Summer Shakespeare Intensive
program Dates
May 28 - June 22, 2025 Arrival: Tuesday, May 27 Departure: Monday, June 23
Tuition Fees
$5,850 USD
Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by March 15 and save $500.
Modeled after our internationally acclaimed January Month-long Intensive, the Summer Shakespeare Intensive (formerly the Summer Training Institute) provides young actors the opportunity to immerse themselves in Shakespeare six days a week for four weeks during our summer performance season.
A Typical Day
9 am to 12 pm – Voice and Movement classes
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm to 5:15 pm – Text/Scene work or specialized class
5:30 pm to 6:45 pm – Dinner
7 pm to 9 pm – Text or special class (some evenings will be off)
The Summer Shakespeare Intensive is geared toward undergraduate theater students, recent graduates, and early career acting professionals, but it is open to open to a wide-ranging audience of performers and practitioners.
The Summer Shakespeare Intensive schedule is based on a daily and weekly progression of exercises. Occasionally, special events are held, or time-off for learning lines, readings, or research is given. There will be one day off each week, typically Mondays, and all scene work will culminate in a final showing of the scenes open to company members, family and friends of the participants.
Scholarships
We are excited to offer a limited number of BIPOC scholarships and financial aid packages for the 2025 Summer Shakespeare Intensive. Applications to the program must be completed by March 10. After the full application is received, you will be sent instructions on submitting an audition video as well as a link to schedule an interview. Audition videos and interviews must be completed by March 21. All scholarship applicants will be notified of decisions the week of March 31.
Most scholarships are partial scholarships, ranging in amount based on talent, potential, need, and available funds for the program. Scholarship and financial aid applicants should be prepared to pay partial tuition.
Housing and Food
Tuition costs include double-occupancy housing and breakfast provided each day, either on the Shakespeare & Company campus or a nearby hotel. Housing is located within walking distance of restaurants and a grocery store. Refrigerators and microwaves are available to all participants. A limited number of single rooms may be available for an additional fee, amount TDB. For those staying at the off-site hotel, transportation from housing to campus will be arranged for those without personal vehicles. Participants are responsible for their lunch and dinner, and all meals on the day off.
PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen. For all programs held on the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Mass., this includes being up to date on the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.
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Tuition
Full course tuition is
$5,850 USD
- Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by March 1 and save $600.
A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application and audition video due by March 15. Contact us for more information.
You will learn:
- A full complement of Shakespeare text work
- The full progression of Linklater voice work taught by designated Linklater teachers
- Movement and Dance
- Specialized Classes in The Elizabethan World Picture, Play or Clown, and Stage Violence
- Exploration of the actor/audience relationship
- Monologue, sonnet and scene work
