Lisa and Katty Ellis are featured in Whatzup!
Check out the wonderful feature article in this week's Whatzup! Jen Poiry Prough interviewed Lisa Ellis, who plays Helen Doss, and her daughter Katty, who plays young Rita Doss.
Some ways in which 1957 is NOT like today…
When we watch a play or a movie set in another time period, most of the differences are rather obvious: clothing and hair styles, car models. Others may be less so. In The Family Nobody Wanted, Timmy Doss professes to…
Adoption-related Agencies in the Greater Fort Wayne area
In conjunction with our production of The Family Nobody Wanted, we will have a literature table for you to peruse before the show and during intermission, with information from a number of area organizations which facilitate adoption in some way.…
The Famous Life Magazine photo
This photo was in the Life magazine article which appeared in 1951, and was part of the media frenzy which drives the plot of the play, The Family Nobody Wanted, which is loosely based on the Doss family. Incidentally, Helen…
Cast List for “The Family Nobody Wanted”
We have a large and wonderful group of actors--at least one is making his stage debut, and several are new to afO. Here they are, grouped by character relationship. Those with an asterisk appear on the afO Home Stage for…
The Family Nobody Wanted–background for the play
A married couple has several medical options nowadays, when told that they are infertile. But in the 1940s, there were really only two choices: remain childless, or adopt. When Carl and Helen Doss, a couple in their 20s, found that…