Eclectic Theater Company is a professional theatre company formed out of The Green Theatre Project at Cornish College of The Arts in 2000, which manifested itself quickly after as Green Theatre Productions, founded by Rik Deskin. Green Theatre produced Eco-friendly productions at the Nippon Kan Theater, Theatre 4, the Historic University Theater, Center House Theatre, and Summer Shakespeare in Kirkland, Bellevue, Seattle, and Auburn. In 2006, the company evolved into Eclectic Theater Company, becoming the resident company at the Odd Duck Studio, with a new mission statement: to produce original, new, contemporary, and re-envisioned classics for the stage and screen.
Currently, Eclectic Theater Company produces and presents year-round at the Odd Duck Studio; we also partner with two local companies, Blood Squad and Quiet Monkey Fight. We rent our space, the Odd Duck Studio, to artists who wish to produce theatre and film in line with our mission statement. We offer affordable audition coaching to artists who wish to improve their stage presence.
In the future, Eclectic Theater Company hopes to produce more work by local playwrights, edgy classic productions, local, independent film, and unite the neighborhood in supporting local work.
COMPANY:
Artistic Director
Rik Deskin is a professional actor, director, stage manager and stagehand with 25 years of experience in theater, film, TV and radio. He’s the founding artistic director of Eclectic Theater Company in Seattle and oversees programming at Odd Duck Studio. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, Mr. Deskin is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and works as a professional stagehand under I.A.T.S.E. (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). Rik is an advocate for actors and artists and is a Council Member at large for the Screen Actors Guild Seattle Branch Council, a member at large of the AEA Liaison Committee and part of the Sandbox Artists Collective at Freehold Theatre Lab.
Recent film projects have been roles in the short films Queen of Wands, Sausage Fest; Bleed Out; Obsession; Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day and the feature film, The Standard. Recent theater projects have been the title roles in Macbeth and Hamlet, as well as roles in The Little Death, Hate Mail and more for Eclectic Theater Company. Some other companies Mr. Deskin has worked with are On The Boards, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Bellevue Civic Theater and Theater Schmeater.
Artistic Associate
Rosemary Poole-Carter, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, lives in Houston, Texas. Her work includes What Remains, a mystery novel; Juliette Ascending, a young adult novel; Women of Magdalene, a historical suspense novel; Mossy Cape, a play for young audiences based on Southern folklore; and the adult dramas, The Little Death, set in the French Quarter of old New Orleans, and Inconvenient Women, set in a Louisiana asylum.
As a child, seeing Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she was impressed by Big Daddy’s emphasis on the word “mendacity,” a word that continues to resonate for her in her fictional creations.
Southern Gothic Writings, Rosemary’s blog, is located at: http://southerngothicwritings.blogspot.com
Board Members:
Scott Yost
Jed Rose
Rik Deskin
Traci Biegenwald
Shawn Kemna
Wilfred Padua
