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actors and writers and staging new
works and theatrical classics since
1991, mainly in a 1,420 square-foot
two-room space, a third of which serves
as Clopton's office and backstage for
the intimate black-box theatre. "It's
backstage, it's the office, it's wardrobe…
it's everything including the kitchen
sink, which comes in handy sometimes,"
Clopton says with a laugh.
With 50 seats snuggled together on
the other side of his office wall, audiences
get a very different experience than they
would at the nearby Firehouse Center
for the Arts, and that's a good thing, says
Jeanette Isabella, chair of the board for
TASN. "I love that experience of being
right there with the actors," she says. "It's
intimate. When someone in the audience
gasps, you hear it."
Having both venues in town offers a
cultural richness not often available in a
city the size of Newburyport, and Isabella
Act One
Marc Clopton is
a playwright and
director of The
Actors Studio in
Newburyport.
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