The Green River Ropin' and Recitin' Preservation Society Players have been performing traditional and contemporary cowboy poetry in the Southern California area sinc ethe group's debut in September 1992 at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. Several of Green's River performances, live and taped, have been heard on radio KCRW - FM. Green River was also featured on ABC - TV's recent Wild about the West. Founded by actor/director Lee deBroux and produced by deBroux, Dawn Adams-deBroux and Lee Purcell. Green River is comprised of familiar film, televiosion and stage actors - all aficionados of the West. Green River's repertory company members are: Lee deBroux, Lee Purcell, Martin Kove, Bruce Boxleitner, Bo Hopkins and Melissa Gilbert. The group's guest "chair" has been variously filled by such performers as Sam Shepard, Timothy Scott, James Gammon, Darrel Larson, and Hopkins' chair will be filled by John Terlesky, Sherrie Rose and John Dennis Johnston. In addition to poetry by many of America's finest cowboy poets, Green River's program also includes original music by award-winning composer Dan Foliart and traditional and contemporary cowby songs performed byt the Green River Trio and the Green River Band. The Green River Ropin' and Recitin' Preservation Society Players possess a heartfelt desire to bring to greater light the depth, breadth, bittersweet sensitivity and raucous humor of the art of the poets and poetesses of the West. Under Debroux's direction, the members of green River shar their love of the open spaces and rural America with audiences by presenting their own interpretation of Western poetry, old and new.