2025 Young Company Camp (ages 8 – 12)
Explore Shakespeare’s exciting characters, language, and stories, through creative play, games, exercises, character creation, and rehearsal, guided by professional teaching artists. Each session culminates in a performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play.
3-Week Sessions, Monday through Fridays from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael
Tuitions vary, see below.
Session 1
June 16 – 27
(2-week camp)
As You Like It
Tuition: $780.
Join us for Shakespeare’s adventure-filled romantic comedy. If you love clowns, over-the-top poetry, wrestling and sheep (yes, sheep) you’ll love this camp.
Session 2
June 30 – July 18
(No camp July 4)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s most magical comedy, where a few fairies send the mortal world into chaos. If you love witty wordplay, physical comedy, and larger-than-life characters, this camp is for you!
Only 3 spaces left!
Session 3
July 21 – August 8
Romeo & Juliet
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s tragic tale of feuding families and star-crossed lovers. If you love swordplay, beautiful poetry, and dramatic death scenes, this camp is for you!
2025 Shakespeare’s Stories Camp (ages 5 – 8)
Our youngest campers will learn the stories and characters of Shakespeare’s plays through story-telling, creative dramatics, theatre games, and creative projects. This is a fun way to introduce your student to the plays, and spark young imaginations. Each session culminates in a sharing of scenes and exercises for family and friends.
1-week sessions, Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael
Tuition: $345
July 21 – 25
Heroes & Villains
CANCELLED
July 28 – August 1
Through the Forest
August 4 – 8
Rough Magic
Summer Training Programs
2025 Teen Shakespeare Intensive (ages 13-19)
Our Teen Camp has been reimagined with four weeks of conservatory-style intensive training and rehearsal! Students will dive into classes and workshops in acting, voice, movement, and text, in addition to working with a professional director to rehearse and perform a fully produced Shakespeare play for friends, family and the public.
This year, Intensive students will rehearse and perform Shakespeare’s most heartbreaking tragedy, King Lear. Political intrigue, familial betrayal, power struggles, love triangles, and the fraught relationships between brothers, sisters, aging parents and their children, together set the stage for madness, murder, reconciliation, and ultimately, irreparable loss.
June 16 – July 11
Four-week session, Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
No class July 4
KING LEAR
Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael
Tuition: $1600
ONLY 5 spots left!
Other Summer Programs
Technical Apprentice Program
providing training in all aspects of technical theatre for for high school students and young adults.
Summer Acting Intensive Lab
providing professional actor training and performance opportunities for students age 18 and older.
Social Justice Training Program
for students and adults 18 and up
Scholarships are available for all Marin Shakespeare Company classes;
our goal is to include all students regardless of the ability to pay.
Summer Teaching Artists
Meet the amazing group of theatre artists who will be teaching and directing for Shakespeare Camp 2025
Nicolas Poler
Young Company Camp
Nicolas is a theater artist and educator based in the Bay Area. A lover of theater and performance ever since before he could talk, Nico has performed, led a teen run theater company in Mountain View, and graduated with a BFA in drama from UNCSA. The theater is Nico’s happy place, and he loves working alongside people of all ages to share the joy of art and to tell stories. He is tremendously excited to be working with Marin Shakespeare Company to be a resource to younger artists on a journey of artistic growth!
Aisha Rivera
Teen Shakespeare Intensive
Aisha (they/them) is an actor, visual artist, playwright and poet from Napa, CA. Favorite acting credits include Yerma (Shotgun Players), Dead Man’s Cellphone (Upstage Napa Valley), and Cymbeline (Berkeley Shakespeare Company). Aisha is also the current Poet Laureate for Napa County. Their poetry can be found in the poetry anthologies “Poetics without Borders” and “Latinas, Gender, Race, and Class…”. Aisha is excited to empower youth through Shakespeare!
Andrew Vose
Teen Shakespeare Intensive
Andrew is a recent graduate of LAMDA’s MFA in Classical Theater and currently lives in London. He was born and raised in San Francisco and is excited to be working with Marin Shakespeare. He is passionate about what makes actors tick and how to bring the best of ourselves on stage. Cultivating a sense of play and freedom are essential to his process. Some acting credits include Colonel Mustard in Clue (Pheonix Theater), Cash in The Pain and The Itch (South London Theater), Theseus/Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sainsbury Theater).
Abigail Wissink
Young Company Camp
Abigail (they/them) is a performer and educator. They work during the school year as an Environmental Science Educator with NatureBridge in the Marin Headlands, and worked as a Shakespeare Teaching Artist with Shakespeare Walla Walla for five years. They love singing, swing dancing, and hanging out with kids outside, and they’re so excited to spend the summer at Marin Shakes!
Jordan Woolley
Young Company Camp & Shakespeare’s Stories
Jordan (she/her) is an actor and theater major at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. As a new teaching artist, Jordan looks forward to creating a memorable and fun experience for young actors. She’s worked as a camp counselor for Cinnabar Theater’s young rep in Petaluma and performed in a variety of theater settings throughout her life. She’s been acting since she was seven years old, and as a military child, always felt a sense of belonging with theater wherever she lived. She’s excited to share this love of theater and Shakespeare with the talented students here at Marin Shakes this summer!
