Hypokrit Theatre Company Launches Inaugural Season with ROMEO AND JULIET Tonight

Hypokrit Theatre Company's inaugural production is the timeless love story Romeo and Juliet, re­imagined with a Bollywood aesthetic. The production will premiere in 2015 at the Access Theater.

The launch party for the production will take place at The Empire Rooftop Bar and Lounge tonight, September 18 at 7 pm. An exclusive meet and greet with the founders, other community leaders and members of the press, the event will also feature an exclusive preview of Hypokrit's Romeo and Juliet, including a performance by the cast.

Hypokrit Theatre Company is a new, multicultural, theatre company that adapts classics from around the world and aims to encourage diverse voices in the arts by exploring what makes a story resonate with universal audiences, through the ages and across borders. By colliding different worlds and aesthetics, Hypokrit applies a fresh lens to traditional works.

About the Founders:

In over ten years of experience in professional theatre, Arpita Mukherjee has worked for renowned theatre companies, including Washington Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare Theatre Company. She has written, produced, and directed over 20 productions and her work has been featured in the South Asian Theatre and Arts Festival at the Smithsonian. She studied Non­Fiction Writing at Columbia University.

Writer, Director and Performer, Shubhra Prakash's theater experience spans from India to San Francisco and New York. She recently wrote, directed and produced For Our Own at the Planet Connections Theatre Festival 2014 for which she received the Activist Award. As an actor, Shubhra Prakash was last seen in The Tempest Ladies and Taming of the Shrew. Her latest work as a voiceover artist was for the multiplatform project Priya's Shakti which became a 2014 Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund Grantee.

For more information, visit www.hypokritnyc.org.