Author Donald Marguiles
Donald Marguiles is the author of many plays including Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories, The Model Apartment, Sight Unseen and The Loman Family Picnic. He received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner With Friends. His plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. His adaptation of Dinner With Friends was produced by HBO and Collected Stories was presented on PBS Hollywood Presents. He has developed screenplays for NBC, Paramount Pictures, Propaganda, Touchstone Pictures, Warner Bros., TriStar and Universal. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Marguiles currently lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.
Director Doug Reed
Doug Reed is no stranger to the theatre arts. He started dancing at age 11 and acting by age 12 in Camelot. The theatre bug bit and 25 years later, he is still going strong. He spent many summers doing community theatre in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana. The Fort Atkinson community now sees his handiwork at all levels: community theatre groups, area high schools and the Fireside Dinner Theatre. Doug did a fantastic job directing Noises Off last summer for FACT.
Actress Susan Shoemaker
Born in Milwaukee, Susan grew up in northern New Jersey and attended college in Colorado. She and her family relocated to Edgerton about seven years ago. Susan is a former air traffic controller and flight instructor who is now an aspiring writer (published in Happy Woman and Opium magazines) and occasional actor. Susan’s previous roles include performing Shakespeare as Mae West. She recently appeared at the Stoughton Opera House in the world premiere of The Sago of Sergeant Bates as a wickedly flirtatious southern belle. Audiences will also remember her as Dotty Otley in last summer's FACT production of Noises Off.
Actress Marti Gobel
Marti is a graduate of San Diego State University and moved with her family to the area about seven years ago. She and her husband have four children, including a set of triplets. Marti has been a mainstay of the local theatre scene since her arrival in Fort Atkinson. For FACT, she played the character of Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and also was seen as Florence in the female version of The Odd Couple. Other area plays include Follies, Under Milkwood and Murder Most Bad. She has directed several plays, including The Bad Boys Next Door for the Council for the Performing Arts.
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