Azuka Theatre Announces The Terrible Girls 3/17-4/3

Azuka Theatre will conclude its 11th season with the World Premiere of Jacqueline Goldfinger's the terrible girls, running March 17-April 3 at The Latvian Society, 531 N. 7th Street. This new work began its journey as a one-act in the company's Spotlight Series: New Play Readings in 2009. Now a full-length play, this will be the world premiere, Azuka's ninth world premiere. Tickets cost $10-$25 and are available by calling (215) 733-0255 or online at www.azukatheatre.org.

This new work will be directed by Azuka Theatre's Literary Manager, Allison Heishman, who also organizes Azuka's Spotlight Series. The theatre is pleased to announce the three leading ladies for the upcoming production. They will be played by Amanda Schoonover, Zura Johnson, and Kristy Chouiniere. Schoonover has not appeared in an Azuka mainstage production since Kid Simple. She recently appeared in Three Penny Opera at the Arden Theatre Company. She was an F. Otto Haas Award nominee at this year's Barrymore Awards. Johnson recently recorded the haunting narrator's voice for Azuka's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and was the narrator in Kid Simple. Chouiniere last appeared in Act II Playhouse's hit comedy Boeing, Boeing and is a cast member of Freedom Rising at the National Constitution Center.

A wicked dark comedy of friendship, obsession and Southern sensibilities, in the terrible girls, accidents keep happening in the little diner off the interstate where three friends work together and keep a sinister secret. When one of them hides her own terrible secret from the others, everything begins to unravel. Goldfinger lives in the region and is the Dramaturg and Literary Manager at Philadelphia Theatre Company. She is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been featured by Theatre Exile, Moxie Theatre Company, Philadelphia Dramatists Center, New Perspectives Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival, Blank Theatre, InterAct Theater Company, Drama Garage, North Coast Repertory Theatre , New Village Arts, 13th Street Rep, Cardboard Box Collective, Ion Theatre, Compass Theater, Experimental Theatre at San Diego State University, Playwrights Collective, Florida Studio Theatre, and others.

Company History
Azuka Theatre was founded in 1999 by group of artists participating in the Arden Theatre Company's nationally recognized Professional Apprentice Program. Azuka Theatre quickly built a reputation for accessible, thought-provoking and socially minded theatre. Over the past ten seasons, Azuka Theatre has produced twenty plays, including eight world premieres, received a Lambda Award from The Philadelphia Gay News and been nominated for multiple Barrymore Awards, with Chris Collucci winning this past year for Sound Design for The Long Christmas Ride Home. The company also won for Best Actress in a Musical: Kim Carson in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Azuka Theatre has been hailed as "a company to watch" and a "major player on the Philadelphia alterNative Theatre scene," by the Philadelphia Weekly.

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