The beach talks to Miles O’Malley. Obsessed with all things aquatic, 13-year-old, stature-challenged Miles loves combing the tidal beaches near his Puget Sound home in the middle of the night. When one of his discoveries lands him unexpectedly in the news, he is launched into involuntary celebrity, shaking his world in a way that is only topped by the Nisqually earthquake. A sensory experience emanates from the pages of local author Jim Lynch’s bestselling novel, which instantly transports us beneath the waters of a marine world teeming with infinite life and exquisite possibility.
The Highest Tide
Cast & Creative
Aaron Lamb
Aaron has worked in Seattle for Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Company and has worked regionally throughout the country. Aaron was awarded a Seattle Critics (Footlight) Award for his work as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband at Taproot Theatre, the Memphis Critics (Ostrander) Award for Best Actor for his work as Jerry in The Full Monty at Playhouse on the Square, a Kennedy Center award for Best Actor for his work as Samuel Coleridge in Grasmere, and an OC Weekly Award for his work as Peck in How I Learned to Drive. Aaron holds an MFA in acting from California State University, Fullerton, and a BA from Washington State University.
In 15 seasons and 39 shows at Harlequin:
A Bright Room Called Day (Gottfried Swetts, Director, Sound Design) A Christmas Carol (Player 6 (Fred, others), Director, Player 4) A Doll's House (Director) August: Osage County (Director) Cabaret (Director) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick) Deathtrap (Director) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll) Enchanted April (Mellersh Wilson) Every Brilliant Thing (Director) Falsettos (Musical Director, Piano and Synth) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Director) Hedda Gabler (Director) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Director) Hundred Days (Director) I Am My Own Wife (Director) Love and Information (Director) Man of La Mancha (Director) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Ken) Middletown (Director) Noises Off (Frederick Fellowes) Philadelphia Story (Macaulay Connor) Present Laughter (Garry Essendine) Ruthless (Director / Music Director, Piano 1) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Director) Sweeney Todd (Director) The 1940s Radio Hour (Director / Music Director, Piano) The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay) The Highest Tide (Director) The Language Archive (George) The Last Five Years (Jamie Wellerstein / Piano, Musical Director) This Flat Earth (Director) Three Days of Rain (Director) Time Stands Still (Director) To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
Maggie Doyle
Maggie has also worked with TAO, Lakewood Playhouse, Annex Theatre and the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Performance (Go Blue!). Love to Christian, who brings love, laughter and magic into her life.
In 10 seasons and 26 shows at Harlequin:
A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Columbine/Officer) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mae) Clybourne Park (Betsy / Lindsey) Dry Powder (Stage Manager) Enchanted April (Rose Arnott) Fighting Over Beverley (Stage Manager) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Meredith) Gloucester Blue (Stage Manager) Henry V (Ensemble) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Carol) Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II (puppeteer)) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Clown Troupe) Noises Off (Stage Manager) Philadelphia Story (Elizabeth Imbrie) Present Laughter (Miss Erickson, Lady Saltburn) Recent Tragic Events (Nancy) The 1940s Radio Hour (Assistant Director) The Highest Tide (Assistant Director) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Joy Higgsby) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Joy Higgsby-McKellan) To Kill a Mockingbird (Assistant Director) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta / Outlaw #3 / Host)
Alyssa Kay
Alyssa is a long-time collaborator with Harlequin over the past decade as both an actor and resident Fight/Intimacy Director. Alyssa has worked with numerous other companies across Puget Sound including Seattle Rep, Book-It Repertory, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera, Taproot Theatre, the University of Washington School of Drama, and Seattle University. Alyssa is also a freelance teaching artist, Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and co-founder of the PNW Theatrical Intimacy collective. Huge love to Fox and her parents for all their support. www.alyssakay.net
In 8 seasons and 22 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Martha Cratchit/Ensemble, Fight and Intimacy Director) Baskerville (Fight and Intimacy Director) Blackbird (Fight/Intimacy Director) Building Madness (Fight and Intimacy Director) Cabaret (Intimacy and Fight Director) Every Brilliant Thing (Fight/Intimacy Consultant) Falsettos (Fight and Intimacy Consultant) Fun Home (Fight/Intimacy Director) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Fight and Intimacy Director) Love and Information (Ensemble) Man of La Mancha (Fight and Intimacy Director) Murder for Two (Fight and Intimacy Director) Sovereignty (Intimacy and Fight Director) The 39 Steps (Anabella/Margaret/Pamela) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (self, Fight Director) The Highest Tide (Intimacy Director) The Language Archive (Emma) The Revolutionists (Fight & Intimacy Consultant) This Flat Earth (Fight and Intimacy Director) Three Days of Rain (Nan/Lina) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Nina)
Jeannie Beirne
Jeannie Beirne is the Resident Scenic Designer for Harlequin Productions. She has also enjoyed working with The Olympia Family Theatre, Saint Martin’s University, and South Puget Sound Community College. In Missouri, she has designed Urinetown and The Music Man with Missouri Western State University, and The Drowsy Chaperone, She Loves Me, and Damn Yankees for Tent Theater. In Arizona, Jeannie designed Mama and Jack Carew and the world premiere of Suocera by Hal Corley at the Theatre Artists Studio and Big Love with Kim Weild at Arizona State University.
