Theater
The Tempest
World Premiere
Produced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street Productions
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Mendes
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.
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)
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