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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY presents

Lewiston

Clarkston

by Samuel D. Hunter

Directed by Jen Uphoff Gray (Lewiston) & Jake Penner (Clarkston)

Scenic Designer Christopher Dunham

Lighting Designer Greg Hofmann**

Costume Designer Ren LaDassor

Composer & Sound Designer Joe Cerqua**

Props Master Pamela Miles

Stage Manager (Lewiston) Sarah Deming-Henes*

Stage Manager (Clarkston) Rebecca Lindsey*

Video Editor Dave Alcorn

Lewiston/Clarkston is generously sponsored by:

Sybil & Maurice Better 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 Evjue Foundation, Inc., Distillery Design, The Madison Concourse Hotel, Wisconsin Arts Board, Wisconsin Public Radio, PBS Wisconsin * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

** Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829

“Clarkston” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com “Lewiston” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

New York premieres produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater World Premiere of “CLARKSTON” produced by Dallas Theater Center Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director Jeffrey Woodward, Managing Director Developed as part of a 2013 Residency with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater “Lewiston” was developed by Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, California, Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director, Michael Barker, Managing Director, Margot Melcon, Director of New Play Development World Premiere Production Presented by Long Wharf Theatre April 13, 2016 Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director Joshua Borenstein, Managing Director

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F O R WA R D T H E AT E R C O M PA N Y S TA F F 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 Audience & Donor Relations Manager......................................................................... Samara Safarik Company Manager..................................................................................................................Celia A. Klehr Business Manager....................................................................................................................Alex Moskoff Marketing Associate......................................................................................................Hannah Goldberg PRODUCTION Production Stage Manager................................................................................ Sarah Deming-Henes* Stage Manager................................................................................................................ Rebecca Lindsey* Assistant Stage Manager.............................................................................................................Abbi Hess Technical Director..................................................................................................................Kevin Zimmer Scenic Charge............................................................................................................................Pamela Miles Carpenter............................................................................................................................ Jordan Rockman Wardrobe Supervisor............................................................................................................ Megan Dickel Sound Technician...........................................................................................................Benjamin Krueger Master Electrician............................................................................................................ Brad Toberman** COVID Compliance Officer........................................................................................................ Celia Klehr * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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Family history. (Family. History.) Lewiston explores our relationship to both elements of that idea better than any piece of writing I’ve ever encountered. In the relationships between Alice and Marnie, and Alice and Connor, we see these characters struggling with the ties that bind them together. What do we owe to our families – both those still with us and those who came before? That one of these pairs is related by blood and the other is family by choice also deserves exploration: which ties are stronger and more deserving of loyalty? Lewiston’s characters are trying to find their place in the story of America’s history. Alice and Marnie are directly related to a towering figure in our national mythology of Westward Expansion. How does this inheritance rest on their shoulders? When does a legacy become a burden? And as Americans grapple with the dishonesty of much of our learned history, Lewiston wonders how new awareness might undermine a family’s pride in their forebears. Alice and Marnie are also descended from settlers. Now that generations have gone by, Alice and Marnie – and Connor – must decide for themselves whether remaining attached to this particular piece of land provides them with the security they crave, or keeps them stuck. Most of us have been spending a lot of time at home this past year, while the world around us has changed in countless ways. What a gift as we begin to emerge into this new-to-us world that we have Samuel D. Hunter’s moving story to accompany us. Jen Uphoff Gray We have a complicated relationship to the word ‘Pioneer.’ Much of the foundation of our understanding of our own American mythology is under reassessment today and the ‘American Frontier’ is no exception. In our expansion westward, what unspoken atrocities lived in conjunction with our glory? What compromises did our heroes make in order to make names for themselves? The more we are able to take a closer look at these people, the more complex our feelings about our foundation become. And yet, despite our expanding ideas on the matter, there’s still something about Exploration that tickles our psyches as Americans. Exploration, I’d argue, is a critical part of who we are. We sailed west, then we walked west, then we looked toward the stars. But after every patch of our world’s been staked, what’s left to explore? Who are we then? I’d argue there’s plenty left to explore. But not in the way you’d think. When I look at each of the characters in Clarkston, I see pioneers, all. Jake, Trisha, and Chris are all at a tipping point in their lives, each about to take those first few steps into an uncharted frontier. But though their endeavor is not about land, their path forward is no less terrifyingly unknown. Because the unknown is only ever terrifying. And I believe that that’s what Clarkston is about — despite our paralyzing fear, stepping toward the unknown. And if we’re lucky, as our limbs shake, perhaps we’re lucky enough to have a friend, who can reach out, steady our hand, and walk with us, together. Jake Penner 8

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A C L O S E R L O O K … A DV I S O R Y C O M PA N Y M E M B E R M I K E F I S C H E R An Undiscovered Country “Only connect!” The epigraph to E.M. Forster’s best novel is playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s guiding mantra, as the misfits populating his plays try to escape the prison house of the self. Whether in the Idaho where he was born and sets nearly all of his plays or in his adopted home of New York, Hunter admits that he himself feels “a sense of isolation . . . and I think the plays are kind of about that. I don’t think a lot of the characters I write feel at home in any way.” But at the same time, Hunter’s lonely hearts long for something better. “I actually have a really unshakeable faith in the value of community and human connection,” Hunter has said. “I think that’s where the plays are coming from.” As you are about to see, Lewiston/Clarkston – the two one-acts that Hunter refers to as “a play in two parts” – is no exception. Along with his Greater Clements – which concluded its run at Lincoln Center shortly before the pandemic closed New York – Lewiston/Clarkston goes further than any other Hunter play in exploring the foundational American myths through which we tell ourselves that we are in fact connected, as a single people with a shared story. It’s no accident that parts of both Lewiston and Clarkston take place on July 4. Or that these plays feature descendants of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Can these old stories of undaunted courage and rugged individualism offer Hunter’s characters a way forward? And can myths of American exceptionalism offer us a way forward, allowing us to escape the crushing isolation of this pandemic by making America great again? Can we turn to the past to find our future? Or should we pull the statues down and start over? Fizzling Fireworks in Big Box America An Olive Garden restaurant. A Hobby Lobby store. Interstate truck stops. The Costco where we spend time in Clarkston: The Idaho we see in Hunter’s plays is indistinguishable from most anywhere else in Middle America. As the surrounding mountains continually remind Hunter’s characters, we’ve paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Or, in Lewiston, a condo complex, much of it built on a family ranch Alice has already sold when we first meet her, tending a roadside fireworks stand to make ends meet while wondering whether to sell the developers what little land she still owns. Acutely aware of her history and loving the land, Alice nevertheless feels the burden of the past as she considers letting it go. Much like the tame, safety-first fireworks she sells, that past has lost its onetime sparkle; the rockets and bombs bursting in midair no longer give proof of much. But she still sends them up, as distressed flares expressing her longing for what’s lost. The big-box Costco in which Jake and Chris work the nightshift in Clarkston is much like those fireworks: a debased version of the American dream, in which a culture of consumption involving big tins of popcorn that we mindlessly eat before digital TVs replaces pastoral images of a land of plenty. Lewiston / Clarkston

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“All these stores like Costco in towns like this, hundreds of miles in between one another – maybe this is like the new West,” Jake says to Chris at one point. “Maybe we’re like the last American pioneers.” Is it any wonder that Jake is as obsessed with distant relative Clark as Alice’s daughter once was with distant relative Lewis? Or that Jake has landed in Clarkston because he’s tracing his ancestor’s journey west, much as Alice’s daughter once literally retraced Lewis’ footsteps by walking the entire Lewis and Clark trail? “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road,” wrote T.K. Whipple nearly 80 years ago, in Study Out the Land (1943). “Our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us . . . What [our ancestors] lived, we dream.” Maybe so. But what if that dream is a dead end? A related question: What if the reason we’ve reached this particular end of the trail is because that dream was always misconceived? Our Founding Fathers weren’t just self-proclaimed sons of liberty. They also owned human beings and defended slavery. Lewis and Clark weren’t just explorers. They were also advance scouts for an imperial enterprise culminating in genocide. “I just like the idea of them more than what they actually were, I guess,” Jake says of Lewis and Clark. In an interview about Greater Clements, Hunter identified such thinking as “the toxicity of nostalgia,” through which “we desperately try to relive things without admitting what they really were.” Telling Stories Even as Hunter acknowledges the powerful undertow of these old stories, Lewiston/ Clarkston gently suggests that we swim against the current. You’ll repeatedly see this dynamic at work within Lewiston/Clarkston, as characters wrestle with the histories they’ve – we’ve – inherited. But even though we can’t yet gather as an audience in the Playhouse, you’ll also experience this dynamic yourself by watching the plays and (hopefully) participating in a talkback, thereby practicing what Hunter preaches, in countless interviews: theater embodies the sense of community we need. It offers catharsis for the pain we feel. And it allows us, together, to tell new stories about who we are and might yet be, individually and as a country. “You’re not just sitting in the dark for 90 minutes in this receptive mood,” Hunter said, before the New York opening of Lewiston/Clarkston. Instead, you’re embarking on a much longer expedition with fellow audience members, moving north-by-northwest toward the end of the land, at “a moment in American history where we’re all treading very lightly on very thin ice,” he continued. “I think that can be very helpful.” Lewiston/Clarkston won’t draw a map detailing the way forward; providing facile answers isn’t Hunter’s way. But Lewiston/Clarkston might help us pose the questions we need to ask ourselves and each other, as we embark on our own collective journey of discovery toward the nation we might yet become. “We live in the civilization they created,” Whipple writes, of the relation between Americans past and those of us living out the legacy of their conquest. “But within us the wilderness still lingers.” 10

