THE LETTERS

OF LIZZIE PARK & JOHN G. MCCULLOUGH

Read By Allen McCullough & Randolyn Zinn

THE LETTERS OF LIZZIE PARK AND JOHN MCCULLOUGH is an unusual and heartwarming testament to the power of love. After having met only once (when John reports he was ‘conquered’ by Lizzie), the two corresponded across the country for a full year in 1870. This 45-minute performance offers an edited version of the many handwritten dispatches that follows this extraordinary courtship conducted almost entirely by the written word. Read by two McCullough family members who happen to be actors Allen McCullough and Randolyn Zinn also happen to be married.

Lizzie, age 20, a serious-minded young woman, was not at all interested at first in writing or receiving ‘love letters’. She lived in her parents’ home in North Bennington while John, somewhat older than she, penned his polite yet ardent lines from San Francisco where he worked as a lawyer in Lizzie’s father Trenor’s firm. 

This 45-minute performance offers an edited version of the many handwritten dispatches that follows this extraordinary courtship conducted almost entirely by the written word. Read by two McCullough family members who happen to be actors Allen McCullough and Randolyn Zinn also happen to be married.

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Allen McCullough is a professional actor who's work has been seen in film and TV,  off Broadway and in many of the countries top regional theaters. A native of N.Bennington, he is a co- founder of Living Room Theatre and is married to Randolyn Zinn.

RANDOLYN ZINN is a director, writer and performer whose work has been seen on Broadway, with the New York Philharmonic, at New York City Opera, in film, and at major regional theatres across America. She has taught at Juilliard, Circle in the Square and Pace University and is the Co-Artistic Director of Living Room Theatre where her new play LUCY’S WEDDING premiered last summer and was nominated Outstanding New Play of 2019 by the Berkshire Critics Association. She edited the Love Letters and is married to Allen McCullough.

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