The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s Education Programs aim to provide exposure, education, and experience with Shakespeare’s craft to all St. Louisans.
Shakespeare School Residency Programs
For the past 5 years, Resident Teaching Artist Hannah Baartman has created Shakespeare Programs unique to a partnered school’s needs, values, and communities.
Over the course of a semester, the Festival’s Education Team administrates, teaches, and directs an abridged Shakespeare play with a school’s students – providing opportunities for students to develop their sense of accountability, collaboration, and literacy skills, which are then celebrated in a performance for fellow students, teachers, parents, and community!
These programs have met with great success in:
- Schools both with and without theater programs
- Grades 4-6th, Middle Schools, and High Schools
- Public and Private schools
- Secular and Religious Schools
To learn more about how this program could engage your students, contact Hannah Baartman at
Contact Hannah
Workshops and Guest Performances
Engage Students through Guest School Performances
- Following the legacy of the Festival Education Tours, student and professional performers are taking abridged Adaptations of Shakespeare’s works on the road! These productions are tailored to student audiences, full of wholesome humor and helpful presentations of Shakespeare’s lengthy plots.
Enliven Classrooms through Guest Teacher Led Units
- Whether your Shakespeare curriculum has been long established, just developing, or you’re hoping to engage your students more deeply, the Festival is eager to share its joyful and meaty curriculums that illuminate Shakespeare’s Secret Codes and Poetic Genius from the differing perspectives of illiterate groundling, romantic noble, and working actor!
Exercise and Educate Student Performers through Workshops
- Shakespeare’s genius becomes immediately evident when students are UP speaking his words! But Acting is already a nebulous task, let alone with archaic phrases and poetry!
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The Festival’s workshops are designed to equip actors with concrete tools to take advantage of the Secret Acting Codes Shakespeare wove through his lines. Practical methods and exercises are used to empower students to trust their instincts, make choices they can be confident in, and cease “strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage!?
To book a touring show, guest teacher appearance, or workshop – contact Education Coordinator Hannah Baartman at hannah@stlshakes.org
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