Graduate student Jennifer Grace is among the actors, who have played the iconic role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” interviewed in a New York Times article. Grace portrayed the role in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production in 2009.

“I was engaged when we started the show,” said Grace in the article. “It was three months after I got married that I got the call to go to New York. My new husband stayed behind in Chicago. So it was this strange thing of leaving to go to New York, a newlywed, alone, to do this play about this girl who doesn’t leave.”

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