Building Madness

Emma is truly delighted to be in her first play at Harlequin (and in Seattle)! She is an artist and therapist passionate about healing and storytelling. Emma holds a Bachelor’s of Music Performance and a (soon to be) Master’s in Counseling Psychology. She last performed as Miranda in The Tempest at Wheaton’s Shakespeare in the Park, and is grateful for the chance to play again after a long break. Buckets of gratitude are owed to friends, partners in crime and family who have loved her all the way to the theater and back.

Nathan Rice is delighted to be returning to the stage at Harlequin. He has very much enjoyed his previous roles here, including Mike in What the Constitution Means to Me, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (2021, 2023), Max Marshall in Building Madness, White Chorus Man in Sovereignty, Lou Cohn in The 1940s Radio Hour, and Milt in Laughter on the 23rd Floor. He has been active in other area theaters as well, as The Player in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at Lakewood Playhouse. Also busy in local film, Nathan can be seen in “The Gamers: The Shadow Menace” from Dead Gentlemen Productions, and the “JourneyQuest” series from Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. In his free time, Nathan enjoys kayaking and hiking, being a couch potato, extreme nerding, and spending time with his brilliant and beautiful fiancee Hannah.

Selected Seattle credits: Romaine in Witness for the Prosecution (Centerstage), Janet in The Realization of Emily Linder (Taproot), The Governess in The Turn of the Screw (Centerstage), Diana in Diana of Dobson’s (Taproot), Madeline Rousseau in Border Songs (Book-It), Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (BPA).  A former Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Harvester holds a B.A. in Drama from Vassar College and an M.A. from the Boris Shchukin State Theater Institute in Moscow, Russia.

Angela was born and raised in the PNW and has been acting on stage and screen for 36 years. You may have seen her on stage at Village Theatre (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Foreigner, Crimes of the Heart), Seattle Rep (Boeing Boeing), ReAct (Closer, Angels in America), Seattle Public Theatre (Christmastown), ArtsWest (Reasons to be Pretty), Book-It Repertory (Mrs. Caliban, Sense & Sensibility).  When not performing, Angela and her husband teach at Mighty Tripod Acting Studio, helping actors empower their art.

James was born and raised right here in Olympia. He started acting in college at Central Washington University where he discovered the joy of performing. Eager to become a “professional” actor, he moved to Los Angeles where he studied improv at UCB and Groundlings. After a few years there, he moved back to Washington where he had a run of good fortune and appeared in several commercial spots for TacoTime, Halls Cough Drops, Oculus, Microsoft, and many others. Right now he lives and works at a small farm while pursuing acting full time.