The Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Location:
Nashville, TN 
Founded in 1988, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival is a professional company that provides annual Shakespeare in the park productions to over 10,000 people. In 1992 after responding to a need within the Nashville schools, the company developed an educational outreach program that included touring productions of Shakespeare plays and interactive workshops. After finding a permanent home in 2008 at the Troutt Theatre at Belmont University, the company began to offer a production for schools that takes place in the month of January. The Nashville Shakespeare Festival further expanded their outreach to include businesses and adults by providing workshops that exercise creative thinking, problem solving, and effective communication through the use of Shakespeare’s language, characters, and themes.
As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival will present student matinees of Julius Caesar. The accompanying educational activities will include post-performance question-and-answer sessions with the cast and crew and in-school workshops conducted by their teaching artists. They will reach over 20 middle- and high-schools with these performances and activities.
Company Website:
http://www.nashvilleshakes.org 
