SHARON WYRRICK, director/producer of PLACE OF STONES has created works in theater, performance, dance, installation, film and opera. She is also a longtime local food advocate and vegetable gardener. PLACE OF STONES joins her interests in food, agriculture, the environment, people’s stories and community. She organized The Cultivating Heritage Project in the Northern Berkshires focusing on the future of agricultural biodiversity with forums, workshops about seed saving and school gardens, and a Slow Food on Film Festival in 2006. Her play, 900 Dreams, inspired by the story of the fate of Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov and the seed bank housing a collection of the world’s food crops during the siege of Leningrad, appeared in a staged reading at the Berkshire Fringe Festival, among other venues. Other recent projects include the video and sound work for Bitten by Butterflies, an installation created in collaboration with visual artist Jane Ingram Allen, while in residence at The Massachusetts Audubon Visual Art Center in Canton, MA and St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2008, and directing the video documentation for The Rappahannock Story Project.
