Fiscal Year: 2024

“Shakesprov” is a series of weekly educational workshops held in a short-term juvenile detention center in Flint, MI. Led by 2 experienced teaching artists, “Shakesprov” explores themes and illuminates Shakespeare’s texts in a modern context through improvisation, theatre exercises, and storytelling. Youth learn acting skills, gain confidence, and develop an appreciation for theatre and the arts.

The Center for the Arts, "The Center," will tour a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to local schools in socio-economically disadvantaged areas in our rural, remote community. The production will be interactive with audience participation and include twelve actors that would tour to middle schools.

The Great Nordic Shakespeare Festival in Ely, MN is a month-long event featuring one Shakespearean play and one contrasting contemporary production. Through free youth access, tours to schools, and educational workshops, our goal is to make Shakespeare's work accessible to rural and low-income households of Northern Minnesota, nurturing a lasting love for the Bard's legacy in our community.

The Rose Theater will provide a one-hour touring production of Romeo & Juliet for Freshmen in seven Nebraska urban and rural high schools and one community location. Following the play, we will lead an optional post-show workshop for English and Drama students. The Rose is committed to a standards-based approach, ensuring that our time spent in schools supports the work done by educators.

The PSF Linny Fowler WillPower Tour is a fully professional touring production to schools of a Shakespeare play produced with full set, costume and sound designs. The core purpose of WillPower is to turn on young minds to the power of Shakespeare's language through live performance and workshops. PSF's summer season will also feature live professional performances of Shakespeare's works.

Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR) will produce Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," helmed by company Artistic Director Marissa Wolf, with 31 performances scheduled from November 23 to December 24, 2024 on The Armory's U.S. Bank Main Stage. Educational activities surrounding the production will include two-to-three student matinees, free backstage tours, free workshops, and post-performance Q&As.

Quintessence will produce ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA with education activities focused on Shakespeare and history for 15 middle/high schools in NW Phila. Two rival leaders fall into romantic passion so great it destroys both their kingdoms: Clear verse speaking, modern dress, a bare stage, and Shakespeare's most cinematic, romantic poetry will transport students to North Africa for a political thriller.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival will perform a 45-minute Much Ado About Nothing at schools across Colorado as part of a series highlighting patterns of violence in Shakespeare. Post-show workshops are informed by violence prevention research and based in theatre exercises that build empathy, interpersonal skills, and collaboration--all key elements of healthy relationships and safe communities.

In the fall of 2024, Theatreworks will present The Henriad in morning performances for student audiences, accompanied by workshops, and educational forums exploring power, leadership, and national identity through the enduring power of Shakespeare's language. This project builds on engagement from Theatreworks' Free-For-All Shakespeare program and centers themes of power, status, and leadership.

Will Power marks the next stage of Riverside Theatre’s two decades of Shakespeare education and outreach in Iowa. Through partnerships with area community centers, schools, and libraries, Riverside will tour a trunk-show production of the preceding summer’s Free Shakespeare in Lower City Park, adapted to ninety minutes and coinciding with artist-led workshops for middle and high-school students.