Young Brooklynites Party to Build Theatre for a New Audience's Home At BAM 7/22

Brooklyn's Dreamers, a group of young professionals who host parties to raise awareness and funds for Theatre for a New Audience's new Hugh Hardy-designed home in the BAM Cultural District, will host its fourth Annual Summer Bash, a fundraising cocktail party, Thursday, July 22, at 6:00pm (to 9:00pm) at Deity Supper Club, 368 Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn. Dreamers will be joined by Theatre for a New Audience artists for the event, which includes Salsa dancing and instruction from 9:00pm in the lower level club, and a raffle.

Tickets are $25 Basic (in advance), $40 "Because You Can" and $35 (at the door). Tickets include one free drink, as well as drink specials and snacks. Tickets can be purchase at www.tfana.org/events or 212-229-2819, ext 25.

Who are Brooklyn's Dreamers: Dreamers, Theatre for a New Audience's young ambassadors, are engaged in their community, care about Brooklyn's dynamic cultural landscape, like to make things happen and would like to meet others who are interested in the same thing!

Members of the committee include Melissa Connerton, CooperKatz & Co. Public Relations; Janine Guido, corporate attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Carmen Pelaez, award-winning actor/playwright; Damian Santucci, Times Square Alliance; and Anna Schwartz, attorney, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Brooklyn's Dreamers host parties, performances, and arts events, connecting Theatre for a New Audience to its new neighbors - the vibrant, diverse community of Downtown Brooklyn. Proceeds from these events directly benefit the building of Theatre for a New Audience's first home. Anyone can become a Dreamer at www.tfana.org/brooklynsdreamers.

Theatre for a New Audience's New Home: Celebrated theatre architect Hugh Hardy is designing the 27,500 square-foot "green" home with a dramatic four-story glass curtain front façade saying "welcome" to the people of Brooklyn. The new theatre, inspired by the Cottesloe Theatre of London's Royal National Theatre, will be on Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street. The theatre includes a 299-seat contemporary Elizabethan courtyard Mainstage with a trapped floor, fully-flexible stage, and seating for multiple configurations; a 50-seat performance/rehearsal Studio; and theatrical support spaces. The City of New York-commissioned Arts Plaza designed by landscape architect Ken Smith will wrap around the front of the building, creating a natural gathering place. Groundbreaking is planned for late 2010/early 2011.

Theatre for a New Audience is the only American theatre to be invited twice to bring its productions of Shakespeare to Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz, the Theatre has grown from a touring Shakespeare company to a nationally and internationally recognized classical theatre and has a reputation for adventurous productions, service to artists, and in-depth education programs. Its mission is to vitalize and develop the performance and study of Shakespeare and classic drama. Its seasons present Shakespeare alongside other classics and major contemporary plays, cross-pollinating great works of the past with what is most compelling in theatre now. It is committed to ongoing training of artists. Its productions play for a diverse audience-from connoisseurs of varied repertory to kids seeing groundbreaking productions for the first time. Theatre for a New Audience created and runs the largest arts-in-education programs to introduce Shakespeare in NYC Public Schools to students in the fifth through twelfth grades. It has served 120,000 students to date and serves more students in Brooklyn than in any other borough.