PAINTED ALICE-S.Eastern Premiere-Miami's Mad Cat Theater Co.

MAD CAT THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS PAINTED ALICE
AS PART OF MIAMI LIGHT PROJECT'S LIGHT BOX STUDIO SERIES
  
  Miami Light Project continues its Light Box Studio Performance Series
with Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of the southeastern premiere
of Painted Alice by William Donnelly.  A whimsical tale of an artist's
path to creativity loosely based on Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland,
the story follows Alice, a young painter on the rise who is struggling
with a commission and a rocky relationship with her lover. After eating
a bad mushroom, Alice falls into her uninspired canvas whereupon she
meets a cornucopia of colorful characters that help Alice with her
omnipotent dilemma of what it means to be an artist.
  
  Painted Alice stars Mad Cat company members Michaela Cronan (Action,
Trembling Hands, Fell in Love with A Girl, Cope and Shoot) Joe Kimble
(Waiting for Godot, Matt and Ben, Artful Dodgers, Trembling Hands, Fell
in Love with a Girl, Cope, Shoot) Erik Fabregat (Waiting for Godot,
Action, Betty's Summer Vacation, Cope, Here in my Car), Scott Genn
(Waiting for Godot) and guest actors Katie Amadeo and Heather Gallagher.
  
  Painted Alice is directed by Stuart Meltzer, and also features the
Mad Cat Theatre Company's award winning resident designers: set design by
Paul Tei, lighting design by Travis Neff, costumes by Karelle Levy
sound design by Natan Samuels and film by Ashley Karen Beecher.
  
  Miami Light Project
  Presents
  A Mad Cat Theatre Company Production of
  Painted Alice
  By
  William Donnelly
  March 17th -April 8th
  Wednesdays through Saturdays @ 8pm
  The Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33137
  General Admission is $20, Students are $10 with valid I.D.
  Friday & Saturday All Tickets $20
  No reservations.  Cash only, doors open @ 7:30
  Call (305) 576-6377 for info
  
  **Special Opening Night Program**
  Friday March 17th 2006
  The Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33137
  Tickets are $40
  Includes complimentary food and alcohol, music and a meet and greet
with the cast following the performance.
  Festivities start @ 7:00 PM
  Curtain @ 8:00 PM
  To purchase tickets with a credit card for Opening Night only, call
Miami Light Project
  @ 305-576-4350
  
  ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
  William Donnelly has been resident playwright for the
Massachusetts-based Industrial Theatre since 1997. His work has been produced by the
Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City), Alliance Theater (Washington, DC),
Thermodynamic Theater (New York), Theatre Expansion (Providence) and Rough &
Tumble (Boston) among others. A number of his ten minute plays have
appeared in the Boston Theatre Marathon and have been published by Baker's
Plays. In 2000, his play Apocalypso! was named a Clauder Competition
finalist and was included in Portland Stage Company's Little Festival of
the Unexpected. His play Remuda was named a Clauder Competition
finalist in 2004. Recently, William was awarded a Playwriting/New Theatre
Works grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
  
  ABOUT MAD CAT THEATRE COMPANY
  Mad Cat, a local theatre company that specializes in it's own brand
of irreverent humor and original material was founded by
actor/writer/director Paul Tei in the fall of 2000 with a cast and design team made up
of Miami-based artists.  Since their inaugural production of Helluva
Halloween in October of 2000, they have been named "Best Fringe Theater"
by the Miami New Times in 2003 and 2005 and have brought South Florida
four seasons worth of world premieres including Here in My Car (Best
Stage Comedy- Miami New Times), Portrait (Curtain Up Awards- Best New
Work, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor; Carbonell Award- Best
Lighting; Carbonell Nomination- Best New Work), Tin Box Boomerang (Carbonell
Award- Best New Work; Curtain Up Nomination- Best New Work), Cope (Best
Original Play, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design Runner Up- Miami
Sun Post), Fell in Love with a Girl (Curtain Up Nomination- Best New
Work, Best Original Play Runner Up- Miami Sun Post, Carbonell Nomination-
Best New Work), Trembling Hands (Best Original Play Runner Up- Miami
Sun Post), Artful Dodgers( Carbonell Nomination Best New Work) by Mad
Cat Founder and Artistic Director Paul Tei, the Florida Premiere of Matt
and Ben and most recently their critically acclaimed production of
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
  
  ABOUT MIAMI LIGHT PROJECT
  Founded in 1989, Miami Light Project is a not-for-profit cultural
organization which presents live performances by innovative dance, music
and theater artists from around the world; supports the development of
new work by Miami-based artists; and offers educational opportunities
for students of every age. Since our inception, we have reached a diverse
cross-section of communities throughout Miami-Dade County with an
extensive outreach effort that includes partnerships with other arts
organizations, universities and social service agencies. Miami Light Project
is a cultural forum to explore some of the issues that define
contemporary society. Light Box Studio is a series of studio performances that
take place in our State-of-the-art black box performance space, The Light
Box.  This program supports the presentation of new work, or innovative
approaches to existing work, by Miami-based artists.
   
Miami Light Project
3000 Biscayne Blvd #100
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.4350
http://www.miamilightproject.com/ 

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