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Synopsis
Miriam is making an apple pie.
Several years ago, Miriam’s son, Robert, committed a horrible crime and has been sitting on death row ever since. As is the tradition, in the waning hours before the end comes, Robert is granted a last meal. This is a play about monsters and the mothers of monsters. And about how we care for each other. And about how to make a really good apple pie. 
NADINE PURVIS SCHMIDT as Miriam
PLEASE NOTE: While it's well-stocked with gentle and comedic moments about baking, recipes, variations on butter and more, this production also includes discussions about assault, drug addiction, crime, murder, and the death sentence.
ADMISSION DOES NOT REQUIRE A FEE FOR THESE PERFORMANCES, BUT RESERVATIONS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED DUE TO LIMITED SEATING.
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A remarkable piece of theatre which offers a voice to an often-ostracized group of people and will hopefully open up important conversations about justice and forgiveness. --The Family Stage
Fawcett’s writing is chilling in its restraint. She doesn’t sensationalize the crime or offer absolution, instead asking the uncomfortable questions: Are parents ultimately responsible for who their children become? What happens when love isn’t enough to save them? --Stratford Connect
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The Company
ACTING: TheatreMidwest: Nickel and Dimed. Prairie Repertory Theatre: And Then There Were None. TheatreSquared: Superior Donuts. Bare Bodkins Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest. Cleveland Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Henry IV. Land Stewardship Project: Look Who’s Knockin’. DIRECTING: Pine Creek Parish (world premiere), We Are Proud to Present... (KCACTF Region 5 invited production), The Comedy of Errors, The Cherry Orchard, An Inspector Calls, 46 Plays for America's First Ladies, The Taming, The Triangle Factory Fire Project, Fuddy Meers, A Midsummer Night's Dream. BUSINESS: Southwest Minnesota State University: Professor of Theatre, Director, Producer, Theatre Program Coordinator. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, University of Arkansas. RECIPIENT: of the John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre and education
Kate Kanne
Technical & Graphics SCENIC DESIGN – Atlas of Mud (TheatreMidwest) Young Frankenstein, Last Five Years, The Hobbit, HMS Pinafore, Illusions, Rumors, (Anon)ymous, Les Liaisons Dangereuse. OTHER TECHNICAL: TheatreMidwest: The Gull, A Tragicomedy for One, After Chekhov; The Gun Show.
COMPANIES/VENUES: TheatreMidwest, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Prairie Repertory Theatre (SD), Highland Theatre (MN), George Daly Theatre (IA) BUSINESS: Central College - Theatrical Design Faculty Member; USITT Northern Boundaries-Board Member. EDUCATION - Minnesota State University, Mankato – MFA Design. South Dakota State University, Brookings - BA Theatre. 
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DIRECTING: TheatreMidwest: Apples in Winter. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse: Baskerville, Miracle on 34th Street, Murder on the Orient Express, Disenchanted, Catch Me if You Can, Cinderella, Central Lakes College: August: Osage County, Collected Stories, Silent Sky. Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Glass Menagerie, Biloxi Blues. St. Croix Festival Theatre: Private Lives, TUG-This Untoward Generation. University of Minnesota-Duluth: Silent Sky. Luther College: Fifth of July, Cabaret. St. Ambrose University: Much Ado About Nothing, The Threepenny Opera, Buried Child, Pippin, Little Women, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, An Enemy of the People, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Tempest, City of Angels, Tartuffe, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Anton in Showbusiness. ACTING: The Curtainbox Theatre: W;t, Hedda Gabler, Three Viewings. The Workshop Theatre: The Goat, or Who’s Sylvia. Riverside Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Galvin Fine Arts Center: Death of a Salesman, Richard III. EDUCATION: University of Oregon: Ph.D., University of Minnesota: M.A., College of St. Catherine: BA, Gustavus Adolphus College: AA
RECIPIENT: of the John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre and education 
Tom Woldt
