Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare

COllaborative Shakespeare

ISC Santa Fe maintains Santa Fe Summer Shakespeare (SFSS), a website listing the Shakespeare related performances, events, and activities offered by a diverse group of theatre organizations during the summer in and around Santa Fe, NM.

2025 Events:

  • Live Performances produced by the Upstart Crows, Shakespeare Gym, Santa Fe Playhouse, ISC Santa Fe. This summer you can catch Romeo and Juliet, Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey, Something Rotten!, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing!

  • Speak easy Shakespeare the ISC Santa Fe’s BAR(d) series continues with As You Like It on May 15.

  • Community Close-Read produced by iRead Shakespeare, this summer delve into King John

Previous Events have included:

  • Live Performances produced by the Upstart Crows, Shakespeare Gym, Santa Fe Classic Theater, Santa Fe Playhouse, The Moor You Know Collective, ISC Santa Fe, and a one-man Richard III performed by Charles Lear.

  • Digital Performances produced by &Sons and Theatre Grottesco

  • Live and online workshops including “Elizabethan Dance,” “Sonnet Extravaganza,” “Introduction to Stage Combat,” “SWOON: The Art of Shakespeare Blackout Poetry,” and “An Intimate Connection: A gathering about consensual staging of intimacy in the theatre”

  • Educational talks and demonstrations including “Shakespeare was a Rapper: Hamlet, Damn It,” “The Roman World and Shakespeare,” “An Afternoon with David and Ben Crystal,” “Fine Dining in the Ancient World,” and “The Greek Heritage of Shakespeare’s Plays”

  • Panel discussions including “Pivotal Relationships in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth and Macbeth” with three different theatre companies

  • Long Dead But Well Read: ISC’s staged reading series of plays written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries