Katja Hill To Perform At Deep Dish's Annual Side Dish Fundraiser, Benefit To Take Place 5/30-31

On May 30 & 31, Deep Dish Theater Company will present its annual Side Dish fundraising benefit. This year’s event will feature Deep Dish favorite Katja Hill performing her acclaimed one-woman show, Cornucopia of Me.  Saturday evening will begin with a champagne reception at 7:30 p.m., followed by the show at 8 p.m. and a post-show reception; Sunday afternoon’s reception will begin at 1:30 p.m., with the performance time of 2 p.m.
 
Cornucopia of Me is Katja Hill’s hilarious and unconventional look at her own misadventures as a struggling artist.  Awarded Independent Weekly’s Best Original Script, Best Production, Best Direction, and Best Lead Performance, it will anchor the Side Dish festivities, which will also include light fare provided by Meadowmont’s Azure Grill.
 
"We are always thrilled to have Katja performing on our stage," said Deep Dish Artistic Director Paul Frellick. "But this piece will be a special treat for our audience.  The ingenious twist it puts on one-person “confessionals” puts it in a class by itself, and Katja is at the top of her form as both writer and performer—you don’t get much better than that."
 
Katja Hill has been a favorite Deep Dish performer since appearing in Arms and the Man in the theater’s inaugural season.  Since then she has performed notably in The Misanthrope, Private Lives, Permanent Collection, Holiday, Hedda Gabler, Polish Joke, The Game of Love & Chance, and most recently as Joan Plowright in Orson's Shadow. She has also acted with a number of area theaters in such productions as Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Ghost and Spice); The Receptionist, Rabbit Hole, and The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Manbites Dog); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Three Sisters (on Ice) (Little Green Pig). Her directing credits include Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession, Act a Lady, Deer Hunting with Jesus (Manbites Dog); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Footfalls (Little Green Pig); and You're No One's Nothing Special (Loveseat Theater). A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Katja serves as Associate Managing Director of Manbites Dog Theater and teaches at Carrboro ArtsCenter's Youth Performing Arts Conservatory. She will next appear in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at Deep Dish.
 
Tickets are $40 each and are tax-deductible. They can be ordered by visiting www.deepdishtheater.org, calling 919/968-1515, or visiting the Deep Dish box office Wednesday through Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. Deep Dish is located in Chapel Hill's University Mall, located on Estes Drive and US 15-501. For more information, call 968-1515 or visit the Deep Dish website at www.deepdishtheater.org.