Madison?s Forward Theater Company came on the scene in 2009 with ?All About Eve,? broadcast as a radio play on Wisconsin Public Radio. In the leading role of Broadway star Margo Channing was none other than one of the area?s grande dames of performance: Colleen Burns.
A graduate of UW-Madison, Burns had appeared on well-known stages across the country, including in New York, Chicago and Milwaukee. Her works as a playwright and composer with collaborator Jack Forbes Wilson premiered at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and Madison Repertory Theatre and won the writing team the Dale Wasserman Award for Musical Theatre Composition. Burns also was a founding member of Beloit?s New Court Theatre and its artistic director in 2007 and 2008.