LISTEN
We begin with lived experience, interviews, research, and community knowledge.
Theatre Artists for Social Action
Stories that move us to action.
We bring local stories to the stage so our community can see one another more clearly—and act together.
How theatre becomes action
Stories can change what a community sees—and what it does next.
TASA is a Skagit County 501(c)(3) nonprofit led by socially minded theatre artists. Through staged readings, verbatim theatre, and community partnerships, we explore urgent issues, amplify lived experience, invite dialogue, and direct proceeds toward local organizations responding to those issues.
CREATE
Artists shape those stories into theatre that is immediate, human, and accessible.
GATHER
Performance opens a shared space for learning, reflection, and dialogue.
ACT
Proceeds and attention support local people and organizations doing the work.
Theatre stripped to its essentials
Voices in a shared circle.
Reader's theatre places the words and the people at the center. With little distance between performers and audience, lived experience becomes immediate, communal, and difficult to dismiss.
The work we bring to the stage
Stories that challenge assumptions.
TASA has created or presented work addressing incarceration and reentry, homelessness, racism, climate change, and civic responsibility.
- $40 and a Bus TicketVerbatim theatre about rebuilding life after jail or prison.
- No Place Like HomeLocal stories, myths, truths, and solutions related to homelessness.
- Twelve Angry MenA courtroom drama confronting prejudice, doubt, and responsibility.
- An Enemy of the PeopleIbsen's challenge about truth, public pressure, environmental danger, and personal responsibility.
Production spotlight
Twelve Angry Men
TASA's reader's theatre production used performance to invite reflection on prejudice, reasonable doubt, and the responsibility each person carries in the pursuit of justice.
More from our work
Local issues. Local voices. Shared stages.
No Place Like Home
Myths, truths, and solutions about homelessness in our community, presented at the Lincoln Theatre.
$40 and a Bus Ticket
Stories about the challenge of rebuilding life after incarceration, shaped from local interviews and performed as reader's theatre.
What audiences have said
The response continues after the curtain.
“Moved—made me want to help.”
“Powerful, informative, educating, and enlightening.”
“Keep telling these stories.”
What your support makes possible
Help stories move from the community to the stage.
Donations and sponsorships help TASA create accessible performances rooted in lived experience and connected to practical local action.
Research and story gathering
Interviews, permissions, transcription, and careful script development.
Accessible public performances
Venue, production, technical, printing, and outreach costs.
Artists and collaborators
The directors, actors, musicians, educators, and partners who bring each project to life.
Direct local impact
Performances that generate attention and financial support for organizations responding to the featured issue.
Community partners have included: Skagit Valley College Foundation and Drama Department, Community Partnerships for Transition Solutions, META Performing Arts, the Lincoln Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Mount Vernon Arts Commission, Voices of the Children, the League of Women Voters, and others.
Board and leadership
The people guiding TASA.
TASA is led by artists and community members committed to using theatre in service of understanding, dialogue, and local action.
Elfa Gisla
President
Peter Lincoln
Treasurer
Stella Ireland
Artistic Director
Teresa Vaughn
Director
Aviathar Pemberton
Director
Beth Wallace
Director
Joan Cross
Director
Become part of the next story
Sponsor. Host. Partner.
Support TASA, bring a performance to your community, share expertise, or explore a partnership on an issue affecting Skagit County.
Mail
P.O. Box 434
La Conner, WA 98257
TASA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.