Swimming in the Shallows (Regional Premiere)

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The regional premiere of this recent off-Broadway hit about an eclectic group of friends navigating love, marriage, and the local aquarium. A mad comedy with an absurdist bent.

Katjana Vadeboncoeur is a director, actor and teaching artist based in Seattle. Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Fission (about Jewish physicist Lise Meitner) at Live Girls! theater, BODYbody: Aphrodite Raves (a multi-media exploration of female body-issues) as guest director at Pierce College and Sosu’s Call for Book-It Repertory Theatre. Katjana previously directed The Canterville Ghost, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion and the national tour of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit for California Theatre Center. She also studied modern experimental theatre at Lancaster University in England, co-writing and directing the festival one-act Goldfish. In Seattle she has also directed for the Mae West Fest, Freehold and Seattle Shakespeare’s youth company. She is a staff member at Seattle Shakespeare Company and is also a company member of Living Voices, touring the country performing three solo shows. Katjana holds a theatre degree from the University of California, Irvine, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Adam Bock’s plays include Swimming in the Shallows, Five Flights and The Typographer’s Dream. His works have been produced in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, and Edinburgh, and have won the Glickman, Clauder and BATCC Awards. Mr. Bock is an Artistic Associate at Shotgun Players and Encore Theatre and a member of MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition.