For starters, here is the CRAFTSBURY FUNNERY staff of collaborating artists:
PETER GOULD is our founder. He has directed more than eighty youth theatre productions. He's also a young adult novelist whose novel, WRITE NAKED, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, won the 2009 National Green Earth Book Award for its ecological content. Peter directs at the New England Youth Theatre; he's a Visiting Professor of meditation at Brandeis University in the Peace & Justice & Coexistence Department. Peter also founded our Chelsea, Vermont, sister camp, our Highgate Apartments Funnery in Barre, and the King Street Neighborhood Center Funnery in Burlington. He keeps "Get Thee to the Funnery" alive all year long, prepares the script, the concept and the whole crew of campers and directors. Peter's passion is Arts-in-Education. He is always ready to share his skills with educators and theater people everywhere, and always ready to explain Shakespeare's metaphors and most outrageous jokes. "I'm not making this up," Peter says. "It's right here in the text!"
In previous chapters of his life, Peter was a founding member of the "back-to-the-land" movement & migration to Vermont, and a happy comrade of Stephen Stearns in "Gould & Stearns," a touring physical comedy duet with almost 4000 performances under their belts. Peter's two latest books are published by Green Writers Press and set in Vermont. MARLY is about a young professor who is fighting an industrial wind development in her wilderness. LIFE IS SHORT EAT MORE PIE is a collection of stories about his years on the commune at TOTAL LOSS FARM.
In previous chapters of his life, Peter was a founding member of the "back-to-the-land" movement & migration to Vermont, and a happy comrade of Stephen Stearns in "Gould & Stearns," a touring physical comedy duet with almost 4000 performances under their belts. Peter's two latest books are published by Green Writers Press and set in Vermont. MARLY is about a young professor who is fighting an industrial wind development in her wilderness. LIFE IS SHORT EAT MORE PIE is a collection of stories about his years on the commune at TOTAL LOSS FARM.
JONNY FLOOD studied secondary English education at Boston University. Born and raised in the woods and swamps of Woodbury, Vermont, Jonny participates in Funneries all over, from Barre to Brattleboro to Craftsbury to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He performed Shakespeare at the Funnery starting when he was a wee lad of twelve. Jonny loves music and theater and Maple Creemees. He also loves thinking about education and education reform, and enjoys working with young people of all ages. He is education director at Brattleboro's famous New England Youth Theatre.
ZOE GUTTENPLAN has performed amazing Shakespearean characters at the Funnery since 2009. In 2013 she transitioned to lifetime staff member at Camp New, specializing in one-on-one monologue work and child wrangling. Zoe is comfortable on both sides of the camera and both sides of the Atlantic, too. She is beginning her senior year at Columbia University. Zoe's portrayal of Pyramus in Midsummer 2013 will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. By anyone. Ever. Even if you are hearing about it here for the first time.
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ROSA PALMERI was raised in Putney and Brattleboro, Vermont. She has been doing Shakespeare with Peter, with New England Youth Theatre, and with the Funnery since 2004! Rosa earned her MFA in Acting from American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She has worked at Craftsbury, Brattleboro, and Barre Highgate. Rosa is a powerful serious actor and a gifted clown. She channeled the role of Harpo Marx in Peter's NEYT production of "Night at the Opera," and did a moving portrayal of Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, at NEYT in 2006. Rosa graduated from Evansville, Indiana conservatory in 2013.
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DUCKY hails from Castleton, Vermont. He worked for more than ten years at the Governor's Institute on the Arts, and is still on board at Craftsbury and Brattleboro Funneries.
As the METAPHOR DUCK, he quacks to alert campers and audience alike to Shakespearean language that needs more than passing notice. In his super-hero disguise, the "DUCK OF DOOM" is the number-one disciplinarian at the Funnery. Ducky unfortunately missed the entire 2008 season after he was locked in a suitcase after Peter's production of Twelfth Night at the New England Youth Theatre. Ducky has had recent supporting roles in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and in "Robin Hood" and "Treasure Island" at NEYT, where his stage life has improved since the company's acquisition of a stunt double Duck.
As the METAPHOR DUCK, he quacks to alert campers and audience alike to Shakespearean language that needs more than passing notice. In his super-hero disguise, the "DUCK OF DOOM" is the number-one disciplinarian at the Funnery. Ducky unfortunately missed the entire 2008 season after he was locked in a suitcase after Peter's production of Twelfth Night at the New England Youth Theatre. Ducky has had recent supporting roles in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and in "Robin Hood" and "Treasure Island" at NEYT, where his stage life has improved since the company's acquisition of a stunt double Duck.
~We also owe a lot to the folks who have supported us, like the Vermont Community Foundation, the Monteverdi Artists Collaborative, Concept 2, the Cabot Cheese Cooperative, The Hardwick Gazette, Craftsbury Academy, Sterling College, Heartbeet Lifesharing, and lots of faithful anonymous friends who love their Shakespeare.