Georgia Shakespeare Festival

Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia Shakespeare Festival creates thoughtful, bold, and passionate interpretations of a diverse body of work rooted in Shakespeare and branching out to embrace the best writers and ideas of all eras. On the stage and through educational programming, the company strives to entertain, to ignite the imagination, and to creatively explore the journey of the human spirit. Founded in 1985, Georgia Shakespeare is a professional theater company that combines some of Atlanta's most exciting and high-quality, professional productions with one of Georgia's most innovative education programs. Georgia Shakespeare, known for the quality and vitality of its work, has been repeatedly recognized by t he Atlanta Journal-Constitution for excellence; the newspaper hails Georgia Shakespeare as “one of the city's best theater destinations.” Georgia Shakespeare received its first national review in 2006 when the Wall Street Journal praised its production of Twelfth Night as “an absolute knockout.” In addition to its excellence on the stage and in the classroom, Georgia Shakespeare is acknowledged for its outreach programs such as Shake at the Lake, free professional productions offered each spring in Piedmont Park in Atlanta .

With the support received from Shakespeare for a New Generation, Georgia Shakespeare's 2009 tour production of Julius Caesar will be for schools in underserved areas of middle, northeastern, and southeastern Georgia, as well as western North Carolina. The grant will allow Georgia Shakespeare to offer performances to a minimum of 12 schools in these underserved areas with accompanying student workshops, all at no cost to the schools. Additionally, the company will conduct regional teacher training workshops as part of the project. Schools will be selected in conjunction with educators in each region.

Visit them at: www.gashakespeare.org