About Global Works
Global Works exists to support creation and to facilitate communication through the work of artists in different media and cultures.
Founded in 2004 by renowned theater director, teacher of mask and movement, and expert clown doctor, Arne Zaslove, Global Works is an innovative 501(c)(3) non-profit theater based in Seattle.
With 20 years of producing revue-style shows like the famed “The Big Broadcast,” classic plays, new works, and more recently, court dramas, Global Works is driven by staging relevant, timely pieces that encourage audiences to learn from the past, while inspiring them to vividly experience the present. Now, producing at 12th Avenue Arts in Seattle’s centrally accessible neighborhood Capitol Hill, the company offers an annual January Festival of Theatre, featuring original new work, staged readings, workshops, and ongoing community outreach.
Global Works' core members are seasoned professionals in acting, directing, writing, producing, and teaching. Founding collaborators include legendary actor and founding member of Seattle Rep Gordon Coffey; music professor, conductor, and librettist Theodore Deacon; composer and music director John Engerman; lawyer and actor Michael King; technical director and resident audio-visual specialist Keehn Thomsen; and prolific playwright Claire Zaslove.
“Creation is our best response to destruction. Communication is our best response to conflict.” – Arne Zaslove
Meet Our Director and Founder
“The human experience is rooted in the physical – and the human body is like a tree.
“Its legs, grounded in what has come before, provide acquired strength and stability. Their movement nourishes the body by circulating blood, its life force.
“The torso is the center of the body’s emotional being and where we experience the eternal present. Here is where we also manifest action: our hands and our arms accomplish the tasks we set out to do.
“The head, home of eyes and ears and tongue and brain, is the wellspring of imagination, which reveals the possible, what can be, what perhaps will be.
“Past, present, and future. This is the story the human body tells.”
Arne Zaslove
“Make change. Make the world a better place.”
Arne Zaslove
Artistic collaboration is a mirror for global partnerships and intercultural communication.
It involves a balance between expression, perspective, and appreciation.
It means finding common ground while standing one’s own ground,
respecting another’s process, and negotiating a dynamic and harmonious outcome.