World Premiere of STATIC to Open This October at Phoenix Theatre

Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the World Premiere of Static opening October 27, 2016 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through November 20.

20 years after Walter and Millie have passed away, a young woman named Emma moves into their abandoned home. When she discovers Walter's tape recorder, she can't help but be drawn in by its strange collection of memories. The longer she stays in the house, the more consumed she becomes by the need to understand the couple's secrets... the key to which lies in a single missing tape-and Emma will stop at nothing to find it. This world premiere of Playwright-in-Residence Tom Horan's newest work will find you guessing, hoping, and deeply moved.

Bill Simmons returns to the Phoenix Theatre as director for the fifth time with Static. His previous directing credits include 4000 Miles, Miles & Ellie, Typhoid Mary, and Acid Dolphin Experiment. He recently directed Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project's The Merry Wives of Windsor. In addition to acting and directing, he recently began teaching his second two-year Sanford Meisner Acting Technique class at the Phoenix Theatre.

Tom Horan is a writer and Sound Designer who serves as the Playwright-in-Residence at the Phoenix. His works have been honored with several awards, including Best-of-Fest at the Austin FronteraFest for The King and the Clockmaker, and two Austin Table Critics Awards for The Poison Squad. Static will be his fourth premiere at the Phoenix; previous productions include last season's Acid Dolphin Experiment and Leyenda, and Typhoid Mary before that. Elsewhere, Static was workshopped this summer at the Source Festival in Washington D.C. He recently joined the faculty of the Ball State Theatre Department.

Static features C helsey Stauffer as Emma, Rich Rand as Walter, Jolene Mentink Moffatt as Millie, Benjamin Schuetz as Owen, and Eliot Simmons as Young Emma.

Tickets for Static are on sale now. Tickets are $27.00 per person on Thursdays and Sundays, $33.00 per person on Fridays and Saturdays, and $20.00 for anyone 21 & under. During CheapSeats Weekend, September October 27-30, all tickets are $20. Tickets for Static may be purchased by calling the box office at 317.635.7529 or visiting phoenixtheatre.org. Curtain times for the production are: Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays at 8 pm, Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm.

The Phoenix Theatre is Indiana's only professional Contemporary Theatre, and has presented productions to challenge and entertain the Indianapolis community for over 33 years.An Equity house, the Phoenix presents the Midwest and Indiana premieres of many popular Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, and has presented more than 91 world premieres. The Phoenix operates the 130-seat proscenium Livia and Steve Russell Stage as well as the 75-seat cabaret-style Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. Both venues are housed along with administrative offices in a renovated 1907 church in downtown Indianapolis' historic Chatham Arch neighborhood, part of the Mass Ave Arts and Culture District. The Phoenix Theatre is a founding member of the National New Play Network and the League of Indianapolis Theatres, and is supported by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as local corporate and foundation funders and more than 400 individual donors.