What is a Tuckaberry?
Tuckaberries are a rare fruit from the Tuckaberry bush,
found growing only in the kingdom of Brookhattan in the realm of Amsteryork.
Tuckaberries are small and round, tasty and sweet, nutritious and delicious.
No, really.
Oh, all right. A Tuckaberry is a production company founded by Dianna Tucker and Adam Baritot, two artistic visionaries with the humble dream of changing the world through theatre. Read on:
Adam Baritot and Dianna Tucker are a pair of actors-turned writers harkening from Upstate New York and Southeastern Connecticut, respectively. They met on the snowy slopes of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York where Adam was studying vocal performance and Dianna was studying French Education. After four years of courtship, the two married and moved to Brooklyn to pursue their dreams of acting in the Big Apple. Which they did. Meanwhile, Adam was also performing massage and brushing up his skills on piano and bass guitar. Dianna was serving coffee while writing children’s stories and song lyrics. The two were reminiscing with some old friends about their halcyon days of performing children’s theatre when one friend said, “Heck, with your combined talents, you could start your own company.” They all had a good laugh about this, and then realized that it was funny because it was true. So Dianna wrote a script and Adam added some music. Polly Princess and Peter Pauper were born. Polly Princess and the Penniless Fry Cook was a theatrical experiment gone unexpectedly right, and spent several weeks in Fall of 2006 on tour with Jenny Wiley Theatre, Kentucky. Tuckaberry has since grown from a tiny troupe of friends to a growing crew of regular volunteers and part-time employees. 2008's Aesop's Foibles by resident playwright Aaron Michael Zook marked Tuckaberry's first school tour, and the Tuckaberry team is eagerly gearing up for its 5th ('08-'09) season as both a resident of Brooklyn and a touring company.