For Immediate Release
January 1, 2010

Elections for the 2010 Board of Directors for Vpstart Crow has been approved. Please welcome the following individuals into their new roles.

President - Sue Riley
Vice President - Cory Eskridge Okouchi
Secretary - Christine Geene
Treasurer - Nita Eakin
Past President - Joan Bull

Members at Large
Jean Flannery
Jean Gentry
Bob Smith

Vpstart Crow would like to give special thanks to everyone who has worked so hard in 2009 to continue to make live classical theatre accessible to the community. We appreciate your hard work and sacrifice.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.