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3 unusual facts about Alabama Shakespeare Festival


Alabama Shakespeare Festival

Tony Award–winning actor Norbert Leo Butz and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Emerson were two of the program's most successful alumni.

The ASF began in 1972 as a summer-stock theater project in Anniston.

Richard Aellen

His most recent play, NOBODY, was performed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2008 and was read again there, in a revised version, in May 2009.


Joe McInnes

McInnes’ involvement with the community extends past the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, including services as Trustee of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, President of the Tuckabatchee Area Council Boy Scouts of America, and President of the Montgomery United Way.


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