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Meet Lizzie Magie and Mr. Macombopoly

Debra Ann Miller as Lizzie Magie

Debra Ann Miller has been a professional actress, vocalist and voice-over talent for over 30 years as a performer for live audiences, television, and film. Debra has balanced her career between commercial and educational theater since graduating from Michigan State University’s Department of Theater.  Debra toured the country with such prestigious children's theater companies as Artreach, the Children's Theater of Cincinnati, Child's Play Touring Theatre and the Reading Is Fundamental program. In 1997, she began traveling the country as one of our nation’s more controversial First Ladies, Mary Todd Lincoln in Visiting the Lincolns with the late Michael Krebs who our community will remember as Macomb’s original Lincoln interpreter and WIU graduate. Debra accompanied Michael in performance to such illustrious locales as the University of West Virginia, the Gerald R. Ford and Abraham Lincoln Memorial Libraries and Museums, and the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

In 2010 she created her own company focused on writing and producing one-woman plays in which she portrays important historical figures such as authors Jane Austen, Beatrix Potter, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as a one-woman performance as Mary Todd Lincoln entitled Mrs. Lincoln’s Salon. Debra also continues to work in Chicago Theatre; most recently starring in A Midwinter Mummers Tale, and In the Observarium for Terra Mysterium Theatre, Flanagan's Wake at the Noble Fool Theater, and as Rose Kennedy in Chicago Dramatist's production of Rosemary at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. Debra won Best Actress in the 2004 Chicago Indiefest for her performance in the film, Zen Noir.

Debra is very proud to add a new powerful character to her repertoire of important historical woman with her portrayal of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie Macomb’s very own inventor of Monopoly.

Allen Nemec Miller as Mr. Macombopoly

Allen Nemec is a long standing officer of the McDonough County Genealogical Society. He is also a very active member of the Macombopoly Committee and was instrumental in its development, researching Lizzie Magie’s family genealogy and securing the appearance of Erin Anderson Lizzie’s great, great grand niece at Macombopoly’s opening event. Allen and is wife Patti were also very generous donators to the project, insuring that both the Jail and the giant Dice token sculpture could be created.