Trio of powerhouse NW actors take on Albee’s Three Tall Women at Seattle Rep

Megan Cole, Suzanne Bouchard, and Alexandra Tavares star

Seattle, WA – The second show in the Seattle Rep 2010-2011 season—and the first in the intimate Leo K. Theatre—is Edward Albee’s Pultizer-Prize winning drama Three Tall Women, brought to life by a trio of powerhouse Northwest actresses and Seattle director Allison Narver.

Tickets are available now through the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206-443-2222 as well as online atwww.seattlerep.org.

Megan Cole—who starred in Seattle Rep’s Wit in 1999—is the play’s protagonist, a woman at the end of her life, laying out her secrets in all of their charming, vicious, and wretched glory. Cole has appeared on a number of TV shows, including recurring roles on “ER” and “The Practice.”

The woman’s caretaker is played by Suzanne Bouchard (By the Waters of Babylon, Private Lives), and Alexandra Tavares is the young lawyer taking care of the older woman’s estate. Tavares is making her Seattle Rep debut after a number of well-received roles around town, including at Intiman and Book-It.

Rounding out the cast is Village Theatre and 5^th Avenue Theatre regular Eric Ankrim, playing The Boy, a role Albee based on himself.

Three Tall Women won Albee his third Pulitzer in 1994. Electrifying and heartrending, this portrait of three women at different stages in their lives is “a dazzler…Worthy of mention in the same breath asWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance." (The Wall Street Journal)

Director Allison Narver (recently: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the 5th Avenue, Female of the Species, Eurydice and The Clean House at ACT, and Orange Flower Water for New Century Theatre) returns after helming Memory House at Seattle Rep in 2006.

“Any full discussion of American playwriting always includes Albee, and since the passing of August [Wilson] and Arthur Miller, he’s the preeminent playwright in this country,” said Seattle Rep Artistic Director Jerry Manning. “Among his plays, it’s my favorite. I love the mystery of it. I’m also really happy that Allison Narver is directing it. It’s a little bit of a departure for her, and yet I think it will be a great experience for her as an artist to try something a little bit different, a more psychological work. And here are three extraordinary roles for three Seattle actors.”