Still looking for your good cause this holiday season?
PLEASE check out this wonderful website, set up by a fantastic group of people, to benefit an amazing woman in Lansing, Michigan. This incredibly talented (playwright, actress, director, artistic director, teacher…what doesn’t she do!?), compassionate, whip smart, and funny woman is an absolute gem to her real family, her theatre family, her friends, and to every community she has lived and worked in, including Chicago and Lansing.
She is also very dear to both of our hearts. She hired Ted as the Production Manager of her theatre almost six years ago. She introduced Ted and I four years ago when she hired me as a second company member (intern) at that same theatre – we would never have met if not for her. She cast me in my first equity show (an opportunity I cannot ever repay her or thank her enough for), she encouraged me to reach for the stars and pursue my theatre career wholeheartedly, and she supported and taught me so much during my one year there – helping me to become the actress, director, educator, administrator, teacher, and friend that I am today. I have so much respect and love for this woman, who she is, and the work that she does. She is a woman that has brought art and vitality and heart and soul to entire cities who desperately needed that art in their lives, and whole communities in return have stood behind and supported her. And now she needs us. Please just take a quick look at the website, send some good thoughts her way, and if you can afford a small gift (of any amount!) this holiday season to help make someone’s load a little lighter, please consider this woman who is an inspiration to so many, and especially to us.
