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
Charlie Lavaroni
Teen Shakespeare Intensive
Charlie (she/they/he) is an accomplished arts education leader currently pursing their MFA in Acting at the Asolo Conservatory. As a part of the Education Leadership team at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Charlie created new visions for standards/practices and shaped ethos of Shakespeare education & engagement from camp programs to touring productions. They remain invested in using Shakespeare as a tool for young people- to nurture empathy, develop imaginations, and create community; serving the Bay Area to the Nor East as a Director of youth productions at cultural institutions such as ArtsBridge, Shakespeare & Co., and the Marsh Theatre.www.charlielavaroni.com
Joel Ochoa
Teen Shakespeare Intensive
Joel is so excited to be back teaching at Marin Shakes after previously co-directing the youth productions of The Tempest and Macbeth in the summer of 2023! Since then, Joel has gotten to work on stage and screen with many companies in the Bay Area including: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SF Playhouse, Presidio Theatre, SF Shakespeare Festival, Superhuman, Checkr, About Face, Pegasus Solar, Exo Inc., and The SF Fire Department. He just finished up runs as Billy in The Goat at Shotgun Players and as part of the Ensemble in Jagged Little Pill at Center Rep. He is in the upcoming feature Under the Lights and was in the short films Take Me There and The Healer, which have premiered at film festivals worldwide. He holds a BA Theatre from Millikin University and an MFA Acting from Academy of Art University. When he’s not working, you can usually find him drinking an iced vanilla latte, hammocking with a good book, or hiking with his backpack that he’s had since high school (despite definitely needing a new one)! Instagram: @joelocho
Nicolas Poler
Young Company Camp
Nicolas (he/him) 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.
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.