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Even in a Big Box America of fast food and faster lies, we can still take a walk on the wild side and light out for something unspoiled, as pioneers working together to forge genuine connections and create a new world involving a shared history. What a path we might blaze. What places we might see. And what stories we could tell. Welcome to your point of departure. Welcome to Lewiston/Clarkston. – Chicago/Milwaukee, March 17, 2021

F R O M T H E B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S ... S T E V E S U L E S K I Creating a home base for Wisconsin theater professionals….” These are the first eight words of Forward Theater’s mission statement. They represent one of our most fundamental commitments which you, our audience and donors, have so generously supported since Forward’s founding over eleven years ago. Now, as the pandemic rages and decimates theater companies across the country, we continue to do all that we can do to sustain Wisconsin theater professionals, to maintain their “home base.” We are doing this: - By honoring all of our contracts with them for the 2020-21 Season, no matter what this Season ends up looking like, what form it will take. This provides them with a paycheck, credit for health coverage and other resources for basic survival. - By providing artistic work for them in all sorts of new and innovative ways. This allows them to practice their craft, and derive satisfaction and purpose from doing the work they’ve been called to do. - By reassuring them that they have a home in Forward when so many other parts of their support structure may be crumbling. This gives them the confidence that they can count on us no matter what as they attempt to maintain their careers in theater. You, our loyal subscribers, single ticket buyers, and donors, have risen to a new level in your support of Forward as we stay true to our mission in these troubled times. You have subscribed for season tickets and purchased single tickets in numbers that blew away our expectations when live performances and theater gatherings are probably not going to happen for a while. You have opened your hearts and your minds to new ways of experiencing theater as we experiment with Zoom-like formats, filmed productions, creative readings and other innovations that were beyond our imagination before the start of the pandemic. And you haven’t skipped a beat in the level of your financial support as you’ve increased your donations since the beginning of the crisis. We enthusiastically welcome you to the third production in our 2020-21 Season, a season unlike any other. And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your relentless support in helping us, no, enabling us, to continue to provide a “home base” for Wisconsin theater professionals — a “home base” in the truest sense of what having a home means. Lewiston / Clarkston

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Are you buzzing with excitement? Are you bubbling over with hope? Are you overcome with joy and ready to shout it from the rooftops like we are? Why, you ask? Because we’re back! Well, we’re getting back. Slowly, but surely. And between you and us, we couldn’t be happier! Just over one year ago, Forward’s upcoming production of The Amateurs closed down just days before opening night. At that point, we had no idea what would come next. Weeks and months went by while The Playhouse remained dark, longing for the return of voices, artists, and energy. Forward Theater went to work creating new, digital content, paying every single artist already contracted in full, and expanding far beyond what we ever thought theater could be. And now, here we are! With this production of Lewiston/Clarkston, we bring you one step closer to The Playhouse again. There are a few ‘firsts’ that Forward will be sharing with all of you on this production: our first time back in Overture Center since last March, our first two-play evening, and our first live staged performance filmed and presented digitally for our subscribers and audiences. We hope this unique production brings back some of those butterflies and goosebumps that we all feel as those house lights dim, and we’ll continue to make safety, health, and equity our top priorities as we work towards seeing each other in the Playhouse lobby again very soon. Until then, enjoy the show and thank you for your continued trust and support!

