Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows Recieves Regional Premiere in Seattle

Washington Ensemble Theatre presents the regional premiere of Swimming in the Shallows, an absurd comedy that follows three cou ples as they wade through consumerism, gay marriage, and a shark tank.

Swimming in the Shallows premiered last year in NYC at Second Stage Theatre with a cast lead by Michael Arden (Broadway's Big River).

Adam Bock's plays include Swimming in the Shallows, Five Flights and The Typographer's Dream. His works have been produced in San Francisco , New York , Los Angeles , London , Toronto , and Edinburgh , and have won the Glickman, Clauder and BATCC Awards. Mr. Bock is an Artistic Associate at Shotgun Players and Encore Theatre and a member of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition.

Katjana Vadeboncoeur is a director, actor and teaching artist based in Seattle . Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Fission (about Jewish physicist Lise Meitner) at Live Girls! theater, BODYbody: Aphrodite Raves (a multi-media exploration of female body-issues) as guest director at Pierce College and Sosu's Call for Book-It Repertory Theatre. Katjana previously directed The Canterville Ghost, Tony Kushner's The Illusion and the national tour of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit for California Theatre Center . She also studied modern experimental theatre at Lancaster University in England , co-writing and directing the festival one-act Goldfish . In Seattle she has also directed for the Mae West Fest, Freehold and Seattle Shakespeare's youth company. She is a staff member at Seattle Shakespeare Company and is also a company member of Living Voices, touring the country performing three solo shows. Katjana holds a theatre degree from the University of California , Irvine , where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

The cast includes Elise Hunt, Marc Kenison, Michael Place , Rhonda J. Siokowski, and Alexandra Tavares.

The Washington Ensemble Theatre will be presenting Swimming the in Shallows as the third show of its second season on the heels of the wildly successful Crave and their original Holiday Show, Wonderful Life: The Holidays on Capitol Hill. WET is an ensemble of fifteen actors, designers, and artists committed to bringing highly collaborative and well produced works to the Capitol Hill and Seattle community.

Swimming in the Shallows opens on February 10^th, and runs through March 6^th. For tickets call 1-800-838-3006, or visit www.brownpapertickets.com .

Rhonda J. Soikowski, Marc Kenison, and Elise Hunt.

Marc Kenison as Nick and Michael Place as the Shark 

Photos by Jennifer Zeyl.

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