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Santa Cruz Shakespeare is an annual professional theatre festival in Santa Cruz, California, founded in 2014. Its predecessor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, lost the financial support of its host and sponsor, the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2013. Members of the original company and board immediately began fundraising and raised enough money to relaunch the festival as an independent entity.




History


1981-2008: Shakespeare Santa Cruz was founded by Audrey Stanley in 1981 and performed annually on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Plays by Shakespeare (and others) were performed both indoors on the UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage and outdoors in the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen. Usually, the company's season ran from July to early September and presented three or four plays that ran concurrently in repertory. Over time, the company ran up deficits, which were paid by the University of California.
2008: With California's budget crisis having resulted in reduced funding, the university could no longer afford to cover the accrued debts. An agreement was reached that if the theater could raise $300,000, it could continue operation. Within 10 days of the agreement's announcement, over $400,000 was raised.
2013: Claiming continuing financial problems, the UCSC Arts Division dean announced that Shakespeare Santa Cruz would end after that year's winter holiday production.
2013: Following this announcement, members of the theater company began a campaign to raise money to become an independent company. In December 2013, a new entity known as Shakespeare Play On was formed for this purpose, co-headed by Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Marco Baricelli and actor/director Mike Ryan. An online platform for accepting donations was established with the Network for Good. By February 2014, they raised over $1 million (USD) through crowdfunding to continue on without the financial support of the university. In March 2014, the new company changed its name to Santa Cruz Shakespeare. The New York Times referred to the company's rebirth as an "underdog success story."
2014: For its inaugural season under its new arrangement, Santa Cruz Shakespeare presented As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Beard of Avon in July and August 2014. All three shows were performed in the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen on UCSC's campus.
2015: For the 2015 season Mike Ryan took over sole Artistic Director duties and the company announced productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and David Ives's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's The Liar.
2016: For the 2016 season the company moved to a new purpose-built home in the Audrey Stanley Grove at Upper DeLaveaga Park in Santa Cruz.
2022: Mike Ryan announced his plan to step down as Artistic Director after the 2023 season. Charles Pasternak was selected as his successor.
2023: Mirroring the company's first year where Mike Ryan and Marco Baricelli shared the Artistic Director title, Mike Ryan and Charles Pasternak were Co-Artistic Directors for the 2023 season.
2024: Charles Pasternak lead his first season as sole Artistic Director




Season history


2014
As You Like It
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Beard of Avon (fringe production)
2015
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
The Liar
The Rover (fringe production)
2016 (Inaugural season in the Audrey Stanley Grove at Upper DeLaveaga Park
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Orlando (fringe production)
2017
Measure for Measure
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The 39 Steps
Candide (fringe production)
2018
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
Venus in Fur
Men I'm Not Married To (fringe production)
A Doll's House (Staged Reading)
The Taming (Staged Reading)
2019
Summer Season
Pride and Prejudice
The Comedy of Errors
The Winter's Tale
Fringe Series
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Intern production)
The Formula (Staged Reading)
The Last White Man (staged Reading)
2020
Henry VI Part I (Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading via Zoom)
Henry VI Part II (Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading via Zoom)
Henry VI Part III (Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading via Zoom)
Richard III (Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading via Zoom)
The originally planned Season was Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, SCS produced 4 plays as online staged readings with each play broken into multiple performances over a series of weeks.
2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic once again impacted the season, leading to the further postponement of the plays originally planned for 2020.
Undiscovered Shakespeare (collaboration with UCSC Humanities)
Troilus and Cressida (online reading via Zoom)
Summer Season
The Agitators
RII an adaptation of Richard II (play)
Fringe Series
Far Away From Here by M.L Roberts (staged Reading)
Wuthering Heights by Kirsten Brandt (staged reading)
2022
Undiscovered Shakespeare (collaboration with UCSC Humanities)
King John (online reading via Zoom)
Summer Season
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
The Formula (World Premiere)
Fringe Series
Just Deserts by Carol Lashoff (Intern Production)
Nasty Brutish and Short by Ian McRae (staged Reading)
Simply The Thing She is by Kate Hawley (staged reading)
2023
Summer Season
The Taming of the Shrew
King Lear
The Book of Will
Fringe Series
Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Intern Production)
Witch by Jen Silverman (staged Reading)
Master Harold and the boys (Staged Reading)
2024
Undiscovered Shakespeare (collaboration with UCSC Humanities)
Henry VIII (online reading via Zoom)
Summer Season (July-August)
Hamlet
As You Like It
The Importance of Being Earnest
Fringe Series (Tuesdays in August)
Proof by Dabid Auburn (Intern Production)
Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
A Room in the Castle by Lauren Gunderson
Fall Season
The Glass Menagerie (inaugural Fall season, playing in September following the summer season)
Holiday Season
A Christmas Carol Based on the novel by Charles Dickens (Holiday show, Nov-Dec 2024)
2025
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pericles
Into the Woods
Fringe production tbd
Master Harold and the Boys (fall season)
A Christmas Carol Based on the novel by Charles Dickens (Holiday show, Nov-Dec 2025)




The Canon in Santa Cruz


Between Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Shakespeare all but one of Shakespeare's canon have been presented
Shakespeare plays performed in Santa Cruz by first production

The Taming of the Shrew (1981, 1992, 2004, 2013, 2023)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982, 1991, 2001, 2009, 2016, 2025)
Macbeth (1983, 1992, 2001, 2015)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1983, 1994, 2002, 2014)
The Tempest (1984, 1995, 2007, 2022)
Henry IV, Part 1 (1984, 2011)
As You Like It (1985,1997, 2006, 2014, 2024)
Hamlet (1985, 2003, 2016, 2024)
Richard II (1986, 2021*adaptation*)
Twelfth Night (1986, 1996, 2005, 2012, 2022)
Henry V (1987, 2013)
Much Ado About Nothing (1987, 1998, 2007, 2015)
Antony and Cleopatra (1988)
The Comedy of Errors (1988, 1993, 2003, 2011, 2019)
Titus Andronicus (1988)
Love's Labour's Lost (1989, 2000, 2010, 2018)
Romeo and Juliet (1989, 1999, 2008, 2018)
Julius Caesar (1988, 2009)
Othello (1990, 1998, 2010)
The Winter's Tale (1990, 2005, 2019)
Measure for Measure (1991, 2017)
All's Well That Ends Well (1993, 2008)
The Merchant of Venice (1994)
King Lear (1995, 2006, 2023)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1996, 2025)
Richard III (1997, 2020 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1999, 2017)
Cymbeline (2000)
Coriolanus (2002)
Henry IV, Part 2 (2012)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (2019 *Fringe production)
Henry VI, Part 1 (2020 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
Henry VI, Part 2 (2020 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
Henry VI, Part 3 (2020 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
Troilus and Cressida (2021 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
King John (2022 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
Henry VIII (2024 *Undiscovered Shakespeare online reading)
Timon of Athens (Unproduced by either company)




References






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External links


Official website
DeLaveaga Park at the City of Santa Cruz website

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