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G O I N G F O R WA R D – A C O N V E R S AT I O N We invite you to consider the topics below and discuss them with your fellow audience members, whether they’re on Zoom, in person (socially distanced, of course), or with other members of your household. We also hope you will join the cast at the scheduled live talkbacks, where audience and artists will gather on Zoom to discuss these and any other issues brought to light by our production. And please keep the conversation going by sharing your thoughts on our Facebook or Instagram pages. Let’s start the conversation: • Even before COVID, more Americans have been moving away from their home towns, sometimes abandoning a home base altogether in favor of nomadic “van life.” Now that COVID has made working remotely more accepted, this trend has increased. Do you think this reflects an impulse to explore, or a more personal need to escape? Which applies to the characters in these two plays? And if you’ve ever made a big move or are contemplating one, which applies to you? • The Lewis and Clark expedition helped to form the continental United States as we know it. Two hundred years later, as we’ve learned more about the expedition’s effect on indigenous populations and the land that was “discovered,” and about Lewis and Clark themselves, the legacy of that exploration has become more complicated. Why do you think the playwright, Samuel Hunter, chose to reference Lewis and Clark so explicitly in these two plays? What do these plays say about the mythologies that we, and in particular, Americans, invest in? To learn even more about the play, playwright, and Forward Theater’s production, please consider watching our pre-show talk, which is available to view from our virtual lobby. L A N D AC K N OW L E D G E M E N T Acknowledging Ho-Chunk Nation’s ancestral lands, Forward Theater and Overture Center for the Arts celebrate the rich traditions, heritage, and culture that thrived long before our arrival. Overture respectfully recognizes this Ho-Chunk land and affirms that we are better when we stand together. A S P E C I A L T H A N K YO U We were so very fortunate to return to in-person rehearsals for Lewiston/Clarkston. But this process would not be possible without the daily commitment of Company Manager Celia Klehr, who took on the role of COVID Compliance Officer. Her dedication to learning and enforcing the required safety protocols and testing schedule was crucial to our success. Thank you, Celia!

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LEWISTON by Samuel D. Hunter CAST Marnie................................................................................................................................................. April Paul Alice...................................................................................................................................... Carrie Hitchcock* Connor....................................................................................................................... Jonathan Wainwright* Catherine........................................................................................................................................Laura Gray* Understudies............................... Celia Klehr (Alice), William Bolz (Connor), Maria Cina (Marnie) *Performers appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

CLARKSTON by Samuel D. Hunter CAST Jake......................................................................................................................................Jarrod Langwinski Chris.................................................................................................................................................Josh Krause Trisha................................................................................................................................................Laura Gray* Understudies..................................... Jessica Jane Witham (Trisha), Jake Penner (Jake and Chris) *Performers appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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ARTIST BIOGR APHIES / Lewiston Carrie Hitchcock (Alice) is delighted to be back at Forward Theater where she appeared as Aoife in Outside Mullingar and Williamina Fleming in Silent Sky. A native of Milwaukee and a graduate of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, her recent theater credits include Professor Willard in Our Town with Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Miss Hannigan in Annie with The Skylight Theatre; Masha in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; and Mary in How to Write a New Book for the Bible with Next Act Theatre. Carrie has also appeared in the independent films: Last Will, Expecting Mercy, Wishtaker, and Tomah, Wisconsin. April Paul (Marnie) is beyond thrilled to return to Forward Theater for this exciting project, as her last appearance on this stage was in The Flick by Annie Baker. Most recently, April was seen in Principal Principle at Next Act Theatre, and prior to the pandemic some of her recent credits include Bloomsday with Milwaukee Irish Arts; Blood at the Root with Next Act Theatre; and Barefoot in the Park at Rochester Civic Theatre. Her accomplishments survive with family by her side. Special thanks to those continuing to support the arts and to those providing shelter during this time.

