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Photography: Auston James

Twice a year, 14/48 gathers writers, directors, actors, musicians, and designers to produce, from scratch, 14 world premier 10 minute plays in 48 hours. This is done over two days, seven plays per day, based on a theme drawn from a giant plastic ice cream cone. The directors draw their plays and cast at random, and the design team becomes responsible for designing each one. The photos on this page are from the January 2010 festival, which was housed at A Contemporary Theatre in downtown Seattle. The themes this weekend were “into the fire” for day one, and “somewhere over the rainbow” for day two. For lighting, I had a “rep plot” which was in the air for an incoming dance concert, and allowed me some freedom to change color and refocus specials. My favorite lighting moment of the entire weekend was at the end of the last show on the second night. In Pretty Flowers, A group of kids find their mother has buried a rainbow in the garden and dig it up. As they pull colored streamers out of the “hole” and pass them into the audience, the entire theatre becomes awash in color, becoming the rainbow!