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A series of lively and informative panel conversations
In the Spring of 2024, SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz and Artistic Director Carla Pantojabegan hosting an online series of panel discussions with Shakespeare scholars, directors, performers, and designers.
Use the buttons below to register for our upcoming May 19 session or to view recordings of previous ‘Let’s Talk About…’ discussions!
The May 19 , 2025 panel conversation features Dr. Anita Raychawdhuri, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, presently on leave as an Investigadora Visitant at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. She has previously served as a Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, DC.
Her research focuses on early modern literature, queer theory, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, the global early modern, and Shakespearean adaptation. Her interest in how queerness and race interacted and informed each other in early modern drama provides a rich and well informed perspective for this fascinating panel discussion!
Join us Monday, May 19 at Noon PST for this fascinating discussion, via Zoom, featuring Dr. Raychawdhuri in conversation with SF Shakes Board member Dan Rabinowitz and Artistic Director Carla Pantoja.
The April 7, 2025 panel conversation featured the return of Stanford’s Dr. Roland Greene, in conversation with SF Shakes Board member Dan Rabinowitz, Artistic Director Carla Pantoja, and Katja Rivera who directed the 2025 Shakespeare on Tour production of of Romeo and Juliet.
Dr. Greene brought his keen insight to this dynamic discussion on Romeo and Juliet, examining its language, historical context, and enduring impact.
Watch this engaging and insightful discussion about Romeo and Juliet!
The December 16, 2024 panel conversation featured 2025 Directors Ely Sonny Orquiza and Katja Rivera in conversation with Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and SF Shakes Board member Dan Rabinowitz. They offered the first glimpse of what they’re looking forward to for Festival programs in 2025!
Watch this lively and informative conversation!
The September 9, 2024 panel conversation featured Stanford’s Dr. Roland Greene in conversation about The Tempest with SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz and Artistic Director Carla Pantoja.
Dr. Greene’s research and teaching are concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and with poetry and poetics from the Renaissance to the present.
Watch this engaging conversation about the rich themes and motifs found in The Tempest.
The August 19, 2024 panel conversation featured cast and company members from this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest in conversation with SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz and Artistic Director Carla Pantoja.
Behind-the-scenes perspectives were presented by actors David Everett Moore and Nic Moore and Music Director/Composer Jen Coogan and Costume Designer Bethany Deal.
The July 8, 2024 conversation featured Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, the incoming Director of The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
Board Member Dan Rabinowitz hosted this third discussion, in which he and SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja engaged in conversation about The Tempest with Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper. The discussion explored and examined her deeply thoughtful analysis of race, gender and otherness in The Tempest, along with a radical reappraisal of society in Elizabethan London, the backdrop from which Shakespeare’s plays emerged and against which they were presented.
The June 17, 2024 conversation featured 2024 Free Shakes in the Park Director Rotimi Agbabiaka in conversation with SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and was hosted by SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz.
Dan and Carla engaged in lively and insightful discussion with Rotimi, who shared his directorial perspectives on this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest and his intent to highlight the themes of forgiveness and recovering from loss.
The March 25, 2024 discussion featured Dr. Will Tosh, Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London in conversation with SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and hosted by SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz.
Dan, Carla, and Will touched on a wide variety of the remarkable features and the artistic and historical context of this wonderful comedy. They see it as a remarkable social commentary that is just as relevant today as it was in 1599, as Shakespeare’s great implicit feminist statement, and as a play that touches on and implicates gender issues more broadly in ways that resonate with our audiences.
Shakespeare’s Heartbeat uses the heartbeat rhythm of Shakespeare’s words and the physicality of his characters to engage with students on the autism spectrum, and also is effective across a constellation of abilities.
We offer interactive instruction in a variety of additional specialty subjects such as history, voice, movement, clowning, comedy, and stage combat, which can be offered individually or in combination with our other programs.
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Marina Middle School, San Francisco
Odyssey School, San Mateo
Star Academy, San Rafael
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Bay School, San Francisco
Cadwallader Elementary School, San Jose
Civicorps School, Oakland
Creative Arts Charter School, San Francisco
Father Sauer Academy at St. Ignatius Prep, San Francisco
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