Based in Reno, Nevada Shakespeare Company is recognized under  501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code
(federal tax identification number 88-0423776).

The D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program

This year marks the 7th season of this program and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is proud to offer fourteen FREE matinee performances throughout the Reno-Tahoe-Truckee region. Produced in collaboration with The Nevada Shakespeare Company, these fun and interactive plays offer a great introduction for children to the mastery of William Shakespeare and the wonders of outdoor theatre.

InterACT Workshops

Working together with The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, we continue our most recent edition to our educational outreach program, with our InterACT workshop series. Offered to schools and community groups in Nevada and California from February to September, these workshops are highly interactive and feature activities to help students understand the many timeless themes of Shakespeare's works, as well as the world of theatre as a whole.

Midsummer's Camp

2008 marks the start of our new week long summer theatre camp program - A Midsummer's Camp. A Midsummer's Camp will offer camp goers the chance to transition from being an informed audience participant, to Shakespeare scholar and finally, to actor. These week-long theatre camps are designed specifically for children and young adults to "get into the act". Lead camp instructors are both seasoned theatre professionals and theatre educators, trained to enrich your child's summer expereince. The camp will run daily from 9:00am to 3:00pm, in Incline Village, with a culminating performance on our beautiful Sand Harbor stage. Enrollment fee includes a free camp t-shirt and one complimentary ticket to an evening performance.

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Joe Atack is NSC's Education Director. Mr Atack trained at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Acting Studies in 2004. He has experience developing and leading educational workshops in the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland teaching a range of acting classes on improvisation, devising and Shakespeare. Mr Atack has performed in several theatrical productions throughout the United Kingdom for the internationally acclaimed Artizani Street Theatre Company; played the role of Jason in the award winning O’Leary’s Daughters at the 24/7 Theatre Festival, various roles in StartWrite at the Contact Theatre in Manchester; the lead role of Dr Spinoza in Cabbages, and the lead role of Terry in the black comedy Ravioli at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. On film Joe played the lead role of Gavin in the short film The Reading Glasses and Keith Johnson (a terrible George Michael impersonator) in the BBC sitcom Where to Mate? He has worked as a stand-up comedian and musician; produced, staged and booked talent for a monthly comedy night known as The Alternative Cabaret in Manchester.
 

 

  
 

 

 

In addition to his duties with Nevada Shakespeare Company, Cameron Crain teaches Theatre and Public Speaking at Sage Ridge School in Reno, northern Nevada's only independent, college preparatory school. A northwest native and graduate of Washington State University, Mr. Crain came to Nevada in 1995 and became Managing Artistic Director of Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC) in 1998. Since then he has produced, directed and performed scores of productions from Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas. In 2001, he co-created NSC’s Shakespeare In School program, which has served over 120,000 Nevada students in every county of the Silver State. This summer he produced an educational adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream in conjunction with Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. As a director for NSC, he has staged Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet(ish) and The Tempest, as well as Amigas, by Emma Sepulveda and Marjorie Agosiin and A Single Woman, by Jeanmarie Simpson. During the 2004 Election, inspired by Jeannette Rankin (first woman elected to the United States Congress and subject of A Single Woman), Mr. Crain ran for Nevada State Senate and received over 13,000 votes in losing effort. He is also Executive Producer of the film A Single Woman, directed by Kamala Lopez of Heroica Films. The film is scheduled for release in 2008 and features the talents of Simpson, Judd Nelson, Peter Coyote, Patricia Artquette and is narrated by Martin Sheen. As an actor, Mr. Crain has played a variety of roles from Hamlet to Scrooge, as well as a Chautauqua performance of John Wilkes Booth with Nevada Humanities at Bartley Ranch Amphitheater; however, playing the part of Harold Hill from Meredith Willson’s The Music Man remains his favorite. Mr. Crain is a member of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG), and he is the recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship and two Sierra Arts Foundation Fellowships.
 

 

  
 

 

 

 Dana Worland began her career in theatre as early as the first grade when she played an orphan in a university production of the musical Oliver!. Throughout the years she has worked extensively in theatre across the country. She received her BFA in theatre from Roosevelt University in Chicago and was seen in various productions in the region. She moved to NYC and continued to pursue acting. Some of her favorite roles include: Elizabeth in Better Living, Mary in Why We Have a Body, Iachimo in Cymbeline, She in Piano Plays, Train in Three-Flat-Walk-Up, Marie in Exit the King, Alex in On the Verge, and Anne in Anne Sexton's Transformations.  She is a founding memember of Thunder Road Ensemble Theatre Company in Chicago, and SKT Inc in New York. In addition to her acting work, Dana has worked as an Arts Educator with Manhattan Playhouse where she produced and directed original works by high school students. While serving as the Director of Literacy, she started an after school drama club that explored works by Shakespeare. She became a full-time drama teacher with the John A. Reisenbach Charter School where she developed the drama program and taught 4th, 7th and 8th grades. Since relocating to Nevada in 2007, Dana has played Hero in Nevada Shakespeare Company's Much Ado About Nothing, Stephano in The Tempest, Nancy in Oliver! and Nurse in Romeo & Juliet at the Brewery Arts Center. For Nevada Shakespeare's education and outreach she has co-directed Oliver! and serve as an instructor for the week long student intensive, A Midsummer Camp.
 

 

  
 

MICHELLE CALHOUN-FITTS is a semi-recent transplant from Southern California. Michelle comes to Reno with vast experience both on stage and behind the scenes. Currently, she teaches workshops for both Nevada Shakespeare Company (for the InterACT program) and Wild Horse Productions. She is an Executive Board Member and the Announcer for Northern Nevada’s first Women’s Flat-Track Roller Derby League, The Battle Born Derby Demons. Other recent credits include “Nurse” in the LTSF Young Shakespeare version of Romeo and Juliet, “Angel” in When You Coming Back, Red Ryder?, “Sister Tortellini” and “Viola” in Joey and Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding, and “The Angry Vagina” in The Vagina Monologues. She also directed the LTSF Young Shakespeare version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, served as an instructor for the weeklong student intensive, A Midsummer’s Camp, and costumed both Guys and Dolls for Sage Ridge School and the NSC tour of Romeo and Juliet(ish).