about
The Feast
The feast is a nimble, artist-driven ensemble theatre that prizes virtuosic artists working in extremes; pays those artists really well; and builds maximalist, collectivist, welcoming events
Onstage and in the way we produce,
The Feast creates an aesthetically and
materially abundant American theatre.
Pictured: Grant Chapman. Production Design: An-Lin Dauber. Photo Credit: Truman Buffett
Our artists work in Extremes.
Our actors have worked to develop virtuosic voices and expressive bodies, and they use them fully. They bring not only individual characters but communities and ideas to life. Our designers create opulence from the every day—heightening trash, found spaces, or even the normalcy of a proscenium stage.
Pictured: Max Rosenak, Holiday, Chip Sherman. Production Design: An-Lin Dauber. Lighting Design: Geoff Korf. Photo credit: Joe Moore
We pay those artists really well.
At The Feast, there are no starving artists—literally. We fight the scarcity mindset wherever we find it and operate from the premise that there is enough for everyone. Our artists are working hard—doing special, intense labor that should be paid, well, in cash.
Pictured: Raphael Jordan, Ryan Williams French. Production Designer: Pete Rush.
Photo Credit: Bruce Clayton Tom.
We build events that are maximalist, collectivist, and wholeheartedly communal
We create rituals that make the collective visceral: through care and solidarity, through parties, through cathartic reckonings, and—through often-tragic stories—the violence and destruction that collectives can whip up. Our plays feature choruses, communities, and shared politics, never focused on the individual character or family without making explicit their relationship to broader society and systems. We use theatrical, spatial, sensory, and experiential techniques to interrupt the traditional relationship between audience and the art, allowing us to imagine and briefly participate in new forms of society. We invite audiences to participate in our radical economic model, prioritizing pay-what-you can tickets both as a method of making our shows accessible to all, allowing audiences at all places on the economic spectrum to participate in creating an abundant shared space.
our Economics
We pay better than theatres 50 times our size
The Feast is a small theatre that does big plays with big paychecks. We pay exceptionally well in comparison with other theatres—big and small.
THE FEAST vs MAJOR REGIONAL THEATRE
Weekly paychecks
The Feast
$739
Major Regional Theatre
Theatre budget
The Feast
$18
MILLION
Major Regional Theatre
THE FEAST vs Small Seattle Theatres
Weekly paychecks
The Feast
$650
$495
$190
$150
$56
Small Seattle Theatres
Theatre Budgets
The Feast
$3.6
$1.3
$1
Million
$585
$138
Thousand
Small Seattle Theatres
Facts and Receipts.
- We pay all actors, both union and non-union actors, the same union rate, in 2024 that will be $825 per week.
- In the 10 years of our existence, we’ve paid artists $1 Million dollars.
- Our staff all make the same hourly wage: $30.
- To see more details and the choices we’ve made to get here, take a look at our full budget.
our People
Staff
Ryan Guzzo Purcell
Founding Artistic Director
Annie Liu
Director of Operations and Development
Jesse Roth
Communications Manager
Board
Reggie D. White
Board Member
Albert Wang
Board Member
Chelsea Waite
Board Member
Jen Brandon
Board Member
financial & Reports
Transparency
View our Tax Returns
Our mission and vision are made manifest in our artists, our paychecks, and our events.
