The Groton School

The Campbell Performing Arts Center

Designed by architect Graham Gund, the performing arts center on the campus of Groton School provides stunning, comfortable, and intimate spaces for student, amateur and professional performances. The facility boasts state of the art equipment in two theaters, and ample opportunities for performers, technicians, directors, and playwrights to make full use of the facilities. The Asen Theatre, a proscenium space that seats 466 includes a trap and orchestra pit level, a full 65 foot fly loft. The McBaine Studio Theater, a black box space accommodates 120. Additionally, The Marion D. Campbell Performing Arts Center includes a fully equipped scene shop, a costume shop, Equity level dressing rooms and a computerized box office. The entire space is air-conditioned and climate controlled.

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Adjudicator Biographies

Annette G. Procunier

Annette has adjudicated more than 80 festivals around the world in the last 22 years. Highlights have included the American Association of Community Theatres National festival twice, The World Festival in Halifax Nova Scotia and the Liverpool International festival 5 times. She has adjudicated in Germany, Ireland, Japan and all across Canada and the United States and was the only North American to ever adjudicate the IATA world festival in Monaco.

She is equally adept at public adjudication and in depth private sessions focusing on all aspects of production and the role of theatrics and dramaturgy in achieving a complete production. For the third time she was the instructor for the AACT adjudicator workshop in Charlotte N.C. which for the first time included all other adjudication organizations in the United States. Future engagements include adjudicating across Europe for the US Army, the International Acting Irish Festival in Rochester and directing for the thirtieth anniversary of the Stephenville Theatre Festival in Newfoundland.

John E. Sullivan

John E. Sullivan holds a BA in English from Briar Cliff University and began his theatre interests earnestly two decades ago. He is retired but certainly not retiring as he has held major positions with community theatre organizations from president of the Sioux City Community Theatre, to president of Iowa's state community organization. In 1994 he became very active with AACT becoming a festival commissioner, and moving on to become its Festival VP. In 2000 he came the national organizations Executive Vice President and President in 2002. John has traveled extensively for AACT; 29 states, plus Canada and six countries in Europe. This is his sixth trip to Massachusetts, the most times he has been to any state festival.

Ruth Legg

Ruth Legg has a B.A. in English and Theatre from Morris Harvey College (Charleston, WVA) and an M. A. in Theatre from Penn State. She is Professor Emeritus at Finger Lakes Community College (Canandaigua, NY) where she developed and chaired the Theatre Program until her retirement in 1996. She has served on the Boards of Bristol Valley Theatre (Naples, NY), the Smith Opera House (Geneva, NY) and the Geneva Theatre Guild. She is one of the founders of the Ontario County Arts Council and the Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS). She is past president of TANYS and chaired the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 New York State Theatre Festivals and the 2006 ESTA Festival. Ruth has been a TANYS Roving Adjudicator since 1993 and completed the AACT Adjudication Workshop in Charlotte last year. She adjudicated the 2007 Pennsylvania Association of Community Theatres Festival and will adjudicate the 2008 ESTA/Original Works Festival in May. She is an award winning director and set designer and currently Vice President of the Eastern States Theatre Association. In her spare time she plays golf and writes fiction.

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