Catherine Flye Returns to MetroStage in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

Catherine (Catie) Flye, veteran Washington actor, returns to MetroStage, opening the season with her exquisitely funny, poignant, and unforgettable portrayal of Nana in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, French Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay's homage to his mother. Catie has been a part of the Washington DC theatre scene for several decades, as Artistic Director of Interact Theatre Company (her production of Pirates of Penzance won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical), an actor and a director. At MetroStage, she has played Camilla Bombacci, a sixteenth century nun in Rapture (Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Supporting Actress); Timothea, an English spinster opposite Michael Tolaydo's Irish fisherman in SeaMarks; and Mrs. Crummles in The Crummles' Christmas Carol, in which the Crummles Family from Nicholas Nickelby tour the provinces in a production of A Christmas Carol. In addition she is a familiar player at the Folger Theatre where she most recently was seen as Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer (Helen Hayes nomination), and Mrs. Heidelberg in The Clandestine Marriage. In Arena Stage's Old Vat Room she performed her tribute to British comedienne Joyce Grenfell in George Don't Do That, and her critically acclaimed role as Shirley in Shirley Valentine, both of which recieved Helen Hayes nominations. She has been nominated for twelve Helen Hayes Awards for acting and directing, and received the Theatre Lobby's 2000 Mary Goldwater Award.

Joining Catie on stage in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Bruce Holmes, who is playing her son in Tremblay's autobiographical tribute to his mother and her influence on his future work as a writer and playwright. Bruce has most recently been seen at Arena Stage in Orpheus Descending and Anna Christie.