The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory Announces Summer Workshops

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory has announced its "Summer with Shakespeare: Performance Workshops" Students entering grades 3 - 12 can experience what it might be like to travel back in time to the 1600s and be a part of the fun and excitement of Shakespeare's Acting Company-The King's Men. Summer with Shakespeare is a great way to develop acting skills, make friends, build confidence, and develop an appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare's work. Plus, it's a "malmsey-butt" of fun!

Workshops run in one-week Monday through Friday sessions July 29 through August 16 in the Meadow at the John Hopkins University's Evergreen Museum & Library at 4545 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland, 21211. For a limited time, enrollment fees are just $250 per student. After May 27th, rates will increase to $300. Before care is available beginning at 8am for $15 each day, or $50 for the week. Registration is limited to 20 students per session.

During each one-week session, students will have the opportunity to:

• Work one-on-one with professional actors and educators
• Learn and practice the same acting techniques Baltimore Shakespeare Factory uses in its productions
• Study Shakespeare's poetic language in ways that make it easy to understand, and learn how to use to enrich performance
• Bring some of Shakespeare's most famous characters to life!

Each week culminates with a full length performance of Hamlet or A Midsummer Night's Dream, giving students the opportunity to demonstrate their new skills!

For more information or to enroll, call 410-921-9455, or email wendy.meetze@theshakespearefactory.com

Baltimore Shakespeare Factory would like to welcome Wendy Meetze to the team as our new Director of Education. Wendy is a Virginia Tech graduate with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. Before becoming a stay-at-home mom to her beautiful daughter Vivian, she served as the Deputy Director of the Howard County Arts Council. Wendy is a former high school theatre teacher, local actor and director. She has worked with outstanding groups including The Heritage Players, Silhouette Stages, The Music Theatre of Williamsburg, and Theatre IV.

Mission: The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory is dedicated to bringing the works of William Shakespeare to life for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In Shakespeare's time (1564-1616), the theater was accessible to everyone, and The Factory prides itself on continuing that tradition by presenting professional quality work at affordable prices.

Factory productions bring Shakespeare's works to life in a way that is accessible to modern audiences without compromising the cornerstone of their artistic and literary merit-Shakespeare's original language. The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory is built on a love of language, and productions are designed to not only help audiences understand Shakespeare's words, but to love them, too.

The Shakespeare Factory maintains 501(c)3 non profit status as a member fund of The Community Foundation Of Carroll County.

Baltimore Awards - Live Stats

Best Musical - Top 3

1. DISASTER: THE MUSICAL (Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre)

9.9% of votes

2. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Maryland Ensemble Theatre)

6.6% of votes

3. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (September Song)

6% of votes

Vote Now!