George P. Tuttle, Producer

From the Cape Cod Times

Cape Cod Community College theater and communications professor can be described by Shakespeare’s, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

Only in Tuttle’s case, forget the “merely.”

Friend and colleague Lore Loftfield Bower said there was nothing “merely” about Tuttle, who died Monday at his home in St. John, in the Virgin Islands at the age of 68.

He was larger than life.

“There was no gesture too theatrical for George,” said Loftfield Bower, chairwoman of the college’s language and literature department.

“George was very aware of constantly creating who he was,” she said.

A Shakespearean scholar and a professor at the college from 1970 to 1996, Tuttle certainly didn’t fit the profile of most academics. He lived on a 4.5 acre estate on Lake Wequaquet, where he was known to land his sea plane…

He attended the Eaglebrook School, Deerfield Academy, Middlebury College, Yale Universit Tufts University. He served as professor of theater at Dartmouth College and was a producer and a director at WGBH.

On the Cape, he worked as the director of the summer arts program at the Cape Playhouse School Theater, and was one of the original organizers of the Pops by the Sea summer concert. He directed the Janus Players at Cape Cod Community College.

From Christine Tuttle

My late father-in-law, Dr. George P. Tuttle, produced many WGBH productions in the late 1960’s-1970’s after his tenure as Professor of Theatre and director at Dartmouth College. Paul Binder was the floor manager (and former Dartmouth student!) of George’s for a show about History filmed in the basement of the Museum of Science. Not sure the name of that show and would love to know.

My own connection to WGBH was that I was on the 2013-2014 season of “This Old House” working alongside Tom Silva, Deb Hood, Kevin O’Connor et al.