Amphibian Stage Productions to Kick Off Reading Series with PLEADING INFINITY, 1/25

Amphibian Stage Productions begins its 2015 season with the first installment of its newly formatted staged reading series. This year the series will host three playwrights in residence and exclusively feature unpublished works. Pleading Infinity by TJ Walsh, Texas native and Texas Christian University professor, will lead the series.

Richard Haratine will star in this solo play, running Sunday, January 25 and Monday, January 26 at Amphibian's theater at 120 S. Main Street. Pleading Infinity will be Richard Haratine's debut performance at Amphibian Stage Productions.

In this funny and moving solo play Bob Donovan, Hollywood screenwriter, wrestles with life's big questions including miraculous births, the nature of art, near death experiences, ghosts, UFOs, the creation of the universe, and, finally, the meaning of life. Pleading Infinity was first developed in Austin, Texas at FronteraFest and performed at the New York International Fringe Festival.

Pleading Infinity will be performed on Sunday, January 25 at 2pm and on Monday, January 26 at 7pm at Amphibian Stage Productions.

Tickets for Pleading Infinity are $17 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $7 for students. For tickets and more information, theatergoers may call 817-923-3012, email boxoffice@amphibianproductions.org, or visit www.amphibianproductions.org. The theater is located at 120 S. Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76104.

About the Artists:

TJ Walsh (Playwright/Director) is a Professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival, a professional Equity summer Shakespeare Festival housed on the campus of TCU. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Oscar Brockett. His plays have been produced across the country. He is the recipient of three Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum awards for Outstanding Direction. Favorite professional productions he directed locally are The Tempest at Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Metamorphoses at Theatre Three and The Retreat from Moscow at Circle Theatre. He and his wife Kristine have four children.

Richard Haratine (Bob Donovan) has a BFA in acting from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA in classical acting from the University of Delaware. Some of his favorite roles have been Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest and Henry VI in Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy. He has performed and taught with the National Shakespeare Company NYC, Trinity Shakespeare Festival, PA Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons NYC, The Beckett Theatre NYC, off-off Broadway and over a hundred theatres while touring across the country performing Shakespeare. Over the past five years he has directed local productions and taught acting and theatre appreciation at universities and colleges in the metroplex.

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 strive to produce innovative and engaging works of theatre that challenge the way we see the world around us. Now in its sixteenth 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, Tad-Poles, 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.

Amphibian is generously funded by the American Theatre Wing, National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Ann L. & Carol Greene Rhodes Charitable Trust, Amon G. Carter Foundation, Alcon Foundation, Pangburn Foundation, William E. Scott Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust, Bates Container, Pier 1 Imports, BBVA Compass Bank 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.

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