THE CAST
Andrew Grenier (Rothko) has had a theatre career that spans over fifty years as an educator, actor, director, and producer. In the winter of 2018, Andrew appeared in Chris Fisher’s Steel at the Erickson Theatre in Seattle. His most recent appearance at WICA was in February of 2015 when he directed, and played the role of Lyman Wyeth, in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities. Previously at WICA, Andrew directed the Alan Ayckbourn Tony Award-winning trilogy The Norman Conquests, Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, and Doubt by John Patrick Shanley. Other acting roles include Charlie in Edward Albee’s Seascape and Ronald Brewster-Wright in Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular.
Chad Sommerville (Ken) was most recently seen in The 14/48 Projects @ ACT: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival. Other Seattle credits include The Totally True and Almost Accurate Adventures of Pinocchio (Geppetto) with The 14/48 Projects, As You Like It (Silvius and Charles) with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Romeo and Juliet (Paris) with ACT Theatre. Chad recently graduated from Cornish College of the Arts where performed in Much Ado About Nothing (Claudius and Conrad) and It Can’t Happen Here (Shad LeDue). His Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts credits include You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Kirby) and Community Speaks! for Patriotism. He is currently acting as Production Manager for The 14/48 Projects.
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Vito Zingarelli (direction) served as Executive Director for WICA when it was first opened in 1997/98 and directed Theresa Rebeck’s The Understudy for WICA in 2011. Vito has been program director at Hedgebrook since early 2007. Prior to joining Hedgebrook, Vito taught at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, where he served as director of theatrical production for three separate but interdependent MFA departments; Graduate Acting, Design for Stage, and Film and Dance. He worked for over 30 years in North America as a Producing Director and Production Manager where he put together seasons and mounted over 150 productions of Classical, Contemporary, and Musical Theatre as well as championing new play development at the following theatres: the Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Alaska Repertory Theatre, as well as North America’s largest resident theatre company, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.
Dorit Zingarelli (costume design) has worked in various theatrical capacities including set and costume design, stage management, and costume and prop construction. Dorit has worked in professional theatre since age 17 starting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada. Subsequently, she worked at the Manitoba Theatre Center, Magnus Theatre, Charlottetown Theatre, Vancouver East Cultural Center, Yeats Theatre Company London, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the International Solo Theatre Festival in Tokyo. She produced the Perth County Conspiracy prison tours in Canada, served as tour manager for Loreena McKennitt concert tour of Spain and Portugal, and was the production liaison for Plaza of Nations ceremonies at Expo ’86 World’s Fair in Vancouver, BC. She was also logistics stage manager for 100th Anniversary of United Way at the Kingdome. Other WICA credits include love is a place (scenic and costume design) and The Understudy (costume design and choreography).
David Gignac (scenic design), a New York native, has been designing, building, and painting sets since the early 1980's. After arriving on Whidbey in 1991, he began designing and building for Island Theater, Island Art's Council productions, and other groups. David has been involved in the WICA Theatre Series since it's first production, Bell Book and Candle, and is extremely excited to be designing and painting for Red, it’s 100th production. Over the years, he has designed for a number of fringe theaters in Seattle and was nominated for a Gregory Falls Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for When I Come To My Senses I AM Alive. More recently, he designed the 2017 and 2018 seasons for Island Shakespeare Festival while also serving as it’s Technical Director. In November 2019, David was honored to be named WICA's Resident Scenic Designer. Recent design credits include Prelude To A Kiss, It's A Wonderful Life, and contributing designer for SEX.
Patty Mathieu (lighting design) began her work at WICA ten years ago lighting The Understudy. Other WICA lighting designs include Doubt, Other Desert Cities, Becky’s New Car, Frost/Nixon, and November. Patty is the Production Manager at McCaw Hall at Seattle Center, home to Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera. In addition to working with the Ballet and Opera, she manages events ranging from Gates Foundation All Staff to Seattle Men’s Chorus, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Bublé, and Dave Matthews. Over the past 30 years, she designed lighting for numerous shows for University of Puget Sound, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Men’s and Women’s Choruses, Seattle Pacific University, WICA, Alice B Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Village Theatre, Saint James Cathedral, and St. Mark’s Cathedral. Patty is a graduate of Whitman College and earned an MFA in Lighting Design and Technical Theatre at the University of Washington.
Jim Scullin (stage management) most recently appeared on the WICA stage as Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life. Prior experience at WICA includes performing on stage, building sets, working in the booth and backstage, and acting as a rehearsal stage manager for multiple productions. Some favorite roles were in Our Town, Art, The God of Carnage, and The Laramie Project. An interesting note: Jim was the initial Stage Manager of, and built the set for the first show that WICA produced, Bell, Book and Candle.