Phoenix Theatre to Present ON CLOVER ROAD Rolling World Premiere

Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the National New Play Networking Rolling World Premiere of On Clover Road opening March 10, 2016 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through April 10, with Courtney Sale serving as director.

Kate Hunter has been searching for her daughter for over four years. Now that she's been located, Kate must carefully extract her from a cult by trusting a complete stranger to de-program her at an abandoned motel on Clover Road. Will mother and daughter happily reunite? Or will the shadow of a memory she's held on to for the past four years be all that Kate has left of the daughter she once knew? This thriller will have you guessing, hoping, and left with a strong desire to keep your loved ones close.

Courtney Sale is returning to the Phoenix after last season, when she directed Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. She serves as the Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre where directing credits include The Mountaintop, And Then They Came For Me, Jacke & Me, The Giver and A Christmas Carol. Other credits include The Tempest and Twelfth Night with HART, Zen Songs & Prayers written and performed by Kirk Lynn for Fusebox Festival, and several works with The Duplicates, of which she is a proud co-founder. Courtney has developed new work at TheatreWorks' New Play Festival, NYU/Provincetown Playhouse, Write Now, New Harmony Project, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Denver Center Theatre Company's Summit New Play Festival. BFA, Cornish College of the Arts. MFA, The University of Texas at Austin.

The cast includes Jen Johansen as Kate Hunter, Rob Johansen as Stine, Mara Lefler as Girl, and Bill Simmons as Harris McClain.

Jen Johansen was last seen at the Phoenix in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Other Phoenix productions include Clark Gable Slept Here, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and This. She has also appeared in several Indiana Repertory Theatre productions, including Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Game's Afoot.

Rob Johansen returns to the Phoenix after most recently appearing in A Very Phoenix Xmas X and One Man, Two Guvnors this season. He was also recently seen in The Mystery of Irma Vep at Indiana Repertory Theatre.

Mara Lefler makes her Phoenix debut with On Clover Road. She has previously been seen at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indiana Festival Theatre, and IU Theatre.

Bill Simmons most recently appeared at the Phoenix in the role of Sims in The Nether, and as Charlie Clench in One Man, Two Guvnors before that. Other Phoenix work includes Seminar, My Name is Asher Lev, and August: Osage County.

Steven Dietz's thirty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Dietz's recent premieres include Bloomsday at ACT Theatre (Seattle), and two National New Play Network "rolling world premieres": On Clover Road, at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival (Shepherdstown WV), San Francisco Playhouse, and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis); and Rancho Mirage (2013 Edgerton New Play Award) at the Olney Theatre Center (Olney MD), New Rep (Boston), Phoenix Theatre and Curious Theatre Company (Denver). Other recent plays include This Random World, written at the New Harmony Project (New Harmony IN), and The Shimmering.

Dietz is a two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, for Fiction and Still Life with Iris; as well as a two-time finalist for the Steinberg New Play Award, for Last of the Boys and Becky's New Car. He received the PEN USA West Award in Drama for Lonely Planet; the 2007 Edgar Award for Drama for his widely-produced Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; and the Yomuiri Shimbun Award (the Japanese "Tony") for his adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence. His acclaimed conspiracy thriller, Yankee Tavern, was an NNPN featured play. He has received new play commissions from the Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, among others.

Tickets for On Clover Road are on sale now. Tickets are $27 per person on Thursdays and Sundays, $33 per person on Fridays and Saturdays, and $20 for anyone 21 & under. During CheapSeats Weekend, March 10-13, all tickets are $20. Tickets for On Clover Road may be purchased by calling the box office at 317.635.7529 or visiting phoenixtheatre.org. Curtain times for the production are: Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays at 8 pm, Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm.

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