The Aquila Theatre was founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck and has been based in New York City since 1999.
Aquila provides access for people in under-served urban and rural communities, touring around seventy American towns and cities a year.
[3] Wuthering Heights, A Female Philoctetes, Twelfth Night, Fahrenheit 451, Herakles, Cyrano de Bergerac, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, An Enemy of the People, The Iliad,[2] The Comedy of Errors, Catch-22, Julius Caesar, Prometheus Bound with David Oyelowo, Romeo & Juliet, The Canterbury Tales, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, H G Wells' The Invisible Man, with choreographer Doug Varone, Twelfth Night, A Very Naughty Greek Play, Oedipus at Colonus, with Bill Pullman, The Man Who Would Be King, Othello (2004),[4] Agamemnon, with Olympia Dukakis, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Wrath of Achilles, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Oedipus the King, The Odyssey, The Birds, Macbeth, The Wasps, Coriolanus, Ajax, The Frogs, and The Clouds.
Previous presentations include Herakles at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fisher, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Homer's Iliad at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and a New Translations Reading Series exploring the works of contemporary American translators.
Aquila works with artists from many other disciplines such as film, TV, opera, classical music and dance, including Olympia Dukakis, Bill Pullman, Mikis Theodorakis, Peter Tiboris, Doug Varone, Ralph Farris and David Oyelowo.