O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

The Tempest, Act V: Sc. 1

Past Productions

2011
The American Clock – site specific at The Brooklyn Lyceum
by Arthur Miller
Cynthia Babak, director

2010 BNW Shakespeare Festival Inaugural Season
4 staged readings of As You Like It – Prospect Park Oriental Pavilion
by William Shakespeare
Claire Beckman, director

2010 Full Productions
The Crucible- site-specific at The Old Stone House
by Arthur Miller
Claire Beckman, director

The Halloween Plays, 3 World Premiere Plays in Collaboration with Company XIV
Salsa by Greg Kotis, directed by Chip Brookes
Too Much Candy
by Cynthia Babak, directed by Nell Balaban
Denouement: A Murderous Masquerade - written and directed by Austin McCormick

2010 Salon Reading Benefit Series
The American Clock by Arthur Miller
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

2009 Full Productions
The Tempest- site-specific Coney Island
by William Shakespeare
Claire Beckman, director

2009 Play Reading Salon Series
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Fabulation or the Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage
The Perfect Wedding by Charles Mee
Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire
On The Waterfront by Budd Schulberg

2009 Summer Garden Readings
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

2008 Full Productions
Fahrenheit 451- Celebrate Brooklyn!
by Ray Bradbury
Royston Coppenger, director

2008 Play Reading Salon Series
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, translation by Royston Coppenger
Wild Oats by John O’Keefe
3 New One Act Comedies by BNW Members: Claire Beckman / Cynthia Babak / Karl Greenberg
School for Wives by Moliere

2007 Full Productions
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry- Celebrate Brooklyn!
by Walt Whitman
Claire Beckman, adaptor & director

2007 Play Reading Salon Series
Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

2006 Full Productions
The Great White Hope- Celebrate Brooklyn!
by Howard Sackler
Royston Coppenger, director

2006 Play Reading Salon Series
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
Private Lives by Noel Coward
Pig Tales by Babak/Huston
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

2005 Full Productions
To Kill A Mockingbird- site-specific Ditmas Park
by Harper Lee
Claire Beckman, director

2005 Play Reading Salon Series
Loot by John Orton
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2004 Full Productions
The Importance of Being Earnest- MAD ARTS STUDIO
by Oscar Wilde
Royston Coppenger, director

2004 Play Reading Salon Series
The Guys- Nelson
The Importance of Being Earnest- Wilde
Richard The Third- Shakespeare
Hedda Gabler- Ibsen
Awake and Sing- Odets
Old Times- Pinter
Merry Wives of Windsor Terrace- Shakespeare

2003 Full Productions
BNW SHAKES PIER IN BROOKLYN- BWAC
Shakespeare/Stoppard.
John Morgan, Stuart Zagnit, Royston Coppenger, Claire Beckman, directors