In 10 seasons and 36 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) A Doll's House (Scenic Design) August: Osage County (Scenic Design) Building Madness (Scenic Design) Cabaret (Scenic Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Scenic Design) Falsettos (Scenic Design) Fighting Over Beverley (Scenic Designer) First Date (Scenic Design) Fun Home (Scenic Design) Hedda Gabler (Scenic Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Scenic Design) Hundred Days (Scenic Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Scenic Designer) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Scenic Design) Little Shop of Horrors (Scenic Designer) Love and Information (Scenic Design) Man of La Mancha (Scenic Design) Middletown (Scenic Designer) Noises Off (Scenic Design) Present Laughter (Scenic Design) Pride and Prejudice (Scenic Design) Ruthless (Scenic Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Scenic Design) Sweeney Todd (Scenic Design) Tenderly (Scenic Design) The 1940s Radio Hour (Scenic Designer) The 39 Steps (Scenic Designer) The Highest Tide (Scenic Design) The Language Archive (Scenic Designer / Video Designer) Three Days of Rain (Scenic Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Scenic Designer) Until the Flood (Scenic Design)
Jocelyne Fowler
In 9 seasons and 16 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Survival Guide (Costume Designer) Blackbird (Costume Design) Clybourne Park (Costume Designer) Cymbeline (Costume Design) Dry Powder (Costume Designer) First Date (Costume Design) Gloucester Blue (Costume Designer) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Costume Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Costume Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Costume Design) Middletown (Costume Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Costume Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Costume Designer) The Highest Tide (Costume Design) The Language Archive (Costume Designer) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Costume Designer)
Olivia Burlingame
Olivia (Cowlitz Indian Tribe) is the Resident Lighting Designer at Harlequin. Olivia graduated from Central Washington University with a BFA in Theater Design and Technology. She has also worked with Tacoma Opera, Theater Artists Olympia, Olympia Family Theater, Tacoma Arts Live, SMU, SPSCC, and Seattle Children’s Theater.
In 12 seasons and 33 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) A Christmas Survival Guide (Lighting Designer) Baskerville (Lighting Design) Every Brilliant Thing (Lighting Consultant) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Lighting Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Lighting Design) Hundred Days (Lighting Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Lighting Designer) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lighting Designer) Little Shop of Horrors (Lighting Designer) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Lighting Design) Man of La Mancha (Lighting Design) Middletown (Lighting Designer) Philadelphia Story (Lighting Designer) Pride and Prejudice (Lighting Design) Ruthless (Lighting Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Lighting Design) Sovereignty (Lighting Design) Tenderly (Lighting Design) The Americans Across the Street (Lighting Designer) The Highest Tide (Lighting Design) The Revolutionists (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Lighting Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Lighting Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Lighting Design) The Understudy (Lighting Design) The Women (Lighting Design) Three Days of Rain (Lighting Design) Time Stands Still (Lighting Designer)
Keith Jewell
In 21 seasons and 74 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Co-Sound Design) A Christmas Survival Guide (Sound Designer) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Sound Designer) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Sound Designer) A Stardust Homecoming (Sound Designer) Accomplice (Sound Designer) And a Nightingale Sang (Sound Designer) August: Osage County (Sound Design) Baskerville (Sound Design) boom (Sound Designer) Cabaret (Sound Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Sound Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Audio Engineer) Deathtrap (Sound Design) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Sound Designer) Enchanted April (Sound Designer) Every Brilliant Thing (Sound Design) First Date (Sound Design) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Sound Designer) Fun Home (Sound Design) Hedda Gabler (Sound Designer) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Sound Design) Hundred Days (Sound Design) Intimate Apparel (Sound Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Sound Designer) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Sound Design) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Sound Designer) Let the Good Times Roll! (Audio Engineer) Little Shop of Horrors (Sound Designer) Love and Information (Sound Design) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Sound Design) Man of La Mancha (Sound Design) Mating Dance of the Werewolf (Sound Designer) Middletown (Sound Designer) Murder for Two (Co-Sound Design) Operation Stardust (Sound Designer) Phantom of the Stardust (Sound