Amphibian Stage Productions Presents ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER, 3/11-3/27

Amphibian Stage Productions is proud to continue its twelfth season with the regional premiere of the acclaimed play Animals Out of Paper by Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph. Amphibian veteran Evan Mueller directs Andrés Ortiz, Laurel Whitsett, and Marshall York in this heartwarming comedy that runs from March 11 to 27 at the Hardy & BetTy Sanders Theatre in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

About the Play
World-renowned origami artist Ilana Andrews is in a rut. Her husband has left her, her three-legged dog has run away, and she suffers from a bad case of folder's block. When she opens her studio to a teenage hip-hopping origami prodigy and his high school teacher (who literally counts his blessings), they find that life and love can't be neatly arranged in this touching comedy about finding the perfect fold.

Written in 2007, Animals Out of Paper is described as "pitch-perfect" by the New York Times and as "incredibly funny and entirely satisfying" by NYTheater.com. The play was nominated for the prestigious Lucille Lortel "Outstanding Play" award in 2009.

Animals Out of Paper plays in Fort Worth March 11 to 27, with Thursday, Friday, and Saturday showings at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students. For tickets and more information, theatergoers can call 817-923-3012, visit www.amphibianproductions.org, or write to boxoffice@amphibianproductions.org. The Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater is located at 1300 W. Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX 76107.
Please be advised that Animals Out of Paper contains strong language.

About Amphibian Stage Productions
Amphibian Stage Productions is a non-profit theatre company founded in 2000 by three alumni of TCU's Department of Theatre who strive to produce innovative and engaging works of theatre that challenge the way we see the world around us. Now in its eleventh season, Amphibian has produced numerous groundbreaking and challenging plays (some regional premieres, others US or world premieres) that foster a deeper understanding of ourselves as members of the global community. The company is widely recognized for its stylistically and thematically varied scripts.
Committed to nurturing young and diverse audiences, Amphibian has developed a strong internship program, a summer acting workshop for teens, and a dynamic outreach project, Jumbies Fort Worth!, that is steadily increasing the company's visibility and following. The group travels to schools and community centers, performing and spreading a message of multicultural collaboration and tolerance.

In addition, actors visit schools to lead acting workshops and talkback sessions with students. The company actively reaches out to young people and strives to foster a new generation of audience members by offering students very low cost or free tickets to all performances.

Amphibian is generously funded by the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas Commission on the Arts, Ann L. & Carol Greene Rhodes Charitable Trust, Amon G. Carter Foundation, Alcon Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Mrs. Lenore Barbata, Mrs. Betty J. Sanders, William E. Scott Foundation, Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, Web Maddox Trust, The Rug Company, Out of Nowhere Website Design, Bates Container, Pier 1 Imports, and the Devonian Society, a group of Amphibian's devoted donors who are proud to be the force behind nurturing the next generation of artists and audiences.

Rajiv Joseph (playwright) Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, and also awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the National Endowment for the Arts. Joseph's New York productions include Gruesome Playground Injuries, Second Stage Theatre, 2011; The Leopard and the Fox (adaptation), Alter Ego, fall 2007; Huck & Holden, Cherry Lane Theatre, 2006; All This Intimacy, Second Stage Theatre, 2006. World premieres of new plays this year, include The North Pool at Theatre Works in Palo Alto; The Lake Effect at Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey; and The Medusa Body at the Alley Theatre. He received his BA in Creative Writing from Miami University and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

Evan Mueller (director), originally from Chicago, is now living in New York City where he teaches Acting and Voice & Speech for New York University. Evan is proud to have worked for Amphibian both as an actor and director for several mainstage plays and readings, including First Day of School, Fully Committed, This is How it Goes, Miss Witherspoon, The Scene, Eye of God, Below the Belt, ...Julia Pastrana...the Ugliest Woman in the World, and A Leopard Complains of Its Spots. In New York and Regionally, Evan has worked with various theater companies, such as North Carolina's Wendell Theater Group, of which Evan was a co-founder and artistic director; the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Manbites Dog Theatre in North Carolina; The Warehouse Theatre in South Carolina; the McCarter Theater and the Rutgers Theater Company in New Jersey; the Source Theatre Company in Washington DC; The Public Theater in Maine; and in New York: Ars Nova, the Sweet William Collective, the Samuel French Company, the New Phoenix Theater Company, 86th Street Films, The Triptych Theater Company, the Lightning Strikes Theater Company, and the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival. Most recently, Evan has directed As You Like It for Wingspan Arts in New York City in conjunction with New York University, and has collaborated as vocal coach with the Ars Nova's off-Broadway production of Bloodsong of Love. As always, he is thrilled to be part of the amazing theater offered by Amphibian.

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