annette Toutonghi*
Anne Valles
Heather Ward
Gina Winkler
big dogs club
Cindy Bradder
Linda Clemon-Karp
Ben Derby
Jennifer Dice
Anna Forse
Macall Gordon
Erik Hammen
Renae Howard
Rob Jones
Agastya Kohli*
Grant Lowe
Marty Mukhalian
Jaime Roberts
Cynthia Scheiderer
Greg Scheiderer
Eric Schreiber
Tera Schreiber
Stiliyana Stamenova
Steven Sterne
Quinn Thomsen
Alison Thomsen
Anne Valles
Joe Zavadil
2023 donors
Margaret Adams
Deniece Bleha
Mary E. Brown and Michael D. Blum
Valerie Brunetto*
Lynne & Michael Bush
Stacey Bush
Tom Challinor
Mary Dodge
Michael Dyen
Brendan Healy
Jerin and Craig Howard
Joseph Iano and Lesley Bain
Holly Ingalls
Kathryn J. Keller
Bill Kine
Becca Knox
Frank Lawler
Teri Lazzara*
Patrick Lennon
Janet McAlpin
Meredith Mcclurg
Andrew McMasters
Gerard Menendez
Gary and Barbara Menendez
Daniel Morris
Chris Newell
Paula Wilson Nitka
Ksenia Popova
Sam Read
Carl and Cathryn Sander
Larry Setlow
Patrick Sheehy
Steven Sterne and Jennifer Dice
Rachel Theriot and Matt Smith
Cynthia Thomas
Lantz Wagner
Mark Waldstein
Wendy Woolery
Crystal Yingling
Performers' Forge and Ryan Spickard




