Richard Pilbrow to Present Creating a Theatre for a New Audience, September 22nd in Brooklyn, New YorkOn Monday, September 22, 2014 at 7:00pm, Richard Pilbrow will present the third installment of Creating a Theatre for a New Audience - The Intersection of Art, Design, and Theatre at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place in Brooklyn, New York. Pilbrow will be interviewed by David Barbour, editor-in-chief of Lighting&Sound America and of Pilbrow's recent book, A Theatre Project. This event is free to attend. In 2000, Harvey Lichtenstein, recently retired executive director of BAM, invited Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), a modern classical theatre, to build its first home in what was previously known as the BAM Cultural District. Established in 1979, TFANA produces Shakespeare alongside a wide range of other major authors. Jeffrey Horowitz, founding artistic director, wanted space that would be both intimate and epic, but without one fixed perspective, so that artists could change the configuration of the stage and audience depending upon the needs of a particular play and production. The Cottesloe at London's Royal National Theatre inspired Horowitz. A team consisting of architects Hugh Hardy and Geoff Lynch (H3 Collaboration Architecture), theatre consultants Jean-Guy Lecat and Pilbrow, acoustician Russell Todd, and graphic artist Milton Glaser collaborated with Horowitz on designing the 299-seat Scripps Main Stage and 50-seat Rogers Studio. In the third installment of Creating a Theatre for a New Audience, entitled "Genesis of a New Theatre," Pilbrow, theatre designer, producer, author, lighting designer, and Founder of Theatre Projects, will discuss recent revolutionary changes in theatre architecture that led to the creation of the new Theatre for A New Audience's home. Pilbrow, founder and chairman emeritus of Theatre Projects Consultants, is one of the world's leading theatre design consultants, a theatre, film and television producer, and an internationally known author and stage lighting designer. He founded Theatre Projects in London in 1957. To RSVP or for further information, visit: http://plasa.me/qnh8i, or contact humanities@tfana.org. 
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