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Great Barrington Public Theater, in collaboration with Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC), is proud to present the first film of Berkshire Outdoor...

THE REJECT

A tragic story of a man and his dream: to be abducted by Aliens.

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Great Barrington Public Theater and Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative are pleased to present Berkshire Outdoor Shorts to you Free of Charge. Please consider making a generous donation. Your donations will help us continue to provide opportunities to Berkshire area writers, actors and film production artists. On behalf of everyone involved, THANK YOU!

GBPT and BFMC are 501 (c) 3 non-profit organizations.


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Mark St. Germain
Mark has written the plays FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Off Broadway Alliance Award), CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award) FORGIVING TYPHOID MARY, (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”) and BECOMING DR. RUTH. With Randy Courts, they have written the musicals GIFTS OF THE MAGI, JOHNNY PYE and JACK’S HOLIDAY. With John Markus he wrote THE FABULOUS LIPITONES. Mark co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, DUMA. He directed and co-produced the documentary, MY DOG, An Unconditional Love Story, featuring Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Billy Collins, among others. Mark is an Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company. In 2010, Barrington Stage named their second stage “The St. Germain Stage.”
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Dan St. Germain
Dan St. Germain is a writer, comedian, and actor who's appeared on shows like Conan, Fallon, Live at the Comedy Cellar, John Oliver's NY Stand-Up Show, Adam Ruins Everything, Crashing, This is Not Happening, Best Week Ever, and has a half hour special on Comedy Central. He's written on the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Superior Donuts, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe, Alternatino, and has created web series for Comedy Central and My Damn Channel. Dan wrote on Bill Burr's upcoming sketch show and co-hosts WrestleRoasts with Comedy Central Roast Battle winner Mike Lawrence on Ad Free Shows and the All Things Comedy Network.


 
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Great Barrington Public Theater, in collaboration with Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC), is proud to present the first film of Berkshire Outdoor...

ALMOST YOU

The path not taken. The summer forest itself charges the memory of when two people almost changed their lives for each other.

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Great Barrington Public Theater and Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative are pleased to present Berkshire Outdoor Shorts to you Free of Charge. Please consider making a generous donation. Your donations will help us continue to provide opportunities to Berkshire area writers, actors and film production artists. On behalf of everyone involved, THANK YOU!

GBPT and BFMC are 501 (c) 3 non-profit organizations.


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Leigh Strimbeck (WRITER)
Plays written include: Poor Bastard; The Queen of Fenway Court (the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, produced this past summer by Gloucester Stage Company); Yours: a 100 year celebration of Russell Sage College; devised plays MIRROR, MIRROR; I’m Not a Feminist But…; This House Builded; adaptations of Hippolytus and The Trojan Women. Acting credits include: Virginia Butley in Native Gardens at Gloucester Stage Company, Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit with Voice Theatre of Woodstock, and Tippy in Breakwater at Great Barrington Public Theater. Other regional theater acting and directing includes Storyhorse Documentary Theater; The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE); WAM; The Rep in Albany, NY; Saratoga Shakespeare; Shakespeare and Co (Understudy for Tina Packer, Mother of the Maid); and Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Feature films: UnCivil Liberties, Fighting for Freedom, Little BiPeep, the short Key Transitions, and Lifetime Movie Network’s Off the Rails and Sleeping with My Student. Leigh has taught in the theater programs at SUNY Albany and Russell Sage College, and serves as well in the role of communications coach for the New York State Defenders Institute Annual Basic Trial Skills Program. For more information please visit: leighstrimbeck.com
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Anne Undeland (ACTRESS)
Anne is a theater artist who has worked throughout the Northeast with WAM Theatre, Great Barrington Public Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Ventfort Hall, Ancram Opera House, Barrington Stage, Stageworks, Mixed Company, MopCo, Shakespeare & Company, Metropolitan Playhouse, Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, and the New Repertory Theatre. Born in Egypt (her father was a diplomat), she attended Wesleyan University, graduating with a degree in Medieval Studies. Anne spent years as a puppeteer, she’s developed living history programs for museums, run oral history projects, played roles for BBC radio and WBUR/Boston, narrated audiobooks for Alison Larkin Presents, and is surprisingly handy with power tools. Lately she’s branched out into playwriting: among others, her short play, The Kiss, won best play at the West Side Y’s short play festival and her full-length play, Lady Randy (about Winston Churchill's extraordinary American mother), was produced by WAM Theatre and performed at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.


 
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Great Barrington Public Theater, in collaboration with Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC), is proud to present the first film of Berkshire Outdoor...

King Corona

Even the king of viruses needs a little Berkshire R&R now and then.

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Please Support Us!

Great Barrington Public Theater and Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative are pleased to present Berkshire Outdoor Shorts to you Free of Charge. Please consider making a generous donation. Your donations will help us continue to provide opportunities to Berkshire area writers, actors and film production artists. On behalf of everyone involved, THANK YOU!

GBPT and BFMC are 501 (c) 3 non-profit organizations.


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STEVEN OTFINOSKI (WRITER)
Steven Otfinoski’s plays have been performed Off and Off-Off Broadway and throughout New England. His play The Audition won the Best Script Award at the 2019 Short + Sweet International Short Play Festival in Sydney, Australia. His radio dramas, Truth to Power and Queen Corona, both dealing with the COVID experience, were broadcast on WPKN in Bridgeport, CT this summer. Queen Corona will soon be part of a zoom production Shut In, But Not Shut Down, to benefit the Actors’ Fund. Other full-length plays: Stratford Characters, Pirate Plays, Mortal Friends and Danse Macabre. More than two dozen of his ten-minute plays have been performed at various venues in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab’s Berkshire Voices Workshop and Squarewrights, a cooperative of playwrights in Stratford. Steve teaches English composition and creative writing at Fairfield University and is the author of over 200 young adult titles.
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CHRISTOPHER BROPHY (ACTOR)
Christopher Brophy was born in the Berkshires. After high school he moved to Martha’s Vineyard and became an actor, working in countless shows for the Vineyard Playhouse and many shows in Boston. Since returning to the Berkshires Christopher has performed for Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park, Shakespeare and Company, and Emergent Ensemble Theatre. He is a founding member of The Whitdiots improv troupe. This is his first film. Many thanks to Jim Frangione and Diane Pearlman for the experience!