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Nassau County's New Blue Fire Theatre Group Prepares For Debut

Blue Fire Theatre
Members of the Blue Fire Theatre group rehearse for an upcoming production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Nassau County is home to a new theatre group based in Yulee.

It’s called Blue Fire Theatre.

Founder Toni D’Amico said Friday onFirst Coast Connect with Melissa Ross she picked Yulee as the  group’s home base because of all the growth underway in the western part of the county.

“There’s a lot of infrastructure and building going on, on State Road 200, and there’s a lot of people starting to move into that area. And it’s an area that’s lacking in things to do.  And they have a thing going on—Timbers To Tides—from 95 to the bridge in Yulee that they’ve been talking about. They want to build it up. They want to make it a place that people don’t just drive through,” D’Amico said.

Related: Listen to the full interview with D'Amico on Friday's First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross

Blue Fire Theatre’s first production, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, will be performed at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Nassau campus September 20 through 29.

To find out more about the nonprofit group, go to bluefiretheatre.org.

Contact reporter Cyd Hoskinson at choskinson@wjct.org, 904-358-6351 and on Twitter at @cydwjctnews.

Cyd Hoskinson began working at WJCT on Valentine’s Day 2011.