the amateurs BY JORDAN HARRISON FORWARD THEATER COMPANY presents THE AMATEURS by Jordan Harrison

Directed by Jen Uphoff Gray Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Nathan Stuber Marisa Abbott

Costume Designer Composer & Sound Designer Monica Kilkus Joe Cerqua**

Props Master Stage Manager Pamela Miles Sarah Deming-Henes* Dramaturg Mike Fischer

The Amateurs is generously sponsored by:

This play was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Evjue Foundation, Inc., the charitable arm of The Capital Times.

Season Sponsors: The Shubert Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., Distillery Design, The Madison Concourse Hotel, Wisconsin Arts Board, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of ** Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 professional actors and stage managers.

THE AMATEURS was produced by the VINEYARD THEATRE, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director; Sara Stern, Artistic Director; Suzanne Appel, Managing Director; New York City, 2018 Originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory The Amateurs is produced by special arrangement with United Talent Agency

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ARTISTIC Artistic Director...... Jennifer Uphoff Gray Artistic Associate...... Karen Moeller

ADMINISTRATIVE Managing Director...... Julie Swenson Director of Development...... Julia Nicholas Director of Marketing...... Scott Haden Company Manager...... Celia A. Klehr Business Manager...... Alex Moskoff Audience & Donor Relations Manager...... Samara Safarik

PRODUCTION Stage Manager...... Sarah Deming-Henes* Technical Director...... Kevin Zimmer Assistant Stage Manager...... Enya Nett Wardrobe Supervisor...... Megan Dickel Costume Assistants...... Shannon Heibler, Antonia Gunnarson Master Electrician...... Brad Toberman** Scenic Charge...... Pamela Miles Scenic Artist...... Carri Dahl Sound Technician/Board Op...... Benjamin Krueger Carpenter...... Jordan Rockman Master Electrician/Light Board Op...... Brad Toberman**

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

** Forward Theater is proud to work with the members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

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Rozan Anderson, UW Hillel Foundation DVOŘÁK REQUIEM Dr. Charles Ford, UW Division of Otolaryngology Marci Henderson, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin, Badgerland Roth Judd, Government Integrity Advisor Hallie Kuenning, WPS Health Solutions Gregory Monday, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. Jolen Neumann, Janus Galleries Kathie Nichols, Sort Sol Group Susan Pigorsch, Pigorsch Media Design DVOŘÁK REQUIEM Carol “Orange” Schroeder, Orange Tree Imports This concert features our wonderful Madison Symphony Chorus and Steve Suleski, CUNA Mutual Group, retired four debut and returning soloists in the epic Dvořák Requiem. This Ted Waskowski, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP work has it all, from beautiful solo arias to a thrilling bombastic chorus, SIMON PAULY PHOTO: Ann Toomey Eric Barry Jennifer Winding, QTI Group all supported by the gorgeous orchestral writing of Antonin Dvořák. Soprano Tenor This is a work of great beauty and also an MSO premiere. Dvořák has Ledell Zellers, Former Madison Alder and WI Investment Board, retired become a favorite composer of mine and I look forward to conducting this Requiem for the first time. I hope all of you join me. – John DeMain

John DeMain, Conductor ONI SUTER & TANUA DORENDORF ONI SUTER & TANUA Madison Symphony Chorus, APR FORWARD THEATER ADVISORY COMPANY PHOTO: T PHOTO: Beverly Taylor, Director Fri. 4/3, 7:30 p.m. CASS DEVON PHOTO: Julie Miller Matt Boehler Sat. 4/4, 8:00 p.m. Bass EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR Mezzo-soprano William Bolz Mike Fischer Karen Olivo Sun. 4/5, 2:30 p.m. Rosemarie Blancke, in loving Jim Buske Clare Arena Haden Jake Penner memory of Fred Blancke Jo Chalhoub Shannon Heibler Rána Roman madisonsymphony.org/requiem Sarah Day Michael Herold Susan Sweeney Dennis Dorn Maureen Janson Sam D. White Ann Toomey, Soprano Julie Miller, Mezzo-Soprano Eric Barry, Tenor FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ALUMNI Matt Boehler, Bass Forward Theater would like to thank the former Board and Advisory Company members that contributed to our success:

Advisory Company Ann Archbold Casey Martin Kirk Stantis Colleen Burns Georgina McKee Michele Traband John Frautschy Gwen Rice Charles Jennings Trieloff, II Richard Ganoung Scott Rött Jack Forbes Wilson March 14–July 19 Monica Kilkus Frank Schneeberger Kimberly Megna Yarnall Jessica Lanius Free admission • mmoca.org Board of Directors Chad Bartell Tom Frazier Karen Saunders Rebecca Baumbach Jon Furlow Joe Shapiro Carousel Bayrd Marta Gialamas Joseph Shumow Donna Beestman Marcia Kasieta Scott Thornton Tim Crisp Gail Kohl Brent Wagner Am Curet Shana Lewis Sherry Wagner-Henry Burt DeHaven Erika Monroe-Kane Erin Wenzel Christina Ramberg, Gloved, 1974. Jane Elder Dean Richards Lynn Wood Collection of Mark and Judy Bednar. Ellen Foley John Russell

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FROM THE DIRECTOR... JEN UPHOFF GRAY

Dear Forward Family: it’s hard for me to describe to you the feeling I had when I first sat down and read the script for Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs. I knew I had never read anything quite like this before. I laughed and laughed at the antics of these medieval actors, trying against all odds to put together a play that wouldn’t just entertain an audience, but – quite literally – save the actors’ lives.

And I was surprised and challenged by playwright Jordan Harrison’s approach to storytelling in this script. Have you ever seen Michael Frayn’s masterful farce Noises Off?It takes place in three acts. In the first we watch a theater troupe in their final dress rehearsal onstage. In the second, the set revolves 180 degrees and we watch that same troupe during a performance, but this time we’re seeing all of their backstage shenanigans. For the third act, the set turns back around to face the front and we are seeing the play for a third go-round. But this time, we all know what’s happening behind the scenes, just out of our sight, and that knowledge is transformative. When you watch The Amateurs, I think you may see why I saw similarities in it to Frayn’s structure.

