Colorado Shakespeare Festival Summer Camps

Colorado Shakespeare Festival Summer Camps include Shakespeare’s Sprites and Camp Shakespeare, where participants rehearse, stage, and perform a shortened Shakespeare play. Activities in these camps include scenes for Sprites, pool-noodle fights, silly insults, Renaissance songs, and lively scene work.

• Ages: 6–18 years old
• Schedule: One-week Shakespeare’s Sprites sessions and a multi-week Camp Shakespeare session in summer 2026
• Price: Shakespeare’s Sprites earlybird tuition $275 per week and regular tuition $305 per week, with discounts for multiple sessions or siblings; Camp Shakespeare earlybird tuition $1,075 and regular tuition $1,220, with discounts for siblings; all registrations require a $50 deposit and include a non-refundable $50 registration fee; payment plans and scholarships are available; specific refund amounts depend on how many days before the program a cancellation is made

Shakespeare’s Sprites sessions each run for one week, with Session 1 scheduled June 29–July 3, 2026, and Session 2 scheduled July 6–10, 2026, both from 9 am to 12 noon and ending with a final showing on Friday at 11:30 am in the Loft Theatre. Camp Shakespeare runs July 13–August 1, 2026, Monday through Friday from 12 pm to 4 pm, and ends with a free public performance on Saturday, August 1, from 9:30 to 11:30 am in the Roe Green Theatre. In Camp Shakespeare, ages 9 to 11 work on “Julius Caesar,” ages 12 to 13 work on “Hamlet,” and ages 14 to 18 work on “Twelfth Night.” Students enrolled in Shakespeare’s Sprites are expected to have basic reading skills.

For over 60 seasons, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival has presented classic theatre under the stars and, since 1958, has focused on Shakespeare and his continuing influence and vitality. The festival states that it celebrates and explores Shakespeare through productions of superior artistic quality, education, and community engagement, and that it aims to preserve classics of the past and pursue classics of the future while expanding the cultural richness of the region by inspiring, challenging, and cultivating the imagination of audiences and artists. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company in association with the University of Colorado Boulder. Its education programs reach tens of thousands of school children each year through camps, classes, and outreach performances that connect them with the continuing tradition and importance of Shakespeare. Gifts to CSF Education provide tuition scholarships for camps and theatre classes, as well as subsidies for schools, performances, and workshops.

Last updated June 3, 2026.