Mission & Approach

Mission

Shakesperience educates and inspires students, families, and theater professionals through the arts in order to explore social constructs and the human condition while fostering mutual respect for all people. Shakesperience creates innovative, interactive, thought-provoking live theatre programs to be a catalyst for conversation between artist and audience.

Approach

Whether teaching children, or rehearsing to perform for our diverse audience, the Shakesperience Approach focuses on creating thought provoking, socially aware, and artistically excellent productions celebrating and using language to create action. Individual performers develop a defined sense of self through the creation of and interaction with a strong and positive ensemble. Both actor and audience utilize their unique relationship to experience a heightened sense of reflection on the performance. Shakesperience Productions' professional artists create curriculum-based programming rooted in classical literature while celebrating, examining, and experiencing humanity and human experience. Continuously, we strive to work alongside educators to answer the social and academic needs of today's student.

Mission and Approach within our Communities

We are committed to ongoing progress and intentional efforts to foster a welcoming environment for everyone. Shakesperience utilizes Shakespeare's exploration of humanity as a foundation for promoting dialogue and education, community and connection.

Shakesperience prioritizes meaningful systemic improvements guided by our mission, rather than using our efforts for marketing purposes.
We are committed to attracting a large range of individuals from all walks of life within our operations, including board members, management, staff, volunteers, and students.
Our programming reflects a broad spectrum of community, enhancing our connection with those we serve.
We appreciate the invaluable feedback from our audience, artists, employees, and students, which helps us stay accountable and strive for positive social change in our community.

The mission of Shakesperience Productions, Inc. is rooted in inclusion. The board and staff of Shakesperience acknowledge that inattention and tradition have led to policies and procedures that uphold established societal bias and inequality. The entire organization pledges to take deliberate steps to identify these shortcomings and establish, execute, and document action steps to attract more BIPOC individuals in every area of operations, including board, management, staff, volunteers, and students, and to more effectively reflect the diversity of the community we serve. Shakesperience has always used Shakespeare, in his vision of humans as complex and fallible, as a catalyst for conversation and education, and pledges to advance the anti-racism aspects of this and other programmatic work. We are grateful to our audience, artists, employees, and students for speaking up and holding us accountable to the action steps (to be posted here) that enable us to lead, think, and act for positive social change in our community.