I learned a tremendous amount from working on this play. About our survival instincts. About taking risks. About the ways in which theater exposes what makes us most human. If you’re one of our subscribers, you know that this has been a season of plays with some really difficult storylines. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling – as we all are – with how to make our world better. We chose to share these particular stories because we found each one of them to be focused on how to go on, to transcend, to survive and to thrive. I wish such strength for myself, and for all of you. And I thank you, as always, for Delighted Sponsor of The Amateurs choosing to join us at the theater.

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After the Flood and women merely players” with predefined parts, he’s repeating a very old idea. In the medieval world of our play, people were taught to see themselves as mere instruments: It began in Sicily in the fall of 1347, as ships with dead and dying sailors arrived from the types illuminating universally shared moral and philosophical patterns. Interiorized self- Black Sea, covered in strange and frightening black swellings in the armpits and groin. recognition didn’t exist. By early 1348, it had spread up the Italian peninsula and entered France, reaching Paris But even as the Black Death raged, this old idea began to change, clearing the way for and then England by summer. Within two years, it had killed one quarter of Europe’s Shakespeare – and the creation of magnificent heroines like Rosalind who would have population. By century’s end, it had killed nearly half. At the time, Europeans called it the been unimaginable 200 years earlier. Great Mortality. We call it the Black Death, and it’s where Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs begins. We see it in Petrarch’s Secretum and Langland’s Piers Plowman, featuring the exploratory journeys of an interior self trying to discover who and what it is. In a time when professional actors didn’t yet exist, Harrison’s title refers to the traveling troupe of players you’re about to meet. Like so many Europeans in the plague-ridden 14th It’s present in Chaucer’s pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, and especially in Chaucer’s century, they’re on the run – trying to stay ahead of a disease they don’t understand, while great, transgressive love story: Troilus and Criseyde, written as the plague returned to wondering whether its visitation was a divine punishment striking down sinners in the England in the 1380s. hands of an angry God. We find it in 14th-century courtly romances and lyrics. Hagiographic writings. And Lollard “To the people at large,” writes historian Barbara Tuchman, “there could be but one confessions, which signaled the coming Reformation by defying the Church’s authority to explanation” for the Black Death: “the wrath of God . . . the general acceptance of this view intervene in a person’s spiritual quest to find God. created an expanded sense of guilt, for if the plague were punishment there had to be It’s also present in our play, in ways I’ll let our intrepid band of traveling actors tell you terrible sin to have occasioned it.” about themselves during the next two hours. Suffice it to say that some of them will look Witnessing the Black Death firsthand as a teenager, William Langland (subsequently the upon the mayhem around them and ask – really ask, for the very first time – why they must author of Piers Plowman) wrote, “God is dead now-a-days and deigneth not hear us/And be defined by the roles they’ve been assigned. prayers have no power the Plague to stay.” Maybe, they’ll ask themselves, they can do more than just recite an old script. Maybe they Matteo Villani – a leading 14th century Italian historian – drew an express analogy can write and become something new, creating stories that more fully expresses how they between the Black Death and the biblical Flood, noting that he believed himself to be feel. And maybe – just maybe – those stories might offer us a way forward. recording “the extermination of mankind.”

What’s the play we see Harrison’s troupe rehearsing and performing through most of The Stories of Hope Amateurs, itself set in an era during which nearly all plays involved Biblical stories? True to its name, Forward Theater this year has been all about sharing such stories, each of It’s the frightening account in Genesis of Noah and God’s all-consuming, world-ending them offering hope in the darkest of times. flood. Encouraged by the women around her, the protagonist in Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane finds What’s the play you’ll see today, written in an era that can often feel equally apocalyptic, as the hope she needs to carry on, even as her son teeters on the brink of death. climate change raises the waters all around us, a new pandemic continues to spread, and refugees again fill the world’s roads? In Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, a dead father lives on through his daughter’s stories, through which she learns to fly. It’s an inspiring account of how and why we nevertheless carry on – and how the stories we tell help make it possible. Or as Harrison said in an interview, The Amateurs is “a play And in Duncan MacMillian’s Every Brilliant Thing, actor David Daniel collaborated with the about how art responds to crisis.” audience to write a brilliant story about all the glorious reasons to live, despite the pain and suffering that can make life seem so bleak. Building on that foundation, Harrison’s play makes us a promise as good as any covenant Becoming Human between God and Noah: there’s always the possibility of new and better stories, as long What Harrison suggests and you will see is that the 14th century responded by as we have the courage to imagine that the future might be different from the past. Yes: discovering and then affirming what it means to be an individual – with unique desires, we must live within the history we inherit. But we also get to make our own. That’s what it hopes and dreams – in an age when people were more likely to be cast as cardboard means to be human. cutouts performing preordained roles: Husband and wife. Lord and serf. Butcher and baker. – Madison, February 27, 2020 The concept of a self – indeed, the very ability to think of oneself with the pronoun “I” – was foreign. When Shakespeare’s Jaques tell us that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men

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The Next Chapter Thank you all for celebrating with us Forward Theater’s 10th Anniversary Season. Over the past year, we spent a lot of time remembering and appreciating our past successes: our founding, the great plays we’ve produced since then, and the phenomenal progress we’ve made in realizing our mission and establishing a strong and sustainable foundation for our beloved theater company. As we move through our 11th Season, our focus shifts to the future and what the next chapter of Forward Theater’s story will unveil. Here are some elements of our future that I am certain you will see play out over the next few years. We will continue to invest in Wisconsin’s professional artists. We will continue to champion new work. We will continue to collaborate with community organizations to move us all Forward. What forms these new efforts and initiatives will take are currently being developed and refined by our staff, our Advisory Company and our Board of Directors, and they are exciting expressions of our mission. Stay tuned as you will hear more about all of them throughout the season. And we will do these things in concert with our primary role of presenting top-quality, relevant, and engaging productions to you, our audience. So join us as this next chapter in the story of Forward Theater, your theater company, unfolds.

