Seattle Children's Theatre


The Seattle Children's Theatre is a resident theatre for young audiences in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1975. Its main performances are at the Seattle Center in a 482-seat and a 275-seat theatre, from September through June. SCT also has a drama school with its own performances during the summer. Total annual attendance is about 220,000.
SCT is a member of Theatre Puget Sound, International Performing Arts for Youth, and Theatre Communications Group.

Education programs

SCT has several theatre education programs held at schools and other organizations in the Seattle area. The on-site Drama School has classes year-round, taught by professional artists, and produces summer shows providing young people with participatory theatre education and theatre arts training. SCT's Deaf Youth Drama Program, founded by brothers Howie and Billy Seago, ran from 1994 to 2007. Seattle Children's Theatre has gained national and international prominence as a producer of theatre, educational programs, and new scripts for young people.

Production history

1975-2000

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979 - Fifth Season
1980
1981
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
1984-85 - Tenth Season
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90 - Fifteenth Season
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95 - Twentieth Season
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00 - Twenty-Fifth Season
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05 - Thirtieth Season
2005-06
2006-07
2007 - Special Event
2007-08
2008 - Special Events
2008-09
2009-10 - Thirty-Fifth Season
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15 - Fortieth Season
2015-16
2016-17
Directed by Peter C. Brosius
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
* = World Premiere ** = American Premiere

Affiliated artists

Choreographers

In 2009 information technology worker, William Edgar Hoke, was arrested and subsequently convicted of possessing at least 13,000 pornographic images of child pornography, spanning over three years of browsing illegal bulletin boards which he accessed from both home and work computers. There was no indication that Hoke had unsupervised contact with children at SCT. He was charged by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of Operation Predator, a program aimed at bringing to justice those who prey upon children. He was sentenced to eighteen months in prison as well as ten years probation.