With support from the California Arts Council, SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO will continue our long-running partnership with the Cadwallader Elementary School community in San Jose to bring a sustained performing arts residency to underserved youth. In this after-school program, “Midnight Shakespeare,” professional artists provide a standards-based program that will culminate in a student performance of an abridged Shakespeare play for an audience of school peers, families, and the larger community.
Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching up to 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education programs: -Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and all over the state. -Over 300 youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them. -Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students. -Midnight Shakespeare provides a challenging theater residency program for over 100 under-served youth in school settings in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.

