Ann J. Kingsbury Resch ’53

Ann J. Kingsbury Resch ’53, of Bennington, Vt.; Jul. 16, from complications of a stroke. After Brown and while in London for three years, she earned a licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She followed with a career in theater and for four years was the assistant to Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival. She was also an assistant stage manager and business manager of Group 20 Players in Wellesley, Mass., and worked at other regional theaters, including the Antioch Shakespeare Festival and the Brattle Theater. For 10 years she lived in Manhattan, where besides her association with Joseph Papp, she worked as a play reader for Lynn Austin and Roger Stevens. In 1966 she got married, started a family, and left Manhattan. She eventually taught voice at the Emma Willard School in Troy (N.Y.), and at Bennington College, where she later served as coordinator of the dance-drama division. She helped to organize the Vermont Symphony’s youth concerts in Bennington and was active with the Beyond War movement of the 1980s. Many of her reviews of regional drama productions were published locally. She enjoyed swimming and had a fondness for cats. She is survived by her husband, Tyler; two daughters; a son-in-law; a sister; and several nieces and nephews.