Former Birmingham Actress, Husband Reinvent Theater in COVID-19 World with Facebook Live’s Tiny Theatre

By Alec Harvey

Since graduating from Pleasant Grove High School and UAB, actress Rachel Burttram Powers has performed in theaters all over the country.

In Birmingham, it was the Alabama Theatre, Town and Gown Theatre, 13th Street Ensemble and City Equity Theatre, but there also have been plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York, and New York’s International Fringe Festival, among many others. Most recently, she and her husband, Brendan, have been part of the ensemble at the acclaimed Florida Repertory Theatre for several years.

But on March 21, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, they stepped into a closet in their Fort Myers, Florida, duplex and opened a different kind of theater – Tiny Theatre, featuring the duo reading plays, scenes and monologues via Facebook Live to an audience that numbers in the thousands.

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