Allison Narver: filling the empty space; a jazzily eclectic director keeps a feisty theatre going through challenging times.(Profiles)(Biography)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by Berson, Misha
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When Allison Narver bid her hometown goodbye and headed for the Yale Drama School graduate directing program, it was unclear if Seattle had lost her talents to the wider world. Later, when the post-graduate Narver became "house director" of the blockbuster Broadway musical The Lion King, the prospect of her coming back to the Northwest to run a small theatre seemed a longshot.
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But when offered the post of artistic director at Seattle's Empty Space Theatre, Narver did not hesitate. The 37-year-old theatre artist, her actor husband Jim Chestnutt and their infant ...
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