Cast Announced for Whidbey Island Center's RABBIT HOLE

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, announces the cast of Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire. The production, directed by Chris Fisher, features Max Cole-Takanikos, Patricia Duff, Tom Harris, Jill Johnson, and Melissa McAlerney. Performances will begin at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Avenue, on Friday, April 10 and continue through Saturday, April 25.

Tickets range in price from $12 to $16, with discounts available for students and groups, and are available from www.WICAonline.com or 360.221.8268 - 800/638.7631.

Becca (Patricia Duff) and Howie Corbett (Tom Harris) have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.

Max Cole-Takanikos (Jason) has appeared in WICA's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Rosencrantz), Sweeney Todd (Anthony) and The Good Doctor. Amongst his favorite roles are Yoshi in The Magic Fan, Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass, Major General Stanley in Pirates of Penzance, Long John Silver in Treasure Island, and Vasiliy Solyony in WICA's Three Sisters.

Patricia Duff (Becca) was last seen at WICA as the Woman in The Good Doctor, Lady Caroline Bramble in Enchanted April, Kit Kat Club dancer Texas in Cabaret, and in Seven Keys to Baldpate in the role of Mary Norton the reporter. Her experience includes ten years as a working actor in Chicago playing such roles as Perdita in The Winter's Tale, Lady Anne in Richard III, Isabel in The Razor's Edge, Rose of Lima in Richard's Cork Leg, Salem in La Turista, and Masha in The Seagull. She wrote, co-directed and acted in her play The Dimmed Heart, which won a "Best of the Fest" award at the Bailiwick Director's Festival in Chicago and went on to a six-week run there.

Tom Harris (Howie) last seen at WICA in The Good Doctor. Previous WICA productions include Art, The Laramie Project, School for Scandal, Accomplice, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Jill Johnson (Nat) has appeared on the WICA stage as Sister Laserian in This Child, Aunt March in Little Women, and as May Arkwright Hutton in Barnstorming. She was a guest instructor for the 2007 WICA Youth Conservatory and taught storytelling and drama in elementary, middle, and high schools. Her one woman storytelling presentation, Little, But OH My!" premiered at WICA in March 2003 and has since been performed throughout Western Washington. In 2006, a CD of the performance received an "Honors" designation from the annual national "Storytelling World" awards. Jill is a member of the National Storytelling Network's Press Committee, which has produced two books, A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling and Telling Stories to Children. Her essay about telling stories in French in Africa appeared in "Storytelling Across Language Barriers" published by Libraries Unlimited.

Melissa McAlerney (Izzy) has appeared in WICA's Three Sisters (Natasha) and Little Women (Beth). Regional credits include Steel Magnolias; The Phantom Tollbooth, Fools, Cotton Patch Gospel; and Twelfth Night.

 

 

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