Andy Walker and parents Cindy Van Dyk and Ed Walker.
Walker and Tony-nominated director Kenny Leon.
There are two words in the name of this blog.
One is sports. The other is Coupeville. Both are equally important, even if one tends to dominate.
So, from time to time we take a breather from sports coverage to talk about other things happening in town. Like the fact Andy Walker just finished in the top 10 at the Seattle Rep’s August Wilson Monologue Competition.
You know, small, FREAKIN’ BIG things like that.
And who is August Wilson, you ask?
Only a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (The Piano Lesson and Fences) and one of the most revered writers for the stage ever — a man who crafted a series of ten interconnected plays that formed The Pittsburgh Cycle before his passing in 2005.
Mr. Walker, a Coupeville High School student of prodigious talents of the singing and the acting and the being a future Broadway star type, received compliments from acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated director Kenny Leon.
This is a man who knows talent, having worked with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis on the Tony-Award nominated Broadway revival of Fences.
For reasons that can only be attributed to the judges collectively having fallen on their heads, Andy did not make the top three, who advanced to the national finals in New York. Those spots went to female students from Garfield, Timberline and South Kitsap High Schools.
I demand a recount!
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