FROM THE ADVISORY COMPANY... JIM BUSKE

Hello and welcome to Forward Theater’s 11th season. The first ten years were both amazing and great fun. You can look forward to more of the same in the future. This season will be full of unexpected joys and moments that will touch your heart. Now that our 10th anniversary season is behind us, it might be nice to take a few minutes and reflect on what was learned during that decade of putting on plays. Here are some things that stand out: • Our unique model for starting and sustaining a theater seems to be working – over ten seasons we have grown and matured into one of the leading professional theaters in the state. And every season has been “in the black” financially! • The wonderful Madison audiences are willing to support a theater that produces plays that both entertain and have substance – we’ve taken our audiences many different places over the 10 years and you have been willing to go on the journey with us. • Theater artists are hardworking, professional, thoughtful, kind and very, very funny – working with hundreds of theater artists over the past decade has proven that putting on plays is good for the human spirit. • Our supporters are generous – the financial support of our patrons, donors and audience members has been overwhelming. Thank you! • Making new friends is so much fun – meeting and getting to know so many of our audience members has been one of the greatest unexpected bonuses of starting a theater. There are many more things that could be added to this list. Please know that in all we do, our audience and supporters are never taken for granted. Have a great time watching the shows this year! The members of the Advisory Company will see you in the lobby.

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We invite you to consider the topics below and discuss them with your fellow audience members. We also hope you will join the cast at a talkback after each performance, as audience and artists meet to discuss these and any other issues brought to light by today’s show. And please keep the conversation going – on the drive home, at work, with friends, or by sharing your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Let’s start the conversation:

· One of the big questions asked during Act 2 of The Amateurs is, when confronted with a crisis, should art record the suffering for future generations, try to make us forget the crisis, or be put aside until the crisis is over? Can you think of ways that you’ve seen art (plays, movies, music, books, etc.) respond to the crises we’ve faced as Americans, or more globally, as humans, during your lifetime? Of the three tactics above, is there This is Curiosity This is what we do: one that’s been more effective for you personally? Is there one that you’ve observed as Marketing, Design, more effective on a more national or global level? Exploration Branding, Web, Digital, · The characters in Acts 1 and 3 have different relationships with different religions, Mobile, Interactive, Print, and of course, there is the overarching theme of religion contained within the Passion Storytelling Strategy, Environment. Plays. Consider the same question as above, but with regard to religion. What is its role in times of crisis? Can that only be answered on a personal level? Distillery 608.255.0092 To learn even more about the play, playwright, and Forward Theater’s production, please [email protected] join us at our pre-show talks, one hour before every Thursday evening and Sunday A Marketing & Design Studio www.thisisdistillery.com afternoon performance, at the Playhouse Rotunda stage. Pre-show talks are free, and open to the public.

FREE LECTURE SERIES

Forward Theater is offering three free lectures that will go into depth on various topics within The Amateurs. The lectures will take place on the Rotunda Stage in the Playhouse lobby, before each Saturday evening performance. These are open to the public - a show ticket is not required to attend.

Saturday, 3/21 at 6:30pm: Dick Wagner, local historian on issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community and author of We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History, will MADISON’S SAT. MAY 16 give a talk about the history of AIDS in Madison. Wagner is a scholar, activist, and the ONLY McPIKE PARK first openly gay member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors, where he served for WINE FEST MADISON fourteen years. He was co-chair of the Governor’s Council on Lesbian and Gay Issues in 1983 and one of the co-founders of UW-Madison’s LGBT Alumni Association and the Harvest Foundation, the LGBT foundation for southern Wisconsin.

Saturday, 3/28 at 6:30pm: Martin Foys, UW Madison Professor of English, will give a talk about the traditions of medieval theater. Foys’ scholarship has explored pre- and post-Conquest England, with special attention to the intersection of literature and other

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12 Forward Theater Company THE AMATEURS 13 THE AMATEURS ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES by Jordan Harrison Terry Bell (The Physic) Adam Estes (Brom) is excited to be making Theatrical credits include: his debut at Forward Forever Plaid, The CAST Theater Company! Andrews Brothers, Route Previous theatre credits 66 (Milwaukee Repertory Larking...... Matt Daniels* include: Curious Incident Theatre); The Story of My Brom...... Adam Estes* of the Dog in the Life (Milwaukee Opera Hollis...... Kat Wodtke* Nighttime, We Are Proud... (Steppenwolf); Theatre); A Chorus Line, La Cage Aux Folles, Rona...... Emily Glick* Howards End (Remy Bumppo); Hamlet Cabaret (Marriott Lincolnshire); Cabaret, Gregory...... Joshua Krause (Backroom Shakespeare); Natural Affection Buyer & Cellar, [title of show] (Lake Dillon The Physic...... Terry Bell (Eclipse Theatre); Mies Julie (u/s Victory Theatre Company); Saturday Night Fever, La Gardens Theatre). Television credits Cage Aux Folles, A Chorus Line (Arvada The play will have one 15-minute intermission. include CBS’ Elementary and Showtime’s Center); Madame Sherry, La La Lucille (Third The Chi. Terry is proudly represented by Ave Playhouse); and Pageant (Sierra *Performer appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, Gray Talent Group. Repertory Theatre). Other credits include the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. performances with The Goodman, The Matt Daniels (Larking) Paramount, Writers’ Theatre, The Ravinia THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL is thrilled to return to Festival, Madison Repertory Theatre, RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING RECORDINGS ON ANY Forward after last Peninsula Players, Florentine Opera, First MEDIUM, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF THE appearing as Bruce in Stage Children’s Theatre, Skylight Music AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR Fun Home. Based in Theatre and The Fireside. Adam has also MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/WHITEPAPER Milwaukee, recent appeared in numerous TV commercials and credits include Mrs has recorded extensively for Hal Leonard. Whatsit/Man With Red Eyes in A Wrinkle In He is originally from Middleton, WI and Time at First Stage; Jeeves in Jeeves at Sea studied Musical Theatre at Illinois at Milwaukee Chamber Theater; Ford in Wesleyan University. Merry Wives of Windsor and the Chorus in Henry V at Door Shakespeare; and Cizik in Emily Glick (Rona) Junk at Milwaukee Rep. Other theaters Forward Theater debut! include Renaissance Theaterworks, Madison: Petra, A Little MADISON’S Milwaukee Opera Theater, In Tandem, Night Music (Madison Milwaukee Shakespeare, and the Illinois, Opera); Demeter, North Carolina, Notre Dame, and Hephaestus (Music CENTER Michigan Shakespeare Festivals. Matt’s Theatre of Madison); Mrs. directing work has been seen at Door Bucket, Willy Wonka… (Children’s Theater Shakespeare, First Stage, and Milwaukee of Madison). Chicago: Rose, A Shayna STAGE Chamber Theater, as well as several Maidel, Mary Boyle, Juno (Timeline Theatre independent stages in New York. He Company); Sweeney Todd (Paramount serves as an Artistic Associate at First Theatre); La Cage Aux Folles (Marriott Stage, where he is also the Director of the Theatre); Mrs. Obama, Jabari Dreams of award-winning Young Company. When at Freedom (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Emily home, he enjoys making music with Il has a BFA in Musical Theatre from the Bazzone’s Jumping Flea Circus. Matt University of Michigan and is the current 1 West Dayton Street • Madison, Wisconsin 53703 trained at the Juilliard School. Theatre Director at Memorial High School. 800 356 8293 • [email protected] www.mattydee.xyz Upcoming: Juno, Orpheus in the Underworld (Madison Opera).

