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Shakesperience
was founded in 1996 by Emily
Mattina and Jeffrey
Lapham, with a mission
to educate and inspire students,
families, and theater professionals through the arts. The non-profit
organization is headquartered on Bank Street in the heart of
downtown Waterbury, Connecticut.
 There are two main
components to the current fabric of Shakesperience’s
programming: first is the Public Season,
consisting of a tour of shows for adults and families throughout the
Northeast; Shakespeare In Library Park; and the Fall Festival of
Theatre. Secondly, there is the Educational
Season, which reaches over 70,000 students a year by visiting
schools
throughout Connecticut and the Northeast. Within this Educational
Season is the residency wing, which includes our acclaimed Acting
Intensive Series in both Stratford and Waterbury, private acting
classes, and custom Residency
Programs.
 The Shakesperience studio
serves as rehearsal space, classroom space, and performance space.
Shakesperience is a fiscally responsible company whose management
believes that the economic and cultural climate, and indeed the future
of theatre, call for well-thought-out use of multi-purpose spaces.
Therefore, every inch of our facility is put to excellent use and
creative capacity.
 Because
of our downtown location, Shakesperience is
poised to
collaborate with many other for-profit and non-profit organizations;
its headquarters also serve as a meeting place and community outreach
base. Many of the staff and resident
artists serve in a volunteer capacity for art, culture,
education, and service organizations. This is but one outcropping
of the Shakesperience
Approach to creation through collaboration. To see who
we support, and who supports us, and to do so yourself, visit our support
page.
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News Feed
- 8.31.10:Full steam ahead on the school tour. Parents and educators should select dates with us now for our visit to your school.
- 8.28.10: McLaughlin Vineyards was a magical location for our final Henry V of the summer. Kudos to Dee Dee and the crew at McLaughlin.
- 8.17.10: Shakesperience rocked Festival Stratford! 500 or more people Saturday night, standing ovations Thursday and Saturday, 200 happy people in the rain Sunday. Thank you, Stratford!
- 7.27.10: Shakesperience continues its Free Summer Series! This Thursday, join us for a reading of August: Osage County, a play by Tracy Letts. Call Shakesperience for details.
- 7.20.10: Join us for The Timid Jester: A Night of Improv & Comedy this Thursday at 6pm!
- 7.13.10: Follow Shakesperience on Twitter. Find us @shakesperience1.
- 7.12.10:The second installment of the July Acting Intensives, Love's Labour's Lost, begins today. Don't forget to sign up for the new Film Creation Class beginning next week!
- 7.8.10:Scenes from Richard II & Edward II plays tonight at 6pm. Enjoy a talkback at JoBa Cafe afterwards!
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