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…