Shakespeare & Company Toasts To Old Friends And New Ideas
The theater company debuted a collaboration with special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull and wife Julia Trumbull.
Douglas Trumbull, S&Co. Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer, Julia Trumbull and Diane Pearlman
It’s not every day that gala guests are supplied with 3D glasses for the performance part of the evening. This year, Shakespeare & Company’s annual fundraising gala, held on Saturday, June 29, celebrated a new frontier for the Lenox theater destination. They debuted a collaboration with special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull who, along with his wife Julia, run Trumbull Studios in New Marlborough, Mass. Trumbull is most famous for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Blade Runner; and 2001: A Space Odyssey, for which he won an Academy Award. After opening remarks and before the paddle raise, the Trumbulls premiered Magi 3D photographic and projection technology for three scenes starring Company actors (both on screen and on stage) inside the Tina Packer Playhouse. Funds raised from this event go toward making theater accessible to the wider community, including the more than 45,000 students who participate in Shakespeare & Company workshops and view its productions each year.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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