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Louisiana Tech’s School of Theatre has announced the cast for Pride and Prejudice, the spring production from the Kate Hamill script created to bring the classic novel by Jane Austen to modern audiences.

Directed by Andrew Dylan Ray, the show will run Tuesday, April 29–Saturday May 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the Stone Theatre in the Howard Center of the Performing Arts on the Tech campus.

Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome, mildly amusing, and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn? Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life as it does in this effervescent adaptation. Because what turns us into greater fools than the high-stakes game of love?

The cast and the hometown of each cast member follows:

Sarah Plumlee (Katy, Texas) as Lizzy

John Browning (Zachary, La.) as Mr. Darcy

Layla Navarre (Sulphur, La.) as Jane

Reagan Breslin (Choudrant, La.) as Miss DeBourgh

Kat Defazio (El Dorado, Ark.) as Lydia

Hanna Allen (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) as Lady Catherine

Carson Turgeon (Hathaway, La.) as Mr. Collins

Ian Taylor (Allen, Texas) as Wickham

Riya Nelson (El Dorado, Ark.) as Miss Bingley

Quentin Maese (Carrollton, Texas) as Mr. Bingley

Reilly Spitzfaden (New Orleans, La.) as Mary

Amber Shaye (Frierson, La.) as Charlotte Lucas

Logan Bret Sapp (Owensboro, Ky.) as Mr. Bennet

Katie Dugger (Murray, Ky.) as Mrs. Bennet

Isabel St. Amant (Washington, N.C.), Dakota Evans (Shreveport, La.), and Winter Curry (Overton, Texas) as Servants

For more information, please contact the Louisiana Tech University Theatre Office at 318.257.3942. For more information on Louisiana Tech University School of Theatre, visit www.latechuniversitytheatre.com or email promotions and marketing at aaf028@latech.email.edu.