09/18/2026
A note from our director:
It’s taken me a little while to write this.
Come From Away closed almost a week ago, and then life immediately swept me away on a trip. Now that I finally have a moment to sit still, breathe, and look back at what we created together, I’m realizing just how deeply this show affected me.
I knew I loved Come From Away before we started. I knew the story was special. But I don’t think I understood just how much I would come to love our Come From Away.
I loved watching a group of people walk into a rehearsal room and slowly become something so much bigger than a cast. I loved the laughter, the exhaustion, the moments when something finally clicked, the mistakes that became inside jokes, the breakthroughs, the tears, and the incredible amount of trust everyone placed in one another.
And I loved watching them tell this story every night.
There were moments when I would stand in the back of the theatre and stop watching the stage for a second just to watch the audience. People laughing together. Crying together. Sitting completely still. And then, night after night, standing on their feet for this remarkable group of performers.
That is something I will carry with me for a very long time.
This show asked a lot of everyone involved. It is relentless. It barely gives you a moment to breathe. And behind every person you saw on that stage was an entire team of people giving everything they had to make those 100 minutes happen.
To our cast, creative team, crew, volunteers, and everyone who helped bring this little piece of Newfoundland to Green Bay: thank you. I hope you know how incredibly proud I am of what we made.
And to every person who bought a ticket, joined a waitlist, sat in a folding chair for a rush ticket, signed our guest book, shared your own September 11 memories, laughed with us, cried with us, and trusted us with this story… thank you.
There are shows you direct.
And then there are shows that somehow become a little piece of you.
This was one of those.
I already miss hearing that first note. I miss looking around the room at these people. I miss the chaos and the hugs afterward. I even miss saying, “Again from the top.” (The cast may not miss that part.)
Mostly, I just feel incredibly lucky.
For a few months, we got to build a tiny community together and tell a story about what happens when ordinary people choose kindness, generosity, and love when the world desperately needs it.
And for a little while, we were all Islanders.
Thank you for being part of our little corner of the world. ❤️
