Professional Development Programs:

Teacher's Resource | Teaching Shakespeare | Acting Apprenticeship Program

Help educators and theater artists further their knowledge and comfort level with teaching and performing Shakespeare’s plays.

Teacher's Resource

These participatory one-day workshops go hand in hand with Access-Shakespeare and give teachers classroom resources and techniques to help them to explore Shakespeare’s plays in the classroom. These workshops focus on the plays from an actor/director perspective and help to allay the fear of teaching Shakespeare.

Summer Institute "Teaching Shakespeare"
Participants, Summer Institute 2007
Photo: Bill Irwin

Three-day intensive teacher training in the Hudson Valley. Through in depth participatory exercises teachers are given useable teaching tools that will help them invigorate and strengthen their connection to the plays of Shakespeare. Teachers will leave our workshops refreshed, inspired and ready to share new strategies for teaching Shakespeare.

"I loved it. It made my mind whirl with new ideas!" - Marylin Russel, Franklin High School, Lebanon, OH

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Acting Apprenticeship Program

This program was created to help college age actors gain a better understanding of the actual commitment that is needed to become a working theater professional. Through performance, rehearsal process, classroom study, and professional networking apprentices are able to explore different aspects of their artistic development.

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