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Josh Krause (Gregory) Kat Wodtke (Hollis) is so Production after premiering at the Arden Crew for Forward Theater last season. is very happy to make his pleased to be returning Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University Other recent designs include Chasin’ Forward Theater debut. to Forward Theater and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is Dem Blues, Everybody, and The All Night He most recently Company for this an alumnus of New Dramatists. For three Strut! (Milwaukee Rep); Elf the Musical, appeared in Jeeves at Sea production of The seasons, he was a writer and producer for and Elephant and Piggie’s We are in a Play! (Crumpet) with Amateurs. Kat hails from the Netflix original series “Orange is the (First Stage); Happy Days (Renaissance Milwaukee Chamber Milwaukee where she New Black.” Theaterworks); Fires in the Mirror and Ben Theater. Regional theater credits include works as an actor, musician, educator, and Butler (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); The She Stoops to Conquer (Tony Lumpkin), Man director. Some favorite roles include Elise in Heidi Schreck (Additional Material) Revolutionists (Next Act Theatre); and A of Destiny (Lieutenant), and Book of Will Learning to Stay (Forward Theater is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony Christmas Story the Musical and My Fair (Boy Hamlet) with American Players Company); the Traveler in The Miraculous nominated playwright, actor, and writer Lady (Fireside Dinner Theater). She has also Theatre; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me Journey of Edward Tulane (First Stage); living in Brooklyn. Her latest plays include painted scenery for the Milwaukee Rep, (Adam) with Two Crows Theatre; A Catherine in Censored on Final Approach What the Constitution Means to Me, which Renaissance Theaterworks, and Kohl’s Wild Christmas Carol (Mr. C/Narrator) with (Renaissance Theaterworks); and Ruth in is currently running on Broadway and Theatre. ma-stagedesign.com Children’s Theater of Madison; Miracle on Miracle on South Division Street (Milwaukee received Tony nominations for Best Play South Division Street (Jimmy) and Great Chamber Theatre). In 2015, Kat had the and Best Leading Actress in a Play (for Joe Cerqua (Sound Designer/Composer) Expectations (Pip) with Milwaukee privilege of playing Hermia/Starveling/ Schreck herself), and Grand Concourse, is a freelance composer, producer, vocalist Chamber Theatre; Equivocation (Sharpe/ Khyahtsoo in a multilingual adaptation of A which debuted at Playwrights Horizons and sound designer. He is thrilled to be Wintour/James) with Next Act; and Visiting Midsummer Night’s Dream (Fairbanks and Steppenwolf Theatre in 2014-15 and working with Forward Theater again where Mr. Green (Ross) and Jeeves at Sea Shakespeare Theatre), which was has been produced by theatres all over he has previously composed and designed (Crumpet) with Artists’ Ensemble in performed across Alaska in Gwich’in, the country. Grand Concourse received a sound for Every Brilliant Thing; For Peter Pan; Rockford, IL. Up next, he’ll be heading to Tlingit, Yupik, and English. This year, Kat Lilly Award, the Clare Tow Award, and was Mary Jane; Life Sucks; Skeleton Crew; Marjorie APT for another summer Up the Hill. Josh looks forward to releasing a debut album a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prime; Learning to Stay; Outside Mullingar; lives in Menomonee Falls, WI with his wife, with her stirring country band, prize. Heidi’s other plays Creature, There 4000 Miles; Mr. Burns; The Flick; Silent Sky; Rachel, and their two cats, Butters Long Mama. Are No More Big Secrets, and The Consultant Vanya and Sonya...; The Other Place; From and Tweak. have been produced by Long Wharf Up Here; Or; Red; Sons of the Prophet; Good Theatre, Page73, Seattle Public Theatre, People; 44 Plays for 44 Presidents; Love ART, SpeakEasy, New George, Rattlestick Stories; In the Next Room...; Going to St. Ives; PRODUCTION ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Theatre Company, and more. As an actress, Why Torture is Wrong...; and The Farnsworth she has performed at Berkeley Rep (In Invention. He has composed music and/or Jordan Harrison (Playwright) was a Stage/NAATCO); Kid-Simple (Humana the Wake), Roundabout Theatre, MTC, designed sound for over 300 productions 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist forMarjorie Festival); The Museum Play (WET); and a Playwrights Horizons, Shakespeare in the in Chicago, nationally, and internationally. Prime, which premiered at the Mark Taper musical, Suprema (O’Neill Music Theatre Park, and more. She is the recipient of two Recent projects include original music Forum and had its New York premiere at Conference). Jordan had two new plays Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and the and sound design for American Players Playwrights Horizons. A film adaptation, premiere Off-Broadway in the ’17-’18 season: Theatre World Award. In television, as both Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, directed by Michael Almereyda, premiered The Amateurs at the Vineyard Theatre, and an actress and a writer, her credits include: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona in the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Jordan’s Log Cabin at Playwrights Horizons. Jordan is Nurse Jackie and Billions. Additionally in Theater Company, First Stage, Clarence play Maple and Vine premiered in the the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a television, she wrote and co-executive Brown Theater, Northlight Theatre, Actors 2011 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, produced the Jill Soloway Amazon series Theatre of Louisville, Deaf West in LA, of Louisville and went on to productions the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award I Love Dick. She currently has 3 television American Blues Theater, The Artistic at American Conservatory Theatre and from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman projects in development with Hulu/Big Home, and Goodman Theatre. Joe is the Playwrights Horizons, among others. Other Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Beach, Hulu/Working Title and Amazon/ Producing Director/Composer in residence plays include The Grown-Up (Humana Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Annapurna. for the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, a Festival); Doris to Darlene, a cautionary Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight critically acclaimed 13-piece jazz orchestra valentine (Playwrights Horizons); Amazons Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Marisa Abbott (Lighting Designer) and 10-member dance company. He is and their Men (Clubbed Thumb); Act A Lady Residency with The Empty Space Theater. works as a freelance Lighting Designer, the Creative Director and Producer for the (Humana Festival); Finn in the Underworld His children’s musical, The Flea and the Electrician, and Scenic Artist around the Music Department at Columbia College (Berkeley Rep); Futura (Portland Center Professor, won the Barrymore Award for Best Milwaukee Area. She designed Skeleton Chicago.

