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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">June 12, 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Great Barrington Public
Theater Solo Fest premieres <i>Leave Your Fears Here</i></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">,<b> the true story of how a young boy facing
life-threatening realities taught his parents the power of hope and courage.</b></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_l4enty3b0" alt="image.png" width="265" height="376" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The GB Public Theater
2022 stage season presents four new solo performances over six weeks. All
feature stories of humanity and demonstrate the power of a single voice to tell
them. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Leave Your Fears Here</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> (June 30 - July 10) is a loving and insightful
memoir written and performed by the accomplished and familiar stage and screen
actor James Morrison. In a riveting performance that legendary producer Norman
Lear called</span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">An extremely moving play by an extremely moving
performer”,<i> </i>the well-known actor recounts his </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">10-year-old son Seamus’s
daunting passage from brain cancer diagnosis, through treatment to ultimate
recovery, and how he inspired courage and change in others, most notably his
father. It’s a profound, heroic story of the power of hope leading to triumph
in the darkest hours. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">When catastrophic illness
strikes suddenly, lives are rudderless. When their son all at once faced numerous
physical debilities and a life-threatening diagnosis, Morrison, his wife and
family had to face reality and mortality while simultaneously navigating the labyrinth
of 21^st century life and medical processes. They and other adults found
themselves transcended by their son’s courage, innate wisdom and ability to face
and accept harrowing experience with truth, strength, humor and poetic nature.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Directed by Robert Egan, <b><i>Leave Your
Fears Here</i></b> was incubated, developed and first staged at the
nationally renowned and multi-award-winning Ojai Playwrights Conference, where
Robert has been Artistic Director since</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 2002. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Egan says, “I first met James when he played Brick in <i>Cat On
a Hot Tin Roof</i> for the legendary Jose Quintero in 1983. I knew I was in the
presence of a rare acting talent -- truthful, raw, powerful and magnetically
real. Cut to 35 years later and James gives me an equally passionate and
poignant theatrical account of his son’s courageous journey surviving a brain
tumor. We live in an extraordinary time where our country is facing historic
battles with health issues. This deeply personal work immerses us into a new
way of learning, listening and advocating for our loved ones battling to live
with love and connection.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Audiences will recognize
James Morrison from <i>24, Law and Order SVU, The West Wing, Six Feet Under,
Twin Peaks: The Return</i> and other series and movies. “It’s more than just a
story about a boy who had brain cancer,” he says. “It’s about each of us walking
into unknown, frightening places, realizing our untapped strengths and powers,
and learning how to bring courage to life, even when the lesson is being taught
by your child. Theatre is my medium, it’s where I started as an actor 50 years
ago, and along with being Seamus’s father, I’ve always felt it was what I was
put here to do, so it only seems natural to bring my story to the stage. If
making our journey public allows one person to feel hope or gratitude as they
navigate, battle and conquer their fears, I’ve succeeded beyond measure.”</span></p>

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ten times only, from June 30-July 10, Thurs.-Sun., 7:30pm and 3pm, in the
Liebowitz Black Box Theater, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Rd, Great
Barrington, MA 01230. Advance tickets are encouraged and can be made on
the </span><a href="https://www.greatbarringtonpublictheater.org/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Great Barrington Public Theater website</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p>

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<img src="cid:ii_l4envma11" alt="image.png" width="239" height="285" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p class="gmail-MsoCaption" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:9pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-style:italic"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:9pt">Actor James Morrison/credit Zaugh photography</span><br></p><p class="gmail-MsoCaption" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:9pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">James Morrison has
played hundreds of roles on stage, film and television in the last 45</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">years, most notably on <i>24</i>
as Bill Buchanan and <i>Twin Peaks: The Return</i>. For his work onstage he
received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and appeared at the Mark
Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre, the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, London’s
Donmar Warehouse and Riverside Studios, and the Alaska Repertory Theatre (in
his hometown of Anchorage) where he served his apprenticeship. As a filmmaker,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">James
co-produced/directed the documentary, <i>Showing Up: A Conversation About the
Audition</i> with his wife, Riad Galayini.<i></i></span></p>

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<img src="cid:ii_l4enwutr2" alt="image.png" width="264" height="330" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p class="gmail-MsoCaption" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:9pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-style:italic"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:9pt">Director Robert Egan/credit GBPT</span><br></p><p class="gmail-MsoCaption" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:9pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-style:normal"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Robert Egan is an
award-winning producer and director who has served as the Artistic
Director/Producer of the Ojai Playwrights Conference since 2002. Prior to OPC,
Robert served for 20 years as the Producing Artistic Director at the Mark Taper
Forum where he was Director of New Play Development and the Founder and
Producing Artistic Director of its prestigious New Work Festival. He was also
the Associate Artistic Director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre where he
created their new play development program. Robert has produced, directed, and
dramaturged hundreds of new plays in the United States and Europe.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Robert is also the
Founder and President of RHEgan Productions, LLC where he conceives, writes,
produces and directs major live events and media projects for non-profits
including Cure Autism Now, Operation Smile, L.A,, Team Mentoring, Global Green
USA Homeboy Industries, Center Theatre Group and UCLA.</span></p>

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Barrington Public Theater</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">was founded by
Artistic Director Jim Frangione and Executive Director Deann Simmons Halper to
create opportunities for theater artists in the Berkshires and neighboring
regions. Great Barrington Public Theater recognizes the many excellent
playwrights, actors, directors, designers, administrators and technicians
living in the Berkshires and surrounding areas. Our objective is to bring a mix
of new and contemporary plays to the stage in a variety of formats; to generate
and foster creative and rigorous opportunity for local theater artists, while
engaging our theatergoing public with new and contemporary readings, workshops,
and fully staged productions, involving local talent as often as possible, and
always keeping ticket prices affordable.</span></p></div>