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The country's only one-year MFA in Classical Acting! Training also includes performances in the ACA repertory productions and its Showcases in Washington, D.C.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting (ACA), in conjunction with The George Washington University, offers a Master of Fine Arts degree to develop actors for the classical theatre. Under the guidance of Michael Kahn, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company and one of this country's most respected acting teachers, the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Cl
09/12/2024
Interested in earning your MFA in Classical Acting?
Attend an online info session to receive a application fee waiver!
September 18th at 2pm
October 21st at 5pm
January 15th at 2pm
Register at the link in our bio.
09/09/2024
Our graduates are off to Greece! On stage at least…
Get your tickets to see COMEDY OF ERRORS at the link in our bio.
The Klein Theatre, 450 7th St. NW📍
09/06/2024
Cheers to a new year, welcome to the STC Academy Class of 2025!
07/25/2024
how it started vs how it’s going
These star-crossed lovers will be at the Klein Theatre tonight at 7:30pm and Saturday at 8pm!
Get your tickets at the link in our bio.
07/23/2024
Queen Mab wouldn’t miss a show, and you shouldn’t either 🧚🏼
07/18/2024
What can we say, ROMEO & JULIET is the show of the summer at and the Academy. Take a guess who’s who 🔎
The Class of 2024 take the stage at the Klein Theatre on opening night this Saturday July 20th at 8pm!
07/13/2024
“The banished Cavaliers! A roving blade!
A popish Carnival! A Masquerade!”
Get your tickets to THE ROVER at the link in our bio.
JULY 18, 6pm
JULY 21, 7:30pm
JULY 24, 7:30pm (open caption)
JULY 26, 8pm
JULY 27, 2pm
The Klein Theatre, 450 7th St. NW📍
05/17/2024
It’s 1655 through the lens of your favorite pop diva in director Eleanor Holdridge‘s rendition of THE ROVER💖👩🏼🎤⚔️
Get your tickets at the link in our bio.
JULY 18, 6pm
JULY 21, 7:30pm
JULY 24, 7:30pm (open caption)
JULY 26, 8pm
JULY 27, 2pm
05/09/2024
Clown Week 2024! All play and no work makes great classical actors.
02/26/2024
CALLING ALL ALUMNI!!!
If you would like to join us for Alumni Stretch on Friday, March 1, meet us at the Harman Forum at 5pm, where Lisae Jordan will take you through an invigorating Stretch class with the class of 2024!
Get your tickets for the Odyssey at the link in our bio!
02/20/2024
Join us for a rollicking 75-minute epic on March 1st and 2nd as the Class of 2024 presents this devised classic.
Tickets are only $10! Check out the link in our bio to reserve your ticket today!
11/15/2023
🚨TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 🚨
Join us for a Shakespearean double feature on December 1st and 2nd as the Class of 2024 makes their STC Academy debut! 🎭
Tickets are only $10 to see both one-hour adaptations of Cymbeline and The Two Gentlemen of Verona! Check out the link below to reserve your ticket today! 🎟️
https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/stc-academy-winter-repertory
10/23/2023
There are still a FEW spots left for our Atlanta workshop in DC this Saturday, October 28th! 🌟
The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy of Washington DC and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company invite you to a FREE Shakespeare workshop exploring how we think about and perform the Bard's work! 📜
📅 Date: Saturday, October 28th
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Atlanta Shakespeare Company
Whether you're a seasoned Shakespearean actor looking to continue your theatrical education in an MFA program or just curious about what it means to perform classical texts, this workshop will help you learn acting techniques that allow modern artists to bring timeless stories to life. 🎭
To reserve your spot, send an email to [email protected] today! 📧
10/11/2023
“And so am come abroad to see the world!” 🌎
STC Academy is heading to Atlanta and Baltimore this Fall to offer FREE workshops on how we think about, work on, and perform Shakespeare! 📖
Whether you're a seasoned Shakespearean actor looking to continue your theatrical education in an MFA program or just curious about what it means to perform classical texts, this workshop will help you learn acting techniques that allow modern artists to bring timeless stories to life. Come prepared with your favorite Shakespeare monologue or scene, and senior faculty members of the Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy will lead you through the tenets of acting in verse and in making strong choices that are grounded in the text. 🎭
📍Atlanta
October 28th
10am-1pm
In partnership with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company
📍Baltimore
November 11th
10am-1pm
In partnership with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Spots are limited, so be sure to email [email protected] to reserve today!
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast” 🎉
And what a merry feast we enjoyed at last night’s open house! Thank you to all of our alumni, donors, colleagues, and friends who came to celebrate the start of another school year with us. ♥️
Here are STC Academy students Clint Blakely and Jacob Brandt serenading the party during a performance from The Two Gentleman of Verona. 🎶
09/06/2023
Save the Date for the Annual Academy Open House! 🌟
You’re invited to the 2023 Academy Open House on Monday, October 2nd. Join us in the courtyard of the Academy to meet our new students, catch up with visiting alumni, and enjoy a night with fellow friends of STC! 🥂
08/31/2023
A hundred thousand welcomes to the Class of 2024! 🙌
It’s “back to school” season, and, at the Academy, this means going back to the basics of Classical Acting to give our new students a solid foundation on which to craft characters and tell epic stories! 🎭
Drop a “👋” in the comments below to give a warm welcome to our talented cohort!
