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bios COLD READ/STAGE READ
with Tom Chuchill

Tom Churchill (instructor) was last seen on the WICA stage as Chebutykin in The Three Sisters. Prior to that he played Large and Terrible Frog in Whidbey Children’s Theater’s A Year with Frog and Toad and the tipsy dairy farmer, Mushy, in his and Shawn Quirk's Starry Knights. In addition to his work in the WICA Conservatory, Mr. Churchill takes acting and playwriting courses at Seattle 's Freehold Theatre Lab. He's had two plays produced at WICA, Blue Angelica, in 1997, and Lillian in Limbo, in 2005. His most recent play, Blue Virgins, debuted in September 2007; and has recently completed what might be his last: The Music for His Funeral, which he hopes to produce some time in the doubtful future.

Amy Wheeler is a playwright whose nationally produced plays include recent world premieres: Weeping Woman (2003) and Kiss It! (2004) at Stark Raving Theatre in Portland, and Two Birds & A Stone at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Arts Center (2004). Her adaptation of Paulo Coelho's novel “Veronika Decides to Die”, entitled Veronika Falling (commissioned by Seattle ’s Freehold Theatre) was performed for incarcerated women in the Washington Correction Center for Woman (2004). Wizzer Pizzer was developed in the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and was produced at 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta in 2005. Amy’s work has also been produced in New York , at the Greenwich Street Theatre and the Guggenheim Museum , and through the New York Drama League’s New Directors/New Works project. Awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts sponsorship, two fellowships from Artists’ Trust in Seattle , and a Yaddo residency. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwright’s Workshop and teaches playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre Lab, and in ACT’s Young Playwright’s Program. Amy is the Executive Director of Hedgebrook.

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