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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.

FORWARD THEATER COMPANYpresents the Wisconsin premiere of

THE AMATEURSby Jordan Harrison

Directed by Jen Uphoff Gray

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Nathan Stuber Jason Fassl** Costume Designer Composer & Sound Designer Monica Kilkus Joe Cerqua** Props Master Stage Manager Pamela Miles Sarah Deming-Henes* Dramaturg Mike Fischer

Season Sponsors: The Evjue Foundation, Inc., Distillery Design, The Madison Concourse Hotel, Peter Gray Executive Search,

Wisconsin Arts Board, Wisconsin Public Radio, PBS Wisconsin

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

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IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF THE AUTHOR(S)’S RIGHTS AND ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT:

https://concordtheatricals.com/resources/protecting-artists

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

** Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829

Nancy Ciezki & Diane Kostecke

Steve & Jacqui Suleski

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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY STAFF

ARTISTICArtistic Director ..................................................................................................................Jen Uphoff GrayArtistic Associate ...................................................................................................................Karen Moeller

ADMINISTRATIVEManaging Director ............................................................................................................... Julie SwensonDirector of Development................................................................................................Sarah MilestoneDirector of Marketing .............................................................................................................Scott HadenAudience & Donor Relations Manager ........................................................................ Samara SafarikCompany Manager .................................................................................................................Celia A. KlehrBusiness Manager ...................................................................................................................Alex Moskoff

PRODUCTIONStage Manager ...................................................................................................... Sarah Deming-Henes*Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................................................................Abbi HessTechnical Director .................................................................................................................Kevin ZimmerScenic Charge ...........................................................................................................................Pamela MilesCarpenter ........................................................................................................................... Jordan RockmanWardrobe Supervisor ........................................................................................................... Megan DickelSound Technician ..........................................................................................................Benjamin KruegerMaster Electrician ........................................................................................................... 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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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY BOARD OF D IRECTORS

Rozan Anderson, University of WI Hillel FoundationDave Chaimson, Full Compass Systems

Dr. Charles Ford, UW Division of OtolaryngologyDr. Amy Gilman, Chazen Museum of Art

Marci Henderson, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin, BadgerlandGwen Jones, Dept. of Safety and Professional Services

Roth Judd, Government Integrity AdvisorHallie Kuenning, WPS Health Solutions

Donna Moreland, Perkins Coie LLPSusan Pigorsch, Pigorsch Media Design

Sandi ReinardyCarol “Orange” Schroeder, Orange Tree Imports

Dr. Jason Stephenson, UW School of Medicine & Public HealthSteve Suleski, CUNA Mutual Group, retiredTed Waskowski, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP

Andy White, First WeberJennifer Winding, HR Consultant

FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ALUMNI

Forward Theater would like to thank the former Board and Advisory Company members that contributed to our success:

Advisory CompanyAnn ArchboldColleen BurnsDennis Dorn

John Frautschy Richard GanoungShannon Heibler

Monica Kilkus

Jessica Lanius Casey Martin

Georgina McKeeKaren OlivoGwen Rice Scott Rött

Frank Schneeberger

Kirk StantisMichele Traband

Charles Jennings Trieloff, IIJack Forbes Wilson

Kimberly Megna Yarnall

Board of DirectorsChad Bartell

Rebecca Baumbach Carousel Bayrd

Donna Beestman Tim CrispAm Curet

Burt DeHaven Jane ElderEllen FoleyTom Frazier

Jon FurlowMarta GialamasMarcia Kasieta

Gail Kohl Shana Lewis

Gregory MondayErika Monroe-Kane

Jolen Neumann Kathie NicholsDean Richards

John Russell Karen Saunders

Joe Shapiro Joseph ShumowScott ThorntonBrent Wagner

Sherry Wagner-HenryErin WenzelLynn Wood

Ledell Zellers

FORWARD THEATER ADVISORY COMPANY

Amy Quan BarryWilliam Bolz

Jim BuskeJo Chalhoub

Sarah DayJono De Leon

Mike FischerClare Arena Haden*

Michael HeroldMaureen Janson*

Jake PennerRána Roman

Nadja SimmondsNoele StollmackSusan Sweeney*

Sam D. White

*On sabbatical

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FROM THE D IRECTOR . . . JEN UPHOFF GR AY

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 could – 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.

