PEGUIN REP THEATRE, Neighbor

35 Years ago, an empty century-old barn in Stony Point, NY, became a repository of dreams as the home of Rockland County&#39;s first year-round non-profit professsional theatre - Peguin Rep. Since 1977, Peguin Rep has attracted more than 300,000 audience members for the Tri-State region and beyond to its intimate converted barn. Under the leadership of founder/artisitic director <strong>Joe Brancato </strong>and executive director Andrew M. Horn, the company has orginated mor than 100 productios by such writers as<strong> Lee Blessing, Ronald Harwood, Arthur Laurents, Warren Leight, William Mastosimone, Tom Dudzick, James Sherman, Elizabeth Swados </strong>and<strong> Allan knee</strong>. Many Penguin&#39;s Plays have moved on to engagements in New York City, around the country and onto film, including<strong> Karoline Leach&#39;s </strong>Tryst, <strong>Warren Leight&#39;s </strong>Glimmer,  Glimmer and Shine, <strong>Richard Vetere&#39;s </strong>One Shot, One Kill, <strong>Alan Brandt&#39;s </strong>2 1/2 Jews, <strong>Angelo Parra&#39;s </strong>The Devil&#39;s Music, <strong>Charles Smith&#39;s </strong>Freed and <strong>James Sherman&#39;s </strong>From Door to Door.

The Academy Award nominated film, finding Neverland, began life as a play, The Man who Was Peter Pan, which was commissioned and origionally presented by Penguin, as did the CBSTV film The Marraige Fool with <strong>Carol Burnett </strong>and <strong>Walter Matthau</strong>.

Academy Award winner <strong>Kevin Spacey </strong>produced Joe&#39;s staging of Lee Blessing&#39;s Gobb Off Broadway and, with <strong>Garry Marshall</strong>, in L.A. The New York Times has dubbed Penguin Rep &#34;the gutiest little theatre&#34; and Joe Brancato &#34;one of America&#39;s most insightful directors.&#34; The Journal News wrote that Penguin Rep &#34;continues to astonish with a consistency of taste, high quality material and first class production values.&#34;