WICA Celebrates current and former Board members at unique event.
Before our new play, Apostrophe, hit the stage, we created an opportunity for our past and present board members to come in for some socialization, an important announcement, and a fruitful conversation with the playwright, Liza Powel O’Brien, and director, Vito Zingarelli, of the new work hitting our stage this weekend.
Bobbe Bridge addresses the attendees.
Starting with some light snack fare and adult beverages, including an impressive home collection of scotch, the evening truly got underway with the announcement by current Board President Bobbe Bridge that the Board of Directors had voted in favor of honoring Deana Duncan with the duties and title of Executive Artistic Director of Whidbey Island Center for the Arts; this announcement was met with much enthusiasm and applause from the attendees and reinforced Bobbe’s message that the organization was truly dedicated to an Arts-first approach to the future.
Past and present Board members, along with their partners, socialize and reconnect.
The final act of the evening’s event was a very special conversation between Vito Zingarelli and Liza Powel O’Brien, regarding the new play, Apostrophe, hitting the stage for opening night June 10th, at 7:30 PM. The topics included the differences and challenges of producing a new work rather than an established work, the process that this play in particular went through in order to come to life, and the in-residence approach that Liza and WICA came to agreement on when bringing the play here for it’s premiere live performances.
Attendees are brought up to speed on who they’ll be hearing from next.
The conversation was captivating and interesting and went on longer than intended because of the quality of conversation and the quality of questions from the delighted crowd. One former Board member, Peter Morton, asked, since the play is about a private girls school and thematically connects to the youth experience of today, if there was any promotion going out to high school aged people… when the answer was unsure, Peter offered to sponsor 10 tickets to go to youth coming out to see the show. This offering was met with others who desired to do the same and before we knew it there were 70 tickets pledged to youth to come see the show! Do you know anyone who might want to take Peter and the others up on their offer?