ACT Theatre

Save the Date: June 14 at 3:30pm for our next community day: Frida For All! A community celebration of Mexican culture with art, dance, music, and food — in partnership with Seattle Opera and Northwest Folklife.

Join us for an afternoon at Frida’s House! Bring your dancing shoes and your creativity to this fun, family event! Participatory dance, live music, local food, and collaborative art-making with local artists and cultural organizations, plus a community discussion on Frida’s legacy and resonance here in Seattle.

Community Day is free, but we'd love for you to join us at the 2pm matinee of Frida... A Self-Portrait. Get tickets to the production at: www.unionartscenter.org/frida-a-self-portrait/.

Say hello to Rachael Cady, the lighting designer of .

Rachael’s designs have been seen all over the country. Her works at Kansas City Repertory Theatre include Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2B; Frankenstein; Frida...A Self Portrait; Of Mice and Men; Brother Toad; Man in Love; Evita; Sunday in the Park with George; Sticky Traps; A Christmas Carol (2010-2018, 2021); When I Come to Die; The Glass Menagerie; Circle Mirror Transformation; Sticky Traps and Incognito. Additional works include Frida...A Self Portrait (Portland Center Stage); Oklahoma! (Theatreworks); The Underpants, A Perfect Wedding, Shake Rattle and Roll and Smokey Joe’s Café (Florida Studio Theatre); Fellowship! (New York Musical Festival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Theatre League); and Love, Janis (Zach Theatre). Her other Kansas City credits include The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Tally’s Folly, Tally and Son, 5th of July and The Cripple of Inishman at the Kansas City Actors Theatre. As the resident designer for the Unicorn Theatre (1995-2010), Rachael designed over 50 shows from 1995to 2010.

Performances for Frida...A Self-Portrait begin June 6. Get tickets to the production at: www.unionartscenter.org/frida-a-self-portrait/.