Program/Grant: Shakespeare in American Communities: Juvenile Justice

“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...

Supporting theatre and Shakespeare instruction including performances by (and for) juveniles. Southwest Shakespeare is partnering with "Rite of Passage," (ROP), a nationwide non-governmental organization (NGO) with four facilities across Arizona.

Shake on the Block at Brentwood Residential Center provides Shakespeare workshops to teenagers (13-17) who have been placed into the U.S. prison system. Students adapt original Shakespeare text into a...

TSF’s HOPE Academy Partnership brings a fall and spring 10-week Devised Theatre programs to residents at the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center with Shakespeare's text as the starting point. Residents...

In “Shakespeare with Henry within the Prison Pipeline,” incarcerated youth learn and perform excerpts from Shakespeare's work Macbeth alongside Junior Players teaching artists, with a final production and post-program internships....

"Shakespeare: In Appalachia & Beyond" will engage youth with status offenses housed at Gateway Children's Services, a residential court-appointed treatment and foster care center, in the works of the Bard...

Drama Club will bring Shakespeare's text to life in ELA classes in 2 District 79 schools for adjudicated youth in NYC. Students will explore the language and themes of Hamlet,...

This project is the continuation of our Shakespeare program at Alameda Juvenile Hall. We use Drama Therapy-inspired theatre exercises, and work with youth to study and perform Shakespeare monologues and...

Shakesprov is a series of weekly workshops in which Shakespeare's plays serve as catalysts from which detained youth in Flint MI explore universal themes through theatre exercises, Improv, and storytelling....

TSC will provide 80 program sessions for incarcerated youth ages 13-17 held at Memphis Jail East and Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center. In two, 90-minute sessions per week per facility,...