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Sarah Deming-Henes (Stage Manager) Presidents, Sons of the Prophet. The Other many others. Outside of work, Enya spends the National Tour of Michael Frayn’s At Forward Theater Company Sarah has Place, Exit Strategy and Skeleton Crew. She a lot of time with her family, which includes Copenhagen, and served as Associate joyfully stage managed Skeleton Crew, Fun was also the Production Manager and two very playful little cats. She has many Director for the Broadway productions of Home, Heisenberg, Life Sucks, Mary Jane, For Props Master for Vanya Sonya Masha and hobbies such as writing, and creating art, Copenhagen, Sam Mendes’ Cabaret, The Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, and Every Spike, Silent Sky and The Flick. Elsewhere in and hopes to one day have the opportunity Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Brilliant Thing. Sarah has proudly worked Madison, she has designed for Children’s to use these skills to help create a movie. Life. Jen grew up in the Madison area, holds at many other Wisconsin-based theaters; Theater of Madison (incl A Wonderful Life, a degree in Dramatic Literature & Stage towards the west she has delighted in A Christmas Carol, Bunnicula, and To Kill a Nathan Stuber (Scenic Designer) designs History from Harvard College, and is the stage managing at American Players Mockingbird), Four Seasons Theater (South scenery when asked nicely and time proud parent of Jamie, Seeger and Arden. Theatre for 14 seasons (spread out over Pacific, A Little Night Music, Light in the permits. He works year round at American With gratitude to Dr. Jeanne Newlin, and in several years since 2001); and towards the Piazza) and Theatre Lila (Suitcase Dreams Players Theatre. If you have seen a show loving memory of all those lost to us in our east, in Milwaukee, she has spent many and Trash). She has created costumes out there in the past thirteen years there is own Great Plague. happy seasons stage managing at theaters for Madison Opera and Madison Ballet. a twenty seven percent chance the show including; First Stage, Milwaukee Chamber Prior to settling here, she was a Costume you saw was designed by him and a one Kevin Zimmer (Technical Director) Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Production Supervisor for the Los Angeles hundred percent chance he was asked to has worked with Forward Theater since This past summer she spent the month Opera, working on over twenty productions contribute in some form. As a rule he does the 2009-2010 season, first as Master of August farther east (or way, way west, including three world premieres. not care for meta theatre but this one is Carpenter and now as Technical Director. In depending on how you figure it) at the pretty good. addition, he worked as a Master Carpenter Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she thrilled Pamela Miles (Props Master/Scenic for Madison Repertory Theatre, Master at stage managing Boswell. Currently she is Charge) is delighted to return to Forward Jen Uphoff Gray (Director) is the artistic Carpenter for CTM, and Shop Foreman and also having fun guest lecturing about Stage for her fifth season. She is so proud to be director of Forward Theater Company – this Carpenter for American Players Theatre. Management at UW-Parkside. Many thanks a part of this generous and courageous is her 21st production here. Regionally, she Additional credits include professional work to her family and friends for company. Pam lives in Spring Green, has directed for Madison Rep (The Diary of in the theatre community in St. Louis and as unfailing kindnesses! WI where she has worked at American Anne Frank) and Milwaukee Shakespeare a Welder at the St. Louis City Museum. Players Theatre for eleven seasons as the (Love’s Labors Lost). She mounted Mike Fischer (Dramaturg) is a dramaturg Associate Scenic Charge Artist, as well as based in Milwaukee and a member of the completed four fall shows as the Scenic Advisory Company for Forward Theater Charge Artist. Other companies she has Company in Madison. For fifteen years, he painted for include: Arizona Broadway OVERTURE CENTER LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT saw over 200 plays each year on behalf of Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Madison, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, for which Madison Ballet (Dracula: A Rock Ballet) and Acknowledging Ho-Chunk Nation’s ancestral lands, Forward Theater and Overture Center he began reviewing in 2003 and for which the Summit Credit Union Inspiration Branch for the Arts celebrate the rich traditions, heritage, and culture that thrived long before he served as chief drama critic from 2009- project. She has performed the role of our arrival. Overture respectfully recognizes this Ho-Chunk land and affirms that we are 18. Since leaving the Journal-Sentinel, Props Master for the Black Theatre Troupe in better when we stand together. Mike has written essays and educational Phoenix, AZ and American Players Theatre’s materials for numerous Wisconsin theater Mary’s Wedding. productions. He is also a Joseph Jefferson judge, charged with choosing each year’s Enya Nett (Assistant Stage Manager) best productions, actors, and designers in This is Enya’s 6th production with Forward Chicagoland. Mike dedicates his work on Theater, including the 2019 summer Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 this production to Walter Benjamin, who Monologue Festival. Most of her theater “. . . the grandest of public music taught us so much about the vital role of background comes from her time at Ripon with the most intimate of solo songs” storytellers and the power of stories. He College where she earned a BA degree Andrew Megill, conductor Ten Vocal soloists, Dark Horse Consort-Sackbuts & Cornettos would have loved this play. in English and Theater, and minored in Baroque Violins, Violas & Violone, Viola da Gamba art. While completing her degree, she Organ & Harpsichord, Theorbos Monica Kilkus (Costume Designer) performed a large variety of roles for many Saturday, April 25, 2020 • Sunday, April 26, 2020 Monica’s previous costume designs for shows ranging from Director and Stage First Unitarian Society of Madison Atrium Auditorium Forward Theater include 44 Plays for 44 Manager, to Designer, Board Operator and madisonbachmusicians.org