Jonathan Wainwright (Connor) couldn’t be more excited for a production! So many things about this one, hard to express it. But to work with his wife, Laura, to work for the first time in person with this company, to work again with people he adores...to work again, on a stage, to work again! Comfort and exhilaration wrapped in a happy-dance. He was last seen, onstage, as Ebeneezer Scrooge at Milwaukee Rep, a role he played for four years, as well as Rep productions including Junk, West Side Story, and Of Mice And Men. He has worked for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre in The Good Father and Mauritius, and Next Act Theatre in Coyote On A Fence, Sideman, and The Exonerated. His next hope is to be in a theatre again with the last missing ingredient...all of you.

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ARTIST BIOGR APHIES / Clarkston Laura Gray (Trisha) is thrilled to be making her Forward Theater debut and would like to thank this incredible team of dedicated artists for making this show happen. A Milwaukee based actor, Laura has worked with many of its professional theaters. Some highlights include Luna Gale with Renaissance Theaterworks; Chamber Theatre’s Crimes of the Heart, Christmas in Babylon and The Good Father, playing opposite her husband Jonathan Wainwright. In addition to being an actor and voiceover artist, Laura has spent the last 13 years as an Adjunct Professor on the Theater Faculty at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Jarrod Langwinski (Jake) is elated to return to the inside of a theatre space after a long year of absence and quarantine. His last performance, unfinished and shut down in mid-March of 2020, was at Three Brothers Theatre (IL) playing the role of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pre-pandemic credits include Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Red Velvet, How Shakespeare Won the West (Door Shakespeare); Annie Jump and The Library of Heaven, All of the Everything (Renaissance Theaterworks); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Project of Chicago); and 1-800-123-BOYS (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre - YPF 2019).

Josh Krause (Chris) is very happy to be working with Forward again. Regional Theater credits include She Stoops to Conquer (Tony Lumpkin), Man of Destiny (Lieutenant), Book of Will (Boy Hamlet), Born Yesterday (Eddie), The Recruiting Officer (Bullock), and Our Country’s Good (Ross/Ketch) with American Player’s Theater; Jeeves at Sea (Crumpet), Miracle on South Division Street (Jimmy), and Great Expectations (Pip) with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Adam) with Two Crows Theatre; Equivocation (Sharpe/ Wintour/James) with Next Act; A Christmas Carol (Mr. C/Narrator) with Children’s Theater of Madison; and Visiting Mr. Green (Ross) and Jeeves at Sea (Crumpet) with Artists’ Ensemble. Josh is thankful for his wife, Rachel, his cats, Tweak and Brioche, and his many D&D friends, all of whom helped get him through a long year.

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PRODUCTION ARTIST BIOGR APHIES Samuel D. Hunter (Playwright) Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale(Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, Lewiston, Clarkston, and most recently, The Healing and The Harvest. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and around the country at such theaters as Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. His work has been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and PlayPenn. Two published anthologies of his work are available from TCG books. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. Dave Alcorn (Video Editor) is a digital marketing specialist and videographer with a focus on the performing arts. He has recorded over 500 concerts and performances and has created videos and promotional material for a wide 18

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range of music, theatre, and dance groups in Wisconsin. With a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in percussion performance, Dave has a unique perspective for video creation. Dave is the Director of Digital Marketing at Overture Center for the Arts and the President of Microtone Media. Joe Cerqua (Sound Designer/Composer) is a freelance composer, producer, vocalist and sound designer. He is thrilled to be working with Forward Theater again where he has previously composed and designed sound for Lifespan of a Fact, Every Brilliant Thing, For Peter Pan, Mary Jane, Life Sucks, Skeleton Crew, Marjorie Prime, Learning to Stay, Outside Mullingar, 4000 Miles, Mr. Burns, The Flick, Silent Sky, Vanya and Sonia..., The Other Place, From Up Here, Or, Red, Sons of the Prophet, Good People, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Love Stories, In the Next Room..., Going to St. Ives, Why Torture is Wrong..., and The Farnsworth Invention. He has composed music and/or designed sound for over 300 productions in Chicago, nationally, and internationally. Recent projects include original music and sound design for American Players Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theater Company, First Stage, Clarence Brown Theater, Northlight Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Deaf West in LA, American Blues Theater, The Artistic Home, and Goodman Theatre. Joe is the Producing Director/ Composer in residence for the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, a critically acclaimed 13-piece jazz orchestra and 10-member dance company. He is the Creative Director and Producer for the Music Department at Columbia College Chicago. Future projects include composition and sound design for The Thanksgiving Play at Milwaukee Chamber and A Phoenix Too Frequent at APT. Sarah Deming-Henes (Production Stage Manager/Lewiston) At FTC Sarah has joyfully stage managed in the Playhouse Skeleton Crew, Fun Home, Heisenberg, Life Sucks, Mary Jane, For

