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Micah Nordvedt
Director of Worship Arts for Hope Church at Silver Lake / Everett, Washington
Theater

I write and direct musicals (and non-musical plays) for Silver Lake Theatre, which is an outreach ministry of Hope Church at Silver Lake. The stories that I tell have no altar call. Most don't mention God. Yet themes of grace, judgment, forgiveness, love, and redemption are woven into the narratives. Stories have a way of becoming lodged in people's intellectual and emotional memories. They serve as vessels to carry truth, ideas, and worldview. And they can capture ideas at which mere explanations can only grasp. I would guess that Jesus didn't have people act out his parables and they certainly weren't musicals, but he used the storytelling method of the day to communicate the Kingdom of God to people who needed to hear. Some heard and understood, and some did not. By grace He's called me to be a storyteller in my time and culture, and in my artistry. Thus I find myself entangled in the quest to tell a story through the compelling fusion of theatre and music. In what other medium exists the capacity to express the depths of humanity and the heights of the divine?

the cast of "Addie and Boots"

a scene from "Addie and Boots"

a scene from "Like A Fairy Tale"

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