Allyn Burrows: TV or not TV: The Future of Shakespeare in the Berkshires

OLLI at BCC Performing Arts Initiative Presents:
The Nancy Vale Memorial Talk

Allyn Burrows, Artistic Director at Shakespeare and Company will speak on:

TV or not TV:  The Future of Shakespeare in the Berkshires

Wednesday, September 2, 2026
3:00-4:30 pm (note time change from original posting)

Free and open to the public, registration required.

In-person at the Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA

Allyn Burrows has been Shakespeare & Company’s Artistic Director since 2016. He was an artistic associate for several years and acted in numerous productions, including King John (King John), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Henry V (Henry V), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), Henry IV, Part 1 (Hal), Measure for Measure (Angelo), Betrayal (Jerry), The House of Mirth (Lawrence Selden), Love’s Labours Lost (Berowne), Macbeth (Macduff), and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Allyn was the Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston for seven years where directing credits included Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Jon Lipsky’s Living in Exile, Richard II, and The Tempest. Acting credits for ASP include The Winter’s Tale (Leontes), Henry VI Part 2 (Gloucester and Jack Cade), Henry VIII (Henry VIII), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Hotspur and Pistol), Timon of Athens (Timon), All’s Well that Ends Well (Parolles), King Lear (Kent), Measure for Measure (Duke Vincentio), and Richard III (Duke of Clarence). In the Boston area, he has performed in productions of Can You Forgive Her at the Huntington Theatre, Breaking the Code at Underground Railway Theatre, Shipwrecked at The Lyric Stage, Oceanside, The Seafarer, Pursuit of Happiness, and The Homecoming at Merrimack Repertory Theater, and Five by Tenn, at Speakeasy Stage. He was an Elliot Norton Award recipient for The Homecoming, King Lear, and Five by Tenn and an IRNE Award Winner for Breaking the Code. Off-Broadway credits include Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. He has worked at a number of theaters around the country, including Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, The American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Denver Center, and The Walnut St. Theatre. Television credits include The Broad Squad, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Against the Law, and he can be seen in the films Don’t Look Up, The Company Men, Julie & Julia, and Manchester by the Sea.

Please note this program will be held in a tented outdoor theater.

Light refreshments will follow the talk.

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This event is supported through the generous philanthropy of Nancy and Michael Vale, whose bequest established the Michael and Nancy Vale Performing Arts Program at OLLI at Berkshire Community College. This endowed fund supports theater-based OLLI programming.