Citizen Tom Paine – Trials of the Soul–15 July 2026
Meet Tom Paine, the one “Founding Father” denied access to the National Pantheon. The irascible and controversial English radical who championed the American Revolution reviews his eventful life as he awaits his supposed death during the French Revolution. The author of Common Sense and The American Crisis shows why he was the “stormy petrel of two revolutions” in Howard Burnham’s entertaining and informative dramatic characterization.
F. Howard Burnham is Monterey County’s default English actor. He has embodied and performed as over 60 historical figures from the U.K., starting with the English-born Thomas Payne, through Winston Churchill and Lewis Carroll, to…Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
