Douglas Peruski is a co-founder of the
theatrical troupe The Square Peg Players, a wildly popular theatre troupe based
in Duluth, Georgia. He founded the group five years ago, shortly after
graduating from the University of Georgia, where he earned degrees in Theatre
Arts and Computer Science.
But now, says Douglas Peruski, he and the
Square Peg Players have become big fish in a small pond, and he has announced
plans to pull up stakes and move the operation to New York. The move is
expected to come no later than the spring of 2015, after the Square Peg
Player’s current production, Thomas Forsythe's No Rights Reserved, ends its
Duluth run.
There are only five actors working with the
Square Peg Players on a regular basis, Douglas Peruski says. "And that
includes me, Tom, and Tom's wife Angela." The other regulars are Allyson
Fielder and Brian Sugarman. Fielder and Sugarman are not making the move to New
York. Douglas Peruski says that once they are in the Big Apple, the remaining
three members of the Square Peg Players will stage Forsythe's new play Elastic
Magnet at a venue he has already contracted with. He describes the theatre as
"off-off-off-off and really way off Broadway." He and Forsythe will
cast the play soon after arriving, and hope to find several who can replace
Fielder and Sugarman.
The announcement of the future of the Square
Peg Players took the local theatre community by surprise, and the response has
been surprising. Douglas Peruski says he has been inundated with requests to
reconsider his decision. But he says that as much as he would like to, he needs
to try New York because it is the center of the theatre world.
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