PRODUCTION ARTIST BIOGR APHIES Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, Every Brilliant Thing, and as much of The Amateurs as the COVID-19 pandemic would let her. Most recently, Sarah learned a whole bunch stage managing FTC’s virtual production of The Lifespan of a Fact and The Niceties. Sarah’s proudly stage managed at many Wisconsin based theaters, including 14 seasons at American Players Theatre – and 13 years in Milwaukee, for theaters including: First Stage, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. In 2019 she delighted in stage managing Boswell at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and had fun guest lecturing on Stage Management at UW-Parkside. Many thanks to her family and friends for unfailing kindnesses. And an acre of gratitude to the FTC Staff & Board, and, you, the audience, for going above, beyond, and online to keep theater alive and appreciated in Wisconsin!

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Wonderland (Outskirts Theatre Co.); Mary Poppins (Sunset Playhouse); Mamma Mia (Lake Country Playhouse); Next to Normal and Hamlet: A Cover (Carroll University); 2 Pianos 4 Hands and The Legend of Georgia McBride (Milwaukee Rep). She is grateful to every person that she has worked with that has got her to this point, especially her talented SM teams throughout the years, the supportive Forward staff, and her amazing family!

Christopher Dunham (Scenic Designer) is the Associate Professor of Theatre Design and Technology and Technical Director for the Department of Theatre Arts at Edgewood College. He earned his BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology from UW-Stevens Point and his MFA in Scenic Design from Purdue University. Forward Theater Company regulars may remember his work from Outside Mullingar, Marjorie Prime, and Every Brilliant Thing. He will take this and any other opportunity to express gratitude for all the folks working on the production who jumped through every hoop to bring performance back to the stage. This first step toward the familiar is a gift.

Greg Hofmann (Lighting Designer) Previous Forward Designs include The Niceties, To Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday, Marjorie Prime, Outside Mullingar, Mr Burns, Silent Sky, and 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Forward Theatre; Selected other work: Ride the Cyclone, Alliance Theatre, ACT Theatre, MCC Theatre; Nell Gwynn, Mary Stuart, Road Show, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Permanent Collection, Madison Repertory Theatre; Wizard of Oz, Elf, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Oklahoma, Tommy (Jeff Award Recipient), Mary Poppins, Annie, and 42nd Street, Paramount Theatre; Rock of Ages, The Game’s Afoot, Les Miserables, and Oliver!, Drury Lane Theatre; A Loss of Roses, Vieux Carre, and Brighton Beach Memoirs, Raven Theatre; A Wrinkle in Time, Welcome to Bronzeville, Anatole, First Stage; Matilda, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Music Lesson, Anne of Green Gables, Children’s Theatre of Madison. Greg has also designed over 50 productions for Cedar Fair Amusement Parks across the country. Please visit www.hofmannlightingdesign.com for more information.

Abbi Hess (Assistant Stage Manager) is ecstatic to be working on her first season at Forward and grateful for the first inperson production in a year! She graduated from Carroll University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and History and spent last season as a Stage Management Resident at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Past favorite credits include: Bare and

Ren LaDassor (Costume Designer) Forward Theater: Learning to Stay, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Life Sucks. OffBroadway Credits: Love, Loss, And What I Wore (Daryl Roth Productions); Post No Bills (Rattlestick Theatre). Regional & NY Credits: Glass Menagerie (American Players Theatre); Camp Wanatachi (La Mama); My Name is Asher Lev (Roundhouse Theatre/ Lewiston / Clarkston

