露丝·博尔顿 (1928) Ruth Bolton
演员
Ruth Bolton was born in Oneonta, New York. She attended Oneonta High School where she enjoyed performing in school plays, and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she continued acting and earned a degree in painting.
From 1954 to 2006, she performed a wide range of roles in more than 70 theater productions with companies such as the Dramashop at MIT's Kresge Little Theater, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, summer theaters in Boston, Bar Harbor and Livermore Falls, Maine, Edgartown Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard, Brandeis University Forum Theatre, Provincetown Theater on the Wharf, the Whole Theater Co., in Montclair, New Jersey, and the Forum Theater in Worcester, Massachusetts. She often created costumes for the plays she was in, as well as set decorations and publicity posters. Her 2000 performance with the New England Theatre Company as the lead in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" took place at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts. Her final role was in a 2006 performance of "The Vagina Monologues" at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During the 1960s and 1970s she also created a series of puppet shows for which she made her own puppets. In 1980, she began taking writing classes and workshops, and through subsequent decades wrote poetry, stories and personal memoirs.
Throughout her consummately creative life, she battled severe depression instigated possibly by the trauma of her mother Dorothy's suicide in 1942, two days after Ruth's 14th birthday. Much of her writing and painting explored feelings of remembrance and grief about the loss of her mother. In 1990, Ruth produced a dramatic one-act play with Blackbird Labs in Worcester, Massachusetts, about her parents' courtship and marriage, called "The Farmer Took a Wife." She also performed in the 1997 production of her play at the Stageloft in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Ruth continued painting and drawing all her life, using acrylics, pastels and watercolors, to create still-lives, landscapes, and surreal dream-related imagery. She passed away on April 17, 2022, just weeks before her 94th birthday.
From 1954 to 2006, she performed a wide range of roles in more than 70 theater productions with companies such as the Dramashop at MIT's Kresge Little Theater, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, summer theaters in Boston, Bar Harbor and Livermore Falls, Maine, Edgartown Summer Theatre on Martha's Vineyard, Brandeis University Forum Theatre, Provincetown Theater on the Wharf, the Whole Theater Co., in Montclair, New Jersey, and the Forum Theater in Worcester, Massachusetts. She often created costumes for the plays she was in, as well as set decorations and publicity posters. Her 2000 performance with the New England Theatre Company as the lead in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" took place at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts. Her final role was in a 2006 performance of "The Vagina Monologues" at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts.
During the 1960s and 1970s she also created a series of puppet shows for which she made her own puppets. In 1980, she began taking writing classes and workshops, and through subsequent decades wrote poetry, stories and personal memoirs.
Throughout her consummately creative life, she battled severe depression instigated possibly by the trauma of her mother Dorothy's suicide in 1942, two days after Ruth's 14th birthday. Much of her writing and painting explored feelings of remembrance and grief about the loss of her mother. In 1990, Ruth produced a dramatic one-act play with Blackbird Labs in Worcester, Massachusetts, about her parents' courtship and marriage, called "The Farmer Took a Wife." She also performed in the 1997 production of her play at the Stageloft in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Ruth continued painting and drawing all her life, using acrylics, pastels and watercolors, to create still-lives, landscapes, and surreal dream-related imagery. She passed away on April 17, 2022, just weeks before her 94th birthday.
