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From: Lesley Groff Sent: Friday, JanuaIIII I IMP To: Jeffrey Epstein CC Subject: Fwd: Theatre for a New Audience announces its new home's inaugural production, directed by Julie Taymor Sent from my iPhone =br>Begin forwarded message: =rom: James Lynes Date: January 24 2 To: "<= href= Subject:=/b> Theatre for a New Audience announces its new home's inaugural produc=ion, directed by Julie Taymor Dear Mr. and Mrs. Epstein, Jeffrey Horowitz and Theatre for a New Audience are proud to s=are with you the news that received national and international attention ov=rnight about Julie Taymor directing a new production for the Theatre of A=MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Scroll down this email to review the articles from The New York Times, Variety, The Los Angeles Times, T=e Guardian, and other sources. This production will be the inaugural show in our first home currently under construction in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural D=strict <http://www.tfana.org/new-home/overview> (click the underlined text for mo=e information about the Theatre's new facility). =/p> The pro=uction will begin performances on October 19, 2013 in the Theatre's=new 299-seat Mainstage, which has been designed by architect Hugh Hardy. Op=ning night is set for November 2. In addition, the production will be seen by thous=nds of New York Public School students enrolled in the Theatre's 13=week, in-school residency program, The World Theatre Project <http://www.tfana.org/e=ucation/education-overview> , promoting literacy, sparking creativity and build=ng audiences for the future. EFTA_R1_01730181 EFTA02565622  Best wishes from James L=nes <=:p> =ames J. Lynes Capital Campaign Director Theatre for a New Audience January 23, 2013 Taymor To Direct 'Midsummer' As Inaugural Show For The=ter's New Home new Brooklyn home</=pan> <http://t=eater.nytimes.com/2011/06/2S/theater/theater-for-a-new-audience- starts-buil=ing-home-in-brooklyn.html> of Theater for a New Audience, an=Off Broadway company where Ms. Taymor has regularly worked <http://theater2=nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C05E3DA1F39F93BA3575000A9609582=0> since its founding in 1979. "Midsummer" w=11 be Ms. Taymor's first show since her high-profile firing from th= Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in 2011 b= its producers, with whom she is still in a legal battle over back pay, roy=lty and copyright protection. In a telephone interview on Wednesday,=Ms. Taymor said she chose "Midsummer" as the theater'= inaugural production because of the play's celebratory nature: Cha=acters fall in love, reunite after spats and wed, and others put on a play t=emselves. A celebrated downtown theater director and puppet-maker be=ore finding fame and fortune directing the blockbuster musical "The=Lion King," Ms. Taymor she was still thinking over concepts for sta=ing "Midsummer" and did not know yet if she would be design=ng puppets or masks for the show. As for the "Midsummer" bu=get, she said she did not know how much the production would cost, but adde= that it would be "typical" for Off Broadway and noted that=Theater for a New Audience "never does big budgets." 2 EFTA_R1_01730182 EFTA02565623  Ms. Taymor said she was talking over ideas fo= "Midsummer" with Es Devlin, the British set and costume de=igner who is known for big-budget spectacles like the closing ceremony for t=e London Olympic Games last summer. "Midsummer" will=not be set in any particular time or period, "but rather in its own=world," Ms. Taymor said. She did say that she may include children a=d teenagers in the cast, after recently holding a workshop of the play with=children "to play with their energy and physicality and to think ab=ut raw elemental energy." Ms. Taymor's long- time partner, E=liot Goldenthal, will compose original music for "Midsummer."=br> "There is a visceral nature to the theater, and I want to ha=e that in the production," said Ms. Taymor, who has never directed a="Midsummer" before. She was a designer on the play in 1984 w=en Theater for a New Audience did a children's version — he= first collaboration with the company and its artistic director, Jeffrey Ho=owitz, who is now a close friend. The play will begin performances o= Oct. 19 in the theater's new 299-seat main stage space, which has b=en designed by architect Hugh Hardy. Opening night is set for Nov. 2. Asked if her return to New York theater was any more special because of he= experiences on "Spider-Man," Ms. Taymor simply said that s=e was looking forward to working on the play. "Spider-Man4o=8040 became the most talked-about Broadway show in many years because of a=nightmare's- worth of creative and technical delays, cast injuries, a=d offstage showdowns between Ms. Taymor and her composers — Bono an= the Edge of U2 — and the show's producers. Bono, Ed=e, and the producers ultimately replaced Ms. Taymor as the show's d=rector after more than three months of preview performances during the wint=r of 2011. The producers contended that she resisted their pleas to revamp 4)=804>Spider-Man" into a more family-friendly musical (thereby possi=ly selling more tickets and recovering its high costs), while Ms.Taymor sai= the producers refused to support her requests and ideas for changes in the=script and