American Stage Presents THE WAITRESS PLAY, 3/13 & 3/14

American Stage Theatre Company continues its "After Hours" series with Heather Jones' comedic drama, THE WAITRESS PLAY, Mar. 13 and 14. Ticket prices to all performances are "Pay-What-You-Can" at the door and $20 in advance.

THE WAITRESS PLAY follows a waitress, played Roxanne Fay, on the day she might disappear. As she contends with the attitudes and assumptions of her customers, the waitress must decide whether to continue to struggle for visibility or to allow herself to fade away. Join the Blue Scarf Collective for the area premiere of this poignant and humorous piece.

The Blue Scarf Collective is composed of local theatre artists Roxanne Fay, Aleshea Harris and Heather Jones. Their aim is to facilitate excellence in playwriting through development and production of their own theatrical works and to nurture the talents of local theatre artists while insisting upon diversity and reciprocal enrichment for both audiences and stage artists.

Heather Jones has had work produced by American Theatre of Actors in New York and by Green Light Theatrical Productions in Philadelphia, PA, where her play, LAST RITES, was one of six selections for the first presentation of GLO, their annual festival of one-acts by women. Green Light also presented LAST RITES at a women's festival for Haverford College. BLACK SWAN Theatre in Asheville, NC presented a staged reading of her play, THE WAITRESS PLAY, in 2008. In 2009 she received a Regional Artists Project Grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council to develop her play EVERY CREATURE'S SHADOW through a script-in-hand production. Jones has directed her own work at the BeBe Theatre in Asheville, NC and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has also acted as dramaturg for Immediate Theatre Project in Asheville. Heather holds an MFA in Writing with a concentration in Playwriting from Spalding University, where she was mentored by Sheila Callaghan, Eric Schmiedl and Charles Schulman. Heather lives in St. Petersburg, FL, and teaches in the first year writing program at the University of Tampa.

Performances and ticket prices are as follows:
Saturday at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Sunday at 6 p.m.

Tickets prices are "Pay What You Can" at the door and $20 in advance.

Please call the American Stage Box Office at (727) 823-PLAY (7529)
or go to www.americanstage.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

American Stage Theatre Company is located at the Raymond James Theatre, 163 3rd Street North in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

American Stage Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1977. The company's mission is to create the most satisfying live theatre in the Tampa Bay area, accessible to all members of the community. Their vision is to preserve the
greatest human stories from our past, while creating the most defining stories and
storytelling of our time. American Stage presents its six play Mainstage Series in its brand new, 182-seat Raymond James Theatre each year. The very popular American Stage in the Park celebrates its 25th Anniversary year. The theatre's other programming includes: "After Hours" Series, School Tour, and camps and classes for children. The Hough Family Foundation is the Season Sponsor, Raymond James is the Mainstage Sponsor, Bank of America is the Education Partner and WUSF 89.7 is the Radio Sponsor of American Stage. The After Hours series are sponsored by ABC Bicycles.

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