Featuring
Doc Heide & Eric Lewis

Special Guest
Holly Feldman

A celebration of holiday music featuring AFT co-founder Doc Heide and long-time performer Eric Lewis. Back by popular demand, Home for the Holidays adds a winter chapter to AFT’s calendar, which already features several summer and fall shows each year. The holiday show will include traditional holiday music, songs from past AFT shows and some of their own personal favorites from their hit CD "Christmas in Door County". As a special holiday treat, each show will also feature a drawing for gift certificates to local businesses.

Doc Heide has performed on the Peninsula stage since 1973 and served as AFT's first Board president. The 20 works he has written or co-written for the theatre have been seen by over 200,000 people. Along with improvisational actor Lee Becker, Doc is co-author of this fall's musical comedy GUYS & DOES (which sold out its entire 54-show run). The pair collaborated with James Kaplan on the sci-fi football musical PACKER FANS FROM OUTER SPACE and the cult hit BELGIANS IN HEAVEN, which together have had 18 productions. When he is not performing with AFT, Doc is associate professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, where he has won both the Master Teacher and Teacher of the Year Awards. He also teaches psychiatrists through the Medical College of Wisconsin's Door County Summer Institute.

Eric Lewis, based in Memphis, has recently released CDs with Tommy Burroughs and Doc Heide. In 2003, he received the Premier String Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences-Memphis. He and Doc were called "masters of the contemporary acoustic idiom" by critic Richard Banks (ChristmasReviews.com), who described their "Christmas in Door County" CD as "graceful, peaceful, soothing" with the "delicate bouquet of a fine red wine." Eric has appeared in many AFT shows including GOODNIGHT IRENE and FISH AND WHISTLE, and has opened for such luminaries as Chuck Berry and Travis Tritt. In 2008 he was named "Best Male Musician" by Door Voice Magazine.