the score. "Spider-Man" opened in June 20=1 to mostly negative reviews but has gone on to become a popular show with t=urists, although ticket sales have cooled a bit in recent months. Ms= Taymor sued the producers in federal court in late 2011, saying they were p=ofiting from her "Spider-Man" script and staging and owed h=r more than $1 million in back pay and royalties; they counter sued, arguin= that she had been fired for breach of contract. The judge in the case anno=nced last August that the two sides had reached a settlement agreement in p=inciple, but since then the sides have not been able to come to terms <http://artsbeat.blogs.n=times.com/2013/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for-theat=rs-new- home/ttp:/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/settlement-talks-con=inue-in-court-battle-over-spider-man- musical/> . The specifics of their ongoing differences have never been d=sclosed; Ms. Taymor declined to comment on Wednesday about the issues holdi=g up a settlement, but said that a negotiated resolution was "looki=g good." "I'm hoping that we're goin= have a good outcome very soon," she said. A version of this article appeared in prin= on 01/24/2013, on page C3 of the New York edition with the headline: Taymo= to Direct 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.<=span> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20=3/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for-theaters- new-home/=br> <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.c=m/2013/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for- theaters-new-=ome/> 3 EFTA_R1_01730183 EFTA02565624  Julie Taymor, a= the opening-night performance of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Of= the Dark" in New York in 2011. (Charles Sykes / Associated Press / January=23, 2013) Since being fi=ed in 2011 from the Broadway musical " Spider-Man <http://www.latimes.=om/topic/entertainment/movies/spider-man%28fictional-character%29-PEFC0000=06.topic> : Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occup=ed by the ongoing lawsuit between her and the show's producers. Tay=or might be considered damaged goods when it comes to Broadway, but her tra=emark innovative style still has its fans. In her first directing gig since=the "Sp=der-Man" <http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/spi=er-man-%28movie%29-ENMV00010402.topic> debacle, Taymor will r=turn to her roots by staging a new production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer=Night's Dream" at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. The produc=ion is scheduled to open Nov. 2 and will be the inaugural production of the=company's new permanent home near Brooklyn's Fort Gr=ene <http://www.l=times.com/topic/us/new-york/new-york-city/brooklyn- %28new-york-city%29/fort=greene-PLGEO100100802012900.topic> neighborhood. Taymor will o=ce again team up with her longtime partner, the Oscar-winning composer Elli=t Goldenthal, who will write the music for the comedy. Taymor previ=usly worked with Theatre for a New Audience in 1986 on a production of Shak=speare's "The Tempest." She subsequently directed two more Shakespearean pl=ys for the New York company -- "The Taming of the Shrew" and " Titus Andronicus." The director has=also made film versions of "The Tempest" <http://www.latimes.com/topic/e=tertainment/movies/the-tempest-%28movie%29-ENMV000005270.topic> and "Titus." "Midsummer" is set to begin preview performances on O=t. 19. Taymor reached a tentative settlement in her legal battle wit= the producers of "Spider-Man" in August. But it has been reported as recen=ly as this month that no final deal has been reached yet. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cul=ure/la-et-cm-julie-taymor-to-direct-midsummer-nights- dream-in-brooklyn-2013=123,0,5848768.story Julie Taymor stages directorial comeback with A Midsu=mer Night's Dream Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark almost two years ago. Taymor left the notorious — but stil= ongoing — mega-musical in March 2011 after producers demanded a ma=or overhaul following a difficult four-month preview period. She has not wo=ked in theatre since and remains Costumes for 4 EFTA_R1_01730184 EFTA02565625 The Lion King, which she design=d herself <http://www.guardian.co.u=/stage/2011/nov/09/julie-taymor-sues-spider- man> , also won=a Tony award. However, Midsummer's budget will be a fraction of those of th= <http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/musicals> for which s=e is best known. "There is a visceral nature to the theatre, and I want to ha=e that in the production," she told the New York T=mes <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.=om/2013/01/23/taymor-to-direct-midsummer-as-inaugural-show-for-theaters- new=homek . Jeffrey Horowitz= founding artistic director of Theatre for a New Audience, described Taymor=and Goldenthal as "bold, innovative, adventurous artists", adding that it w=s "thrilling" to have them return to make the company's inaugural productio= at the new base. The new theatre has been designed by architect Hugh Hardy a=d will contain two spaces: a flexible 299-seater inspired by the Cottesloe aspan>at the National Theatre <http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/national-theatre> , as well as a 50-seat studio. In a st=tement, the company said: "It is a uniquely flexible space which combines a= Elizabethan courtyard theatre with modern technology. The relationship bet=een the stage and audience can be shaped for each production into different=configurations." </=pan> Taymor Julie Tay=or has settled on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as the play she'll helm to in=ugurate the new Brooklyn home base of Theater for a New Audience this fall.