Actors’ Shakespeare Project Announces Fifth Anniversary Season

CAMBRIDGE, MA--Actors’ Shakespeare Project is pleased to announce its upcoming, fifth-anniversary, 2008-09 season. In consultation with the resident company, Artistic Director Benjamin Evett has selected four dynamic plays linked by their thematic exploration of the role of the outsider and “how such a person disrupts, inspires, and creates, danger, destruction, and rebirth.” For the first time, ASP will stage a play by one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries: John Webster’s Jacobean revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. Locations and further details will be announced soon.

The 2008-09 Season:
The Merchant of Venice
November 3 – December 7
Directed by Melia Bensussen

The Duchess of Malfi
January 15 – February 8
Directed by David R. Gammons

Coriolanus
March 19 – April 12
Directed by Robert Walsh

Much Ado About Nothing
May 14 – June 7
Director to be announced

About the Company:
The Actors' Shakespeare Project (www.actorsshakespeareproject.org) was founded in 2004 by Benjamin Evett and 13 actor-colleagues with the intention of creating a resident acting company in Boston that would produce Shakespeare in intimate productions that celebrate the relationships between actors, audience and text. The first full-scale production was Richard III, performed at the Old South Meeting House in October of 2004. Since then we have produced 14 plays in venues all over Boston and Cambridge. In 2006, Ed Siegel of the Boston Globe wrote, “This is Shakespeare the way it's supposed to be performed. The troupe plays to the crowd hilariously, speaks Elizabethan verse beautifully, and posits a smart interpretation of the play. Actors' Shakespeare Project has to be listed as a local treasure.” Jeremy McCarter of New York Magazine called ASP’s King Lear “A triumph of Classical Acting.” The company is led by Artistic Director Benjamin Evett and Executive Producer Sara Stackhouse. The resident acting ensemble members are: Allyn Burrows, Ken Cheeseman, Benjamin Evett, Jennie Israel, John Kuntz, Paula Langton, Doug Lockwood, Marya Lowry, Sarah Newhouse, Paula Plum, Richard Snee, Bobbie Steinbach, Michael Forden Walker, and Robert Walsh.

Actors' Shakespeare Project
PO Box 400986
Cambridge, MA 02140
617.547.1911
617.547.1986 fax
www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

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