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David Myers Lynn Christensen Kitty Moore Joe De Maio Fred Newmann & Russell & Leslie Coff Lauri Morris & Jim Cole Carolyn Hegeler Carol Cohen Tess Mulrooney Marilyn Oberst Fred & Wendy Coleman Robert Mutton & Vera Ames Linda Baldwin O’Hern & James Couser & Dan & Joyce Muxfeld Vince O’Hern Kathryn Middleton Heather Ockler RAISING THE CURTAIN Lynette & Rex Owens Mike & Donna Crane Russell & Paula Panczenko Scott & Dorothy Paler Michael & Judith Dereszynski Reynold V. Peterson Barb Rex & Jim Eggler Dennis & Kathy Dorn Hans & Susan Pigorsch !" Y!%& N()* R("!,-*.!"! Ann Rifenberg Alison Dorner Evan & Jane Pizer DESIGNBUILDMADISON.COM 24 Forward Theater Company THE AMATEURS 25 ANNUAL FUND c o n t. ANNUAL FUND c o n t.

Sandra & Chris Queram Randall Ballweg Alan & Karen Crossley Robert & Georgia Graves Kathy Kuntz & Henry Huemmer Jules & Judy Nicolet Craig & Ann Recob Christine Barden Jennifer Cullen Jane Grogan & Bob Blitzke Merilyn Kupferberg Richard Niess & Laurie Elwell Gregory Reed & Michael Zorich Chad & Julie Bartell L. Beth Cummings Rich & Lori Hamann Richard & Judy Kvalheim Amy & Bruce Noble Don & Carol Reeder Jeff & Angela Bartell Gordon & Vera Cunningham Maria Hanson Steve & Susan LaBelle Dan O’Brien Anne & Buck Rhyme Douglas & Mary Bates Wade DallaGrana & Margaret Harrigan & Larry LaMar & William O’Connor & Krista Roys Ron Rosner & Ronnie Hess Cindy & Orion Bawdon Chris Antonuzzo Richard Ross Mary Struckmeyer Jennifer Ondrejka & Tom Rudy Barbara Samuel Carousel Bayrd & Tim Sobota Nancy Daly Jessica & Kendall Harrison Janet & Douglas Laube Gail O’Neal Marcia Schmidt David & Connie Beam Betsy Curtis D’Angelo Paula Haseman David Lawver Bonnie Orvick Howard & Diane Schuck Marshall & Wendy Beck Mike Davis & Julann Jatczak Brandon Hayes Tim & Gillian Lechmaier Patricia Parks David & Margaret Sharpe Norlin Benevenga Geke De Vries Neil & Nancy Christy Heinen Phyllis Lefcowitz Seymour & Ruth Parter Ron & Diana Shaw Thomas W. Benson Denise DeMarb John & Elizabeth Heiner Shana Lewis & Rob Magasano Allan and Patricia Patek George & Nancy Shook Susan & George Benton John DeVries Patricia & Paul Heiser Madeline & Barry Light Penny Patterson & Sonjia Short Richard & Luise Beringer Jocelyn DeWitt & Kurt Riegel John & Sally Helgeson Diane & Bill Littman Sheila Faulkner Thomas Rae Smith Bennett Berson & Donalea Dinsmore Margaret Henzler Tom & Stacy Littrell Jane Pearlmutter & Joe & Phyllis Stertz Rebecca Holmes Cari & Stephen DiTullio Karen Hester Susan S. Lloyd Steve Scheibel Vicki & Jerry Stewart Rikhil Bhavnani & Dustin Brown Dan & Carole Doeppers Douglas & Karen Hill Elaine Lohr Tim & Tammy Peyton David & Suad Stratton Philip Blackwell Renae & Todd Donkle Jon & Jane Hisgen Juli & Rex Loker Steve & Rita Pieroni Arlene & John Strikwerda Terry Bloom Melinda Dorris-Hobbs Les & Susan Hoffman Joe Lowndes Jerald & Dian Polly Steven & Jeannie Tomasko Catherine Bloomer Marilyn Dreger Carol Holtsapple Anne Lundin & Tom Lovett Sharon & Ken Poniewaz Carol Trapp John & Jan Bonsett-Veal Susan & Joe Drennan Paul & Emily Tveite William Bradley & Theresa Drinka Teri Venker Jill Anna Ponasik Stan & Jean Druckenmiller Katie & Ellis Waller Diane & Rick Broughman Doris & Dick Dubielzig WHY I GIVE: Ann F. Wenzel David & Claudia Brown Nancy Cross Dunham Erin Wenzel Mary Lou Brown Gillian Eccles “We enjoy great theater, and with each new play they present Barbra Winter Calvin Bruce & Susan Eichhorn Forward Theater has set the bar higher and higher for their Bob & Cindy Zellers Cathy Caro-Bruce Rita & Edward Emmenegger next play - and exceeded it.” ~ LuAnn & Joe Meyers

