2025 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: Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael
Tuitions vary, see below.
Session 1
June 16 – 27
(2-week camp)
Henry IV, Part 1
Tuition: $780.
Join us for Shakespeare’s classic tale of power, honor, and rebellion, and the rise of Prince Hal before he becomes King Henry V. If you love swordplay, comedy, and history, you’ll love this camp.
Session 2
June 30 – July 18
(No camp July 4)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s most magical comedy, where a few fairies send the mortal world into chaos. If you love witty wordplay, physical comedy, and larger-than-life characters, this camp is for you!
Session 3
July 22 – August 9
Romeo & Juliet
Tuition: $1170
Join us for Shakespeare’s tragic tale of feuding families and star-crossed lovers. If you love swordplay, beautiful poetry, and dramatic death scenes, this camp is for you!
2025 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
July 21 – 25
Heroes & Villains
July 28 – August 1
Through the Forest
August 5 – 9
Rough Magic
Summer Training Programs
2025 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.
June 16 – July 11
Four-week session, Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
No class July 4
Production Title TBA
Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael
Tuition: $1600
Other Summer Programs
Technical Apprentice Program
providing training in all aspects of technical theatre for for high school students and young adults. Please email us for more information.
Summer Actor Training Program
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
We are putting together an amazing staff of teaching artists for our 2025 camps. In the meantime, check out the talented artists who taught and directed in 2024.
Ash Baker
Ash Baker (she/they) is a performer, theater director, teaching artist, event producer and
photographer based in San Francisco, Ca.
Jon Demegillo
Jon Demegillo (he/him) is an actor, director, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was most recently seen as Micke in Let The Right One In at Berkeley Rep and also in a workshop of Pakiusap at Oakland Theatre Project. Previous teaching credits include: Marin Shakespeare Company (Play Power Program and Shakespeare Camp) and The Conservatory Theater Ensemble at Tamalpais High School. B.F.A- UNCSA.
Shayna Howett
Shayna Ann Howlett (they/them) is excited to teach with MSC this summer. Since 2023, they’ve directed musical theater with Tomorrow’s Youth Repertory in Alameda. They’ve taught acting intensives with White Rabbit Productions in Millbrae and Shakespeare literacy at Bay Area high schools with the SF Shakespeare Festival and the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). Recent credits include ‘Measure for Measure’ (The Duke) with A.C.T. and ‘Cinderella’ (Ensemble) at Berkeley Playhouse.
Madelyn Ockner
Madelyn (she/her) is a current student at Vassar College, studying drama and neuroscience. She has just returned from a semester of classical acting training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Before Marin Shakes, Madelyn taught kids gymnastics and dance classes, as well as assistant directed for Mount Tamalpais School.