Tennessee Shakespeare Co. - 2024-2025 Playbill

5 2024-2025: SEASON SEVENTEEN ABOUT TN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Tennessee Shakespeare Company is the first and only professional, not-for-profit theatre and education organization in Memphis dedicated to live, diverse performances of William Shakespeare’s plays, as well as works of social significance by classical, Southern, and modern playwrights/ composers; and to providing innovative education, training, and outreach programming. In 2017, we purchased our first performing arts facility, which is being renovated into the state’s only permanent home for professional, year-round Shakespeare performance, education, and training. We are one-third of the way completed toward our $9.2 million Brave New World capital campaign goal. Across 16 seasons, we have achieved over 720,000 points of contact through 70 productions in 42 community venues; have educated 300,000 students in 130 area schools; have served the health needs of 1,000 veterans at the Memphis V.A. Medical Center; and have brought Shakespeare and creative writing to 500 youths in three county detention centers. The most recent Arts & Economic Prosperity Study, facilitated by ARTSmemphis, revealed that TSC had an economic impact on our surrounding area of approximately $2.8 million in the last year. Our Education and Outreach Program has achieved a high regional and national profile and partners annually with most local school systems. This season, the Program is once again a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest Shakespeare in American Communities grant for our Macbeth Initiative in underserved local schools. TSC’s vision is to sustain a classical, professional theatre in Memphis that nurtures artists creatively and financially; and encourages audiences to exaltation, curiosity, and wonderment; a center for the community dedicated to re-discovering our faith in life by increasing our awareness of reality and expanding our imagination through an emphasis on the performance, education, and training of William Shakespeare’s works. We believe William Shakespeare and his stories are for everyone – as diverse as the characters with whom he populates his plays. We believe the plays of Shakespeare should be central to every child’s formal education. We believe Memphis and Tennessee deserve a sustainable world-class, professional Shakespeare company. TOMAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TO TSC: Go to www.tnshakespeare.org or Text “TSCDonate” to 44-321 or contribute via Venmo at @tnshakespeare or Give Dan McCleary a call at (901) 759-0604 Thank you! Erin Amlicke in The Importance of Being Earnest , 2023. Photo: Joey Miller