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Celebrate all things Shakespeare!

Join hundreds of students from all grades representing all of San Diego County!
Perform scenes and monologues from Shakespeare's plays!

Join in the revelry as we bring the Bard to life!
Learn about participation in the
​2021 San Diego Student Virtual Shakespeare Festival!
VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
Participants are invited to prepare Monologues, Sonnets, Two-Person Scenes, or Puppet Scenes and to record their performances in a short video. Videos will be submitted, then edited together into a Full Festival Video, to be live-streamed at 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 24, 2021.
​Please see Handbook for specific requirements.

Ready to Submit your Performance Video? 
​Do so HERE!

Please be sure to see the Information Handbook below to ensure your performance video meets requirements.
"...April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
                                              - Sonnet 98

Resources for Participants

For Program and Scene Descriptions, Requirements, and Suggestions please click HERE.

For the full Information Handbook please click HERE.
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To Download the Media Release please click HERE.
"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame."
                             - The Passionate Pilgrim

Workshop Information

Virtual Workshops Videos will be offered this year, as well as a chance to win a FREE 15-minute One-on-One workshop session with a professional Actor and Teaching Artist!

Click the title to view the workshop!

Acting Shakespeare 101 (25 minutes)
Poetics and Text Analysis (30 minutes)
Performance and Filming Techniques (15 minutes)
Puppetry! (coming soon!)

    Sign up to enter the lottery for a FREE 15-minute one-on-one coaching workshop with a professional actor!

    PLEASE READ THIS FINE PRINT:
    - Deadline to enter the lottery is 03/26/2021.
    - One entry per person. Multiple entries will be disqualified.
    - If performing a 2-person scene both students may submit. If one is chosen both students may participate in the 15-minute workshop.
    - Workshops will be assigned randomly in a drawing on 03/27/21.
    ​- The workshops will be held virtually through Zoom between 03/39/21 and 04/02/21. 
    ​​- If you are selected for a workshop you will be contacted for scheduling between 03/27/21 and 03/29/21.​
"I rather would entreat thy company;
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
                                           - The Two Gentlemen of Vernoa
                                                          Act I, scene i

    Sign up here  to stay up-to-date on Festival Information!
    We will send you notifications as features are updated on the website, and when Registration opens!
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Watch a sampling of the 2020 Virtual Student Shakespeare Festival below!
Watch this compilation of scenes from past festivals!