WHY I GIVE: Nancy & Bill Horns Lesleigh Luttrell Sylvia & Thomas Poppelbaum Andrew Howick & Gary Lyons & Jayne Squirrell Dave Puchalsky “Fantastic plays, talented local actors paid a living wage, talk- Mary Stelletello Stewart Macaulay Tim Radelet backs, community outreach, pre-show talks, stellar leadership Jim Hudson & Diane Martin Mary & Eileen Maher Peg Rasch & Dave Stute - we are proud to support everything about Forward Theater!!” Jean Hughes Karin Mahony & Adam Balin Rick & Sally Raschick Char & Jack Jackson Rabbi Bonnie Margulis Sherry Reames ~ Michael and Susan Schall Richard Jordan Linda Marquardt Richard & Donna Reinardy Martin & Rita Kades Katharyn May Don & Toni Richards Joan Karan Dan & Mari McCarty Joe & Carol Ringeisen Patrons ($100 - $249) Lou & Nancy Bruch Susan England & Bob & Marcia Kasieta Janet McChesney Jan Robertson Anonymous (3) Thea Brunsell James Stirniman Barbara Katz Kimberly McDowell Brian D Rodeck Sharon Abrams Barbara Buenger Phyllis Ermer Dan & Leslie Kemp William & Carolyn McKinney Susan Rogers Betsy Abramson & Jim & Stephanie Buske Kristine Euclide & Doug Steege Richard Kiley & Victoria King Gene & Sondy McLinn Sarah Rose David Seligman Anna Campbell Paul & Lari Fanlund Suzanne & Steve Kilkus John & Linda Merrill Robert & Nancy Rudd George Affeldt Sandy Carlson James Fourness Connie Kilmark Mark Micek & Sarah Bahauddin Steven & Lennie Saffian Ray Aldag & Deb Douglas Myrna Casebolt George & Virginia Francis Laurel Kinosian Amanda Schmehil Micklos Karin Sandvik Bob & Paula Alt Mo & Melissa Cheeks Marian Fredal Pamela & John Kitslaar Alison Mix Caitlyn Saunders Beth Ament & Steve Pudloski Jennifer & Martin Chiaverini Byron & Janet Frenz James & Lee Ann Kleeman Nancy Mohs John & Sarah Schaffer Donna Anderson Louis & Shirley Chosy Jacki & Milt Friend Mary Klink & Jim Giesen Jennifer Morgan James & Suzanne Scheuerman Holly Anderson Barbara & Bill Clapp Barbara Gallogly Carol Klukaczewski Paul K Morgan Sr David & JoAnn Schoengold Bruce & Marge Anderson Betty & Steve Cohen Jan Garske Larry M. Kneeland Patricia Ann Mullins Gary & Barbara Schultz Peggy Anderson Toby & Bernard Cohen Trevin Gay Bob & Judy Knudtson Aleta Murray Patrick & Marlys Semple Joseph & Kathryn Arena Linda Cohn Christopher & Erin Glueck Voula Kodoyianni & Tom Record Carla Nagle John & Liz Senseman Anne Arnesen Mike & Cindy Collins David Goehrig Philip Koenig Leah Narans Carolyn Senty Nancy & Steve Arnold Margaret Corbae Steven Goldberg Terry & Jean Kringle Sharon Nellis Richard Shafer George Austin & Louis Cornelius & Pris Boroniec Paul Goldschmidt & Ed Krinsky & John Nelson Claire Shaffer Martha Vukelich-Austin Robin Washburne Cozette Kriss Hamilton Mary Jane Armstrong Gregg Nettesheim Neena Shah Helen Baldwin Jane Crandall Avery Goodrich Jr Jamie & David Pekarek Krohn Al & Aileen Nettleton Bassam Shakhashiri 26 Forward Theater Company THE AMATEURS 27 ANNUAL FUND c o n t.

Virginia A. Shannon Susan & Jim Zerwick Genevra Gallo-Bayiates & Victoria Sheldon Susan & John Zientek Andy Bayiates Linda Shriberg Tom & Karen Zilavy Russell & Suzanne Gardner Judy Sikora & Steve Siehr Karen & Doug Zweizig Peter Gascoyne & Meg Skinner Claudia English Dan & Marcia Smith Friends ($25 - $99) Mari Gasiorowicz Ted & Ina Smolker Anonymous (5) Mary Gillham Bob & Jo Sparks Tammy Albrecht Ed & Sara Gleason Anne Spurgeon & David Woods Gary Anderson Susan Glotzer Mona Steele Mary Anglim Karen Godshall Laura & Jason Stephenson Rita Applebaum Louise Goldstein & Steve Stern & Florencia Mallon Eric Beuerman Bruce Thomadsen Jurate Stewart Jill Bidlingmaier Eileen Goode Prudence Stewart Harold & Leslie Blaize Douglas Green Karl Stoll Sarah W. Blake David Griffeath & Cathy Loeb Sue & David Stone Malcolm & Penny Brett Michael Griffith JoAnne & Ken Streit Michael K. Bridgeman Kristin Groth & Ed Jepsen Jim Struve Greg & Gina Brockwell Bonnie & Roger Guest Charles & Diane Stumpf Catherine Buege Geraldine Gurman Edith Sullivan Jennifer Bulleit Michael Haeft & Martha Schwer WHY I GIVE: “Because Forward produces work that amplifies stories and voices of marginalized people, while showing the world how local professional theater can thrive.” ~ Adam Erdmann