Of course, most of you know that we spent three weeks in February-March 2020 rehearsing this show as part of Forward’s 11th season. We stopped work after our first day of technical rehearsals as theaters (and everything else) across our country started shutting down due to COVID-19. For months afterward our sets sat abandoned in the Playhouse, illuminated only by the traditional ‘ghost light.’ By the time we were able to return to the theater to load out our props, costumes, and set pieces, we knew that coming back to this particular play was essential. So it all went into storage to await this very moment.

I’m so grateful to the team of artists who worked on this show then and now (nearly all of the original team is back!) for their fortitude, their patience, and their deep belief in the meaning of making art in a time of crisis. We 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. It resonated before. It resonates even more now.

I thank you, as always, for choosing to join us at the theater. Jen Uphoff Gray

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FROM THE DR A M ATURG…MIKE F ISCHER

After the Flood It began in Sicily in the fall of 1347, as ships arrived from the Black Sea with dead and dying sailors, covered in strange and frightening black swellings in the armpits and groin.

By early 1348, it had spread up the Italian peninsula and entered France, reaching Paris and then England by summer. Within two years, it had killed one quarter of Europe’s population. By century’s end, it had killed nearly half. At the time, Europeans called it the Great Mortality. We call it the Black Death, and it’s where Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs begins.

Forward’s production of The Amateurs begins more than 18 months after it had seemingly ended, when the coronavirus pandemic forced us to cancel our March 2020 production less than one week before its scheduled opening. As production dramaturg, I’d been packing my bags to return to Madison for tech week when I got the call telling me that we weren’t going to make it.

Talk about dramatic irony: Harrison’s play features a troupe of fourteenth-century actors trying to outrun the Black Death, much as Forward’s own production tries to outrun a plague that continues to cancel theater performances and even entire productions throughout the United States.

As we again began rehearsals on The Amateurs in Fall 2021, the coronavirus had killed more than 700,000 Americans, surpassing the 1918-19 influenza pandemic to become the deadliest pandemic in American history. Nearly five million people have died worldwide.

Then as now, our response as humans hasn’t always been inspiring; ignorance and want as well as fear and hate have frequently driven us further apart. What 18th-century novelist Daniel Defoe once said of yet another outbreak of plague has frequently applied to ours: “The danger of immediate death to ourselves took away all bonds of love, all concern for one another.”

But the past two years have also repeatedly made clear that Defoe overstates the case. To steal the title of Rebecca Solnit’s outstanding book on this topic, we’ve also seen numerous examples of people building paradise out of hell. Or, at least, building back better.

Which makes Harrison’s play even more relevant now than it was 18 months ago.

Making Art; Finding OurselvesIn a panic-stricken world shutting down all around them, Harrison’s actors are doing what theater does so well: offering people a chance to come together as a community and share its dreams for a better world – as well as its fears involving this one.

The play within Harrison’s play that his medieval actors perform is a mystery play. Taking their cue from the Greeks, mystery plays draw on religious stories to help people make sense of their place in the world – and discover as well as celebrate the spark of divinity in each of us.

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FROM THE DR A M ATURG…MIKE F ISCHER c o n t.

Like so many Europeans in the plague-ridden 14th century, Harrison’s actors are trying to stay ahead of a disease they don’t understand, while wondering whether its visitation is a divine punishment striking down sinners in the hands of an angry God.

“To the people at large,” writes historian Barbara Tuchman in A Distant Mirror, “there could be but one explanation” for the Black Death: “the wrath of God . . . the general acceptance of this view created an expanded sense of guilt, for if the plague were punishment there had to be terrible sin to have occasioned it.”

Witnessing the Black Death firsthand as a teenager, William Langland (subsequently the author of Piers Plowman) wrote, “God is dead now-a-days and deigneth not hear us/And prayers have no power the Plague to stay.”

Matteo Villani – a leading 14th-century Italian historian – drew an express analogy between the Black Death and the biblical Flood, noting that he believed himself to be recording “the extermination of mankind.”

