Amy Morton & Monica Payne: what's more indispensable than an adviser in-the-know?(CASE STUDY: ACTING)(Interview)
American Theatre, January, 2006 by Walat, Kathryn
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Amy Morton, an ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, first met actor Monica Payne in 1999, when Payne was her student in Steppenwolf 's summer training intensive. Payne was six years out of under-grad, doing her best to navigate the Chicago theatre scene. "I just knew she had a whole lot of talent," remembers Morton.
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The following year, Payne got her first taste of an Equity-theatre rehearsal process as Morton's assistant director for Steppenwolf's production of Conor McPherson's The Weir. Morton also cast Payne as an understudy in the show, which ...
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