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Cast
Creative Team
Laura King
Christa Wisneski
Denise Wisneski
Tom Yenchick
Meet the Company
Barb Hannevig
Barb is a graduate of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, and has been doing theater for lots of years! She’s played everything from Snoopy to Lady Macbeth. Here at Forge you may remember her as "Ethel" in On Golden Pond; "Mammy Yokum" in Li’l Abner; "Jessie" in Calendar Girls or "Lady Eugenia Dysquith" in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. She has also performed at Steel River, Footlighters, Barley Sheaf and Playcrafters theaters. When not onstage, she is the parish secretary at St. Gabriel’s in Douglassville and the caretaker of her geriatric cat, Zeus! Welcome to Happy Meadows and thank you for supporting local theater!!
Marsha Amato-Greenspan
Marsha returns to acting after directing Forge's virtual production of Visting Hours; and pre pandemic productions of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and the one-act Blanket of Stars. She holds a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Acting and Directing from Averett University in Danville VA and has spent over 45 years as a director, actress, sound designer, administrator, adjudicator and techie (basically anything and everything) at community theatres in DE, VA, MA, NH and PA. Some of her favorite stage roles include “Vernadette” in Forge's The Dixie Swim Club; “Fin” in the award winning (and internationally seen) production of Fin and Euba; “Sister Mary Regina” (Nunsense: The Mega Musical and Nuncrackers); “Joan” (The Guys); “Martha” (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf); “Eleanor of Aquitaine” (The Lion In Winter); “Dolly Levi” (Hello Dolly); “Angel” (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) and “Kate Keller” (The Miracle Worker) just to name a few. She received the “David Matthews Excellence in Directing Award at PACTFest15 for the Best in Festival production of Nine. Marsha lives with her husband Jeff and their four kitties in Wilmington DE where she works (right now from home) for Bank of America in Enterprise Postal Strategy and Operations.
Barbara Burri
Barbara has been performing since age three, and after many years of community theatre and a degree from Northern Michigan University, she worked professionally in Virginia and Arizona. She was most recently seen as "Ida" in Barley Sheaf’s production of Cemetery Club; "Joanne" in Bravo Theatre’s production of Company, and had the unusual opportunity of playing "Masha" in Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike at Footlighters Theatre and "Sonia" in the same play at Forge Theatre. Barbara lives in West Chester, PA and is originally from Missouri.
Julie May
Much of Julie's performance life, since 1995, has been spent with Forge Theatre in many memorable productions “Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike”, “Four Weddings and an Elvis”, “Animal”, “Young Frankenstein”, “Nuts”, “The World Goes Round” and more. Her most recent role was as Mrs. Dashwood in the February 2020 Forge Zoom production of “Sense and Sensibility”. When not involved with Forge, she has also performed in all 14 shows in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon with G&S companies both in the Delaware Valley and England where she has won performance awards and has directed many both here and abroad. She will be performing July 16-18 with the Buck’s County G&S Society in “The Sorcerer” (as Mrs. Partlett) at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown…in a LIVE production (fingers crossed!). She lives and works in West Chester, PA with her husband Richard.
Robin Rosenberg
Robin returns to Forge for her first virtual show as "Nurse Nancy". She previously played "Mrs. Dexter" in The Man Who Came to Dinner and "Geminae" in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She would like to thank her husband Bennett for all his love and support with all her endeavors and understanding her weirdness.
Bob Goretski
Bob has been puttering around Forge for more years than he cares to admit and for some strange reason he keeps getting cast.
Laura King
Laura is an award-winning playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild, Southeastern Theatre Conference (where she currently serves on the Publications Committee), and Working Title Playwrights. She holds an MFA in playwriting from the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University and is an instructor of theatre at Gordon State College. Her play Independence Day at Happy Meadows was awarded the 2016 Southeastern Theatre Conference/Stage Rights Ready to Publish Award and is available for licensing through Stage Rights. Her play Fallout won the 2016 Georgia Theatre Conference Playwriting Competition. She is the author of numerous ten-minute plays, including her collection Youth on the Roof, published by YouthPLAYS. Her plays are available at StageRights, YouthPLAYS, Polychoron Press, Punk Monkey Productions, and the New Play Exchange. For more information, please visit laurakingplaywright.wordpress.com.
Christa Wisneski
Christa is thrilled to be directing her second virtual show this season at Forge. She previously directed the second show of this season, THE HOLIDAY CHANNEL CHRISTMAS MOVIE WONDERTHON, aka A Very COVID Christmas. She currently serves on Forge's Board of Directors, and has directed, co-directed, assistant directed, produced, and stage managed many shows in between hiatuses from the stage. She first appeared on Forge’s stage 30 years ago as the Balloon Girl in Gypsy, although she’s been running around backstage since 1984. Other favorite roles include Pamela (Head Over Heels), Dr.Cantway/Tiffany Edwards (Laramie Project), Annelle (Steel Magnolias), Bun Foo (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Olive (Spelling Bee), Sister Mary Amnesia (Nunsense), Snoopy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown) as well as various ensemble roles. Thank you to Denise and Tom for helping with this project, and to her amazingly talented cast for being patient, understanding and rolling with the punches for these virtual performances! She would like to dedicate this show to Brian Schwartz – you are forever missed my friend.
Denise Wisneski
Denise has had a "blast" helping Christa direct this incredibly gifted cast. She is grateful to Forge for keeping theatre alive virtually during this past year with special thanks to Tom Yenchick for arranging this past season. She is anxiously waiting to get back behind the piano next season.When not busy at Forge, Denise serves as Music Director for St Mary of the Assumption Church and is also an organist for St. Ann Church. She is actively involved with several local non- profits, especially Julia's Grace Foundation which supports children with cancer and their families.
Enjoy the show!
Tom Yenchick
Tom serves on the Board of Directors of Forge Theater as General Productions. Tom has recently directed and choreographed “Head Over Heels” and “All Shook Up” and choreographed “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder”. When not at the theater he is a second grade teacher and also directs the middle school musical in his district with his recent productions being “We Will Rock You” and “Frozen, Jr.”.
Forge Theatre 2021-22 Season
Virtual - September 11-12, 2021
Virtual - November 11-13, 2021
Virtual - December 10-11; 18-19, 2021
Live - February 25-26; March 4-6; 11-13, 2022
Live - April 15-16; 22-24; 29-30; May 1, 2022
Live - June 3-4; 10-11; 17-19; 24-26; 2022