Applied Shakespeare

The Applied Shakespeare graduate certificate is an interdisciplinary program offered in partnership with the babyÖ±²¥app Shakespeare Festival and the departments of English and theatre and dance. Explore acting, directing, interpreting and teaching Shakespeare in an immersive context with your peers.

This program is designed to benefit a wide range of students:

  • Lifelong Shakespeare enthusiasts enroll for a deeper dive into Shakespeare’s plays, a behind-the-scenes look at Shakespeare in production, and an opportunity to consider new ways in which Shakespeare might apply to their own careers and lives
  • Teachers take away new tools for making Shakespeare fun, accessible and engaging in their classrooms
  • Theatre artists enroll to learn more about the innovative work that other theatre arts practitioners are doing in their communities