William & Edie Swift Lisa Byers & John Calderone Lois Harr Mindy Taranto & Ken Mericle Elizabeth Campbell Timothy Harrington Jr. Richard & Marcia Taugher Katherine Charlton Ellen Hartenbach Don & Joanna Thompson Grace & Jack Chosy Philip Haslanger Marilee & Erik Thoresen Charlie & Joyce Clark Elizabeth Haynes Dorothea Torstenson Lauren Cnare & Ralph Russo Jan & Maria Heide John Tradewell Nora Cusack & Brent Nicastro Brian & Annette Hellmer Stephen & Wendy Tupper Daniel & Barbara Danahy Jim & Kathy Herman Elizabeth Tuttle Cheryl Daniels & Diane Highsmith The Ullrick family Michael Rosenberg Nona Hill & Clark Johnson Peter Uttech Eve & Carl Degen William & Sara Lee Hinckley Andree Valley Gene & Bea Dewey Susan Holec Susan Van Sicklen Susan Dinauer Dianne Hopkins Michael Verveer Stu Dolnick Judy Howard & Amy Scarr Jane & Michael Voichick Sean Douglass Joan Jacobsen & Ellen Walker Sally Drew Julie Woodward Beth Weber & Duane Beckett Allan, Felix & Vicki Duhr Toni Jakovec Hank & Judith Whipple Avis Elson Alice Y Jenson Tripp & Nancy Widder Tom & Kelley Engle Doug & Kathy Johnson PBS Wisconsin celebrates our state’s young performers. Marybeth Wilk & Hildy Feen Jennifer Johnson Katherine Brophy Amy & Marty Fields Edward Jordan Discover music education resources, performance Eve Wilkie & James Clum Janet & Paul Firgens Debra Jurmu videos and more at wisconsinperforms.org. Deena & Peter Williams Peter Fisher & Cyndy Galloway Lois Karn Ann & David Wilson David & Maureen Flanagan Jean Kasten Michael Wright & Ray Jivoff Barbara & David Flesch Marilyn C Kay Paul & Tracy Wrycha William & Sandra Frazee Dave & Rita Kelliher Peg & Tom Zanzig Barbara Furstenberg Gregg Kissel & Jean Bae 28 Forward Theater Company THE AMATEURS 29 ANNUAL FUND c o n t. IN HONOR Noël & Steve Klapper Carol Nielsen Howard Steinberg & In honor of David Daniel In honor of Miranda Jones Penny & Jerry Koerner Beverly Nilles Barbara Andrews Rebecca Kordahl Darlene & Burt Olson Artace & Dennis Stone Karen & Allen Moore James & Nancy Youngerman Ken & Carol Koscik Norman & Darlene Olson David & Luanne Storley Andrew Krikelas Rita Olson Elaine B. Strassburg In honor of Jim DeVita In honor of Diane Kostecke & Ms. Marilyn Krump Carol Ottenstein Myron & Margaret Talcott Alexandra & William Dove Nancy Ciezki Maggie & Nathan Kudick Ellen Paul Barbara Tesch Gary A Scheele Gigi La Budde & Michael Whaley David Pausch & Karen Saari James Thomas In honor of Don & Barb Dinsmore Ann Lacy Cliff & Suzanne Perkins David & Kathy Tiffany Donalea Dinsmore In honor of Kathie Nichols John Lafontaine Mary & Ken Quinn Russell & Karen Tomar Jenny & Nick White Matt Larson Mary Rendall Bonnie Trudell In honor of Kelly Doherty Donna Leet Carol Roan Tom & Sue Ullsvik Craig & Kathleen Levenick H. Robbins Jill Underly Kate Schultz In honor of Dan Pierotti Victor & Judy Levine Sara Roberts Peg Unger Judy Pierotti Connie Ludlum David Ronis Charles Uphoff In honor of Josephine B. Fischer Judith Lyons Elaine Rosenblatt Betty Volquardsen Jane & Duane Miller In honor of Julie Swenson Patricia Maddox Marlene Ross Kate Walker Robin Washburne Cozette Maija Maki-Laurila Tom Royston Elizabeth & Steve Wallman In honor of Chuck Ford Gordon & Donna Malaise Ms. Barbara Ryan Lorette Wambach Carla & Fernando Alvarado In honor of the wonderful and Peter & Marjorie Marion Jane Sadusky Joseph Warnemuende talented staff, cast, and board Jeanne Marshall Patricia Sammataro Karen Weatherwax In honor of Frances R Goldstein of Forward Theater Douglas & Joan Maynard Gena Schachtschneider Peter Weiler Debra McGill Gary A Scheele Westside Psychotherapy, LLC Louise Goldstein & Bruce Thomadsen Pete & Jill Lundberg In honor of Marci Henderson In honor of Maddie Ullrick WHY I GIVE: Nancy McGill The Ullrick family “Excellent plays & acting; interest in and engagement with the audience and greater community.” ~ Judith Howard and Amy Scarr IN MEMORY In memory of Terry Lee Allen In memory of Patricia Struck Ed Meachen & Kate Schultz Jenny & Nick White Lewis Bosworth Larry Bechler Francine Tompkins Erica Serlin & Ken Kushner Patricia & George Whitley Marylynne Mehl Karen Sielaff Elizabeth Whitesel Janet Mertz & Jonathan Kane Debra Simon Patricia Wilcox In memory of Jayne Grant In memory of Louise Uphoff Gene & Marjorie Miller Suzannah Sisler Julie Wilhelm Myrna Casebolt Charles Uphoff Cayla Turner Minear Thomas & Sandra Solheim Curtis Wittwer Marianne Morton Jeff & Sheryl Spitzer-Resnick Douglas Yanggen Lisa Monro Kim Sponem James & Nancy Youngerman John A. Nee Jr. Susan Sprague Barbara Zellmer & Phyllis Nelson Anita C. Sprenger & Mike Heffernan Amy & Jerry Nickles Michael Cain Susan & Jim Zerwick

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Volunteers help Forward Theater by staffing events, papering the town with posters and postcards, helping with mailings, and other office support. If you’d like more information, please visit our website at ForwardTheater.com or call company manager Celia Klehr at 608-234-5001.

Housing provided by: The Madison Concourse Hotel Cathy and Brent Kooistra Ann McBride Sam D. White Janet Zimmerman

Special Thanks: Joan Herzing Rabbi Jonathan Biatch

Costumes borrowed from American Players Theatre Costume Shop, Children’s Theater of Madison and University of Wisconsin Costume Shop

Special mask assistants: Amelia and Gloria Butler

2019 - 2020 Volunteers: Tammy Albrecht Mary Metz Rima Apple Sue Milch Lewis Bosworth Tess Mulrooney Michele Brucker Rex Owens Joanne Chalhoub Jessica Podemski Pamela Crapp Elliott Puckette Carla Di Iorio Karen Saari Michael Di Iorio Barb Sanford Katrina Fingerson Lynda Sharpe Dolores Gohdes Daryl Sherman Paul Gohdes Dot Steele Steve Kilkus Cheri Teal Amy Kozak Mryna Williamson Kathryn Lederhause Teddy Zehner

Forward Theater Company is a member of the Madison Arts Production Center (MAPC), which provides high quality, functional, affordable production space, equipment, and theatrical inventory for Madison area artists and arts organizations. For information on rentals and membership options go to ctmtheater.org.

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