In an era during which nearly all plays involved biblical stories, the play we see Harrison’s troupe rehearsing and performing is that frightening account of Noah confronting an all-consuming, world-ending flood.

Written in an era that can often feel equally apocalyptic, Harrison’s play is an inspiring account of how and why we might stay afloat – and how the stories we tell help make it possible. Or as Harrison said in an interview, The Amateurs is “a play about how art responds to crisis.”

Becoming HumanWhat Harrison suggests and you’ll see is that 14th-century Europe responded by discovering and then affirming what it means to be an individual – with unique desires, hopes and dreams – in an age when people were more likely to be cast as cardboard cutouts performing preordained roles: Husband and wife. Lord and serf. Butcher and baker.

The concept of a self – indeed, the very ability to think of oneself with the pronoun “I” – was then foreign. When Shakespeare’s Jaques tells us that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men 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: types illuminating universally shared moral and philosophical patterns. Interiorized self-recognition didn’t exist.

But even as the Black Death raged, this old idea began to change, clearing the way for Shakespeare – and the creation of magnificent heroines like Rosalind who would have been unimaginable 250 years earlier.

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.

It’s present in Chaucer’s pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, and especially in Chaucer’s great, transgressive love story: Troilus and Criseyde, written as the plague returned to England in the 1380s.

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FROM THE DR A M ATURG…MIKE F ISCHER c o n t.

We find it in 14th-century courtly romances and lyrics. In hagiographic writings. And in Lollard confessions, which signaled the coming Reformation by defying the Church’s authority to intervene in a person’s spiritual quest to find God.

It’s also present in our play, in ways I’ll let our intrepid band of traveling actors reveal during the next two hours. Suffice it to say that some of them will look upon the mayhem around them and ask – really ask, for the very first time – why they must be defined by the roles they’ve been assigned.

Maybe, they’ll think to themselves, they can do more than just recite an old script. Maybe they can write and become something new, creating stories that more fully express how they feel. And maybe – just maybe – those stories might offer us a way forward.

Like Forward Theater itself, Harrison’s play makes us a promise as good as any covenant between God and Noah: there’s always the possibility of new and better stories, as long as we have the courage to imagine a future that’s different from the past.

Yes: we must live within the history we inherit. But we also get to make our own. That’s what it means to be human.

– Madison-Milwaukee, February 27, 2020-October 4, 2021

FROM THE BOARD OF D IRECTORS. . . .ROZAN ANDERSON

What a year and a half we’ve traveled through... and NEVERTHELESS... here we are, together for Forward Theater Company’s 13th season! As difficult as it’s been not to experience live, professional theater in a shared physical space, Forward not only survived, but thrived. We can be proud of all we’ve accomplished.

Thanks to our top-notch staff, Advisory Company, and Board of Directors – and because of our generous donors and audience members—we honored all contracts with artists, fulfilling a key part of our mission to create and sustain a home base for Wisconsin theater professionals and audiences. Not only did we present four mainstage shows and a monologue festival as scheduled, but each production grew creatively, as we adapted to a world swirling with change and ever-expanding technology. We helped lead the Madison-area arts community and, indeed, our reach expanded regionally and nationally, in developing policy and best practices, as well as our audiences, no longer only local.

Forward Theater also responded to the national reckoning with systemic inequity by expanding our work to become actively Anti-Racist. To learn more, please check our website for information on our mission, values, and EDI and Anti-Racism commitments.

The importance of art in our lives, as self-expression and sharing what it is to be human, has never been more clear. Join us for another season of exciting, engaging, and challenging theater!

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FROM THE ADVISORY COMPANY... JO CHALHOUB & MICHAEL HEROLD

Hello and welcome to Forward Theater’s 2021-2022 season! We are beyond excited to share The Playhouse space with all of you LIVE and IN PERSON! Gosh, that feels good.

So what do we have in store for you this season? Our theme, “Nevertheless…”, will not only bring stories of incredible strength and persistence to you in The Playhouse and those watching virtually at home, but will reflect much of our own collective experience over the last 18 months. Even though our world still seems a bit uncertain, all of us at Forward feel confident that this season’s plays will help us all escape into thought-provoking, funny, and heartfelt narratives, if only for a little while.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy! Forward Theater is still making the health and safety of our audiences and artists our top priority as we navigate the next chapter together. And what better way to do that than spending a night in the theater once again?

