Shakespeare Institute

FAIN: ES-50351-10

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (New York, NY 10014-2840)
Carie Donnelson (Project Director: March 2010 to September 2010)
Joseph Giardina (Project Director: March 2010 to March 2010)
Katie Beganics (Project Director: September 2010 to June 2012)

A two-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers focusing on common themes in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Henry V.

Theatre for a New Audience requests a grant of $121,574 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its TFANA Shakespeare Institute, which will be offered to 25 school teachers from around the country. The Institute will be conducted at the Columbia University campus in New York City for two weeks during the summer of 2010. The TFANA Shakespeare Institute will provide much needed, in-depth training in understanding and teaching Shakespeare’s plays, language and themes.