Understudies: The Clark Kents of Theatre

by Lauren Spencer The phone rang at 5 pm. Fontana Butterfield picked up to find Shotgun Player's Artistic Director, Patrick Dooley, on the other end. The actor she was understudying in their production of This World in a Woman's Hands had fallen ill and she would need to go on that evening, a mere three hours later. "I was so very nervous" Butterfield says, "I had seen the show the night before and it was so moving…

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