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GOING FORWARD – A CONVERSATION

L AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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 way home, at work, with friends, on Zoom, or by sharing your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Let’s start the conversation:

• Though The Amateurs was written before the COVID pandemic, were there moments during the play that you felt spoke to our current health crisis? Which ones, and why?

• 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 one that’s been more effective for you personally? Is there one that you’ve observed as more effective on a more national or global level?

• The characters in Acts 1 and 3 have different relationships with different religions, and of course, there is the overarching theme of religion contained within the Passion 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?

To learn even more about the play, playwright, and Forward Theater’s production, please join us at our pre-show talks, one hour before every Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon performance, at the Playhouse Rotunda stage. Pre-show talks are free, and open to the public. A video recording of the pre-show talk is available on forwardtheater.com.

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. We respectfully recognize this Ho-Chunk land and affirm that we are better when we stand together.

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F TC ’ S 2021-2022 SEASON BUDGET

Thank you for purchasing a ticket to this production!We are grateful to everyone who supports our work through ticket sales and

other financial gifts. Key among our founding values is transparency. To that end, we share with you our annual budget, as an organization’s budget is its clearest

expression of its priorities. Producing professional theater is not inexpensive, but we consider carefully how we spend each dollar. And we are proud that such a

significant amount of our spending is done locally, in support of local artists and local businesses. Thank you for your part in making it all possible!

PeopleArtistic personnel & benefits $218,040 (92 actors, directors, designers)

Production personnel $147,757 (48 crew and technical support)

Staff, benefits, payroll taxes $475,633 (6 full-time, 1 part-time)

Outside accounting staff $30,900

Community Connections $15,650 (La Follette HS teaching artists; EDI & Anti-Racism efforts; other Outreach Programming)

Playwright Royalties $48,215

ProductionsSets $11,500Costumes $4,200Lighting $2,800Props $6,800Sound $1,160Playbills $5,000Storage space $2,040Set building space $6,500Miscellaneous $10,450 (scripts, auditions, transportation)

VenueTheater rental $61,457Rehearsal space rental $11,530Venue equipment rental $10,500Security fees $3,520Box office fees $116,051 (includes sales taxes)

Company ExpensesArtist housing $3,750Hospitality $4,735COVID-19 Safety expenses $18,901

OperationsOffice space rental $34,413Operational expenses $18,508 (copier, internet, phone, database, supplies)Insurance $14,400Payroll & Audit services $13,670Credit card processing fees $17,250Organizational memberships $4,140

Marketing/DevelopmentMarketing $72,275 (advertising, graphic design, etc.)Development/ Donor Engagement $37,450

Total 2021-2022 Operating Budget: $1,286,697

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THE AMATEURSby Jordan Harrison

CAST ( IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER )

Brom .................................................................................................................................... James CarringtonLarking ......................................................................................................................................Matt Daniels* Physic ............................................................................................................................................ Ty Fanning* Rona ...............................................................................................................................................Emily Glick* Gregory ..........................................................................................................................................Josh KrauseHollis ............................................................................................................................................ Kat Wodtke*

Additional material by Heidi Schreck

Understudies:William Bolz, Whitney Derendinger, and Sarah Streich

“Are we full or empty at the end of tragedy?” - Bert O. States, The Pleasure of the Play

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

ARTIST B IOGR APHIES

William Bolz (Understudy) is very happy that we can all get together and share stories again. He is a member of Forward’s Advisory Company, and has appeared in past

productions of Life Sucks, The Other Place and The Farnsworth Invention. He has worked with many other area theaters, such as APT, Door Shakespeare, and CTM. William also has a Master’s degree in acting from the UW, but he tries not to make a big deal out of it.

