Kevin G. Coleman is a Shakespeare & Company founding member and the current Director of Education. He is a master teacher of text analysis, stage combat, clown and directing.  Mr. Coleman has been a guest teacher or director at MIT, Harvard, UMass, L.S.U., SUNY Albany, Stanford, Shenandoah Shakespeare, Queensland University, Australia, Lincoln Center, the Folger Library, and the Stratford Festival among others. He was honored at the White House in 2006 for the Education Program’s work with juvenile offenders which received the Coming Up Taller award. He has also received the Teaching Artist Award for Theatre from the State of Massachusetts and was a finalist for the 2016 Tony Education Award. Mr. Coleman holds degrees from St. Louis University and NYU.