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The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional (AEA)...

The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional (AEA) theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City, by W. Stuart McDowell and Gloria Skurski. Focusing on Shakespeare plays and other classical repertoire, it operated through 1997. Originally founded with a core of graduates from the University of California at Berkeley, including Stuart McDowell, Gloria Skurski, Mary Skinner, Peter Siiteri, Kent Odell, John Jonas, Bob Helsel, and Dan Southern, The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City opened its first production Romeo and Juliet on August 19 1977 on the northern steps of Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th and Riverside Drive, directed by McDowell with fight choreography by Joel Leffert and music by Michael Moore, featuring Peter Siiteri, Dan Southern, Mary Skinner, Kent Odell and Eric Hoffmann, Jim Brewster, Stuart Rudin and Eloise Watt, Lisa Kramer, Harriet Bigus, Marilyn Beck, Douglas Stone, Warrington Winters, and Victor Argo, all of whom became founding members. Riverside Shakespeare Company opened its first production of Romeo and Juliet in Riverside Park, and then commenced a free parks tour through Manhattan,