Based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, "The Belle of Amherst is a love affair with language, a celebration of all that is beautiful and poignant in life."   This deeply moving and surprisingly humorous one-person play shares with the audience the           "inner drama of a poet's consciousness and creative process in an intimate one-to -one relationship"  ....and the theater seems a thoroughly appropriate setting for Emily's life and art, enabling actress and audience to 'climb the Bars of Ecstasy' together.  As it turns out, "shy Miss Emily was writing for the theater as surely as she breathed!" (William Luce, playwright)

KATE RANDOLPH BURNS is an actress, director, acting coach and theatre producer.  She appeared in guest spots on 25+ television shows from LA Law to 7th Heaven to ER, performed on stage in more than 75 plays from Shakespeare to Neil Simon to musical comedy, directed over a dozen theatrical productions, ran her own theatre company, collected residuals for numerous television commercials, and recently directed her first film.  She coaches professional and aspiring actors at her own studio, THE RANDOLPH STUDIO FOR ACTORS in Hollywood.  She studied Acting with Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and most recently with Leonid Anisimov of the International Stanislavski Academy.  She is a member of SAG, AFTRA and ACTORS EQUITY.

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