The Naples Players to present Spinning Into Butter October 28 - November 21

NAPLES, Fla. - Oct. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Naples, FL - The Naples Players will present Spinning Into Butter, written by American playwright Rebecca Gilman, October 28 - November 21, in the Tobye Studio at Sugden Community Theatre in downtown Naples. The production will be directed by Anna Segreto who studied acting and directing at the American Stanislavski Theater in N.Y.C. and has directed several previous Naples Players’ productions.

         In this provocative drama, students and administration alike are forced to confront their own feelings on racism when an African American student at Belmont College begins receiving racist hate mail. What they discover is not at all what they expected.

         Denise Villarreal stars as Sarah Daniels, Dean of Students at the fictional Belmont College who struggles with her own prejudices as she attempts to navigate the controversy at Belmont. Villareal has participated both on and off stage in numerous Players’ productions, most recently on stage in Legally Blonde.

         Naples Players veteran, Janina Birtolo, will play the part of Dean Catherine Kenney. Janina most recently performed on the Naples Players stage as Rose in The Last Romance.

         Juan Alejandro takes on the role of Patrick Chibas, a sophomore at the mostly-white college who fights to find his place at a school that does not recognize what he considers his true ethnicity. Juan is a regular of the Southwest Florida theatre scene, preforming most recently at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers as Septimus Hodge in Arcadia and at the FGCU Theatre Lab in both Depotic Twilight Zone and Bloody Poetry.

         Another theatre regular gracing the stage is Marilyn Hilbert as Mrs. Meyers. Marilyn’s latest performances include Evelyn in Sunset Park and Gingyin Love, Loss & What I Wore, both with the Marco Players.

         Making their Naples Players debuts are Bill Richards playing Burton Strauss, the Head of Humanities at Belmont College, Derek Perry in the role of college senior Greg Sullivan and Paul Nicodemi as Ross Collins, a professor at the school.  This is Richards’ first time back on the stage since high school when he performed in George Washington Slept Here.  Perry performed locally last fall in the dramatic comedy 4,000 Miles and in summer 2014 as Stephen in The Irish Curse.  Nicodemi’s recent acting credits include the role of Brian in last winter’s Let’s Put On a Show production of The Lyons’.

         Performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for students 21 and under, and can be purchased at the box office, with credit card by calling 239-263-7990, or online at www.naplesplayers.org. Sugden Community Theatre is located at 701 5^th Avenue South, Naples.

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Spinning 4: From left: Dean Burton Strauss (played by Bill Richards), Ross Collins (played by Paul Nicodemi), Sarah Daniels (played by Denise Villarreal) and Dean Catherine Kenney (played by Janina Birtolo) in The Naples Players production of Spinning Into Butter, October 28 - November 21 in the Tobye Studio at Sugden Community Theatre, 701 5^th Avenue South, Naples.