Over the past seven years, Bay Area actor Lisa Anne Porter has gained a deep appreciation for her character Suzanne, the founder of a fictional private school in Berkeley and a mother of six who refuses to vaccinate her kids.

“I have enormous sympathy for someone who feels like the rest of the world looks at her like she’s crazy, and that she doesn’t have intelligence and integrity,” Porter said as she rehearsed to reprise her role in Eureka Day at Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre. “Living with it for so long, there are other aspects of her that are really coming forward as to why she’s so triggered by what happens in the room. Certainly COVID and Black Lives Matter.”

Eureka Day first premiered in 2018 at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre, which is co-producing the play’s return to the Bay Area just

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