Tika Moon

Tika Moon has been seen all over the local theatre seen for over 20 years. Tika had her theatrical debut way back in high school in the show "Leader of the Pack" where she sang back up to all the great 50’s doo-wop songs like Be My Baby and Da Doo Ron Ron. Since her first time on that stage, she has been completely hooked and has been performing ever since.

Tika grew up in Santa Rosa and got an early start in music at the age of 8, where she learned to read music and play the flute and clarinet. She kept up with her flute playing while attending Cook Jr. High and Piner High Schools. In her senior year, Tika was heavily involved in all aspects of music: the Show Choir, Concert Choir, Band, Drama and had the honor of being the Drum major for the marching band her Senior year. Additionally she got to perform in Choir, Show Choir and Marching band at Disneyland, on the Queen Mary and at the Spruce Goose.

Tika, a Music Ed/ Performance Major, attended a small private college in Portland, Oregon where she received the best vocal, flute and piano training in the state. She took one year of extensive voice and music theory training and came back to the bay area to peruse her passion, performing in musical theater.

As the years passed, Tika managed to perform in some pretty impressive shows with companies like Santa Rosa Players, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Actor's Theatre for Children, Santa Rosa JC, The Raven Players, Raven Radio Players and 6th Street Playhouse. Along the way, she met a special someone and ended up marrying him, and changing her name from Tika Abston, to Tika Moon, although not a stage name, people think that it is. Three weeks before she was wed to Ocean Michael Moon, their beautiful daughter Audrey Sapphire Moon was born on tax day, and since then has changed her life in so many ways.

Tika has had the pleasure of performing in several shows with her daughter. The first show was when Audrey was only 18 months old, and they were in the Santa Rosa Players production of Annie Get your Gun. Audrey's had a few year break from the stage, but when Audrey made it back onstage at the age of 5 to be in the Raven Players Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. One of the most memorable shows ever for the both of them has been Seussical the Musical, where Tika was cast as the Sour Kangaroo and Young Roo (puppet) and Audrey was Cindy Loo Who, Thing 2 and a Circus Performer. "There is nothing as special as seeing your child sing and dance onstage with you. It is a memory I will cherish forever."

By day Tika works as an Accounting Manager for two construction companies, North Coast Cabinetry in Healdsburg and Imperial Contracting in Marin. She also fills the remainder of her free time with being a portrait and wedding photographer (www.tikamoonphotography.com) and one day hopes to open her own studio. She was previously the resident photographer for the Santa Rosa Players for about 8 years and is now in her 3rd year as photographer for the Raven Players.

While she has directed before, Gypsy for the Santa Rosa Players, Tika would rather be onstage singing for you. Tika has tackled many aspects of the theatre however; she has been scenic artist for shows like The Bachelors, West Side Story, A Year with Frog and Toad, My Fair Lady, and Guys and Dolls; played in the orchestra for Camelot and South Pacific, and been the stage manager, prop mistress making things such as fake roast turkey, cakes, fancy hats for Hello Dolly, a makeup artist, and backstage tech crew.

Some of Tika's most memorable roles while being in the spotlight include many leading roles, were as The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, Mrs. Mae Petersen in Bye Bye Birdie, Widow Corney in Oliver!, Crystal (Doo wop girl) in Little Shop of Horrors, Sour Kangaroo in Suessical, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees, Glinda/ Aunt Em in The WIZ, Maria Morelli in Lend Me a Tenor, Bird/Mother Frog/ Mole in A Year with Frog and Toad, soloist (And the World Goes Round) in 2x5 a Kanderr and Ebb Review, as herself in Godspell (Turn Back Oh Man and Day by Day soloist), Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles, Emerald City Guard in the Wizard of OZ. Some of her other favorite shows where she was in the ensemble were Peter Pan, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun, Jospeh and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, and Big the Musical.

Tika has always dreamed of being on Broadway, but as life has taken over she is happy doing the things she loves. Two small dreams did come true for her in the last few years, she was an extra in the movie “Bottle Shock”, in a scene with Alan Rickman and Freddy Rodriguez, and on an episode of the TV series "I ALMOST Got Away With It" ep 105. You never know, when the next big break is around the corner and while she is not sitting around waiting for some producer to "find" her, she keeps that small glimmer of hope for something at least near Broadway will find her sometime in the future.

Tika is currently in the creative stages of producing her own show called Daring Dazzling Diva’s Do Broadway. She is bringing in a few of her talented female friends to create a tribute to the old comedy vaudeville style of cabaret. Hoping to get this up and started before October of this year, Tika will be hamming it up with songs from the past, present and future of Broadway.