classes for teachers & educators

Recharge and gain new techniques for teaching Shakespeare by participating in one or more classes at OSF. Attend and exchange ideas with other teachers and learn strategies for making great literature come alive for your students.

Inside Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

(March 2 – 4)
Provides strategies and practical lessons to teach Shakespeare's consummate tragedy of star-crossed lovers. Includes tuition for a day and a half of class sessions, tickets to Romeo and Juliet (Friday evening) and Animal Crackers. $265.
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Shakespeare in the Classroom

(July 10 – 14)
Provides a theatre-based rather than academic approach, intended to make the works of Shakespeare exciting and accessible for students. Active participation is required. For English and theatre teachers. The class includes tuition, tickets to five plays and one Festival Noon event. Housing and one or two units of graduate credit in English or Theatre Arts are available through Southern Oregon University, each for an additional charge. $830. Tuition assistance available.
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Teachers First!

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is one of 40 professional theater companies selected to participate in Shakespeare for a New Generation, bringing the finest productions of Shakespeare to thousands of middle- and high-school students in communities across the United States. This is the eighth and final year of Shakespeare in American Communities, the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history.