Designer) Philadelphia Story (Sound Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Sound Designer) Ruthless (Sound Designer) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Sound Design) Sixties Chicks (Sound Designer) Sixties Chicks Too (Sound Designer) Sixties Kicks! (Sound Designer) Soul on Fire! (Audio Engineer) Stardust for Christmas (Sound Designer) Summer in the Sixties (Sound Designer) Sweeney Todd (Sound Design) Tenderly (Sound Design) The 1940s Radio Hour (Sound Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Sound Designer) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Sound Design) The Constant Wife (Sound Designer) The Elsinore Diaries (Sound Designer) The Highest Tide (Sound Design, Sound Designer) The Last Five Years (Sound Designer ) The Love List (Sound Designer) The Rocky Horror Show (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Sound Design) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Sound Design) The Taming of the Shrew (Sound Designer) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Sound Designer) The Understudy (Sound Design) To Kill a Mockingbird (Sound Designer) Until the Flood (Sound Design)
Gail Walls Thomason
In 3 seasons and 3 shows at Harlequin:
Little Shop of Horrors (Properties Designer) Man of La Mancha (Properties Design) The Highest Tide (Properties Design)
Gina Salerno
In 20 seasons and 90 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Co-Sound Design, Stage Manager) A Christmas Survival Guide (Stage Manager) A Doll's House (Sound Design) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Asst. Stage Manager) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Stage Manager) A Stardust Christmas Carol (Asst. Stage Manager) And a Nightingale Sang (Asst. Stage Manager) Blackbird (Sound Design) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Stage Manager) Clybourne Park (Sound Designer) Dancin' in the Aisles (Asst. Stage Manager) Dry Powder (Sound Designer) Enchanted April (Stage Manager) Enrico IV (Sound Designer/Asst, Stage Manager) Fighting Over Beverley (Sound Designer) Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Stage Manager) For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday (Sound Design) Gloucester Blue (Sound Designer) Hedda Gabler (Stage Manager) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Stage Manager) I Am My Own Wife (Sound Design) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Sound Designer) Jesus Christ Superstar (Stage Manager) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Stage Manager) Let the Good Times Roll! (Asst. Stage Manager) Little Shop of Horrors (Stage Manager) Love and Information (Stage Manager) Macbeth (Asst. Stage Manager) Man of La Mancha (Stage Manager) Mauritius (Sound Designer) Measure for Measure (Prostitute, Asst. Stage Manager) Middletown (Stage Manager) Murder for Two (Stage Manager) My Name is Rachel Corrie (Sound Design) My Old Lady (Sound Designer) Noises Off (Sound Design) Operation Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) Or, (Sound Designer) Philadelphia Story (Stage Manager) Present Laughter (Sound Design) Pride and Prejudice (Sound Design) Psychopathia Sexualis (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Rabbit Hole (Sound Designer) Recent Tragic Events (Sound Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Citizen/Party Guest) Ruthless (Stage Manager) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Stage Manager) Shining City (Sound Designer) Sins of the Mother (Sound Designer) Six Hotels (Sound Designer) Sixties Chicks (Asst. Stage Manager) Sixties Chicks Too (Stage Manager) Soul on Fire! (Asst. Stage Manager) Sovereignty (Sound Design) Stardust for Christmas (Esther Bartoli, Asst. Stage Manager) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Stage Manager) Summer in the Sixties (Stage Manager) Sweeney Todd (Stage Manager) Tenderly (Stage Manager) The 1940s Radio Hour (Properties Designer / Stage Manager) The American Pilot (Sound Designer) The Americans Across the Street (Stage Manager) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Sound Design) The Elephant Man (Sound Designer) The Elsinore Diaries (Stage Manager) The Highest Tide (Stage Manager) The Ladies of the Camellias (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) The Language Archive (Sound Designer) The Last Five Years (Stage Manager) The Last Schwartz (Sound Designer) The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci (Asst. Stage Manager) The Love List (Asst. Stage Manager) The Rocky Horror Show (Asst. Stage Manager) The Seafarer (Sound Designer) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Stage Manager) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Stage Manager) The Twelfth Night of Stardust (Asst. Stage Manager) The Woman in Black (Asst. Stage Manager) The Women (Sound Design) This Flat Earth (Sound Design) Three Days of Rain (Sound Design) Time Stands Still (Sound Designer) To Kill a Mockingbird (Stage Manager) Under a Mantle of Stars (Sound Designer/Asst. Stage Manager) Unexpected Tenderness (Sound Designer) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (Sound Designer)
Jack Brotherton
In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:
The Highest Tide (Miles)
Ann Flannigan
Ann studied theater at Lewis & Clark College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 18 seasons and 21 shows at Harlequin:
