The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival
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The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival is a Maryland nonprofit theatre that produces plays by or about Shakespeare in Baltimore City. It also has an educational program that introduces school children to Shakespeare.
[edit] History
The first production of the BSF was A Midsummer Night's Dream which was performed at the Cloisters in Brooklandville, Maryland in 1994. The company was founded by Kelley Dunn-Feliz and Richard Feliz that same year.
Artistic Director of BSF James Kinstle and his staff present plays by or about Shakespeare and conduct educational programs. In addition to presenting an outdoor production each summer in Northern Baltimore, the festival also produces plays each season at its indoor home at St. Mary's - a church related community center in Hampden, Baltimore's kitschy neighborhood featured in the work of John Waters (filmmaker). Despite more financial difficulty in recent seasons, the Festival has found a wealthy donor to support the festival. This, combined with more modest offerings, enables the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival to continue to produce.
Baltimore Shakespeare Festival also offers classes and, as the highlight of their year, annually present a Shakespeare production performed entirely by children. The Teen Performance Program began in 2004 with a production of Macbeth followed by 2005's production of Love's Labor's Lost, 2006's production of Hamlet and 2007's production of Much Ado About Nothing.
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