Piper Perabo Joins Cast of Bay Street & Hamptons Shakespeare Festival's TWELFTH NIGHT

The Bay Street Shakespeare Initiative and Hamptons Shakespeare Festival are proud to announce that Piper Perabo will star as Viola in their upcoming co-production of outdoor staged readings of TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL by William Shakespeare on August 14 and 15 at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, NY. The two readings are free to the public and will start at 7 pm. A VIP Benefit performance will take place on August 16 at a private, oceanfront estate. Contact Kim Fink, Bay Street's Director of Development, at 631-725-0818 Ext. 112 for tickets to the VIP Benefit. Sponsored also in part by Mashashimuet Park.

TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL is Shakespeare's hilarious romantic comedy, filled with unrequited love, disguise, and cross dressing. The readings will be presented without intermission and will run under two hours. They will feature direction by Bay Street's Artistic Director, Scott Schwartz, and original music and sound design by Hamptons Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director, David M. Brandenburg.

Golden Globe nominated Piper Perabo recently wrapped up a five season run on the hit series Covert Affairs, USA Network's spy drama. Covert Affairs was produced by The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman and is an action packed show filled with drama and sex appeal.

Piper Perabo is one of the most talented and versatile actresses working today. In May 2009, she made her stage debut in Neil Labute's controversial play Reasons to be Pretty directed by Terry Kinney. She co-stared alongside Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber.

In 2007, she was seen in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, in Because I Said So with Diane Keaton and Lauren Graham and First Snow, a film directed by Mark Fergus, costarring Guy Pearce and Adam Scott.

Next, Perabo was seen in John Glenn's disturbing thriller The Heaven Project with Paul Walker and Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua alongside Jaime Lee Curtis. Perabo was also seen in Paramount Vantage's Carriers in New Mexico. She played the female lead opposite Chris Pine and Lou Taylor Pucci in the post-apocalyptic thriller about four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic.

Some of her more recent films include Looper alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels, Adam Shankman's Cheaper by the Dozen 2 in which she reprised her role as the eldest daughter to Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, the romantic comedy Imagine Me & You with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode, and the crime drama 10th & Wolf with an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Her feature film debut was in the comedy White Boyz, written by Danny Hoch. She also starred in Coyote Ugly.

In addition to acting, Piper is committed to her charity work with the International Rescue Committee as an IRC Voice, making a commitment to do her part to speak up on behalf of some of the world's most vulnerable. The IRC Voices help raise awareness of the needs of refugees and people who have been displaced by conflict, religious persecution or political oppression around the world. Piper lives in New York City.

In addition to Piper Perabo, Twelfth Night will also star Julia Motyka as Olivia, Josh Gladstone as Sir Toby Belch, and Kate Mueth as Maria. Further casting to be announced soon.