Mary Beth Fisher (Peg) has been a frequent collaborator at the Goodman, appearing in over 20 productions including The Sound Inside; Blind Date; Luna Gale; The Little Foxes; God of Carnage; The Seagull; Frank’s Home and The Clean House. Other Chicago credits include Domesticated (Jeff Award); Dead Man’s Cell Phone; The Dresser (Steppenwolf); Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Three Tall Women; The Year of Magical Thinking (Jeff Award) and others (Court). She has appeared at Victory Gardens, AboutFace, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Writers and Remy Bumppo theatres. New York credits include Frank’s Home (Playwrights’ Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucile Lortel nominations); The Radical Mystique; By the Sea...(Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout), among others. She has worked at regional theaters all over the country. Television and film credits include Saint Frances; Sense8; Chicago Justice; Chicago Fire; Chicago Code; Without a Trace; Numb3rs; Prison Break; NYPD Blue; Profiler; Dragonfly and Trauma. Ms. Fisher was an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at the Ten Chimneys Foundation representing the Goodman Theatre and was a Beinecke Fellow at Yale University. She is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent.
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What did our critic think of SWING STATE at Goodman Theatre? Rebecca Gilman shows her deftness at writing “slice of life” plays in SWING STATE at Goodman Theatre. In this latest collaboration with outgoing Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls, Gilman introduces four characters at a crossroads in a small town in rural Wisconsin during summer 2021. It’s marketed as a play about the pandemic, and indeed, SWING STATE contains some references to the COVID-19 pandemic, masks, and vaccines. Ultimately, though, SWING STATE is a pure character study with the notions of pandemic and extinction of the human race in the background, and notions of mortality and despair in the foreground. Yes, it’s a post-pandemic play, but really it’s just allowing us to peer into the lives of these characters at a moment in time. That’s not to say that Gilman’s play isn’t moving, but I found the overall execution to not be as overarching as the set-up purports.
On the heels of a standing-room-only opening night and wide critical praise for the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's Swing State—a “riveting, deeply moving, empathy-generating, extraordinary new play (by) a great poet of the upper Midwest” (Chicago Tribune)—Goodman Theatre adds two performances to the final week of Tony Award-winning director Robert Falls' world-premiere production.
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Season of Concern, the emergency fund for Chicago theater artists, will present a one-night-only benefit performance of Jerry’s Girls, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, concepts by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento, and Jerry Herman, direction by Ken-Matt Martin, and musical direction by Nigel D. Robinson.
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Technology, videography and stage production come together for the new Live series, Goodman Theatre's next step towards resuming in-person performances. Each performance of three new productions-including two Chicago premieres and a major revival-are streamed live online for real-time consumption by audiences at home.
Technology, videography and stage production come together for the new Live series, Goodman Theatre’s next step towards resuming in-person performances. Accessible via multiple video cameras, each performance of three new productions—including two Chicago premieres and a major revival—are streamed live online for real-time consumption by audiences at home.
Technology, videography and stage production come together for Goodman Theatre's new Live series. Accessible via multiple video cameras, each performance of three new productions—including two Chicago premieres and a major revival—are streamed live online for real-time consumption by audiences at home.
Mary Beth Fisher has been nominated for Outstanding Actress - Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Boys Get Girl" and Outstanding Lead Actress at The Lortels for "Boy Gets Girl".
Mary Beth Fisher has won the Outstanding Actress - Play award at the Drama Desk Awards for her performance in "Boys Get Girl."
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