During our intermission, Artistic Director Greg Vinkler is checking in with alumni of Peninsula Players and chatting with them about their ongoing projects and their personal experiences at Door County’s theatrical treasure.
We will learn about their favorite shows, hear backstage tales, and discuss what they have been up to since they graced our stage with their work.
These recorded virtual conversations are a 15-minute glimpse beyond the footlights. We will deliver one per week to your inbox on Tuesdays throughout the intermission of our 85th Season. Sit back and enjoy!
If you enjoy these videos, click here to enjoy Peninsula Players Pastimes where company members share memories, songs and more!
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit Familiar Faces of the Sixties.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1965 – 1969.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit the Stalwarts of the Sixties – 1965 – 1969.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1963 & 1964.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and alumna Amy McKenzie, daughter of Jeanne Bolan and Jim McKenzie as they pay tribute to Caroline Fisher and Jeanne Bolan.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1962.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they continue with 1961.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1961 and the auction of Peninsula Players.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1960.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the second part of the life and career of Hilda Simms.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the first part of the life and career of Hilda Simms.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit the second part 1959.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit the first part of 1959.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1958.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1957.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1955 – 1956, when Caroline and Rodion launched their Show Trains and Show Boats adventures.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1954, when the theater celebrated its 20th anniversary!
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit 1953, the year Caroline Fisher and her husband, Rodion Rathbone, became the producers and owners of the theater.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they revisit the Peninsula Players in 1952, the year television beckoned Richard Fisher to Hollywood.
This week on Peninsula Players Presents, Artistic Director Greg Vinkler visits with alumni Jim Maronek who recalls the early days of the theater-in-a-garden!
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they discuss 1950 and 1951, and celebrate the theater’s 100th play!
Artistic Director Greg Vinkler visits with alumni Ted Bird who recalls the early days of the theater-in-a-garden!
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they discuss 1948 and 1949, when the Fishers expanded the number of shows Peninsula Players Theatre offered.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they discuss 1947, when the Players return to the stage after the war.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they discuss 1942 through 1946… The War Years.
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they discuss 1941, when Peninsula Players Theatre began to feel the effects of the war in Europe. Obstacles were overcome, from weather delays to injured actors, but as the saying goes, “The show must go on!”
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre. This week they discuss the busy year of 1940!
Join Artistic Director Greg Vinkler and Business Manager & Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle as they take you through the rich history of Peninsula Players Theatre! This week they tackle “The Hollywood Years,” 1937-1939.
This week’s guests are Erin Noel Grennan and Paul Slade Smith. Erin performed in the world premieres of ‘Making God Laugh,’ ‘The Tin Woman’ and ‘The Outsider’ (originally ‘A Real Lulu,’) written by Paul! Join us and learn how Peninsula Players inspired Paul to start writing!
This week’s guests are members of the production team, including Technical Director Nate Angrick, Master Electrician Erin Kellam, Costume Shop Manager Kyle Pingel and Prop Shop Manager Jenn Wernau. The team will share with Greg their responsibilities and favorite productions.
This week’s guest is Valerie Maze! As Music Director, Val attends rehearsals, studies the script and its score, works with the cast and musicians to ensure the artistic vision of the director and choreographer.
This week’s guest is Joel Hatch! Joel is an award-winning actor/singer who performs as the Mayor in the original cast of the smash-hit Broadway musical, Come From Away.
This week’s guests are Hayden Hoffman and Isaiah Spetz. Hayden and Isaiah grew up in Door County, have various performing credits, and both made their professional acting debuts at Peninsula Players Theatre!
This week’s guest is stage manager, Alden Vasquez! During Alden’s seven seasons with Peninsula Players Theatre, he has stage managed the productions of “Salvage,” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime,” “The 39 Steps,” “Nunsense,” “Always…Patsy Cline,” “Miracle on South Division Street,” “God of Carnage” and “Almost, Maine.”
This week’s guest is Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller! Jessie spent the summer of 2010 at Peninsula Players Theatre performing in “Over the Tavern” and “A Little Night Music.”
This week’s guest is actor Karen Janes Woditch! Karen has been a part of Peninsula Players Theatre for nine seasons. She has performed in the winter play reading series, The Play’s the Thing, and in 21 productions since her debut in 2001 production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”
This week’s guest is Linda Fortunato! During Linda’s 17 seasons with Peninsula Players Theatre her credits include acting, directing and choreographing! Linda is currently the Artistic Director of Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana.
This week’s guest is internationally recognized opera and theatre director Francesca Zambello. Francesca participated in the Peninsula Players Internship Program in the 1970s, is the General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival and, since 2012, the Artistic Director of The Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.
This week, Greg’s guest is Peninsula Players alumna, Samantha C. Jones! In her eight seasons at Peninsula Players, Samantha built and designed wigs for several productions and designed the costumes for “Once a Ponzi Time,” “The Nerd,” “Heroes,” “Over The Tavern,” “Around The World in 80 Days,” “A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine” and “Wait Until Dark.”
This week, Greg chats with Peninsula Players Business Manager and Archivist Audra Baakari Boyle! Greg and Audra discuss the inception of Peninsula Players by the Fisher Family in 1935.
This week, Greg chats with actors Harter Clingman and Ashley Lanyon! During Harter’s three seasons with Peninsula Players, he has performed in “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime,” “Peter and the Starcatcher,” “The Full Monty,” “Alabama Story” and “Saloon.” Ashley made her Peninsula Players debut in “Lend Me a Tenor” and has performed in the musicals “Nunsense,” “The Full Monty,” “The Bridges of Madison County” and “Ghost” in her four seasons with Peninsula Players. She has also performed in “Silent Sky,” “A Murder is Announced,” and “The Hollow.”
This week’s guest is actor Erica Elam! Erica has previously performed in “Now and Then,” “Miss Holmes,” “The Actuary,” “The Hollow,” “The 39 Steps,” “The Full Monty,” “Rumors,” “Comic Potential,” “Panic,” “And Then There Were None,” “The Tin Woman,” “Born Yesterday,” and “Almost, Maine.”
This week, Greg’s guests are the creative team of the stunning 2019 production of “Silent Sky” including Karin Kopischke, Jack Magaw, Elizabeth Margolius and Stephen Roy White.
This week’s guest is Players veteran, Tom Mula! In his 25-year tenure at Peninsula Players, Tom has directed 13 productions and performed in 35.
This week’s guest is actor/singer Christine Mild, a Chicago native, who made her Peninsula Players debut with “Always…Patsy Cline,” a show close to her heart. Links to Christine’s Album, Love is Everything:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-is-everything/1129448062
https://open.spotify.com/album/7uvNtahT6q33Fcu3kBju9K?si=QYIkYDr3QyWxlG4iI9kEcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBFyUWfKEE0&list=OLAK5uy_n1barxCyU3ArtzSGCeO-9KeXyQz8tpHfs
Greg’s first guest is Playwright Sean Grennan, whose world premieres at Peninsula Players include Now and Then, The Tin Woman and Making God Laugh.