The Tempest

Part of the 2010 Spring Season and The Bridge Project

Feb 14—Mar 13

World Premiere

Produced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street Productions

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Mendes

"Five Stars"—Time Out New York on The Bridge Project, 2009

“…one of the foremost theatre directors in the world...”
—The Telegraph (UK) on Sam Mendes

“…profound and luminous…”
—The Straits Times (Singapore) on The Bridge Project, 2009

Last spring, The Bridge Project launched its inaugural season at BAM with an outstanding ensemble of American and British actors in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard. Following its successful debut in New York, the critically-acclaimed company, led by Tony and Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (Broadway’s Cabaret}, and the films American Beauty and Revolutionary Road), embarked on a world tour, delighting audiences in cities including Singapore, Madrid, Auckland, Athens, and London.

Year two of The Bridge Project promises another stellar transatlantic lineup and an intriguing pairing of two Shakespeare plays as Mendes and company explore outcasts, power, and magical lands with their world premiering productions of the comedy As You Like It and The Tempest, considered to be Shakespeare’s last play.

Featured actors include:
Michelle Beck (Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Twelfth Night, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Cyrano de Bergerac
Christian Camargo (Broadway’s All My Sons, the film The Hurt Locker)
Tony Award-winner Stephen Dillane, (Broadway’s The Real Thing, HBO’s John Adams)
Obie Award-winner Alvin Epstein (Broadway's The Three Penny Opera; BAM's Endgame)
Obie Award-winner Ron Cephas Jones (Broadway’s Gem of the Ocean, Donmar’s Jesus Hopped the A-Train)
Juliet Rylance (Theatre for a New Audience’s Othello, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale)
Thomas Sadoski (Broadway’s reasons to be pretty and Reckless)

BAM Harvey Theater
Approx 150min with intermission

Subscription tickets:
$28, 52, 68, 76
$20, 44, 60, 68 (Feb 16—25, Tue—Thu only)

Full price:
$35, 65, 85, 95
$25, 55, 75, 85 (Feb 16—25, Tue—Thu only)

*Feb 14, 16—21, 23—28 at 7:30pm
Feb 28 at 2pm
Mar 6, 7, 9—13 at 7:30pm


The complete acting company is as follows: Ashlie Atkinson (Juno), Jenni Barber (Iris), Michelle Beck (Ceres), Edward Bennett (Ferdinand)*, Christian Camargo (Ariel), Stephen Dillane (Prospero)*, Alvin Epstein (Gonzalo), Jonathan Lincoln Fried (Alonso), Richard Hansell (Sebastian)*, Ron Cephas Jones (Caliban), Aaron Krohn (Adrian), Anthony O'Donnell (Trinculo)*, Juliet Rylance (Miranda)*, Thomas Sadoski (Stephano), Michael Thomas (Antonio)*, Ross Waiton (Francisco)*

*Indicates British member of company

Edward Bennett, Stephen Dillane, Richard Hansell, Anthony O'Donnell, Juliet Rylance, Michael Thomas, and Ross Waiton are appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association. Ashlie Atkinson, Jenni Barber, Michelle Beck, Christian Camargo, Alvin Epstein, Jonathan Fried, Ron Cephas Jones, Aaron Krohn, and Thomas Sadoski are appearing with the permission of UK Equity, in corporating Variety Artistes' Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its assistance of this production.


Set Design by Tom Piper
Costumes by Catherine Zuber
Lighting by Paul Pyant
Sound by Simon Baker
Composed by Mark Bennett
Hair & Wigs by Tom Watson
Casting by Nancy Piccione and Maggie Lunn
Choreography by Josh Prince

International Tour Producer: Claire Béjanin

Article: Vogue.com's “People Are Talking About: Ten Cultural Resolutions for 2010”
“… two plays that explore the sometimes thorny bond between fathers and daughters, As You Like It and The Tempest.”

Article: Time Out New York features The Bridge Project’s Stephen Dillane
"Stephen Dillane—consummate British actor and thinking person’s heartthrob…”

Article: The New York Times on Stephen Dillane
“The Week Ahead” highlights the industrious Dillane

Article: The New Yorker on The Bridge Project
As You Like It and The Tempest are featured in the magazine’s Winter Preview

Interview: Time Out New York talks to The Bridge Project’s Ron Cephas Jones
“Jones…earns that hackneyed critical plaudit, ‘riveting.’”

Article: The Village Voice features Sam Mendes in “Voice Choices”
“America and England join hands for Sam Mendes”