The Red Door Theatre Company

June 20, 21, 23, 2008 at 8:00pm
June 21 & 22, 2008 at 2:00pm

The Barrow Group Studio Theatre
312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor (Between 8th & 9th Avenues)

Featuring: Anne S. Bates*, James Fleming*, Kate Erin Gibson* & Chris Murrah*

*All actors appear courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

Director: Susanne Boulle
Stage Manager: Corey Womack
Marketing Associate: Andrew L. Napier
Sound Design: Paul Radford
Producers: Elizabeth Gibson, Kate Erin Gibson and Kyleen Milton

Produced by special permission with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is about an enigmatic young woman, her manipulative sister, their brilliant father, and an unexpected suitor, all pieces of a puzzle within the search for the truth behind the mysterious mathematical proof.

"Proof is an exhilarating and assured new play by David Auburn that turns the esoteric world of higher mathematics literally into a back porch drama, one that is accessible and as compelling as a detective story." - Bruce Weber, New York Times (May 24, 2000)

Anne S. Bates (Claire) was on the big screen in the NY premiere of the film The Collective (Audience Choice Award, June '08), and had her directorial debut at the American Globe with Kiss My Paczki, Mr. King of the World (April '08) . Her other credits include Ondine at NY Walkerspace, Desdemona (Othello), and Anne Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor, both Houston Shakespeare Festival), Newscaster/Lisa/Jones (Dysteria, Atlantic Studio Theatre), Mariane (Tartuffe, Juilliard, directed by the late Garland Wright). She has toured the US as Mariane in Tartuffe, Miranda in The Tempest, and Lady in Waiting/Olivia understudy in Twelfth Night, all with the Acting Company. Additional credits include the lead in the American Premiere of the Canadian play A View from the Roof (Barrington Stage), Posthumous (Cymbeline, Expanded Arts). An international semifinalist in classical piano, graduate of the Juilliard School Drama division, Bates is a member of AEA and SAG.

James Fleming (Robert) has appeared as Dr. Watson and Hercule Poirot as well as the fathers in A Christmas Story and Othello. Other stage favorites include: The Foreigner, Sylvia, Driving Miss Daisy, Oscar Wilde Solitaire, God's Man In Texas, On Golden Pond, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, and others. Television appearances include Guiding Light, Another World, and Alamance (for PBS), and others. Films include Somewhere Tomorrow and Do Me A Favor with Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna To the Infinite Power, Preppies for Playboy, and the interactive feature Darkside of the Moon.

Kate Erin Gibson (Catherine) Co-founder and Executive Director of The Red Door Theatre Company , Kate Erin is ecstatic to be making her Red Door performance debut in Proof. Some favorite performance credits inlcude Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Polonius (Hamlet), Katie (Katie and Frank), Carrie (Carousel), and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (the new musical Zelda). A graduate of New York University and Shenandoah Conservatory, Kate Erin has been very active in producing educational theatre at the high school and collegiate levels. She is currently an apprentice member of The Barrow Group. Proud AEA member. Muchos Gracias to my amazing cast, crew, and closest friends.

Chris Murrah (Hal) New York: Musicals Tonight, The York Theatre Company, Theatreworks USA. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Geva Theatre, Arkansas Rep., Georgia Shakespeare. Other: Carousel, Virginia Music Theatre, Oh What a Night Productions. BFA Florida State University.

Susanne Boulle (Director) began her career at the Barter Theatre in VA. She spent seven years there as a Resident Director. Favorite credits: Blackbird, The Baby Dance, Of Mice and Men, Travels with My Aunt, Pow'r In the Blood, The Tempest. She also co-founded Barter's First Light Theatre for Young Audiences, touring to over 120,000 kids a year in 13 states. In New York she has been a teaching artist for Theatre for a New Audience's New Voices program, and directed for the Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre and Atlantic Theatre's New Works Series, developing new plays for Jessica Goldberg and Brooke Berman, among others. She is pleased to be a part of the Red Door Theatre.

Paul Radford (Sound Designer) is happy to be helping Kate and The Red Door. Having worked selling T-shirts, bartending and ushering at countless Broadway shows, it's nice to get a little closer to the action. National Tours: 50th Ann. tour of Singin' In the Rain, and George M! Regional credits include Jinx in Forever Plaid, Billy in 42nd St., Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man, Billy Early in No, No, Nanette, and Pug in the World Premiere reading of Holmes! The Musical. He's glad he could finally use that degree in Music for something useful.

Corey Womack (Stage Manager) comes to the Big Apple after a stint on the road with the legendary Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus. After facing elephants, tigers and Union heads, oh my, she has settled in the city that never sleeps to continue on her theatrical path. Her credits before the wackiness of the circus include working with the critically acclaimed Troubadour Theatre Company in Los Angeles with whom she produced and assistant directed such hits as Much ADoobie Brothers About Nothing and Comedy of Aerosmith. She has worked with Ameenah Kaplan and Silverback Productions on the hit Everyman and with the classical A Noise Within on such greats as Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It. You can catch her next project running around the Cloisters this summer with Gorilla Rep.

Andrew L. Napier (Marketing Associate) is the Director of Marketing and Sales for J's Gourme, INC. in Front Royal, Virginia and has previously worked at Wayside Theatre in Middletown, Virginia, and Studio 115 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has a BA in Theatre from the University of Mary Washington.

Tickets:

General Admission: $18.00
Seniors: $12.00

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