James Carrington (Brom) is honored to be back with Forward after appearing in their first virtual performance last year, The Lifespan of a Fact. He is an actor and singer based in

Milwaukee and a graduate of UW-Madison's Acting Specialist B.F.A. Program. Some favorite roles include Matt in Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Man 3 in The Ballad Of Emmett Till, The Lion in The Wiz, William Barfèe in The 25th

Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. James has worked with: Milwaukee Rep Theater, Children's Theater of Madison, Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Door Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, First Stage and Skylight Music Theatre. All my love and thanks to my family, The Scrats, Matt, Doug and Trevor, without you all there’s no way I could’ve survived the last year and a half. Be safe, be well, be loved. Support the arts!

Matt Daniels (Larking) is delighted to return to Forward after previously appearing in Fun Home, 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies, and 44 Plays for 44 Presidents. Based in Milwaukee, he has

performed at Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Opera Theater, Door Shakespeare, In Tandem Theater, Milwaukee Shakespeare, and the Illinois, North Carolina, Notre Dame, and Michigan Shakespeare Festivals. Matt’s directing work has been seen at Door Shakespeare, First Stage, Marquette University, and Milwaukee

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Chamber Theater, as well as several independent stages in New York. He serves as an Artistic Associate at First Stage, where he is also the Director of the award-winning Young Company. When at home, he enjoys making music with Il Bazzone’s Jumping Flea Circus. Matt trained at the Juilliard School. www.mattydee.xyz

Whitney Derendinger (Understudy) is thrilled to return to work with Forward Theater. He is an actor, director, fight choreographer, voice and movement coach, and is General Manager

of Guest House Theatre. Whitney earned his MFA in Acting from UW-Madison in 2012, and has worked with Forward Theater, Children’s Theater of Madison, and American Players Theatre among others. Favorite previous work includes Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caleb in The Whipping Man, Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath, and all the characters in Pounding Nails. Many thanks for the opportunity to work with such an extraordinary team and story, and as always all his love to Deb and Eden, the two brightest stars in the sky. www.GuestHouseTheatre.com

Ty Fanning (Physic) is a Chicago/NYC-based actor, originally from Mustang, Oklahoma. He's most recently been seen in Lindiwe (world premiere) at Steppenwolf Theatre

Company, An Iliad at American Players Theatre, and can be caught on screen in the upcoming film Surina & Mel Light it Up (COMEDY CENTRAL) and Season 5 of Search Party (HBO MAX). Other TV/Film credits include: Secrets of Psychopath, Home Run, Hollis, Nora, Dancing in the Chamber (nominated for Best Actor at Trail Dance Film Festival) and Bob Dylan’s interactive music video to “Like a Rolling Stone” (TIME Magazine Video of the Year). Other theatre credits include: 3 seasons at American Players Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater,

Theater Wit, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Writers Theatre. He has a BFA in Acting from Oklahoma City University. Outside of the industry, Ty is a mountaineering enthusiast, musician, and dog-dad to his rescue pup, Laverne.

Emily Glick (Rona) is making her Forward Theater debut even though she was supposed to make it with The Amateurs in March 2020! Madison: Petra, A Little Night Music

(Madison Opera); Demeter, Hephaestus (Music Theatre of Madison); Mrs. Bucket, Willy Wonka… (Children’s Theatre of Madison). Chicago: Rose, A Shayna Maidel, Mary Boyle, Juno (Timeline Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd (Paramount Theatre); La Cage Aux Folles (Marriott Theatre), Mrs. Obama, Jabari Dreams of Freedom (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Emily has a BFA in musical theatre from the University of Michigan and is the Theatre and Theory of Knowledge teacher at Madison Country Day School. Upcoming: Ilona, She Loves Me and Juno, Orpheus in the Underworld (Madison Opera). Endless thanks to Jen and the Forward family for giving us an ark these past many months.

Josh Krause (Gregory) is so excited to be back at Forward Theater Co. and so very pleased to be working on The Amateurs again. He previously appeared in Clarkston (Chris) with

Forward. Regional Theater credits include Rough Crossing (Adam), She Stoops to Conquer (Tony Lumpkin), Man of Destiny (Lieutenant), Born Yesterday (Eddie), The Recruiting Officer (Bullock), and Our Country's Good (Ross/Ketch) with APT; 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 Theater; Equivocation (Sharpe/Wintour/James) with Next Act; and A Christmas Carol

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(Mr. C/Narrator/Fred) with Children’s Theater of Madison. Josh would like to thank his wife, Rachel, for keeping him going these past two years. She is my ark. Josh will be teaching and learning how to be a director this winter, before returning to his fifth season at APT next spring.

