Amphibian Stage Productions Presents NO CHILD… 11/4-21

Amphibian Stage Productions is proud to present the regional premiere of No Child... by Nilaja Sun. René Moreno directs this inspiring one-woman comedy running November 4 - November 21 at the Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

About the Play
No Child... is a tour-de-force one-woman play filled with unforgettable characters struggling to make sense of their dire situations. When a struggling actress gets a job teaching theatre to the students of Malcolm X High School in the Bronx she finds resistance, and support, in the unlikeliest of places. An insightful, hilarious, and touching story set in a school where drug use, violence, and teen pregnancy are every-day occurrences, No Child... reminds us of the power of the arts to change lives in small yet powerful ways.

No Child... played to sold-out houses Off-Broadway in New York City at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2007. For the New York run and subsequent national tour, creator and solo performer Nilaja Sun received 17 awards, including an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Theatre World Award, a Helen Hayes Award, and an NAACP Theatre Award. New York Magazine observes that Sun's play "tells us something vital about our world," while The Washington Post says, "A Bronx high school classroom explodes into chaos time and again in Nilaja Sun's remarkable, often riotously funny solo show 'No Child...,' and if you think you know how such unruly episodes play out, think again."

No Child... plays in Fort Worth November 4 to November 21, 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 No Child... includes 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 wanted 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, 2clighting 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.

Set and costumes for No Child... generously underwritten by
The Tobin Fund for Theatre Arts

Biographies

René Moreno, actor and director, was born in Dallas, Texas. He has appeared in the Broadway productions of the Tony-award winning play Amadeus and Joseph Papp's Shakespeare On Broadway. As a director, his varied work has been seen at The Guthrie Theater/Guthrie Lab (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Skylight Opera Theatre (Milwaukee), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland), and Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre. In Dallas-Ft. Worth he has directed at the Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Dallas, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Stage West, Amphibian Stage Productions, WaterTower Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Upstart Productions, Dallas Children's Theater, Echo Theatre, Classical Acting Company, Plano Repertory Theatre, WingSpan Theatre Company, Circle Theatre, Martice Enterprises, Collin Theatre Center, Echo Theatre, Second Thought Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts, and Theatre Three among others. He is the recipient of The Princess Grace Foundation-USA Princess Grace Awards Theatre Fellowship and was honored with a National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts Nomination. He is a member of AEA (Actor's Equity Association), AFTRA (American Federation of Radio and Television Artists), and SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society), and he holds an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Theatre and Dance from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
Rhianna Mack makes her Amphibian Stage Productions debut as the character of Ms. Sun in No Child... Previous work includes roles in A Midnight Cry, African Tales of Earth & Sky, The Neverending Story, Ananse the Spiderman, and Everyday Heroes with Dallas Children's Theater, A Dog's Life with Theater Three, 365 Plays in 365 Days with Dallas Theater Center, David Mamet's Edmond with Second Thought Theater, Heaven Forbid(s) with Martice Enterprises, and The Exonerated with Water Tower Theater. Film credits include The Fantasia Barrino Movie: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale by Fairytale Productions, LLC, which aired on Lifetime, Drop Me Off by Out of Body Films, The Sound of Coming Darkness by Level Ground Productions, and Youngster by Three Folks Pictures, Inc. Ms. Mack received an Associate's in Performing Arts from the KD Studio Actors Conservatory of the Southwest and has studied with Michelle Condrey at the R.E.A.C.T. Film Acting Studio.

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