Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

CSC's education program served more than 10,000 students and their teachers during the 2015-2016 academic season, including nearly 7,000 alone through our annual ROMEO AND JULIET student matinee program. Our in-school residency and workshop programs continue to grow, serving approximately 2,000 students and their teachers in the same time period. Our summer programs, primarily taking place in Howard County but with plans to expand our offerings in Baltimore City, currently reach about 100 children with extra-curricular Shakespeare education activities.

In addition to our youth-focused programs, we are also expanding our reach into our communities through festivals (like BOPA's Light City Baltimore, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Annapolis Book Festival, etc.) and partnerships with local institutions (Walters Art Gallery, the Baltimore Musicales, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, etc.). With the opening of our new space, The Studio at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, we anticipate expanding our class offerings to include professional artist development, teacher development, and general professional development opportunities for people in the workforce. Lastly, we anticipate adding what we call a Community Corps which would enable groups of adults from a specific community to come together and produce their own production of a Shakespeare play, under the guidance of one or more of CSC's trained teaching artists.

CSC promotes the health and well-being of veterans and active military through the therapeutic activity of self-producing theatre.