January Intensive
program Dates
December 28, 2026 to January 24, 2027
Arrival: Sunday, December 27 Departure: Monday, January 25
Tuition Fees
$4,750 (single room) | $3,750 (double room)
Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by September 1 and save $250.
The January Intensive is Shakespeare & Company’s signature workshop. Participants immerse themselves in voice, movement, text analysis, exploration of the actor/audience relationship, sonnet work, scene work, clown, stage fight, and in-depth discussions about the function of theater and the role of the actor in today’s world.
Program Description
The goal of the January Intensive is to expand the actor’s vocal, physical, emotional, and imaginative responsiveness to language through daily movement and Linklater voice work, and to apply it to the delights and demands of Shakespeare’s text. Shakespeare & Company faculty offer an integrated approach in which each class complements and builds upon the others, and each participant receives careful and considered individualized attention and support.
Shakespeare & Company’s January Intensive is geared toward mid-career theater professionals. Current undergraduate students and recent graduates should apply to the parallel program geared toward emerging artists, the Summer Shakespeare Intensive.
Dates
December 28, 2026 through January 24, 2027
Arrival: Sunday, December 27
Departure: Sunday, January 25
Tuition Fees
$4,750 USD (single room)
$3,750 USD (double room)
Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by September 1 and save $250.
Scholarships & Financial Aid
September 15A LIMITED NUMBER OF BIPOC SCHOLARSHIPS AND NEED-BASED FINANCIAL AID PACKAGES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE JANUARY INTENSIVE. For consideration, fill out the online application and check the box for BIPOC Scholarships and/or Financial Aid. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP OR FINANCIAL AID, YOUR FULL APPLICATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY SEPTEMBER 15.
After your application is received, you will be emailed a link to sign up for an interview time slot. INTERVIEW MUST BE COMPLETED BY OCTOBER 1.
After your application is received, you will also need to submit an audition video following the video instructions below. VIDEO SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM ET ON OCTOBER 1.
VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS
Please perform one Shakespeare monologue. It should be in verse and 2 minutes or less. For the monologue, the character’s age and gender need not match your own. What’s most important is that you have a strong personal connection to the piece, even if you can’t quite articulate what that connection is. It is fine if you film it with your phone, but please film in landscape (horizontal layout) and make sure the sound is clear. After filming, upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo and email the link to training@shakespeare.org.
Applications will be ineligible for scholarship or aid consideration if the audition video is not received by 5pm ET on October 1 and you have not completed your scholarship interview by October 1.
Please note: Multiple discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.
Housing
Tuition costs include single-occupancyor double-occupancy housing in apartments, cottages, or dormitory-style rooms with full kitchen access. All housing is located on campus close to studios and classrooms.
PLEASE NOTE: For the January Intensive, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen, which includes the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.
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You will study...
.01 Linklater Voice
The full progression of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training for actors is taught during the four weeks by Designated Linklater voice teachers. In addition to daily classes in Linklater, voice teachers regularly join in text classes and offer specialized classes to help participants integrate the voice work into their scenes.
.02 Movement
The movement progression includes Pure Movement (Swings), Alexander Technique, physical expressivity, and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises to promote awareness of (and release from) habitual body tension, sensitivity to impulse, dynamic physical presence and stamina, delight in moving with passion and precision, and ensemble.
.03 Text Work
Basics introduces the actor to a text approach which demands an open and personal commitment to thought, word, and gesture. Basics evolves into scene work, first through Dropping In (an approach to experiencing the text on a word-by-word basis) and into text analysis and detailed scene work. Classes in Sonnet and Structure of the Verse round out the text progression, allowing actors to merge their personal connection with the form of Shakespeare’s language.
.04 Actor/Audience Relationship
The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.
.05 Clown & Stage Fight
The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.
Tuition
Full course tuition is
$4,750 USD (single room) | $3,750 USD (double room)
- Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by September 1 and save $250.
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 October 15. Contact us for more information.
You will learn:
- A deeper connection of the body and voice when acting on stage
- Confidence to be fully present on stage when speaking Shakespeare's language
- An understanding of the forms and structures that support the actor’s emotional, visceral and cognitive imagination
- The skills necessary to authentically deliver Shakespeare’s language with accuracy, specificity, and clarity of thought
- A renewed trust in yourself as a theatre artist
