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Marin Shakespeare’s classes provide performing arts instruction throughout the year for students of all ages at the Center for Performing Arts, Education, and Social Justice at 514 Fourth Street in San Rafael. We also offer Shakespeare Summer Camps for students starting at age 5. Scholarships are available for all Marin Shakespeare Company classes; our goal is to include all students regardless of the ability to pay.
Contact Education Director Elana Kepner at 415-499-4487 / education@marinshakespeare.org with questions.
Students 8-19 will have the opportunity to perform on the stage at 514 Fourth Street under the guidance of professional theatre artists, with sets, costumes, lighting, and sound. All roles are available for performers of any gender presentation. All who audition will be cast.
FALL 2024
Youth Company (8 – 12)
Alice in Wonderland
Adapted from Lewis Carroll
Directed by Artistic Associate Cathleen Riddley
It’s not too late to join the cast! Email Education Director Elana Kepner
Bored with all the structure in her life, Alice does what any of us would do: she follows a rabbit down a rabbit hole to a world where nothing makes sense. But can she hang on to her own identity as she grows and shrinks, argues with birds, swims in a sea of her own tears, and gets put on trial by a deck of playing cards? Youth Company’s performers will bring this amazing world to life!
Auditions: August 27 & 28, 4-6 PM. Choose one day to attend and be prepared to stay for the full 2 hours.
What to prepare: Auditions will be very low pressure. We want to see your creativity and how well you work with others. Come ready to move and play! If you sing, or have any special skills you’d like to demonstrate (dance moves, martial arts, magic tricks, etc.), we’d love to see them. Check out some tips about acing your audition!
(OPTIONAL) If you would like to, you may also prepare one of the monologues on this sheet. This is entirely optional. Be familiar with your monologue, but please do not focus on memorization. Instead think about who the character is and how you can use your voice and body to show that.
Rehearsals: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4-6, starting September 9th. No rehearsal the week of November 25/ Thanksgiving.
Tech/ Dress Rehearsals (mandatory): December 2-6, times TBA
Preliminary Production Calendar
Performances: December 7 & 8, performance times TBA
Participation Fee: $700 –Register
Need-based scholarships are available for all Marin Shakespeare Company classes. Email Education Director Elana Kepner to apply.
All auditions, rehearsals, and performances will be held at 514 Fourth Street in San Rafael.
Teen Company (13 – 19)
Metamorphoses
By Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Artistic Associate Stevie Demott
Teen Company presents Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award winning play.
Metamorphoses is a sweet cacophony of people’s yearnings as they try to negotiate life and death. Beginning with the well-known story of Midas and his golden touch, through stories about Orpheus and Eurydice; Eros and Psyche; and Aphrodite, Zeus, and other gods, demigods, and humans; we are reminded that life is about change — not just physical change, but changes in our perceptions of need and greed, love and loneliness, money and humility.
All auditions, rehearsals, and performances will be held at 514 Fourth Street in San Rafael.
Winter 2025
Youth Company (8 – 12)
Spooky Shakespeare
A compilation of supernatural scenes and monologues from Shakespeare’s plays and inspired by his work, featuring ghosts, witches, sprites, and spirits, plus some plain old villains.
AUDITIONS: TBA
Teen Company (13 – 19)
Teen Touring Company Presents Macbeth
Rehearses January-February, tours and performs in March. For more info about Teen Touring Company
AUDITIONS: November 18 & 19, 5-7PM
One-On-One Audition Coaching
for Youth ages 12+ and Adults
Work with Education Director Elana Kepner to prepare for auditions for high school, college, graduate school, summer intensives and professional productions. Tailored to the needs of the student, coaching can help build confidence and work through stage fright as well as working on the nuts and bolts of your audition including material selection, vocal production and speech, Shakespeare, dialect acquisition, presence, transitions, and fine-tuning your whole audition package. Coaching is also ideal for actors working to polish their technique or work through challenges.
Cost: $75/hour.
Email Elana Kepner at education@marinshakespeare.org to schedule coaching sessions.
Also available: coaching for public and special occasion speaking (perfect your presentation or wedding toast).
Elana Kepner is an experienced audition coach whose clients have been accepted to highly ranked BFA programs, arts high schools and summer intensives and been offered roles at regional theatres across the country, as well as network tv and feature films. Elana’s clients have also placed nationally at the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition.
SHAKESPEARE SUMMER CAMPS
Visit Summer Camps for information about camps for students ages 5 to 19.
TEEN TOURING COMPANY
Teen Touring Company is a unique opportunity for actors aged 12 – 18 to create and tour a Shakespeare play to schools, senior centers and community organizations. Students work with a professional director and dive into conservatory-style rehearsal and training in voice and text work, acting and movement. For more information, Visit Teen Touring Company.