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Award winning actress Karen Allen (Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Glass Menagerie) will introduce her directorial debut, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud., based on a Carson McCullers short story, written when the writer was just 25. 

This short film will precede Fred Zinnemann’s THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, based on McCullers’ novel. 

 Karen Allen is known for her work as an award-winning actor in over fifty feature films (including Animal House, A Small Circle of Friends, The Wanderers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Until September, Starman, Scrooged, The Glass Menagerie, Malcolm X, The Perfect Storm, King of the Hill, The Sandlot, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, White Irish Drinkers, Bad Hurt and A Year By The Sea). In the theatre she has worked  On and Off Broadway (A Summer Day, Speaking in Tongues, The Monday After the Miracle, Extremities, The Country Girl, The Glass Menagerie) and numerous television films and shows. Karen began directing in the theatre ten years ago at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival (Moonchildren, Extremities, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair du Lune) and in NYC with the Obie winning production of Lucy Thurber’s Ashville. A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. by Carson McCullers, is her debut as a film director. She is a lifetime member of the Actor’s Studio and is on the board of the Berkshire International Film Festival and the Amazon Conservation Team.

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