Jan 25th, 2012
Six professional actors, directors and writers who have worked for years at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater are forming a theater company of their own — and planning to produce plays at the harborside theater just denied to longtime tenant WHAT.
The new, actor-run Harbor Stage Company is due to debut this summer at the 15 Kendrick Ave. waterfront property that was WHAT's birthplace in 1985.
Harbor Stage Company's mission, according to its website, is to "present dynamic, thought-provoking productions of new plays and modern classics" and produce "the kind of edgy, provocative theater we are all passionate about."
Harbor's six founders are well-known to WHAT fans as mainstays on stage and behind the scenes from dozens of productions over the past decade but said they had become "nervous" enough about recent changes in that organization to want to strike out on their own. Harbor artistic director Robert Kropf, Stacy Fischer, Jonathan Fielding, Amanda Collins, Lewis Wheeler and Brenda Withers have worked at numerous theaters around Boston, and have credits from around the country, but met while at WHAT.
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