=br> The Off Broadway production "Midsummer" will be Taymor's first gig f=r the Gotham stage since her high-profile stint as helmer of Broadway's "Sp=der-Man: Turn Off the Dark," followed by her subsequent messy divorce from t=at project. For several months Taymor has been on tap to launch the s=on-to-be-completed TFANA building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, but it hadn't y=t been decided which Bard play she'd choose to direct. Taymor ("The Lion Ki=g") has long been associated with TFANA, beginning with a 1986 staging of "=he Tempest" and followed by "The Taming of the Shrew," "Titus Andronicus" a=d "The Green Bird," a 1996 staging of a Carlo Gozzi play that moved to Broa=way in 2000. TFANA's new building -- the first permanent home for th= troupe, which was founded in 1979 -- will include a 299-seat mainstage and=a 50-seat second space. Casting and other details for "Midsummer" ha=e yet to set, but previews begin Oct. 19 ahead of a Nov. 2 opening. 5 EFTA_R1_01730185 EFTA02565626  Ja=uary 23, 2013 Julie Taymo= and Elliot Goldenthal Will Conjure Midsummer Night's Dream in TFANA=s New Brooklyn Home <=span>By Kenneth Jones Tony Awar= winner Julie Taymor <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6737/1=lie-Taymor> ( The Lion=King <http://www.playbillvault.com/S=ow/Detail/8729/The-Lion-King> ) will direct and longt=me collaborator Elliot Goldenthal=/span> <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detai=/6085/Elliot-Goldenthal> ( The Green Bird chttp://www.p=aybillvault.com/Show/Detail/3477/The-Green-Bird> ) w=ll compose original music for a new fall 2013 production of William<= href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7539/William-Shakespear="> Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to be the inaugural pro=uction in Theatre for a=New Audience <http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1164=1/Theatre-for-a-New-Audience> 's new permanent ho=e in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District. Performances at TFANA a= 262 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Streets will begin O=t. 19. Opening night is Nov. 2. TFANA announced the news on Jan. 23.=lt had been known that Taymor would direct a classic for the not-for- profit=s new home. Shakespeare's romantic comedy-fantasy is set in the woods outsi=e of Athens, where sprites and fairies meddle with the affairs of men and w=men. If history teaches us anything, this Midsummer should be=visually potent: In 1998, Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony Awa=d for Best Direction of a Musical - and also won a Tony for Best Costu=es - for her production of The Lion King, acknowledged as a mas=erstroke of design, direction, movement and mask work. For Broadway'. Spider-Man: Turn Of= the Dark <http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13708/Spider-Ma=- Turn-Off-the-Dark> ,Taymor served as director, co-book writer and m=sk-designer. TFANA founding artistic director presented at the Pub=ic Theater. Twenty-nine years later, it's thrilling they are directing and c=mposing the first full production of A Midsummer Night's Dream we ar= mounting as the inaugural presentation in our first permanent home." According to TFANA, in 1986, Horowitz invited Taymor to stage The Tempe=t for Theatre for a New Audience. It was the first play by Shakespeare s=e directed. Goldenthal composed the original music. Taymor and Goldenthal l=ter directed and composed Theatre for a New Audience's productions of Th= Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and in 1996, Carlo Gozzi's <=>The Green Bird, which transferred to Broadway in 2000. Composer=Goldenthal creates works for orchestra, theater, opera, ballet and film (in=luding Taymor's films "The Tempest," "Titus" and "Frida." In 2003, he was h=nored with the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the score to "Fri=a." Theatre for a New Audience's first permanent home is designed by=world-renowned architect Hugh Hardy and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture= It includes the Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage (299 seats) and the Theodore C= Rogers Studio (50 seats). 