A Man for All Seasons (Margaret More) A Streetcar Named Desire (Stella) Arcadia (Hanna Jarvis) August: Osage County (Barbara Fordham) Cymbeline (Queen) Dry Powder (Director) End Days (Sylvia Stein) Fighting Over Beverley (Cecily Shimma) Frozen (Agnetha) I Ought To Be In Pictures (Steffy) La Béte (Director) Macbeth (Lady Macduff/Witch) Philadelphia Story (Margaret Lord) Present Laughter (Monica Reed) The American Pilot (Sarah) The Americans Across the Street (Alexa) The Highest Tide (Mother/Ensemble) The Misanthrope (Arsinoe) The Real Thing (Annie) To Kill a Mockingbird (Maudie Atkinson)
Gerald B. Browning
In 7 seasons and 25 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Properties Design) Building Madness (Properties Design) Deathtrap (Scenic Design) Fun Home (Properties Design) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Properties Design) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Properties Design) Love and Information (Ensemble) Murder for Two (Properties Design and Scenic Painting) Noises Off (Properties Design) Pride and Prejudice (Properties Design) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Properties Design) Sovereignty (Properties Design) Tenderly (Properties Design) The 1940s Radio Hour ("Pops" Bailey) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Scenic Design, Properties Design) The Highest Tide (Father/Ensemble) The Love List (Bill) The Women (Properties Design) This Flat Earth (Properties Design) Until the Flood (Rusty/Dougray, Properties Design) What the Constitution Means to Me (Properties Design)
Christian Doyle
In 9 seasons and 19 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Survival Guide (Ensemble) A Rock N' Roll Twelfth Night (Feste) Cymbeline (Pisanio) Henry V (Ensemble) Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Val) Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II (voice)) Magical Mystery Midsummer Musical (Clown Troupe / Vocalist) Recent Tragic Events (Ron) Richard III (Gray/Murderer/Catesby) Stardust Serenade 1942 (Charlie) Summer in the Sixties (self) The Highest Tide (Professor/Ensemble) The Seafarer (Nicky Giblin) The Stardust Christmas Blizzard (Louis McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Commotion (Louis McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Louis McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Louis McKellan) The Stardust Christmas Fandango (Louis McKellan)
John Serembe
Other local productions include: O’Brien in 1984 and a monstrosity in The Head That Wouldn’t Die, both for TAO. In Los Angeles, he played Larry in the LA premiere of Inspecting Carol, Walter Pangbourne in Move Over Mrs. Markham at the Mukenthaller, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe in Tartuffe at Arroyo Repertory, and Bunthorne in Patience at the Occidental Theatre Festival among others. He performed standup at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and the Ice House in Pasadena. He has appeared around the country, including ten years at Nevada Shakespeare. His favorites there include: Claudius in Hamlet, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Prospero in The Tempest, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has appeared on TV in Cheers, Scrubs, The Young and the Restless, and others. John studied with Sanford Meisner, Charles Marowitz and Larry Moss.
In 9 seasons and 17 shows at Harlequin:
A Christmas Carol (Video Design) Baskerville (Player, Projection Design) Hedda Gabler (Mr. Brack) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Video Design) Hundred Days (Projection Design) Little Shop of Horrors (Mr. Mushnik) Love and Information (Video Design) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol (Video Design) The 39 Steps (Clown) The Art of Racing in the Rain (Maxwell/Ensemble) The Highest Tide (Judge/Ensemble) The Stardust Christmas Dazzle (Lord Benedict Manderson) The Stardust Christmas Enchantment (Giovanni Zabatino) Until the Flood (Video Design)
Karlee Brannam
In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:
The Highest Tide (Angie/Ensemble)
Kameron Peapealalo
In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:
The Highest Tide (Phelps/Ensemble)
Mary Lou Mills
In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:
The Highest Tide (Florence/Ensemble)
Julian Owen
In 2 seasons and 2 shows at Harlequin:
The Highest Tide (Frankie/Ensemble)
Laura Hanson
Laura has performed in many theatrical productions in the Seattle area, a few favorites include last season’s The Brothers K, Parts 1 & 2 (Ensemble) and Truth Like the Sun (Linda/Ensemble), both with Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Sprawl (Monique) with Washington Ensemble Theatre. Other favorites include Doris in Same Time, Next Year; Edna in The Prisoner of Second Avenue; and two turns in Noel Coward’s classic, Blithe Spirit, as both Ruth and Elvira. In addition to theatre, she is a member of SAG-AFTRA and has performed in numerous indie films, commercials, voice-overs and corporate/industrial videos for companies such as Boeing, Microsoft and Nordstrom.
In 5 seasons and 5 shows at Harlequin:
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Trisha) My Old Lady (Chloe) Present Laughter (Liz Essendine) The Highest Tide (Mrs Powers/Ensemble)
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