Sarah Streich (Understudy) is thrilled to join the cast of The Amateurs as the Hollis/Rona Understudy, after last joining FTC for the Two Steps Forward Monologue Festival in

2019, performing Wisconsin Blue Book. Local credits include When the Music Stops: The Anita O’Day Story (Anita O’Day), 1776 (Thomas Jefferson), and My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle) with Four Seasons Theatre Company; Willy Wonka (Mrs Teavee/Grandma Georgina) and The Wizard of Oz (Wicked Witch of the West) with Children’s Theatre of Madison; Hot l Baltimore (Jackie) and Road to Mecca (Elsa Barlow) with Madison Theatre Guild; and Apartment 3A (Annie Wilson) with Strollers Theatre. Additionally, some online credits include Good Bad People (Lucy) for the Loud N Unchained Theatre Festival; The Pussy Grabber Plays for The Voices Theatre Project, and two episodes of the web series Stay Home: Stories by Rob Matsushita. Love to B, R, F, & O.

Kat Wodtke (Hollis) is so grateful to be back at Forward Theater Company, together in the same room, sharing in the magic of live theatre. Kat hails from Milwaukee where she

works as an actor, musician, educator, and director. Kat has had the pleasure of performing with First Stage, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, and Bedlam Theatre, among others. Kat loves writing and playing music with her country band, Long Mama. Thank you to Andrew and Lefty for holding down the fort so I can be here, playing on the pageant wagon.

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PRODUCTION ARTIST B IOGR APHIES

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 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 46 Plays…, Lewiston/Clarkston, 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, 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. 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.

Sarah Deming-Henes (Stage Manager) feels lucky to say that since the fall of 2018 she’s been the stage manager for the majority of FTC productions, including the 2020 attempt at The Amateurs – how nice to get to complete that journey now! Some favorite FTC shows include: Skeleton Crew, The Lifespan of a Fact, Life Sucks, Heisenberg, Fun Home, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, and Every Brilliant Thing. 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. 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 helping keep theater alive and appreciated in Wisconsin!

Jason Fassl (Lighting Designer) The Amateurs marks Jason’s 9th FTC production including Heisenberg, Fun Home, and Red. Over the last decade, Jason has consumed mass quantities of electricity at American Players Theatre, The Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Milwaukee Ballet, First Stage, Skylight Music Theatre, Peninsula Players, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Next Act Theatre, Forward Theater Company, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and many others. Jason is member of Scenic Artists Local #829, Milwaukee Stage Employees Local #18 and a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

Mike Fischer (Dramaturg) is a dramaturg based in Milwaukee and a member of the Advisory Company for Forward Theater Company in Madison. For fifteen

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years, he saw over 200 plays each year on behalf of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, for which he began reviewing books and plays in 2003 and for which he served as chief drama critic from 2009-18. Since leaving the Journal-Sentinel, Mike has written essays and educational materials for numerous Wisconsin theater productions. He is also a Joseph Jefferson judge (charged with choosing each year’s best productions, actors, and designers in Chicagoland) and a longtime judge for the Steinberg Award (charged with choosing the best new play each year premiering outside New York City). Mike dedicates his work on this production to Walter Benjamin, who taught us so much about the vital role of storytellers and the power of stories in bringing light to a darkening world.

Jennifer Uphoff Gray (Director) is the artistic director of Forward Theater Company – this is her 24th production here. 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 and holds a degree in Dramatic Literature & Stage History from Harvard College. With gratitude to everyone on the Forward Theater staff for their heroic efforts over the last year and a half, and in loving memory of the friends and colleagues lost to AIDS over the past 40 years. My world is far less wonderful without you.

