The Shakespeare Theatre

Filing Period

Aug 1, 2011 to Jul 31, 2012

Signed

Jun 17, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$22,617,725

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS - The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Education Department strives to make Shakespeare and classical theatre exciting both on the stage and off. The Department annually provides close to 20,000 children and adults with arts education experiences through its roster of 26 comprehensive school, community engagement, training and audience enrichment programs. Text Alive!, an in-school arts enrichment program, supports Common Core State Standards for English and Theatre. A collaboration between students, classroom teachers and STC teaching artists, Text Alive! explores a Shakespeare play and culminates in a performance of his work on one of the Theatre's two stages. Participation in Text Alive! is free of charge. Both Text Alive! and SHAKESPEARIENCE Student Matinees are committed to serving local underserved children. SHAKESPEARIENCE provides subsidized tickets on a sliding scale for local classrooms. The program also supplies pre-show in-school workshops and study guides. STC's Internship and Fellowship programs are highly competitive among recent college graduates who use the program to gain real world professional arts administration and artistic experiences. Creative Conversations, a mainstay of STC's audience enrichment programs, provides a rotation of four free discussion programs designed to enhance the productions playing on-stage. Happenings at the Harman, STC's free performance series, connects patrons who live and work in the Penn Quarter neighborhood with local performing artists. This program is held on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. in The Forum at Sidney Harman Hall. Patrons are encouraged to bring their lunch to the one hour performances. Each year, STC creates relevant resource materials to accompany the Season's productions, including the First Folio Teacher and Student Resource Guide and The Guide to the Season's Plays. Finally, the Theatre also provides professional development seminars for adults and a summer camp for children. Since 2000, Shakespeare Theatre Company, in conjunction with The George Washington University, has offered a Master of Fine Arts degree, to help develop the next generation of actors for classical theatre. Training no more than 16 actors each year, the Academy for Classical Acting's one-year, fully accredited intensive graduate program focuses on the specific craft of performing Shakespeare and other classical texts and is therefore an alternative to most traditional MFA acting programs. Alumni from this program go on to perform classic theatre with reputable professional theatre companies from around the country.

Filer

EIN

52-1405988