The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
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The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company was founded in 2002 and quickly received a great deal of attention for its high-energy approach to the works of Shakespeare and other classics. Performing both in its indoor and outdoor homes in Ellicott City, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company attracts audiences from Howard County, Baltimore, Washington and beyond.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is the theatre company in residence at the Howard County Center for the Arts [1] and performs at the PFI Historic Park in Ellicott City, MD, (The Patapsco Female Institute) where their summer Chesapeake Shakespeare Company-in-the-Ruins productions attract steadily increasing audiences. Its 2006-2007 season includes Love's Labor's Lost, The Front Page (an American classic), and in repertory, As You Like It and Henry V.
CSC has won a number of awards in its short history including six Greater Baltimore Theater Awards and a Best of Baltimore from the City Paper. CSC is the only Maryland theater company invited by the Kennedy Center to participate in the 2007 Shakespeare in Washington Festival. Other companies involved include the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Kirov Ballet and The Library of Congress.
Some of the highlights of CSC's history include an original verse translation of Lope de Vega's play Dog in the Manger produced in 2005 and the Greater Baltimore Theater Awards Outstanding Productions of 2004 (Much Ado About Nothing) and 2006 (King Lear).
[edit] The CSC Approach
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's education programs include professional artist development, community education, K-12 school programming, summer camps for kids, high school Shakespeare Festivals and workshops using methodologies created by CSC in cooperation with National and International Insitutional Partners.
