Georgia Shakespeare Festival

Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia Shakespeare Festival is an award-winning theater company that combines exciting and high-quality professional productions with innovative education programs. Founded in 1985, the festival's mission is to create thoughtful, bold, and passionate interpretations of a diverse body of work, rooted in Shakespeare and branching out to embrace the best writers and ideas of all eras. Onstage and through educational programming, the company strives to entertain, to ignite the imagination, and to creatively explore the journey of the human spirit. Georgia Shakespeare Festival, along with Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Richard Garner, is recognized as a leader in the Atlanta arts community. Mr. Garner's 2008 co-production with Alliance Theatre of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice was named best play of 2008 by local critics. Each year, the company reaches more than 70,000 people. With a company of associate artists that includes some of Atlanta's most highly regarded artists and technicians, Georgia Shakespeare Festival has a reputation for excellence in all areas of its work.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, Georgia Shakespeare Festival will tour a production of Macbeth to 15 schools in underserved areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama. In addition, schools will receive workshops to give students a more intensive look at the play. Study guides and materials will be available well before the production arrives at the school, and teachers will be offered professional development training through the festival's well-established No Fear Shakespeare program—all of which will be at no cost to the schools and the teachers.

Visit them at: www.gashakespeare.org