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 Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, MD, where their summer Chesapeake Shakespeare Company-in-the-Ruins productions attract steadily increasing audiences. Its 2008-2009 season includes The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare on Ice!, Macbeth, and The Country Wife.
CSC has won a number of awards in its short history including six Greater Baltimore Theater Awards including Outstanding Production of 2004 (Much Ado About Nothing) and Outstanding Production of 2006 (King Lear), The BroadwayWorld.com's Reader's Choice Award for Best Classical Production of 2007 (Macbeth) and a Best of Baltimore from the City Paper for their 2005 production of an original verse translation of Lope de Vega's play Dog in the Manger . 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.
CSC's production of Macbeth was performed at the Patuxent Institution, a maximum security institution in Jessup, Maryland. This event was covered by CBS News, UPI and many newspapers including The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun.
[edit] The CSC Approach
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's education programs include professional artist development, community education, innovative 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 Institutional Partners.
