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In 1939, the theatre first presented the Barter Theatre Award "for the outstanding performance by an American player." [27] The initial recipient was Laurette Taylor, and the 1940 award went to Dorothy Stickney. Each winner received an acre of mountain land near Abingdon and a Virginia ham and selected two actors to perform with the theatre. [27]
Robert Huffard Porterfield (December 21, 1905 – October 28, 1971) was an American actor and theatre director who was known for founding the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. The theatre was founded in 1933 [ 1 ] during the Great Depression.
A graduate of Syracuse University, Partington's initial focus was acting, appearing in leading roles throughout college and then in regional theater.Several seasons of leading roles at the Memphis Arena Theater and the Barter Theatre as well as regional tours followed and on December 15, 1954 he made his Broadway debut opposite the great actor/singer Dennis King in Lunatics and Lovers.
While in the U.S. Army, Birney won an All Army Entertainment contest and received the "Barter Theatre Award" in 1965. Since the award was an equity contract with the Company for an entire season, he consequently spent the next season with the Barter Theatre, the State Theatre of Virginia, starring or appearing [1] in fifteen shows, directing two others.
Barter Theatre is not just a theater; it's their theater. “Really being a part of your community in that way is vital to the future of regional theater.” It's not all grim across regional theater.
During his first ten years of theater, he worked at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, the State Theatre of Virginia. Returning to Kentucky, Beatty worked in the Louisville area through the mid-1960s, at the Clarksville Little Theater ( Indiana ) and the newly founded Actors Theater of Louisville .
Moving to the United States in 1940, he studied acting and stagecraft at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. [2] As Géza Korvin, he made his Broadway stage debut in 1943, playing a Russian nobleman in the play, Dark Eyes. [3] After signing a movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin. [citation ...
In June 1946 he starts appearing as "John Vivyan" among the cast of the Barter Theatre group's junior company, at the "Barter Colony" near Abingdon, Virginia. [14] The circumstances of his stage name's adoption are not known, and from later sources it is apparent he retained "John R. Vukayan" as his legal name until at least 1960.