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Bristol Riverside Theatre Founding Director Wins Award

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Tom Sofield

The Bristol Riverside Theatre’s Founding Director Susan Atkinson was recently presented with a Visit Bucks County award for her contribution to the local tourism scene.

County tourism officials said the theater has had a more than $30 million dollar impact on the local economy. The profession performance house start in the 1980s and now stages hundreds of shows a year.

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Atkinson has several prestigious theater awards under her belt and appeared thrilled to have been honored.

The 2013 recipients of the Visit Bucks County Awards with representatives from Visit Bucks County. (L-R: Susan Atkinson, Bristol Riverside Theatre; Joseph Maxian, Sand Castle Winery; Sharon Rossi, Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation; Ron Davis, Parx Casino; Jim Cawley, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Sandra Miller, Visit Bucks County Acting Board President and Jerry Lepping, Executive Director of Visit Bucks County) Credit: Visit Bucks County
The 2013 recipients of the Visit Bucks County Awards with representatives from Visit Bucks County. (L-R: Susan Atkinson, Bristol Riverside Theatre; Joseph Maxian, Sand Castle Winery; Sharon Rossi, Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation; Ron Davis, Parx Casino; Jim Cawley, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Sandra Miller, Visit Bucks County Acting Board President and Jerry Lepping, Executive Director of Visit Bucks County)
Credit: Visit Bucks County

Related: Local Tourism Means Big Bucks & Jobs

 

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.