WHO’S WHO
ANTHONY FORTINO (Understudy Roy/
Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy). National Tour
debut! Favorite Regional: Catch Me If You
Can (Frank Abagnale, Jr.), South Pacifi c (Lt.
Cable), Th e Last Five Years (Jamie), Lord of the
Flies (Jack). Proud graduate of Texas Christian
University (TCU). All my love to Katie and my
family. anthonyfortino.com
NOELLE HOGAN (Understudy Small Alison,
John, Christian) is so excited and grateful to
be making her National Tour debut in this
beautiful show! TV: HBO Succession. Special
thanks to Nancy Carson and Karen Lampiasi/
LTM. Unending love and thanks to my Mom,
Dad, sister, brothers, dance teachers at Brava
Dance and friends! Following my dreams! For
Grandfather.
CAROLINE MURRAH (Understudy Medium
Alison, Joan). Regional: Next to Normal (Beck
Center), Th e Secret Garden (Great Lakes); Training:
IAA, Baldwin Wallace; Th anks to Michael Raft er,
Luedtke Agency, Fun Home Family; Love to my
family, teachers, BWMT16, Gabe.
AMANDA NAUGHTON (Standby for Helen,
Alison). Broadway: Into the Woods (2002),
Th e Secret Garden (also the tour). Umpteen
Off -Broadway and Regional appearances.
Television: Betty Roberts on AMC’s Remember
WENN, Law & Order, Payne, Chappelle’s Show.
Film: Th e Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Mexico
City. Personal: wonderful husband, marvelous
child, adorable dog. Love to my entire family.
Th anks, BRS/Gage.
MICHAEL WINTHER (Standby for Bruce).
Broadway: 33 Variations, Mamma Mia!, 1776,
Artist Descending a Staircase, Damn Yankees.
Off -Bway includes: Songs From An Unmade
Bed (NYTW); Laramie Project Cycle (BAM);
Hapgood (LCT). Regional: Lots! Concerts
include: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, White
House. Recent Film/TV: Blacklist, Mysteries of
Laura, Boardwalk Empire, Hostages, Leverage,
Jumper. Graduate: Williams College.
LISA KRON (Book & Lyrics). 2015 Tony Award®
winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best
Score of a Musical for Fun Home. Other plays
include In The Wake, Well and the Obie Award
winning 2.5 Minute Ride. Acting credits include
Well (Tony nom. - Best Actress) and Good
Person of Szechwan (Lortel Award-Outstanding
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Featured Actress). She has received Guggenheim,
Sundance and MacDowell fellowships, Doris
Duke Performing Artist, Cal Arts/Alpert, and
Helen Merrill Awards, and grants from the
Creative Capital and NYFA. Lisa is a founding
member of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning
theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers and
serves on the boards of the MacDowell Colony,
the Sundance Institute and on the Council of the
Dramatists Guild of America.
JEANINE TESORI (Music). For Broadway:
Fun Home (2015 Tony Award® winner); Violet;
Caroline, or Change; Shrek the Musical;
Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth Night (LCT);
John Guare’s A Free Man of Color. Delacorte:
Mother Courage (starring Meryl Streep). Opera:
A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (libretto, Tony
Kushner; Glimmerglass); The Lion, the Unicorn
and Me (libretto, J.D. McClatchy; Washington
National Opera). Her songs are featured in
the Netfl ix revival of Gilmore Girls. She is
the artistic director/co-founder of A Broader
Way, an arts empowerment program for girls
from underserved communities; the founding
artistic director of Encores! Off-Center; and
a lecturer in music at Yale University and
Columbia University. Ms. Tesori is a member
of the Dramatists Guild.
SAM GOLD (Director). Broadway: Fun Home
(2015 Tony Award® winner), Th e Glass Menagerie
(Belasco), A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Golden),
Th e Real Th ing (Roundabout), Th e Realistic
Joneses (Lyceum), Picnic (Roundabout),
Seminar (Golden; Ahmanson, L.A.). Recent:
John (Signature Th eater; Obie Award, Drama
Desk Nomination), Th e Mystery of Love & Sex
(Lincoln Center); Fun Home (Th e Public; Obie
Award, Lortel and Drama Desk nominations);
Th e Village Bike (MCC); Th e Flick (Playwrights
Horizons, Lortel nomination); Uncle Vanya
(Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination); Th e
Realistic Joneses (Yale Rep, CT Critics Circle
Award); Th e Big Meal (Playwrights
Horizons, Lortel Award); Look Back in Anger
(Roundabout, Lortel nomination); Circle Mirror
Transformation (Playwrights Horizons; Drama
Desk nomination, Obie Award); Th e Aliens
(Rattlestick, Obie Award). Resident director
at Roundabout Th eatre Company. Training:
Juilliard.
ALISON BECHDEL (Author of Graphic Novel)
created the comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out