"Shakespeare Santa Cruz strives to cultivate the imagination, wit, daring, and vision that the greatest playwrights demand of artists and audiences alike."
About Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Shakespeare Santa Cruz is a professional repertory company in residence at the Unversity of California, Santa Cruz. Our Festival was founded in 1981 and continues to be held annually each summer at UC Santa Cruz. Plays are held indoors on the UCSC Theatre Arts Mainstage and outdoors in a redwood grove ("The Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen"). Bringing in professional actors, directors and designers from throughout the country, the Company's season runs from July to early September and features three to four plays presented in repertory. In keeping with our mission, the Festival seeks to avoid presenting "museum Shakespeare." To that end, the company's productions have included transplanted time periods, pop culture references, and non-traditional casting.
Since its founding, the company's artistic directors have been Audrey Stanley, Michael Edwards, Danny Scheie, Risa Brainin, and Paul Whitworth. In 1997, Artistic Director Paul Whitworth introduced the annual Winter Holiday season, a now annual tradition, modeled after the British pantomimes (or "pantos") of his youth. In keeping with the tradition of Shakespeare Santa Cruz's fresh takes on the classics, the holiday pantos, are original works written by playwright Kate Hawley and based on traditional fairy tales and children's literature.
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