Golden Globe Nominated Actress to Star in Sag Harbor Production

The Bay Street Shakespeare Initiative and Hamptons Shakespeare Festival recently announced that Piper Perabo will star as Viola in their upcoming co-production of outdoor staged readings of “Twelfth Night,” or “What You Will,” by William Shakespeare.

“Last summer, the Bay Street Shakespeare Initiative’s outdoor reading of The Tempest starring John Glover was one of the highlights of our season,” Scott Schwartz, Artistic Director of Bay Street Theater said. “I’m so excited this summer to partner with Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, and to work with Piper Perabo and the rest of a marvelous cast as we present Twelfth Night, one of the Bard’s most romantic and delightful comedies, outside under the stars in Sag Harbor.”

The play will take place on August 14 and 15 at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor.

The two readings are free to the public and will start at 7 p.m.

A VIP Benefit performance will take place on August 16 at a private, oceanfront estate.

Golden Globe nominated actress Perabo recently wrapped up a five season run on the hit series Covert Affairs, USA Network’s spy drama.

In May 2009, she made her stage debut in Neil Labute’s controversial play Reasons to be Pretty directed by Terry Kinney. She co-stared alongside Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber.

In 2007, she was seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, in Because I Said So with Diane Keaton and Lauren Graham and First Snow, a film directed by Mark Fergus, co-starring Guy Pearce and Adam Scott.

Next, Perabo was seen in John Glenn’s disturbing thriller The Heaven Project with Paul Walker and Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua alongside Jaime Lee Curtis.

Perabo was also seen in Paramount Vantage’s Carriers in New Mexico. She played the female lead opposite Chris Pine and Lou Taylor Pucci in the post-apocalyptic thriller about four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic.

Some of her more recent films include Looper alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels, Adam Shankman’s Cheaper by the Dozen 2 in which she reprised her role as the eldest daughter to Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode, and the crime drama 10th and Wolf with an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper.

In addition to Piper Perabo, Twelfth Night will also star Julia Motyka as Olivia, Josh Gladstone as Sir Toby Belch, and Kate Mueth as Maria.

The readings will be presented without intermission and will run under two hours under the direction by Bay Street’s Artistic Director, Scott Schwartz, and original music and sound design by Hamptons Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director, David M. Brandenburg.

For tickets contact Kim Fink, Bay Street’s Director of Development, at 631-725-0818 ext. 112 for tickets to the VIP Benefit.