Gorilla Rep Presents JULIUS CAESAR In Ft. Tryon Park, Opens August 7th

Gorilla Rep will return to free Shakespeare in the park this August, with Julius Caesar, to be performed Fridays & Sundays, from August 7 -30, on the lawn below the New Leaf Café, Parking Area in Ft. Tryon Park. The production, which will be the full, uncut version, is directed by Stephen Fried & is presented to the public for FREE. There will be no intermission, but audiences will be able to leave & rejoin the performance in progress.

Featured in this AEA Showcase are Tim Scott, Greg Petroff*, Bruce Barton*, David Joseph Regelmann, Ross Degraw*, Len Rella*, Matthew Brown, John Reoli, Aren Chaisson, Brian Cade*, Michael Weaver, Kila Packett, Collin McConnell, Zachary Koval, Matt Swanston, Matthew Garner, Ashley Samona Baker & Sarah Mollo-Christensen.

Director Stephen Fried‘s recent productions include The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Doing Business by Diana Hird (Artistic New Directions), All's Well That Ends Well (The New School for Drama), Orphan Island by Sarah Treem (Sundance Theatre Lab), Henry IV, Part 1 (Milwaukee Shakespeare) & Love's Labour's Lost (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). As a creator & adaptor, his work includes Habeas Corpus: Meyerhold, the Final Chapter, which premiered at Moscow's Teatr.doc in 2002, Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat, which he created at the Hangar Theatre in 2004 & Haunted Prince: The Ghosts of Edwin Booth, which premiered at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery as part of the 2007 festival "Shakespeare in Washington." From 2005 - 2008, he served as the Resident Assistant Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Upcoming productions include Richard III at the New School for Drama. He is the recipient of the Drama League Summer Directing Fellowship, the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in Directing & holds a BA in Drama & History from Stanford University & an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.

Christopher Carter Sanderson (BFA New York University, MFA Yale School of Drama) founded New York's Gorilla Repertory Theater Company in 1992. The company's mission is to provide the highest quality productions of classical dramatic material with the flavor of contemporary immediacy for people where they are, free of charge. The unique aesthetic that he created for the company's work is the subject of his book, Gorilla Theatre (Routledge 2003). The company has produced 70+ productions in its 18 years, most directed by Mr. Sanderson. As a developmental dramaturg, Mr. Sanderson's work has brought him into collaboration with playwrights such as John Guare, Sarah Treem, Robert Steven Ackerman, Matt Freeman, Leah Ryan & many others. Mr. Sanderson is the Resident Theatrical Director for Houston's Opera in the Heights 2009 - 2010 Season. His academic posts include adjunct stints at Princeton & Yale & numerous guest lectures all over the world including Kuwait & Dubai. He will be on the faculty of TITAN International Theater School in Oslo, Norway for Spring Semester of 2009-2010.

"Christopher Carter Sanderson brings a unique, experienced and firsthand perspective, wrapped in a sweeping, romanticized philosophy and what is clearly a genuine love for theatre." - Mark Valdez, THEATRE Magazine

"The complicity between actors & audience is as genial & unforced as theater allows." - Ben Brantley, New York Times

DATES & TIMES: Fri & Sun @ 8pm ~ Aug 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 & 30

LOCATION: Lawn below the New Leaf Café, Parking Area ~ Ft. Tryon Park

ADMISSION IS FREE!!!

For more information call (212)252-5258 or visit www.gorillarep.org.

Bruce Barton & Tim Scott (featured in photo.)