The Design Team included:

Directed by Julie Arnold Lisnet
Directed by Angela Bonacasa
Stage Manager: Deanna Rice
Costumes: Michelle Handley
Set Design: Elliot Wilcox
Music: Colin Graebert
Poster Design: Tellis Coolong
Program Design: Deanna Rice
Publicity: Julie Arnold Lisnet
Publicity: Tellis Coolong
Publicity: Deanna Rice

Photos by Barrett Hammond

Deb Ashmore as Actor 7/Anne Rutledge/Hanna Armstrong
Angela Bonacasa as Actor 11/Mary McNeely/Elsa Wertman
Angelina Buzzelli as Actor 2/Dora Williams/Lydia Puckett/Emily Sparks/Emily
Tellis Coolong as Actor 6/Ami Green/Searcy Foote/Benjamin Pantier/Hamilton Greene
Tyler Costigan as Actor 9/Archibald Higbie/Daniel M’Cumber/Homer Clapp/Reuben Pantier
Joe Fisher as Actor 10/Walter Simmons/Eugene Carmen/Rev. Lemuel Wiley/Fiddler Jones Pt. One
Ron Lisnet as Actor 1/Washington McNeely/Clarence Fawcett/George Gray/Fiddler Jones Pt. Two
Garrett Moyer as Actor 4/Tom Merritt/Fletcher McGee/Knowlt Hoheimer/Andy the Night Watch
Deanna Rice as Actor 5/Mrs. Williams/Mrs. Purkapile/Mrs. Benjamin Pantier/Mrs. Charles Bliss/Nancy Knapp
Holly Schreiber as Actor3/Mrs. Merritt/Ollie McGee/Aner Clute/Flossie Cabanis/Lucinda Matlock/Lois Spears
Jesse Speed as Actor 8/Paul McNeely/Roscoe Purkapile/Lucius Atherton/William

In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. Masters raises the dead “sleeping on the hill” in their village cemetery to tell the truth about their lives, and their testimony reveals that Spoon River is as undeniably corrupt and cruel as the big city, home to murderers, drunkards, crooked bankers, lechers, bitter wives, abusive husbands, failed dreamers—and a few good souls.

Presented during the COVID pandemic and in partnership with Ten Bucks Theatre Company, Spoon River Anthology was presented at Indian Trail Park in Brewer.

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