WILLOW RUN

a World Premiere by Jeff Duncan

June 14, 2018 – September 1, 2018

During WWII the Willow Run Bomber Plant located near Ypsilanti, Michigan was the largest factory under one roof in the world. Some 40,000 employees, mostly women, turned out B-24 Bombers at the rate of one every 55 minutes. Willow Run follows the journey of four of those women who migrated from all over America to find new lives at the plant. Along the way they overcome a multitude of challenges, learn to endure new sorrows, overcome deep-seated prejudices and forge new friendships.

*Winner of the 2017 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

DIRECTOR: Guy Sanville

CAST:

David Bendena*
Caitlin Cavannaugh*
K. Edmonds*
Lauren Knox*
Angela Kay Miller*
Michelle Mountain*
Brad Phillips*
Rhiannon Ragland*

Composers: Jeff Daniels, Ben Daniels, Brad Phillips, Angie Kane
Set Designer: Sarah Pearline
Properties Designer: Danna Segrest
Costume Designer: Suzanne Young
Lighting Designer: Noele Stollmack
Sound Designer: Tom Whalen
Choreographer: Rhiannon Ragland
Stage Manager: Thomas Macias*

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association

PRESS QUOTES

“Willow Run shows us not so much a road to the past for us to wax nostalgic about–millions died in combat and at the hands of the Nazis and Japanese–but to a time that was much sadder and heartfelt than a musical review would make us feel. As whole, though, the play is a wonderful shot to our American psyche and consciousness that reminds us that all good things are possible when we are about kindness, courage and compassion all at once. Willow Run is a roadmap to the future, to our better selves, for people willing to follow it.“

– Encore Michigan

Production Photos by Sean Carter Photography.