Paul Budraitis returns to Seattle, his once long-time home, to share this intimate, honest, and deeply moving performance.
I Love That For You is an intimate solo performance that invites its audience to notice what death can teach us about living. Simple, honest, direct, empathetic, the work is a compelling shared experience that speaks to the ways that our acceptance of the end can bring us into greater presence in our relationships with others and in our relationship with our world. Ultimately, I Love That For You is not about death. It is a community offering that hopes to help generate more life from the lives we are already living.
Cast & Credits
Paul Budraitis
Paul Budraitis (he/him) is a director, performer, and generative theater artist, based in Berlin. He studied directing as a Fulbright grantee at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy under the mentorship of visionary director Jonas Vaitkus. Paul directed the world premieres of Elizabeth Heffron's Bo-Nita (Seattle Repertory Theatre) and Kristen Kosmas’ The People’s Republic of Valerie (On the Boards), as well as the Northwest premieres of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses (New Century Theatre Company) and David Greig’s The Events (Intiman Theatre). As part of performance collective The Violet Triangle, he worked with lead artist Timothy White Eagle to co-create The Indigo Room, which premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. and then played at On the Boards and the Under the Radar Festival in 2023. His most recent solo works BLIND and I Love That For You, both premiered at Acker Stadt Palast Theater in Berlin.
Website: paulbudraitis.com | Instagram: @paulbudraitis
Evan Anderson
Evan Anderson (he/him) is a lighting designer and musician based in Brooklyn. Lighting: The Winter’s Tale, It’s A Wonderful Life (Hartford Stage); The Plot (Yale Repertory Theatre); Symphony of Rats (The Wooster Group); Scenes With Girls (Theater Lab); Happy Life (The Hearth); the other shore (zoe | juniper); One Small Step (New Ohio); Every Five Minutes, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Washington Ensemble Theatre); The Realistic Joneses (New Century Theatre Company); The Holler Sessions (ACT); Caught, Grand Concourse (Seattle Public Theater). Music: The Slow Dance (59E59); the other shore, Clear and Sweet (zoe | juniper); She Will Come On Her Own (Lilach Orenstein). Evan is an alumnus of Seattle rock bands Heavy Petting, Leatherdaddy, Merso, and Livingston Seagull. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Instagram: @evan.c.anderson
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Paul Budraitis - Director, Performer
Evan Anderson - Lighting designer, Sound designer, Composer, Live musician
Lennart Labarenz - production consultant
Simona Biekšaitė - scenic design
John Kendall Wilson - dramaturgical consultant
Supported by the Acker Stadt Palast Theater (Berlin), Anete Colacioppo, John Robinson, Josef Krebs, Stephen McCandless, Ariel Glassman, Nicole Stellner, and Peter Eberhardy.
Honorary producer for the On the Boards presentation: John C. Robinson.
Photo by Sebastian Pollin