Theatre for a New Audience

Theatre for a New Audience (NYC))

Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz, the mission of Theatre for a New Audience is to help develop and vitalize the performance and study of Shakespeare and classic drama. Theatre for a New Audience produces for Off-Broadway and has toured nationally and internationally.The Theatre nurtures relationships with some of the finest American and European directors, actors, designers and composers including Julie Taymor (Tony Award-winning director of The Lion King), Sir Peter Hall (founder, Royal Shakespeare Company), Mark Rylance (Artistic Director, London’s Globe), Robert Woodruff (Artistic Director, American Repertory Theatre), Karin Coonrod (Director) and Bartlett Sher (Artistic Director, Intiman Theatre).

The theatre has an ongoing collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cicely Berry, a master teacher and Director of Voice, RSC, leads the American Directors Project at TFANA, a mentoring program and is the first American theatre company invited to bring a production of Shakespeare to the Royal Shakespeare Company. In November 2001, the Theatre’s production of Cymbeline directed by Bartlett Sher premiered at the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon.