Marin Shakespeare Company Summer Camps & Programs

Marin Shakespeare Company Summer Camps & Programs include Shakespeare’s Stories Camp, Young Company Camp, a Teen Shakespeare Intensive, a Technical Apprentice Program, a Summer Acting Intensive Lab, a Social Justice Training Program, and a Teen Touring Company. Camp activities include exploring Shakespeare’s characters, language, and stories through creative play, games, exercises, character creation, rehearsal, story-telling, creative dramatics, theatre games, creative projects, and classes and workshops in acting, voice, movement, and text. Participants rehearse and perform fully produced or abbreviated Shakespeare plays, and some programs include training in all aspects of technical theatre.

• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Shakespeare’s Stories Camp meets in 1-week sessions, Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm; Young Company Camp meets in 3-week sessions, Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; the Teen Shakespeare Intensive meets in a four-week session, Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
• Price: Young Company Camp tuition ranges from $780 to $1170 per session; Shakespeare’s Stories Camp tuition is $345 per 1-week session; Teen Shakespeare Intensive tuition is $1600 for the four-week session; Teen Touring Company tour pricing is a $100 per performance requested donation.

Young Company Camp sessions each culminate in a performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play, and Shakespeare’s Stories Camp sessions culminate in a sharing of scenes and exercises for family and friends. The Teen Shakespeare Intensive offers four weeks of conservatory-style intensive training and rehearsal, including working with a professional director to rehearse and perform a fully produced Shakespeare play for friends, family, and the public, with a performance on Friday, July 10 at 2:00 pm. The Technical Apprentice Program provides training in all aspects of technical theatre for high school students and young adults, while the Summer Acting Intensive Lab provides professional actor training and performance opportunities for students age 18 and older, and the Social Justice Training Program is for students and adults 18 and up. The Teen Touring Company creates and tours a 50-minute Shakespeare play to schools, senior centers, and community organizations, and each performance includes a 10-minute Q&A with the actors; audience experience is enhanced with a Twelfth Night Discovery Guide filled with information, insights, and lesson plans. Scholarships are available for all Marin Shakespeare Company classes, with a stated goal to include all students regardless of the ability to pay.

The leadership team includes Managing Director Lesley Currier, Artistic Director Jon Tracy, Business Manager Noah Rojas-Domke, Education Director Elana Kepner, Production Manager Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, and Technical Director Jackson Currier. Teaching staff include Calla Hollingsworth, an actor and theatre artist from the Bay Area working toward a BA in theatre at UC San Diego with stage combat training and fight choreography experience; Max Kelly, an actor and teaching artist based in Silicon Valley pursuing a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University with multiple Stanford productions and five summers of camp teaching at Peninsula Youth Theatre; and Charlie Lavaroni, an arts education leader pursuing an MFA in Acting at the Asolo Conservatory who is part of the Education Leadership team at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and directs youth productions at ArtsBridge, Shakespeare & Co., and the Marsh Theatre. Additional staff include Joel Ochoa, who holds a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Acting and has worked with several Bay Area theatres and in film; Nicolas Poler, a theater artist and educator with a BFA in drama from UNCSA who has performed and led a teen-run theater company; and Abigail Wissink, a performer and educator who works as an Environmental Science Educator with NatureBridge and previously worked for five years as a Shakespeare Teaching Artist with Shakespeare Walla Walla.

The Teen Touring Company’s 2026 schedule includes performances at multiple schools, a library, community centers, and senior communities in Marin and Sonoma counties. Marin Shakespeare Company supports community organizations with donations of free tickets for groups or auction and raffle events and states that scholarships are available for all classes. The organization states that it honors the Coast Miwok people as the original caretakers of the land and describes its mission as engaging hearts and minds through theatre on stages, in classrooms, and in prisons to create spaces for connection, reflection on the past, envisioning the future, and igniting meaningful dialogue through the arts, with the stated goals of sparking cultural engagement, inspiring learning, and driving lasting community transformation.

Last updated June 19, 2026.