07/22/2023
🎶 If we’d open our hearts to each other’s beat, what a wonderful world it could be 🎶
We are so thankful to the audiences who have opened their hearts to our students night after night during the 2023 Summer Repertory season. Both Measure for Measure and our musical version of Twelfth Night have played to sold out crowds of friends, family, and theatre aficionados. ❤️
Congratulations, Class of 2023! What a wonderful world you made for us this year! 🎉
07/15/2023
Barbenheimer, who? 💖🖤
Raise your hand if you’re coming to the real “don’t miss” double feature of the summer! Measure for Measure is on today at 2pm and Twelfth Night is at 7:30pm!
07/13/2023
“Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” 😔
Due to an illness in the production team, tonight’s performance of Twelfth Night will NO LONGER TAKE PLACE.
This will only affect TONIGHT’s performance. All other performances will take place AS SCHEDULED!
At this time, all remaining performances of Twelfth Night are sold out and we are working to reschedule this performance. We will share additional details about rescheduling as soon as they are available. In the meantime, know that there will not be a performance this evening.
If you are a ticket holder for tonight’s performance, please check your email inbox for more information about next steps!
07/08/2023
“If music be the food of love, PLAY ON!!!” 🎶
Happy Opening to Twelfth Night! 👯
Tickets are going FAST for the Summer Reps! With only 8 performances of each title, most of our weekend showings are sold out and the weekday showings are soon to follow. Don’t miss your chance to see the FIRST EVER MUSICAL in STC Academy history!
07/07/2023
“Who will believe thee, Isabel?”
Can you believe it is opening night for Measure for Measure? Come join us tonight as we kick off the 2023 Summer Repertory season with Shakespeare’s most famous problem play— wrestling with morality, power, and justice!
Link to purchase tickets in bio!
07/05/2023
07/04/2023
We’re in our Red, White, and Blue for Independence Day! 🇺🇸
Can you guess which looks go with each character? ❤️🤍🩵
Get your tickets to Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure today! Link in bio! 🎟️
The 2023 Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy Summer Repertory season opens THIS Friday! 💫
Tickets for weekend dates are going fast, but we do have some Monday through Thursday tickets available. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of Academy history as we present our first ever musical with Twelfth Night and an exciting take on the classic problem play Measure for Measure.
06/30/2023
Measure for Measure opens on July 7! Get your tickets today! .
06/20/2023
Congratulations to our students Yihong Chen and Gabriel Alejandro for their beautiful, trilingual (English, Mandarin, and Spanish) rendition on the Balcony Scene from Romeo & Juliet. 🌹
These students and two of our alumni, Saron Araia and Emily Erickson, performed as a part of the 2023 Will on the Hill event, where we at Shakespeare Theatre Company invite members of Congress and other Washington VIPS to perform scenes and monologues from Shakespeare's canon. The result is a fun night of theatre and a reaffirmed belief of the importance of the arts as a whole!
06/10/2023
Twelfth Night Twins! 👯♀️
Not Viola and Sebastian, but rehearsal photos from our 2018 production of Twelfth Night and our 2023 production of Twelfth Night! At the Academy, we love revisiting some of our favorite titles to see what stands the test of time and what changes we discover with new artists.
Come see double with us this July when you get your tickets to BOTH Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure: https://academy.shakespearetheatre.org/whats-on/
05/26/2023
Tickets for Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night are on sale NOW!
You won't want to miss the Class of 2023 in the culminating performance of their time at STC Academy. We are proud to present two beloved Shakespeare titles (and the Academy's very first musical!) in repertory from Friday, July 7th to Saturday, July 22nd in Theatre XX at the George Washington University.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Who will believe thee, Isabel? Exposed to the pernicious desires of a city official with zero tolerance for sin, the devoted novitiate Isabella has nowhere to turn for help in the rough and unholy Vienna. Seemingly alone, she faces an impossible choice: sacrifice her soul, or let her brother die. What will she choose? The MFA candidates of Shakespeare Theater Company Academy lay bare the moral twists and turns of human nature in Shakespeare’s darkly comic exploration of corruption and justice.
Directed by John Miller Stephany
TWELFTH NIGHT
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons. Wit and foolery reach new heights in this musical retelling of Shakespeare’s raucous romantic comedy. Viola washes up on the shores of Illyria and disguises herself as a man to get a job. She agrees to woo the lady Olivia on her boss's behalf, and it works, but not in the way she intended. Shakespeare Theater Company Academy performs a new twist on this classic love triangle with a contemporary score by Shaina Taub.
Directed by Shanara Gabrielle
Reserve your tickets today!
https://academy.shakespearetheatre.org/whats-on/
Snapshots from rehearsal this week! 📸
What's your favorite part of the rehearsal process? We are having tons of fun during table work! 📖
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Our Story
A rigorous and immersive one-year MFA program that includes acting, voice, rhetoric, text, movement, mask, the Alexander Technique, stage combat, clown, as well as dramatic literature, script analysis, and theatre history, the ACA offers a unique training structure that serves as an incubator for fully developed classical actors and theatre makers.
The ACA actor training is fully immersive and very intense. Our candidates work specifically on their craft, every hour of each working day, without the distractions of undergrad teaching assistantships, work study, part-time jobs, or supernumerary assignments. Our training is for actors hungry to get pushed hard - it's intensive training with a passionate faculty who are interested in nothing but the craft of acting: heightened language, dynamic stakes, and a muscular physical and emotional life centered around the greatest and most powerful plays in the English language.
At ACA, we don't wish to train the actors of tomorrow for the theatre of yesterday. Actors leave our program ready to help define Shakespearean performance in America for the next generation. We believe that this kind of training requires full immersion and commitment, and that actors who can meet the demands of performing classical texts can perform anything.
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