Influences: Ellen Geer

Courage and perseverance run in the family for the artistic director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Ellen Geer has served as artistic director for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum since 1978, the year her father, who founded the company, died. Though known to most of the country as Grandpa Walton on the 1971-81 television series "The Waltons," Geer Sr. was a much more complicated figure

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