'Of course I'm back here!': Actress Carrie Coon returns to American Players Theatre

By Rob Thomas for The Cap Times | July 14, 2018

When she first came to American Players Theatre in 2007 after studying theater at UW-Madison, Carrie Coon said she was a young woman focused on being “right and good” and pleasing those she was working for.

A director at APT quickly set her straight.

“He said, ‘I don’t want to work with Carrie the good student,” Coon told an audience in APT’s Touchstone Theatre on Friday afternoon. “’I want to work with Carrie the artist.’”

APT launched Coon’s career as an actor, as she went from plays at APT to Chicago theater, then to New York with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” and then on to movies (“Gone Girl,” “The Post”) and Emmy-nominated television roles (HBO’s “The Leftovers” and USA’s upcoming “The Sinner,” which premieres Aug. 1).

She’s also known for her wit and candor in an industry that’s woefully short in both departments. She speaks honestly about how women are treated in Hollywood and is unabashed about her politics on Twitter when another star might be more gun-shy.

The work that she’s done to bring her to this point, both as an artist and as a human being, began in Spring Green.

“It was an extraordinary time in my life,” she enthused. “Of course I’m back here!”

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