6 EFTA_R1_01730186 EFTA02565627  The Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage, the firs= stage built for Shakespeare and classic drama in New York City since Linco=n Center's 1965 Vivian Beaumont, is inspired by the Royal National Theatre'= Cottesloe. According to TFANA, "It is a uniquely flexible space which comb=nes an Elizabethan courtyard theatre with modern technology. The relationsh=p between the stage and audience can be shaped for each production into dif=erent configurations. " Since its founding in 1979, Theatre for a Ne= Audience has played in more than 20 different venues across Manhattan and B=ooklyn. Theatre for a New Audience is near the BAM Peter Jay Sharp B=ilding, Harvey Theater and Fisher Building as well as the Mark Morris D=nce Center and BRIC ARTS I Media House and UrbanGlass ReNEWal Project curre=tly under construction in the former Strand Theatre. For more about T=ANA's season leading up to its Brooklyn life, visitTFANA <http:/=tfana.org/> .org. ht=p://www.playbilIsom/news/article/174316-Julie-Taymor-and-ElIiot-Goldenthal=Will-Conjure-Midsummer- Nights-Dream-in-TFANAs-New-Brooklyn-Home <=a> <http://www.playbill.cominewqarticle/174316-Julie-Taymor-and-Elliot-Goldenthal-WilI-Conjure- Midsummer-N=ghts-Dream-in-TFANAs-New-Brooklyn-Home> January 23, 2013<=p> Tony Winner Julie Taymor to Direct A=Midsummer Night's Dream for Theater for a New Audience By Ryan Gilbert Two-time To=y-winning director Julie Taymor is set return to the New York stage in the f=ll with a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night*=804,s Dream. Taymor's partner, Oscar winner Elliot Goldenthal, will co=pose original music for the production, which will open the new permanent B=ooklyn residence of the off-Broadway company Theater for a New Audience. Pr=views will begin on October 19, with an opening night set for November 2. Taymor and Goldenthal have previously collaborated on Theatre for a Ne= Audience's productions of The Tempest,The Taming of the S=rew, Titus Andronicus and The Green Bird, which transferr=d to Broadway in 2000. Goldenthal scored Taymor's film versi=ns of The Tempest and Titus. He won the Academy Award for his=score to Taymor's film Frida. His original two-act opera =rendel, directed by Taymor, premiered at the Los Angeles Opera. =n 1998 Taymor became the first woman in history to win the award for Best D=rection of a Musical for Lion King, and also earned the Tony for Bes= Costume Design for the musical. Her other Broadway credits include Juan=Darien and Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark. In addition to Titu=, The Tempest and Frida, Taymor directed the movie musical Ac=oss the Universe. http://www.broadw=y.com/buzz/166845/tony-winner-julie-taymor-to-direct-a-midsummer-nights-dre=m-for- theater-for-a-new-audience/ <http://www.broadway.com/buz=/166845/tony-winner-julie-taymor-to-direct-a-midsummer-nights-dream-for- the=ter-for-a-new-audience/> 7 EFTA_R1_01730187 EFTA02565628  Julie Taymor Returns To Stage To Direct 40=8040Midsummer Night's Dream' By THE DEADLINE TEAM =/span> When last we saw Julie Taymor aspan>she had turned to the courts <http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/spider-man-lawsuit-web-thic=ens-as-stage-producers-countersue-julie-taymor/> over her public departure from Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, whe=e she was director, co-book writer and mask- designer for the rock musical. P=oduction woes and poor early reviews led to producers revamping the creativ= team, leading to Taymor's departure. Now she's returning&n=sp; to the stage as director of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night4>=8040s Dream, the inaugural production in Theatre for a New Audience40=8040s first permanent home in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District. Pre=iews begin October 19, 2013 for a November 2nd opening. Taymor sued the pro=ucers of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark in November 2011 claiming her=creative rights were violated and she was not compensated for her work. In t=rn, the producers filed a counter suit, alleging Taymor refused to fulfill h=r contractual obligations. A tentative deal settling her role in the creati=n of the musical was reached with producers 8 Legged Productions last Augus=, but Reuters reported recently that litigation has resumed after both side= failed to reach a final settlement. A trial date is now scheduled for May 2=. http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/julie-taymor-returns-to-stage-to-dire=t-midsummer-nights-dream/ <http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/julie-taymor-re=urns-to-stage-to-direct-midsummer-nights-dreamk Vulture Jule Taymor Returning Quietly With Some Shakespeare in Brooklyn =b> By Zach Dionne Julie Taymor's last theater experience was notably pai=ful <http://www.vulture.com/2011/=6/theater_review_a_critics_final.html> for <http://ww=.vulture.com/2011/11/julie- taymor-claims-bono-the-edge-falsely-criticized-h=r.html> basically <http://www.vulture.com/2011/06/spider- man_S.=tml> everyone</=> <http://www.vulture.com/2011/05/julie_taym=rgets_awkward_new.html> involved <http://www.vulture.com=2012/03/you-can-now-read-bono-and-julie-taymors-spider-man-turn-off-the-dar=-e- mails.html> . Now she's putting all that Spider-Man: Turn Of= the Dark muck behind her with an old friend, William Shakespeare. Taym=r will helm <http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118065049> =an Off-Broadway version of A Midsummer Night's Dream as the debut pe=formance for Fort Greene's Theater for a New Audience this autumn. The 8 EFTA_R1_01730188 EFTA02565629 woma= who brought The Lion King to Broadway has previously directed The The Tempest, and Titus Andronicus, a=so adapting the latter two for the screen. <=pan style="font-size:11.0pt">http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/julie-taymor-=eturning-shakespeare- brooklyn.html <http:/=www.vulture.com/2013/01/julie-taymor-returning-shakespeare-brooklyn.html> <=body> 9 EFTA_R1_01730189 EFTA02565630