Meet The Whites

KATE AYERS (White - female cast) is one of those "trained" theatre types who actually knows the mechanics behind what they are doing rather than just faking it like the rest of us. She has toured extensively throughout the Midwest performing in educational theatre programs in schools and museums and was the Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Theatre, Inc,. 
Directing credits include Anything Goes, Ebenezer, The Odyssey, Our Town, You Can’t Take It With You, The Tempest, Dark of the Moon, Macbeth, Love’s Labours Lost, and Midsummer Nights Dream. 
On stage, she has portrayed everyone from Peter Pan to Puck. Kate studied at the Goodman Theatre School, and graduated from Columbia, the Playback School at Vassar. She has her Masters in Applied Sociology (more smartness). Kate ran the theatre program at the Indiana Women’s Prison for the 10 years, and currently teaches at SPSCC. She also runs the Daytime Theater Program for Olympia Family Theatre and works for SOS at Capital Playhouse. (That is a lot of running - Girl stays FIT)  
Kate is a Russian History Buff which just further proves how much smarter she is than the rest of us. Interested in Sentence Reform (prison. She has nothing against predicates - as far as we know although we have never seen her hang out with one). She is a fan of small dogs and weed (the garden-pulling type. What were YOU thinking??) and has a little side business which has her organizing people's closets, garages and storage units filled with heist booty.

BRIAN HATCHER (Mr.White - male cast) began his journey on the stage back in the ... mid-west (shit, he almost told you where he was from).  He was wandering the halls when he came across a notice of auditions for a school production of “Frankenstein Slept Here”. Portraying the role of Igor, Brian had his first true experience at what it means to solicit audience reactions. He fell in love with the sound of laughter.

As a young man, Brian left his home state of Colo . . . ummm . .  to ventured out, and into, the greater world, where he roamed the exotic territories of Utah, Idaho, Montana, and finally landed in Seatt . . um . . .uh . . .somewhere in . . Washington. 

In 2000, Brian met the man who would later become his husband, Scott Douglas. Both of them became disenchanted by the fallacy of S . . . that town . . ., and chose to embark on a new path by venturing the place they live now in 2003. 

Through these last few years Brian has been seen on stage with not only Harlequin Production, but Animal Fire, Theater Artists Olympia, and even a show with the Saint Martin’s theater program. Late last year, Animal Fire Theater Company was graciously handed to Brian and his husband Scott, and a great friend Kate Arvin. The are joining forces with local director Jenny Greenlee, to produce William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”.

Keep an eye out for a joint production with TAO and Animal Fire, as Brian will be directing “American Roulette” – a play focused on the issues surrounding the tragic impact of a shooting in a high school. Until then, Brian says, “Enjoy the Show!!”