Secret identity
Michael Fosberg proudly refers to himself as AAA — Armenian African American. He didn’t find out about the African American part until he was a grown man. “My biological mother and adoptive stepfather raised me in a suburb just north of Chicago, and when they announced they were divorcing, while I was in my early 30s, I realized I knew nothing about my biological father whom my mother had left when I was just a baby,” he explained. So he tracked down his biological father, who informed Fosberg in that first, nervous phone call that he was black. “I was certainly shocked,” said Fosberg, “but not a shock of unacceptability, more of ‘Oh, my God, I knew this’ … or at least had a sense of this my entire life. I just never had the proof.” His life was changed forever. He tells his story all over the country in his one-man play, “Incognito,” which...