Timeline
- Early Days
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2004 - The Guerrillas-to-be meet in the Graduate Acting program at Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company.
- 2005 - 12-hour days of class and rehearsal just aren't enough. A posting on the student bulletin board leads to an independent production of Julius Caesar. Rehearsals begin at 10pm and continue into the night.
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2006 - Well, that went well...
Two Gentlemen of Verona anyone?
And *ahem* This is our Youth?
And a new play festival?
It's college.
Everyone experiments. -
2007 - Our first organizational outline is completed.
On a bar napkin.
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As a fond farewell to grad school, the Guerrillas stage Richard III.
It is awesome. - A Brave New... York
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2007 - The Guerrillas arrive in
New York City! - Undoubtedly due to a clerical oversight, tickertape parades, offers of Broadway contracts, and television stardom are initially absent.
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2008 - Undaunted, the Guerrillas decide to bring their muscular and irreverent brand of Shakespeare to New York.
A re-imagined Julius Caesar with a female Caesar thrives in the New York International Fringe Festival.
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2009 - Producing independently for the first time, the Guerrillas mount Measure for Measure at
Under Saint Marks Theater.
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2010 - Movin' on up! The Guerrillas move to the larger Medicine Show Theatre to produce Two Noble Kinsmen.
People we don't know fly from England to see it.
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Our first feature in
the New York Times! -
King John Continues our obsession with obscure Shakespeare.
And our tradition of rave reviews.
- Guerrillas Grow Up
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2011 - The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project becomes an official
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Woohoo!
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We're featured in two
consecutive issues of
American Theater Magazine.
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Taming of the Shrew - Our first director from outside the company, and yet more rave reviews!
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New York Times bestselling author Arthur Phillips cold-calls our Artistic Director to take a look at his new "Shakespeare" script, The Tragedy of Arthur.
A beautiful friendship (and a staged reading at the Public Theater) follow.
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2012 - The Shakespeare Society chooses Guerrilla Shakespeare as part of their "Shakespeare Works" program -
free rehearsal space and access to prominent scholars as we explore Coriolanus.
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Our first official grant, from the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, gives us 80 hours of rehearsal time as we work toward a full production of
The Tragedy of Arthur.
- 2013 - Years of development pay off as The Tragedy of Arthur garners IT Award nominations for director Jordan Reeves and set designer Lynne Porter.
- Live in the Now
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2014 - The Guerrillas gear up for our most ambitious project yet:
And to the Republic, a re-imagining of Shakespeare's Roman plays as a modern political thriller.