Spotlight on ‘Veronica’s Room’ director Nykkie Rizley
How do you follow cult classics such as Whatever Happened to Baby Jane: A Parody of the Horror and Sordid Lives. If you’re Lab Theater, you get dark, dirty and downright disturbing. So on October 20, The Lab brings to the stage Veronica’s Room, a nasty little mystery thriller by Rosemary’s Baby author Ira Levin that explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder.
The cast the Lab has assembled for the show consists of Aricka Shuck, Dave Rode, Kate Dirrigl and Steven Coe. Nykkie Rizley directs.
Rizley is a founding member and Vice President of the Laboratory Theater of Florida. She has previously directed Lab’s cumfuddled Shakespearean classic Twelfth Night, The House of Yes, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and BUG.
In addition to teaching theater classes at Lab Theater (including Acting I and II as well as Acting for Seniors), Nykkie also participates on the judging panel for Lab Theater’s 24-Hour Playwriting Challenge. Nykkie has a degree in Theater Prop Design from Grand Valley State University in Michigan (she’s a Laker) trained in both Chicago and New York.
October 9, 2017.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.