Teaching Shakespeare's Plays through Scholarship and Performance

FAIN: ES-293712-23

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (New York, NY 10014-2840)
Lindsay Tanner (Project Director: February 2023 to present)
Julie Anne Crawford (Co Project Director: February 2023 to present)

A two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators on the theme of nature and good government in the text and performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It and King Lear.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute entitled Teaching Shakespeare's Plays through Scholarship and Performance, to be held July 15-26, 2024 at TFANA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute introduces a carefully integrated approach for exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year's participants will study AS YOU LIKE IT and KING LEAR under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars Julie Crawford (Columbia University), Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), master teaching artists and theatre practitioners Krista Apple and Claudia Zelevansky, and K-12 leader Maria Fahey.