mr. Fullerton
by anne undeland
Directed by judy braha
Playing july 21 - august 1, 2021
the leibowitz black box Theater
A steamy, eyebrow-raising return to the Gilded Age by way of a daring new play by Anne Undeland, a favorite local playwright-actor, and directed by Judy Braha. Playing July 21- Aug. 1 on the intimate Liebowitz Black Box stage, Mr. Fullerton brings together Edith Wharton, Henry James, Morton Fullerton and Edith’s saucy Irish maid Posy for parlor games and society foreplay from Paris to Lenox in a rich retelling of Wharton’s actual romance with a younger, stateroom dandy. Mr. Fullerton is a banquet of language, poise, sex, mores and manner that rings with literary and local history.
Reviews
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REVIEW: Great Barrington Public Theater's 'Mr. Fullerton' a 'spirited if not fully satisfying production'
Berkshire Eagle
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THEATER REVIEW: Great Barrington Public Theater’s ‘Mr. Fullerton’ fans the flames
The Berkshire Edge
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REVIEW: “Mr. Fullerton” at Great Barrington Public Theater
Berkshire On Stage
Cast and creative team
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Glenn Barrett
Glenn Barrett (Henry James) has been performing on stages throughout The Berkshires, New York, Connecticut, and abroad since 1969. In New York at La Mama E.T.C., The Manhattan Theater Club, and in New York Shakespeare Festival’s Tony Award-winning revival of Threepenny Opera. Regionally with Long Wharf Theater, Riggs Theater 37, Emergent Ensemble, Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park, Berkshire Theater Festival, Barrington Stage, Mixed Company, and Walking the Dog Theatre. With Shakespeare & Co. he has performed recently in Merry Wives of Windsor and way back in 1985 in the Edith Wharton Salon series at the Mount. As a founding member of Berkshire Public Theatre in productions ranging from Jesus Christ Superstar to Othello where he had the privilege of playing Iago to our esteemed playwright Anne Undeland’s Emilia. He is thrilled to be working with this new band of brothers and sisters, Great Barrington Public! For my beloved partner, Rosalia.
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Dana M. Harrison
Dana M. Harrison (Edith Wharton) is a Berkshires-based theater artist and educator. She is excited to add GBPT to the repertoire of area companies with which she’s performed, including Shakespeare & Co: Private Lives (Amanda), The Liar (Isabelle/Sabine), The Learned Ladies (Philaminte), The Real Inspector Hound (Lady Cynthia), As You Like It (Phebe), The Winter’s Tale (Emelia/Mopsa), Scapin (Nerine), Othello (Desdemona - u/s performed); WAM Theatre Co: Holy Laughter (Esther/Myra), Measure for Measure (Lucio/Froth); Pittsfield Shakespeare in The Park: Twelfth Night (Malvolio); Mixed Company: Table Manners (Sarah), Taking Steps (Elizabeth Crabbe). Ghostlit Rep: The Tempest (Alonzo), Peter and The Star Catcher (Mrs. Bambridge/Teacher), Pterodactyls (Grace Duncan). She received the 2016 Berkshire Theatre Award for Best Supporting Female Actor for Holy Laughter, as well as the Berkshire Eagle’s Notable Performance distinction multiple times. Dana holds a master’s degree in Theatre and Education from Emerson College, and teaches and directs at high schools, colleges, and with S&Co’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare. She is the Founding Director of Drama at the Berkshire Montessori School, and has coached dozens of students to acceptance at premiere BFA and MFA acting programs. An ardent fan of Edith Wharton, she’s visited and performed at The Mount, and is delighted and honored to spend some time in her bespoke shoes and incomparable mind.
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Marcus Kearns
Marcus Kearns (Morton Fullerton) is performing his first production with GBPT and he is elated to be making his Berkshire return debut with them. He has spent the last several years in Brooklyn, NYC, where he was working as a Production Manager for BRIC, supporting local artists, and performing whenever he had the chance. During the pandemic, you may have seen him in the murder mystery Manhunt, a virtual interactive production, based out of Bloomington Playwrights Project. Locally, you may recognize him from his roles at Shakespeare & Company in; Emperor of the Moon (Harlequin), Macbeth (Macbeth), Private Eyes (Adrian), Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino & Sir Andrew), and Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), to name a few. He wants to thank his brilliant wife for her endless patience and support, all the wonderful people at GBPT and Simon’s Rock for everything they’ve done to make this show happen, and you for being here and supporting the arts in our community.
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Myka Plunkett
Myka Plunkett (Posy) is an actor/director/teaching artist currently living in Northhampton, Massachusetts. She received her educattion in musical theater at the University of Central Oklahoma. Regional credits include: Johnny Guitar (Majestic Theater); Seminar, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Year With Frog and Toad (NewCentury); Life and Death of Queen Margaret (RealLive); Silent Sky, Soldier’s Heart (Spindrift); as well as regular productions with Eggtooth Productions and PaintBox Theater.
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Judy Braha
Judy Braha (Director) has been a director, actor, teacher, and arts activist in New England for over four decades. Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater, her teaching, directing and guest artist credits include theaters and universities throughout New England and beyond. Judy proudly works with the College of Fine Arts Prison Arts Project and Andre De Quadros, sharing collaborative arts with incarcerated students in Massachusetts’ prisons and jails. Focused on the arts and social justice, they foster opportunities for students to understand the arts and activism in workshops such as the groundbreaking Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through The Arts. Alongside with Mr. Fullerton, Judy is currently directing a new solo piece about the feminist, suffragist, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, Representation and How to Get It. Recent directing credits include: Golda’s Balcony (NEW REP), To Kill A Mockingbird (GSC), Emilie, La Marquise du Chatelet, Defends Her Life Tonight (CST), I Am Lear, a devised piece on aging (ASP) and The Exonerated at BU/SOT. A longtime member of the Society of Directors and Choreography, Judy is also proud to have been a founding member of Stage Source, New England’s service organization for building and connecting the many facets of the theater community.
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Anne Undeland
Anne Undeland (Playwright) is a member of Howl Playwrights in Rhinebeck, NY, The Writer’ Rock in NYC, and Berkshire Voices in Great Barrington, MA. Her work has been preseneted around the country with her short, The Kiss, winning best play at the Ten Minute Play Festival at the West Side Y and her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol, selected as a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review. Her full-length play, Lady Randy, was produced by WAM Theatre and performed at Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, MA in 2019. Mr. Fullerton is her newest play.