Producing Artistic Director DIRECTING TheatreMidwest: The Gull, Atlas of Mud, Thanksgiving Play, Brilliant Traces, The Friendly Hour; Repertory Theatre of Iowa: The Diary of Anne Frank, That Championship Season; Des Moines Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire; Duluth Playhouse: Singin' In the Rain; Yellow Tree (MN): Expecting Isabel; Williamston (MI): Five-Course Love; Guthrie Theater (Studio): Hopscotch; Other Professional: Seven Year Itch, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Do! I Do!, Noises Off, Lysistrata the Bluegrass Musical!, Mother Courage, The 39 Steps, One Man-Two Guvnors, On The Razzle, As You Like It, Charley's Aunt, Antigone; Simpson College: Peer Gynt, Love Letters, Learned Ladies, Henry 5, Into the Woods, Rumors, Trojan Women; Other Academic: Machinal, The Winter's Tale, The Marriage of Figaro; The Bacchae, Tom Sawyer, The Woolgatherer. PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT/CHAIR (ACADEMIC) University of South Dakota, Simpson College, Doane College. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Lyric Theater, Inc. now Jon Hassler Theater (Founding Co-Artistic Director). OTHER MANAGEMENT ACTION Talent Group (Founder/CEO), Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (Regional/National Officer), C.G. Craig, Inc. dba Eastern Onion (General & Sales Mgr). ACTING Goldfinch Theatre: Macbeth; Stagewest: Time Stands Still; Other: Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Desire Under the Elms, The Matchmaker, Brigadoon, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Equus, A Flea In Her Ear, Mister Roberts. EDUCATION Guthrie Theater: Intern (Directing/Stage Management); University of Nebraska-Lincoln: PhD (Theatre); Minnesota State University, Mankato; MFA (Directing); South Dakota State University: BS (Communications and Theatre). RECIPIENT: of the John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre and education HOMEPAGE tomwoldt.com Vertical Divider
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Jennifer Fawcett, Playwright
Jennifer Fawcett is a novelist, playwright, and founding member of Working Group Theatre. She is the winner of the 2015 NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre and the 2017 Susan Glaspell Award (APPLES IN WINTER), the 2014 NEFA National Theatre Project Award (with Working Group for OUT OF BOUNDS), the Kennedy Center's National Science Playwriting Award (ATLAS OF MUD), and was nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award (BIRTH WITCHES).
Her plays have been produced at Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), the Source Festival (Washington, DC), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Centenary Stage Company (Hackettstown, NJ), Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), Uprising Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project (Nashville), The Drilling Company (New York), the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), Alcyone Festival (Chicago), Theatre Masters (Aspen/West Palm Beach), the Hatchery Festival (Washington, DC) and developed at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Residency, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Inkwell, the Lark Playwrights' Week, Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland Stage Co), Cultural Conversations (Penn State) and the NNPN MFA Workshop at the Kennedy Center. She was the NNPN Emerging-Playwright-In-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in Denver and is a graduate of the University of Iowa MFA Playwrights Workshop.
Her debut novel, BENEATH THE STAIRS, was released by Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) in 2022 and has been optioned for television. Her newest book, KEEP THIS FOR ME will come out in October 2025 with Atria Books.
Editor's FYI: In Season 3, 2021, TheatreMidwest presented one of the first live-and-in-person post-Covid productions in the region with Jennifer Fawcett's award winning play, ATLAS OF MUD.
Her plays have been produced at Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), the Source Festival (Washington, DC), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Centenary Stage Company (Hackettstown, NJ), Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), Uprising Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project (Nashville), The Drilling Company (New York), the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), Alcyone Festival (Chicago), Theatre Masters (Aspen/West Palm Beach), the Hatchery Festival (Washington, DC) and developed at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Residency, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Inkwell, the Lark Playwrights' Week, Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland Stage Co), Cultural Conversations (Penn State) and the NNPN MFA Workshop at the Kennedy Center. She was the NNPN Emerging-Playwright-In-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in Denver and is a graduate of the University of Iowa MFA Playwrights Workshop.
Her debut novel, BENEATH THE STAIRS, was released by Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) in 2022 and has been optioned for television. Her newest book, KEEP THIS FOR ME will come out in October 2025 with Atria Books.
Editor's FYI: In Season 3, 2021, TheatreMidwest presented one of the first live-and-in-person post-Covid productions in the region with Jennifer Fawcett's award winning play, ATLAS OF MUD.
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