KENT THOMPSON.(Alabama Shakespeare Festival )

Kent Thompson has been artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival since 1989. He was president of the TCG board from 1998 through June of 2001.

ON THE SPIRITUALITY OF THEATRE I was born in Jackson, Miss. I grew up mostly in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Rich mond, Va., so Pm very much a Southern boy My father was a Southern Baptist preacher That's really where I probably had my first exposure to theatre--in church. My father was a really good preacher. He was not the hellfire and brimstone type--he was a storyteller. That's what he was known for.

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