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 Let our workshops help you instill excitement in your students to study Shakespeare and gain some CEUs in the process.

As much as there will be academic material to educate the students the main focus of these workshops is to help the teachers enjoy the process of sharing the extraordinary literary, dramatic, and theatrical world of Shakespeare. 

Unless the English teachers had a personal passion for Shakespeare and indulged themselves in their undergraduate and graduate studies of appreciating and offering an impassioned introduction to Shakespeare, we dare say a few teachers may have some, if not much, trepidation to teach specifically the work of Shakespeare.  

May we help put to rest such fear and ignite a fierce, wide-eyed joy of using language so powerfully that it will be palpable to you and to your students. Over the years, Gary Meitrott has experienced working with numerous age groups performing Shakespeare and, in all venues, there has not failed to be a shift in the individual’s sense of self after working with Shakespeare’s plays. In two very different situations -- working with a junior company of high school students and in a maxim security correctional facility directing inmates to perform Shakespeare -- Gary found that with a personal understanding of what they were saying using such language a visual shift in the emotional sense of self was noticeable. This is the most important direction that this workshop is focused toward:

Empowering the individual to a greater sense of self worth, self-confidence, and self- reliance