Springfield Contemporary Theatre presents Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-winning play "Driving Miss Daisy", through December 3 at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. Local favorite Julie Bloodworth plays Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in Atlanta in the late 1940s (a character based on Uhry’s grandmother). Her son deems her too old to drive and hires 60-year-old Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. Playing Hoke is veteran actor/director Erik Kilpatrick, and directing the production is another veteran actor/director, MSU Theatre and Dance alum Jack Laufer. Both are thoroughgoing professionals, and each has a resume a mile long. Born in St. Louis, Erik Kilpatrick is the son of well-known actor Lincoln Kilpatrick, who died in 2004. Like his father, Erik has had a career encompassing television, films and the stage. He got his break in 1978 playing Curtis “C.J.” Jackson, one of the high-school basketball players coached by Ken Howard’s
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