The 3-day course will offer educators fresh, active strategies for teaching Shakespeare.

Participants will:

• • Become enriched with new, creative approaches to help students access Shakespeare’s stories, characters and language;
• • Collaborate with colleagues and learn from experienced Shakespeare teachers;
• • Learn ways to integrate writing and technology into the study of Shakespeare;
• • Celebrate the 21-year anniversary of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival by attending performances of Richard III and As You Like It;
• • Meet and work with Festival company members.

Course Faculty and Guest Instructors to include:

Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education,
The Folger Shakespeare Library

• • Contributing writer/editor, Shakespeare Set Free
• • Author: Shakespeare 101, Shakespeare Book of Lists
• • Instructor, Stony Brook University

• • Contributing writer/editor, Shakespeare Set Free
• • Master Teacher, Teaching Shakespeare Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
• • Author: The Way Home Is Longer

Terrence O’Brien, HVSF Artistic Director and members of the Festival Company

Location: Classes will be held at Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh New York; evening classes and activities held at Boscobel Restoration in Garrison, New York, home of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s summer season

Tuition: $375.00 - includes daily lunch and pre-performance picnic dinner, performance tickets, copies of the plays, workshop lesson plans and handouts, and other Festival surprises.

Hours: Course will provide a total of 30 hours of in-service credit

Graduate Credit: Graduate credits are available through the College of New Rochelle for an additional fee.