Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations.

The newest addition to his repertoire is a one-man show “Sailing Towards My Father” by Carl A. Rossi. Stephen performed the show on August 1st at Arrowhead, Pittsfield MA, where Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick.  See letter from Peter Bergstrom, Director of Arrowhead.

Prior to Melville performance, Stephen performed as James McNeil Whistler in another play by Carl A. Rossi, entitled, “Butterfly”.

He also works as a professionally licensed tour guide doing narrated historical tours of Boston. His Whitman performances have taken him all over the country. He now has eight one-man shows and seven courses where his teaching style has been described as a hybrid between lecture and performance.

Haunted Fables from the Gables

Tuesday, October 21

7:00 PM

Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Tpke

$15 Members | $20 Non-Members

Join Salem’s master storyteller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, for a frightful evening of thrills and chills in the gloomy shadow of his Concord haunts! The famous author performs his most frightening tales, as well as the terrifying works of fellow writer, Edgar Allan Poe. Stories include The House of the Seven Gables, The Cask of Amontillado, Annabel Lee, Young Goodman Brown, The Raven, and more. Experience the greatest Gothic horror stories ever written, brought to life by one of the authors himself! Appropriate for families with brave children 10 and up.

Co-sponsored by the Concord Museum, House of Seven Gables, and Old Manse. Hosted at the Concord Museum.

We are grateful for our last-minute stand-in Stephen Collins for playing the role of Nathaniel Hawthorne due to unforeseen circumstances from our original performer. Stephen will be giving a dramatic reading of the script. We are so grateful that he is making it possible for the show to go on!