THANK YOU!
Thank you to the sponsors of the 2025 Fall Festival of Shakespeare. If you would like to sponsor the Festival, please contact our Development Director Wendy Mitchell at [email protected].
THE FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE
INTRODUCING THE 2025 FALL FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS
Middle Schools
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy (Beaverton)
presenting The Tempest
da Vinci Arts Middle School (Portland)
presenting Hamlet
Harriet Tubman (Portland)
presenting Twelfth Night
Holy Redeemer Catholic School (Portland)
presenting Macbeth
Park Academy (Lake Oswego)
presenting Much Ado About Nothing
High Schools
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy (Beaverton)
presenting A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jefferson High School (Portland)
presenting Upon the Heath (Macbeth adaptation)
Leodis V. McDaniel High School (Portland)
presenting Julius Caesar
Tigard High School (Tigard)
presenting The Merry Wives of Windsor
AND
The Fall Festival Directors
presenting Richard III
2025 Directors: Alisha Christiansen (Park Academy), Brian Weaver (Holy Redeemer), Caitlin Lushington (Tigard), Christine Freije (Park Academy + the Directors), Daniel Coffey (Jefferson), Erynn Barberia (Holy Redeemer), Francisco Garcia (McDaniel), Heidi Sprecher (da Vinci), Jeff Painter (ACMA HS), Kelsy Carson (da Vinci), Elizabeth Jackson (ACMA MS), Miranda Zigler (ACMA MS), Nick Medina (McDaniel), Nicole Accuardi (da Vinci), Nikki Weaver (Holy Redeemer), Sarah Smith (Tubman), Thyra Hartshorn (Jefferson), Tori Scoles (Tigard)
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area middle and high schools. The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event, in part because student actors connect well to Shakespeare; they understand the passion, the large stakes, and the disaster. High school and middle school is not unlike an Elizabethan Tragedy.
The students are not only performers in the festival, but a large and vocal component of the audience. They are the most active and vibrant theatre patrons you will ever encounter. They “oooh” and “ahhh”; call out “Oh no she didn’t”; scream and laugh. It’s the closest thing we have to how an Elizabethan audience at Shakespeare’s Globe might have reacted.
INTERESTED IN GETTING YOUR SCHOOL INVOLVED?
We offer a Fall Festival of Shakespeare for middle school and high school students, and Spring Social Justice Festival for high school students as well as student matinees of our main stage shows. Contact us today for more information.
