COMING UP NEXT FOR SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS

A Staged Reading, complete with lights, sound, and simple sets…

 Kimberly Akimbo

David Lindsey-Abaire’s Side-Splitting Comedy!

October 29 and 30

Tryon Depot

MEET THE DIRECTOR

Catherine Gillet(Director) is also a playwright, whose published and award-winning plays have been produced in numerous venues Off Broadway and around the country. 

Wyoming, the recipient of a grant from The Jerome Foundation, was produced in New York at the 78th Street Theater Lab and it was Playbill’s “Pick of the Week” for Drama for its entire run.

Pumpkins for Smallpox is published in the anthology: Best Plays and Playwrights and was a finalist for the Louisville Actors Theater Heideman Award.

Anomalies of the Heart was workshopped at Lanford Wilson’s Playwrights Retreat in Sag Harbor. It was also chosen by Edward Albee to have a reading at the Lark Theater in NYC during their Playwrights Week.

Winter Spring Summer Fall and Joe&Angie were both produced at Tryon Fine Arts Center and performed in the Amphitheater.

 Ms. Gillet is also the Co-Founder of Shakespeare & Friends in Tryon, NC. where she has directed several staged readings and full productions at Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon Little Theater,  Rogers Park, Orchard Inn, Upstairs Artspace, Attic Salt, and The Gunter Theater at The Peace Center,  including  A Streetcar Named Desire, Constellations, The Last 5 Years, Laramie Project, Outside Mullingar, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, True West, Dancing at Lughnasa, The 24 hour Plays, Our Town, Enchanted April, The Light in the Piazza, A Doll’s House, Original Shorts, 7-Up, Shirley Valentine, Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer and The Climate Change Plays.  She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and New Circle Rep Theater Company in NYC