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Upcoming Events
- May 19
A View from the Edge
Evening of cabaret & fun with Broadway's Annie Edgerton
Shakesperience Studio
Waterbury, CT
- Jun. 28-Jul. 1
Richard III
Shakespeare in
Libary Park
Waterbury, CT
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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.
Read on to learn more about
the company and its programs, or go right to the heart of your involvement
to schedule a program for your school or event,
enroll in our Acting Intensives,
attend a performance,
audition,
volunteer,
donate,
or contact us.
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 Spring and Fall Festivals of Theatre.
Secondly, there is the Educational Season,
that 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
- 03.22.12:Announcing: April Auditions in Waterbury & Stratford! Amateurs & professionals for summer shows and professionals for 2012-13 Season. Acting and technical internships also available.
- 03.19.12:Who's there? It's Shakesperience with the opening performance of Hamlet at Notre Dame in Fairfield.
- 02.11.12:Great performance of Forbidden Love tonight. A masterful interweaving of text from Shakesperience, songs from soloists, and orchestration by the WSO. Quite an experience and quite an audience at the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra!
- 12.14.11:Sunday's matinee performance of A Christmas Carol is SOLD OUT!
The other performances are going fast, so get your tickets, today.
- 12.9.11:Connecticut School of Broadcasting student and Shakesperience alumus Nat Angstrom reports on the upcoming A Christmas Carol
- 11.16.11:Shakesperience is proud to receive the Arts Organization of the Year award from the Waterbury Neighborhood Council. Congratulations to the other award winners and thank you to our board, staff, and volunteers who make this recognition possible.
- 10.18.11:The 2011-12 Season is open with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe leading the way. Don't miss it!
- 09.18.11:Today marks the very successful close of our Vintage Shakesperience tour of CT vineyards. Thanks to Miranda, Chamard, Haight-Brown, and McLaughlin for hosting. We had a blast!
- 08.21.11:Festival! Stratford closed with great performances of Jungle Book and a terrific show by our acting camp students. Put that together with the two "standing-Os" for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Shakesperience had a great showing at a very successful Festival!
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