Jordan Harrison (Playwright) was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and had its New York premiere at

Playwrights Horizons. A film adaptation, directed by Michael Almereyda, premiered in the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Jordan’s play Maple and Vine premiered in the 2011 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Other plays include The Grown-Up (Humana Festival); Doris to Darlene, a cautionary valentine (Playwrights Horizons); Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb); Act A Lady (Humana Festival); Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep); Futura (Portland Center Stage/NAATCO); Kid-Simple (Humana Festival); The Museum Play (WET); and a musical, Suprema (O’Neill Music Theatre Conference). Jordan had two new plays premiere Off-Broadway in the ’17-’18 season: The Amateurs at the Vineyard Theatre, and Log Cabin at Playwrights Horizons.

Jordan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Residency with The Empty Space Theater. His children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production after premiering at the Arden Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is an alumnus of New Dramatists. For three seasons, he was a writer and producer for the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.”

Abbi Hess (Assistant Stage Manager) is ecstatic to be working on her second season at Forward Theater Company! Past

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favorite credits include: Bare (Outskirts Theatre Co.); Mary Poppins (Sunset Playhouse); Mamma Mia (Lake Country Playhouse); Next to Normal (Carroll University); 2 Pianos 4 Hands and The Legend of Georgia McBride (Milwaukee Rep); Every Brilliant Thing (Great River Shakespeare Festival). 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!

Monica Kilkus (Costume Designer) Monica’s previous costume designs for Forward Theater include 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Sons of the Prophet. The Other Place, Exit Strategy and Skeleton Crew. She was also the Production Manager and Props Master for Vanya Sonya Masha and Spike, Silent Sky and The Flick. Elsewhere in Madison, she has designed for Children’s Theater of Madison (incl A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Bunnicula, and To Kill a Mockingbird), Four Seasons Theatre (South Pacific, A Little Night Music, Light in the Piazza) and Theatre Lila (Suitcase Dreams and Trash). She has created costumes for Madison Opera and Madison Ballet. Prior to settling here, she was a Costume Production Supervisor for the Los Angeles Opera, working on over twenty productions including three world premieres.

Pamela Miles (Props Master/Scenic Charge Artist) is delighted to return to Forward for her ninth season. She is so proud to be a part of this generous and courageous company. Pamela lives in Spring Green, WI where she has worked at American Players Theatre for twelve seasons; this season being her first in the role of Scenic Charge Artist. Some other regional theaters she has painted for include: Arizona

Broadway Theatre, Children’s Theater of Madison, and Madison Ballet (Dracula: A Rock Ballet). She completed her first outdoor mural in Spring Green this summer on the side of the Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret. Pamela has previously performed the role of Props Master for the Black Theatre Troupe in Phoenix, AZ and for American Players Theatre’s 2016 production of Mary’s Wedding. She would like to extend a hearty THANK YOU to everyone supporting the arts through this pandemic!

Heidi Schreck (Additional Material) is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony nominated playwright, actor, and writer living in Brooklyn. Her latest plays include What the Constitution Means to Me, which is currently running on Broadway and received Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play (for Schreck herself ), and Grand Concourse, which debuted at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf Theatre in 2014-15 and has been produced by theatres all over the country. Grand Concourse received a Lilly Award, the Clare Tow Award, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize. Heidi’s other plays Creature, There Are No More Big Secrets, and The Consultant have been produced by Long Wharf Theatre, Page73, Seattle Public Theatre, ART, SpeakEasy, New George, Rattlestick Theatre Company, and more. As an actress, she has performed at Berkeley Rep (In the Wake), Roundabout Theatre, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Shakespeare in the Park, and more. She is the recipient of two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and the Theatre World Award.In television, as both an actress and a writer, her credits include: Nurse Jackie and Billions. Additionally in television, she wrote and co-executive produced the Jill Soloway Amazon series I Love Dick.

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She currently has 3 television projects in development with Hulu/Big Beach, Hulu/Working Title and Amazon/Annapurna.

Nathan Stuber (Scenic Designer) designs scenery when asked nicely and time permits. He works year-round at American Players Theatre. If you have seen a show out there in the past fourteen years there is a twenty-seven percent chance the show you saw was designed by him and a one hundred percent chance he was asked contribute in some form. As a rule he does not care for meta theatre but this one is pretty good.

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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CORPOR ATION, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Thank you for your commitment to bringing exceptional professional theater to Madison area audiences.

The Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation

$100,000+US Federal Paycheck

Protection Program

$50,000 - $99,999State of Wisconsin Covid-19

Cultural Organization Program

$30,000 - $49,999The Shubert Foundation

$10,000 – $29,999Madison Gas & Electric Pleasant T. Rowland

Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999CUNA Mutual GroupCuster Financial ServicesDane ArtsDeWitt LLPMarriott Daughters

FoundationReinhart Boerner

Van DeurenState Bank of Cross PlainsWisconsin Arts Board

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AttorneysSVA Certified Public

AccountantsUS Bank

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ServicesNumbers 4 NonprofitsSteve Brown Apartments

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In a typical year, ticket revenue covers only 50% of the full cost of presenting live theater. Annual fund donors bridge the gap and enable Forward Theater to provide exceptional theater experiences for area audiences and give professional actors, designers, writers, and directors an artistic home.

This year, your gift means even more. You are helping us get back on stage while keeping artists and audiences safe. You make it possible for Forward Theater to continue to develop new, innovative programming, to stay connected with our audiences and the community, and to pay our artists. You’re keeping us strong and ensuring our future. THANK YOU!

We are pleased to recognize contributions received between October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021. If you notice any errors in acknowledgement or have questions about donation options, please contact Sarah Milestone at 608-234-5001 or [email protected]. To make a tax-deductible donation to Forward Theater online or learn about donor benefits, visit our website at forwardtheater.com. To mail in a contribution, please use the following address: Forward Theater, P.O. Box 14574, Madison, WI 53708.

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Forward Leaders show a strong personal commitment to Forward Theater’s mission by making annual gifts of $1,000 or more.

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David FeldsteinW. Jerome Frautschi

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Kristine SelkErica Serlin & Ken KushnerJudy SeymourRichard ShaferRose SimeDebra SimonSuzannah SislerRandy SmithKeara SmythLeif SoderbergThomas & Sandra SolheimSusan SpragueHoward Steinberg &

Barbara AndrewsLinda StephensMeg & John StevensPrudence StewartArtace & Dennis StoneDavid & Luanne StorleyJodi Streicher

Sally StrosahlMyron & Margaret TalcottBarbara TeschMarilee & Erik ThoresenAngela TullarMelissa TumblesonElizabeth Tuschern

Lisa E VahldickJeanne & Bruce VenzkeBetty VolquardsenKate WalkerJulie WalshKaren WeatherwaxBeth Weber & Duane BeckettDeborah K WeberPeter WeilerKathryn WheelerElizabeth WhiteselMr. William Andrew WindelsCheryl WittkeDouglas YanggenSara YoungJames & Nancy YoungermanPeg & Tom ZanzigChris & Kathy Ziemba

IN MEMORYIN MEMORY of Dr. Robert Dott George Affeldt

IN MEMORY of Suzy Griffiths Colleen McCabe Maija Maki-Laurila

IN MEMORY of Judie Z. Moeller

IN MEMORY of Bill Owen Kathleen McElroy

IN MEMORY of Dan Pierotti Judith Pierotti

IN MEMORY OF Patricia Struck Larry Bechler

M ATCHING GIF T ORGANIZATIONS

Alliant Energy FoundationFirst Weber Realtors

GoogleIBM

US Bank

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THANKS TO OUR FR IENDS OF FORWARD THEATER VOLUNTEERS !

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:

Housing:

Mary Kateada and Frank SchneebergerCathy and Brent Kooistra

Caitlyn Saunders and Andy WhiteJulie Swenson

Sam WhiteJanet Zimmerman

The Madison Concourse Hotel

Special Thanks to:

Joan Herzing

Tammy AlbrechtRima Apple

Kelsey BaubieMichele Brucker

Pamela CrappCarla and Mike Di Iorio

Delores and Paul GohdesSuzanne and Steve Kilkus

Amy KozakKathryn Lederhause

Mary Metz

Sue MilchTess MulrooneyKathie Nichols

Jessica PodemskiBarb Sanford

Frank SchneebergerLynda Sharpe

Daryl ShermanDot SteeleCheri Teal

Theodora Zehner

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