PRODUCTION ARTIST BIOGR APHIES Delaware Theatre Company); Kaboom (NYFringe); Adventures of Ezra Jack Keats (Weston Playhouse). Film: Cruzando (Those Guys That Girl Film Production). A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Rebecca Lindsey (Stage Manager/ Clarkston) This is Rebecca’s first time working with Forward Theater, and it is such a pleasure. A graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Becca came to Wisconsin shortly after college and has been lucky enough to find a wonderful home in Milwaukee. In a normal year, Becca splits her time between Milwaukee and Spring Green, having spent 13 seasons on the stage management teams at both Milwaukee Repertory Theater and American Players Theatre. Favorite past SM credits include An Iliad at both of those theaters, A Christmas Carol with Milwaukee Rep, A Doll’s House with APT, and four seasons of Utah Shakespeare Festival’s education tours. Becca is a proud member of AEA and a Core Production Staff member at American Players Theatre. Thanks to all at Forward for the warm welcome! Pamela Miles (Props Master/Scenic Charge Artist) is delighted to return to Forward for her seventh season. She is so proud to be a part of this generous and courageous company. Pam lives in Spring Green, WI where she has worked at American Players Theatre for eleven seasons as the Associate Scenic Charge Artist, as well as completed four fall shows as the Scenic Charge Artist. Other companies she has painted for include: Arizona Broadway Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Madison, Madison Ballet (Dracula: A Rock Ballet) and the Summit Credit Union Inspiration Branch project. She has performed the role of Props Master for the Black Theatre Troupe in Phoenix, AZ and American Players Theatre’s Mary’s Wedding. 20

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Jake Penner (Director/Clarkston) is a director and Forward Theater Advisory Company Member. Pandemic credits include The Sins of Sor Juana (American Players Theatre/PBS-Wisconsin); To Make History and Let Others Write About It (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Young Playwright’s Festival); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Forward Theater Company, starring Jon Rua of Broadway’s Hamilton); Sapiens (Wisconsin Wrights). Other credits: The Taming (Edgewood College); Carrie: The Musical (Capital City Theatre); The Light (PBS-Wisconsin, Chicago/Midwestern Emmy Win). Jake serves as Artistic Associate at American Players Theatre. Love to David, Patty, and Jenna. For Evelyn. Jen Uphoff Gray (Director/Lewiston) is the Artistic Director of Forward Theater Company – this is her 23rd production here – and she’s never been so grateful to be back in a theater before! Regionally, she has directed for Madison Rep (The Diary of Anne Frank) and Milwaukee Shakespeare (Love’s Labors Lost). She mounted the National Tour of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, and served as Associate Director for the Broadway productions of Copenhagen, Sam Mendes’ Cabaret, The Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Life. Jen grew up in the Madison area, holds a degree in Dramatic Literature & Stage History from Harvard College, and is the proud parent of Jamie, Seeger and Arden. Thanks, Jake. Kevin Zimmer (Technical Director) has worked with Forward Theater since the 2009-2010 season, first as Master Carpenter and now as Technical Director. In addition, he worked as a Master Carpenter for Madison Repertory Theatre, Master Carpenter for CTM, and Shop Foreman and Carpenter for American Players Theatre. Additional credits include professional work in the theatre community in St. Louis and as a Welder at the St. Louis City Museum.

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SUSTAINING OUR ARTISTS CAMPAIGN As part of our long-standing commitment to supporting Wisconsin artists, we’re paying full artist contracts for each mainstage production as well as our Monologue Festival (142 contracts; each at $15/hr or more) this season. Our heartfelt thanks to these donors for specifically making gifts to honor and help fund the salaries of the talented artists working on of the projects that make up our vibrant 2020 2021 season. $5,000 W. Jerome Frautschi Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation $2,500 David & Paula Kraemer Jun & Sandy Lee

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T H A N K S TO O U R F R I E N D S O F F O R WA R D T H E AT E R VO L U N T E E R S ! Volunteers help Forward Theater by staffing events, helping with mailings and other office support. If you would like more information, please visit our website at Forwardtheater.com or contact Company Manager Celia Klehr at 608-234-5001. 2020 - 2021 Volunteers:

Tammy Albrecht Rima Apple Lewis Bosworth Michele Brucker Carla DiIorio Michael DiIorio Dolores Gohdes Paul Gohdes Steve Kilkus Amy Kozak Kathryn Lederhause

Mary Metz Sue Milch Tess Mulrooney Rex Owens Jessica Podemski Barb Sanford Lynda Sharpe Daryl Sherman Dot Steele Cheri Teal Theodora Zehner Housing:

The Madison Concourse Hotel Julie Swenson Seeliger Apartments A huge round of applause goes to:

Joan Herzing Alice Seeliger Dr. Charles Ford Dr. Jason Stephenson John Penisten Negus Packing Solutions The staff at Overture Center for the Arts 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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Forward Theater Company