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x/article/BWW-INTERVIEW-Shannon-Cains-Interview-With-Jeanmarie-Simpson-Previewing-The-2020-Release-Of-HERETIC-THE-MARY-DYER-STORY-20190510 OPENING CREDITS Arizona Theatre Matters with generous support from The Lyman Fund and The Living History Foundation present HERETIC - the Mary Dyer Story a jail cell in Boston Massachusetts Bay Colony 7 o’clock in the morning CLOSING CREDITS For my fine and loving husband, Dan. Dawn Schoenberger Nationally Certified ASL Interpreter Jeanmarie Simpson Playwright and Voice MK Riddell Director Hoot Williams Pianist and Composer Lindsey McHugh Sound Designer Kevin Tye Sound Editor and Engineer Ronald Page Video Editor ACKNOWLEDGMENTS HERETIC was originally commissioned (under the title Mary’s Joy) by the Boulder Friends Meeting Peace and Social Justice Committee, in Colorado. The play premiered at the Boulder Friends Meeting House in May 2011, directed by MK Riddell. The piece subsequently toured under the care of the Pima Friends Meeting in Tucson Arizona, and was presented at the Friends General Conference gathering in Providence Rhode Island on July 4, 2012, produced by Chuck Fager. Infinite gratitude to MK and Chuck, Vern Thiessen and Dylan Brody for edits and insights. Deepest love and thanks to Shannon Cain, my dramaturg, for – literally – working with me backwards and forwards through the script, line by line, and making it better. Thank you all the friends (far too many to name and too many I would forget to name) who looked at the script as it evolved through interminable drafts. Thank you, all the historians who made the scarce details of Mary’s life available for research, and to Brooke Shields for her candid, honest personal insights about postpartum depression and postpartum disorder. Thank you most especially for CLEARNESS, Leslie Manning, Jaimie Mudd and Leslie Sussan. For stepping in like the superhero she is, SAMANTHA KING. Thank you, all who contributed to the crowd funding campaign for the world tour that came to an unceremonious end at Heathrow on Valentine’s Day 2015. Thank you, especially: Doug and Cheri Smith Bill Robison Barbara Lee Olson Angel Miller Tanner (in heaven) Reno Friends Meeting Joseph Galata Donna and Bill Murphy-Sharp Beth McCleary Betsy Fadali British Friend, John Sheldon Canadian friends, Susan Andrews and Mike Mancuso Artist friends Ellyn Stern Epcar, Sidne Teske and Bobbi Kotula. In Reno, thank you my dear friends Cori Cooper, Kelly Brundige and John Frederick. Thank you GLM Theatre – Christopher Daniels and Joe Atack for your tremendous support. Thank you, John Perovich and the Now and Then Creative Company, Phoenix Arizona, for the staged reading in January 2018. Thank you to director Pamela Sterling, for your beautiful and insightful staging and to actor, Laurelann Porter, for realizing so thoroughly and in so short a time the character of Mary Dyer. Thank you, Tony Biggin and Alec Davison for permission to use your beautiful song, Wait in the Light. Thank you, Mary Dyer, for your life and for giving it up for us all. Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop, October 29, 2020 Wait in the Light (© Music: Tony Biggin 1983/1991 © Lyrics: Alec Davison 1983/1991). Used by permission. HERETIC: the Mary Dyer story Copyright © 2019 by Jeanmarie Bishop All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Permissions Coordinator,” at the address below. Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (FQA) 1515 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 www.fqa.quaker.org Performance Licensing: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be read or performed in any form before any audience without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and journalistic features. To request permission, please contact the author through the publisher at the address above.