Guest Artist

Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his hero to be the icon he’d idolized. However, Harris wants no part of Michigan, small towns and he has no interest in being the young man’s hero. The young man must face his hero and navigate the relationship between heroes, reality and hope.

Cast

Jeff Daniels Joseph Harris

Thomas Macias Kenneth Waters

Richard McWilliams Franz Erika Slezak Helen

McKara Bechler Hope

Dan Johnson Dan

Lynch R. Travis Larry (as Lynch Travis) Ruth Crawford Mary

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