Joan Goodfellow

Martha Joan Goodfellow was born February 2, 1950, in Wilmington, Delaware, where she has spent most of her life. Her parents were the late Millard Preston Goodfellow and Allene Leach Goodfellow. Ms. Goodfellow attended Brandywine High School, where she participated in theater arts productions. including The King and I, in which she sang and acted the role of Anna. She also performed in the supporting cast of Beauty and the Beast just before her graduation in 1968. Two years later, she would return to Wilmington with other high-school alumni to stage a production of Cabaret. Acting and singing the part of Frau Schneider, Ms. Goodfellow received an excellent notice from a local drama critic who maintained that “her singing is strong and sure…it seemed that the audience recognized her with the loudest applause.”