Romeo and Juliet

Jun 22, 2018 / 20:00 – 21:30 / LIMONAIA

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Fri, June 22, 2018

20:00 – 21:30

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LIMONAIA
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Firenze, Italia

In its twelfth year of participation in The Season, The Continuum Company, made of Tisch Graduate Acting Alumni, presents Romeo and Juliet as another essential Shakespeare directed by Jim Calder. This time an all-female cast embarks on a classic tale full of fighting, singing, loving, and the loss that comes with a deep enmity between families..

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Featured Biographies

Rosa Gilmore

ACTOR

Theater Credits: Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (The Public, Dir. Phyllida Lloyd), Gwendolen in Importance of Being Earnest (Two River Theater), This is how it Ends (59E59), Robin Hood, Three Sisters, The Coming World (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sehnsucht (Jack Theater). Rosa has an MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program. Some NYU Credits: Uncle Vanya, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Sarah Ruhl’s world premiere of Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince, among others. TV/Film: “Handmaids Tale,” “Elementary,” “Younger,” Going Places, Modern Love.

Keren Lugo

ACTOR

New York Theater credits: Privacy (The Public Theater), Two Mile Hollow (Women’s Project). Regional: Water by The Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Scenes From Court Life (Yale Repertory Theater), Women of Padilla (Two River Theater), Henry V, Our Town (Chautauqua Theater Festival). Keren has an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Some NYU credits: Caucasian Chalk Circle, Vanya Sonya Masha and Spike, The Playboy of The West Indies and Arthur Miller’s After The Fall. TV: The Americans (Recurring). Keren is beyond proud to have been born and raised in Puerto Rico.

Carra Patterson

ACTOR

Carra Patterson is an Atlanta native based in Harlem, New York. She originated the role of ‘Rena’ in the Tony Award winning Broadway premiere of August Wilson’s Jitney at Manhattan Theatre Club, where she also made her Broadway debut in the 2012 production of Wit alongside Cynthia Nixon. Her other theater credits include: Roundabout Theater- Significant Other, Little Children Dream of God; Public Theater: Teenage Dick, Measure for Measure; Lincoln Center3: Luck of the Irish; Epic Theater: Richard III. Regional credits: In the Red & Brown Water (Alliance Theater), Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (dir. Kenny Leon, True Colors Theater), The Wiz (True Colors). Film: Tomica Woods in Straight Outta Compton. TV: “The Arrangement,” “Bloodline,” “Blue Bloods,” “Elementary,” “The Good Wife.” MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program.