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Upcoming Events


• May 10
  Auditions
  Shakesperience Studio
  Waterbury, CT
  
• Jun. 27 - 30
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Shakespeare in Libary Park
  Meadow & Grand Streets
  Waterbury, CT
  
• Jul. 10-14
  Summer Acting Intensives
  Ages 12-17
  Shakesperience Studio
  Waterbury, CT
  
• Jul. 17-21
  Summer Acting Intensives
  Ages 7-11
  Shakesperience Studio
  Waterbury, CT
  
• Jul. 20
  Much Ado About...Something
  Miranda Vineyard
  Goshen, CT
  
• Jul.29 - Aug.2
  Weeklong Acting Class
  Shakespeare on the Shoreline
  Guilford, CT
  
• Aug. 3
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  White Silo Winery
  Sherman, CT
  
• Aug. 7 - 11
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Shakespeare on the Shoreline
  Guilford Town Green
  Guilford, CT
  
• Aug. 24
  Much Ado About Nothing
  McLaughlin Vineyards
  Sandy Hook, CT
  

Help Us Reach Our Annual Fund Goal Shakesperience needs your support.  We're almost 2/3 of the way to our annual fund goal, and now every donation is matched until June 30th!

Shakesperience is a professional theater company located in Connecticut that reaches a Northeast audience of adults and students alike with outdoor and in-studio performances, Saturday and private acting classes, school & camp tours, and residencies.

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 attend a performance, schedule a program for your school or event, enroll in our Acting Intensives, audition, volunteer, donate, or contact us.

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.