[Capdist-announce] Saratoga Shakespeare is Conjuring its Season of Magic!

[David Girard]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...*

*Date: *6.30.17

*for further information,
contact:                                                                    *

Barbara Opitz, Executive Director
518.428.2703 <(518)%20428-2703> or 518.587.2166 <(518)%20587-2166>
bopitz at skidmore.edu

David Girard, Associate Artistic Director
518.528.1677 <(518)%20528-1677>
david at davidmgirard.com

SARATOGA SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ANNOUNCES ITS CAST FOR THEIR 2017 SEASON OF
MAGIC

*Free Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale Run
July 18th through August 5th*

*SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, March 13, 2017 –* The Saratoga Shakespeare Company
is pleased to announce its professional cast for their 2017 Season of
Magic. Local stalwarts Brenny Rabine (Hermione, *TWT*) and John Romeo
(Quince, *MSND*) lead the way. We’re also excited to announce that SSC
veterans Tim Dugan (Bottom, *MSND*), Hilary Parker (Paulina, *TWT*), and
Wesley Broulik *TWT*) will also be returning to play with us in the park
this summer. Making their debut with SSC are two young local professionals,
Shayne David Cameris (The Clown, *TWT*) and Lucy Miller (Helena, *MSND*).
We’re also pleased to welcome several professionals with several national
and international credits to their name: Philadelphia actor, Paul Kuhn
(Leontes, *TWT*) and NYC Actors, Matt Lytle (Theseus/Oberon, *MSND*),
Shayna Schmidt (Hermia, *MSND*), Brian Ott (Lysander, MSND & Florizel, *TWT*)
and Gwynedd Vetter-Drusch (Titania/Hippolyta, MSND & Perdita, *TWT*). For
more information on our 2017 Company, visit https://www.saratogashak
espeare.com/2017-company/.


The Saratoga Shakespeare Company will celebrate the romance and magic of
both summer and winter with two of Shakespeare’s most exciting works this
summer. *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* opens on Tuesday, July 18th and runs
through Saturday, July 29th. *The Winter’s Tale* opens on Tuesday, August 1
st and runs through Saturday, August 5th. All performances will be in
Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, on the Alfred Z. Solomon Stage, at 6 pm.
Admission is always free of charge, and Congress Park is entirely
accessible. Both young and old, as well as family groups, are strongly
encouraged to attend – with or without picnics – for what has become a
beloved summer tradition in Saratoga. As Saratoga’s longest running
professional theatre company, our two main-stage productions will feature
several members of Actors’ Equity Association, the stage actors’
professional union. In addition, a talented group of other non-union
professional actors and members of our Young Theatre Professional Company
will round out our casts.


In addition to appearing in *The Winter’s Tale*, SSC veteran Wesley Broulik
will also be helming *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*. Saratoga Shakespeare
audiences will remember his recent performances with the Company as the
hilarious Don Armado in *Love’s Labour’s Lost*and as the witty and verbally
facile Cyrano de Bergerac in last season’s *Cyrano*. Broulik has extensive
national directing credits and currently teaches at the Johnny Carson
School of Theatre & Film at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. *A
Midsummer Night’s Dream* is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and popular
comedies, featuring appealing young lovers, magical sprites and fairies,
and hysterically funny rustics. All encounter one another in an enchanted
and fantastical world one summer night when everything is upended. Here, “*the
course of true love never did run smooth*.”



Last season the Company presented two productions in Congress Park for the
first time and our audience responded with record attendance. This year’s
second production is Shakespeare’s *The Winter’s Tale*. We’re excited to
welcome director Liz Carlson-Guerin. Liz is a director and dramaturge who
specializes in New Play Development, Classic Theatre for Contemporary
Audiences, Physical & Devised Theatre and Community Engagement. She served
for eight years as an associate director and company member for West
Philadelphia’s renowned Curio Theatre Company, and her 2016 Philadelphia
premiere of *The Birds* by Conor MacPherson for Curio was Barrymore
Recommended. One of the last plays written by Shakespeare, *The Winter’s
Tale* is a timeless and enchanting tale of love, loss, jealousy and
redemption. A masterful blend of tragedy and comedy with a most surprising
ending, the play features the theatre’s most intriguing stage
direction – “*Exit,
pursued by bear*.”



Since 2000, our productions have become a beloved Saratoga tradition, and
many regional children have grown up watching Saratoga Shakespeare every
summer. The Company has always taken great pride in presenting
Shakespeare’s work with great clarity and continues to develop a visually
arresting and audience immersive aesthetic. This year will be no different.



Additionally, the Saratoga Shakespeare Young Theatre Professional Company
will offer our Community Outreach production of *Twelfth Night*, directed
by company member Doug Seldin. Seldin serves as Assistant Director of
Education and Training for the company. Performances will take place during
the first week of August in multiple locations, including Congress Park and
Skidmore College’s Suzanne Corbet Thomas Amphitheater. These college-aged
aspiring theatre artists will train extensively and will also perform
alongside our professional actors in *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*.



The Saratoga Shakespeare Company is grateful to Skidmore College for their
generosity, as well as continued support from Skidmore’s Office of Special
Programs and the Department of Theater. The Company is thrilled to be the
recipient of a Community Arts Grant from Saratoga Arts as well as an Alfred
Z Solomon Grant.



The Company certainly hopes that someone can be made available to review
both productions early in their runs. We have been extremely grateful for
your past coverage of our productions, as well as your overall commitment
to solid arts coverage. Thank you for your coverage and support over the
years. For further information, visit www.saratogashakespeare.com or
Saratoga Shakespeare’s Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/SaratogaShakespeare,
or you can contact our Executive Director, Barbara Opitz, at 518-587-2166
<(518)%20587-2166>(bopitz at skidmore.edu) or our Associate Artistic Director
of PR and Audience Engagement, David Girard, at 518-528-1677
<(518)%20528-1677>(david at davidmgirard.com).


https://www.saratogashakespeare.com/2017-company/
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