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WICA ON TOUR
Youth + Adult Travel
Transportation sponsor
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OUR MISSION
To provide students with high
quality, innovative, participatory
theatre arts education and
training taught by theatre
professionals and teaching
artists; to reflect the diversity
of the community we serve;
and to help our students develop
skills and broaden their horizons.
OUR CLASSES
+ Ignite the imagination.
+ Encourage investigation
of the world through
the creative process.
+ Engage and enable artistic
and personal growth.
+ Unleash creative potential.
+ Build confidence and
self awareness.
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2008/2009 Summer Training Program
Instructors
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Ann Deacon has recently returned to Whidbey Island
from Central New York where she studied at
Syracuse
University
for Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre. She holds
a BA from
Washington
State
in Theatre and did an internship
with Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company and School.
She was Technical Director at
Marlboro
College
in
Vermont,
and worked with Flatrock Children’s Theatre in
North
Ca
r
olina
.
Deana Duncan serves as WICA’s Production Director
and has assisted Executive Director, Stacie Burgua,
in producing thirty-eight main stage and seven summer
youth productions in the past eight years.
Deana most recently directed an all-star cast including
Gary Sandy, of WKRP fame, in the winning screenplay,
Hallie Bowers at the 2008 International Mystery Writers
Festival in
Owensbury
,
Kentucky
. In 2008, she co-
produced Twelfth Night and directed The Wrestling
Season for the new Whidbey Island Theatre Festival.
Other local directing credits include: Emma Reeves’
Little Women for the WICA Mainstage, Nosferatu - The
Legend of Dracula, and A Tale of Two Cities for the
WICA Youth Conservatory.
During her tenure at WICA, Deana has continued her
education participating in directing and acting classes
through Freehold Studio in
Seattle
, studying directly
with the Tony Award Winning Intiman Artistic Director
Bartlett Sher and workshops with the National
Endowment for the Arts. She holds a BFA in theatre
arts from the
University
of
Nevada Reno, attended the
American
Academy
of Dramatic Arts, began her
graduate work in theatre at the
University
of
California
Long Beach
and is honored to be one of only 20 actors
accepted to legendary theatre instructor, Stella Adler’s
last master class.
Tyler Raymond became WICA's Technical Director
in 2005 and has been involved with every theatrical
performance since, often in several capacities. In high
school,
Tyler
participated in stage and building crews
for large productions of Singing in the Rain and
Anything Goes. While at Berklee College of Music in
Boston
, he quickly moved into the role of Crew Chief
with the
Berklee
Performance
Center
. He supported
all levels of shows from faculty and student performances
to larger touring artists such as Dream Theater,
Paco de Lucia, Césaria Évora, Bobby McFerrin,
Dixie Dregs, The Wallflowers, Ottmar Liebert, and many
more. Post college he wired up radio stations all over the
country - including four in
Seattle
- and was a site foreman
for a leading
Chicago
special events company.
Amy Walker is an artist of many mediums: actress/singer/
songwriter since the highchair, she has played key roles in
more than 70 theatrical shows and films in both global
hemispheres, honing her linguistic skills with over 21 accents
at the ready. As a writer, Amy has created short stories,
screenplays, and many memorable characters for both
incarnations of her one-woman show, Amy Walker: Inside Out.
As a teacher and director, she has tapped the truth in myriad
actors and their characters in plays, camps, workshops and
private coaching. She is insatiably interested in the unique
juice that fuels the human spirit, and dedicates her life
to awakening the full potential within herself and others.
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