Mark Rylance Performs OFF THE GRID IN MANHATTAN 11/8

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today that Tony® Award Winner Mark Rylance will perform a special benefit show, "OFF THE GRID IN MANHATTAN," on Monday, November 8th, 2010 at 7:00pm. The evening will include spontaneous improve theater with Mark Rylance and friends in full support of the Stella Adler Studio.

Mr. Rylance is currently starring in Broadway's critically acclaimed "La Bête," along with David Hyde Pierce. In 2008, Mr. Rylance won a Tony® Award for his leading role in "Boeing Boeing."

"Mark Rylance represents the kind of artist that we strive to cultivate at the studio," says Tom Oppenheim, Artistic Director of the Stella Adler Studio. "His performance will help raise critical funds for the Outreach Division and we are proud to have him here as a living example of our philosophy that growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous."

The event will be held at The Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street New York NY, 10014. Tickets are $250 for VIP seats, $100 for general admission. To purchase tickets go to: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=NAV0&BundleCode=&GUID=

About Mark Rylance
Mark trained at RADA under Hugh Cruttwell and The Glasgow Citizens Theatre gave him his first job in 1980, a year in repertoire, a trip to the carnival in Venice with Goldoni, and an equity card. His subsequent and ongoing vocal training has been with Barbara Bridgemont and Stewart Pearce.Theatre includes: Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem directed by Ian Rickson (Royal Court and West End); Hamm in Endgame directed by Simon McBurney (Complicite and West End); Robert In Boeing-Boeing directed by Matthew Warchus (West End and Broadway); Peer Gynt directed by Tim Carroll (Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis). In 2007, he wrote his first play, I Am Shakespeare, which premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Matthew Warchus. He has worked for the RSC, RNT, the Bush, The Tricycle, Shared Experience, TFANA (New York), and for his own companies The London Theatre of Imagination and Phoebus Cart. He was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (1996-2006) and during his career has acted in 48 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Film and television work includes: The Government Inspector; The Grass Arena; Intimacy; Angels and Insects and Institute Benjamenta by the Brothers Quay. Mark is an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple Hall, chairman of The Shakespearean Authorship Trust, an ambassador for Survival International, and a patron of Peace Direct, working for non-violent resolution of conflict.

About The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Established in 1949 by Stella Adler, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting was founded upon Adler's belief in the supreme seriousness of her art, and has, for the last five decades, enriched every part of the American theater and film arts. Adler's philosophies kept many well-known members of the theater coming back for her intelligent and passionate advice and the school has since trained many of the brilliant actors of our time, including Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Elaine Stritch, Benicio del Toro and Salma Hayek. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is a nonprofit organization, which currently trains over 500 actors each year and also presents world class lectures, poetry readings, jazz, classical music, theater, and dance theater events.

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