2026 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 and Tuition vary, see below.
Session 1
June 15 – 26
Comedy of Errors
514 Fourth Street
Tuition: $780.
Please Note: This is a two-week camp. Join us for Shakespeare’s madcap tale of twins and mistaken identities. If you love over-the-top physical comedy you’ll love this camp.
Session 2
June 29 – July 17
Macbeth
Forest Meadows
Amphitheatre
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s spookiest tragedy! If you like witches, ghosts and sword fights you’ll love this camp.
Session 3
July 20 – August 7
Much Ado About Nothing
514 Fourth Street
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s wittiest romantic comedy. If you love goofy characters, verbal sparring, and beautiful poetry, this is the camp for you!
2026 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
Session 1
July 20 – July 24
Shipwrecks & Adventures
Session 2
July 27 – July 31
Royalty & Loyalty
Session 3
August 3 – August 7
Creatures & Clowns
Summer Training Programs
2026 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.
Only 15 spaces available!
Four-week session, Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael
Tuition: $1600
June 15- July 10, 2026
Performance: Friday, July 10 at 2:00 PM
Production Title TBA
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
As we put together our staff for summer 2026, meet the amazing group of theatre artists who directed and taught 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!
