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Performances and workshops in your school, library, theater, hall, or park.
For more than 35 years our Shakespeare on Tour program has traveled across California to bring a Shakespeare play to thousands of students. Our touring troupe of actors bring sets, props, costumes, and music to enliven their active and engaging performance, all within a one-hour class period.
The production is professionally directed and suitable for elementary students through adults. The tour visits more schools and libraries than any other theater group in the state. Schools will also receive a curriculum guide written by professional educators, with lesson plans designed to help teachers prepare their students to more fully appreciate the performance.
Scroll down for information about the 2026 tour of Julius Caesar.
We are currently accepting date requests for San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Feb-May 2026 touring production of Julius Caesar – a powerful mix of drama, emotion, and political commentary, all framed within Shakespeare’s eloquent and evocative language. This exploration of political intrigue, betrayal, and the impact of leadership is timeless. Fascinating and complex characters create a chain reaction that quickly spirals out of control. Shakespeare’s deft examination of how power can affect people, and the lengths they are willing to go to obtain it, provides rich material for examination and discussion. This classic tale will book quickly; send your date requests now for best choice of date of date options.
Date requests are being accepted now for the Feb-May 2026 tour of Julius Caesar!
(We’ll contact you as soon as booking begins)
2026 Public performances of Julius Caesar will be posted here as soon as scheduled!
Public performances of the Spring 2025 Tour of Romeo and Juliet are listed below.
Shakespeare on Tour fits within a standard 60 minute school period and includes:
Educator’s Guide includes
The curriculum meets the following California Common Core Standards:
K-5:
1.1 Vocabulary of theatre
1.2 Observe and describe performance
2.1 Perform in group improvisational theatrical games
2.2 Retell or improvise stories
4.1 Respond appropriately to a theatrical experience
6-8:
1.1 Vocabulary of theatre
2.1 Perform in group improvisational theatrical games
2.2 Retell or improvise stories
3.2 History of Theatre
3.3 Identify key figures, works, and trends in world theatrical history
4.1 Respond appropriately to a theatrical experience
5.1 Use theatrical skills to present content or concepts
9-12:
1.1 Vocabulary of theatre
1.2 Observe and describe performance
2.1 Create short dramatizations in selected styles of theatre
2.2 Applying basic dramatic structure
3.1 Research and perform monologues
3.2 History of Theatre
3.3 Perform, design, or direct theatre pieces in specific theatrical styles
4.2 Observing drama to convey meaning
5.1 Use theatrical skills to present content or concepts
K- 12:
SL. (grade). 1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
SL. (grade). 6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts
SL. (grade). 3 Determine the main ideas of a text read aloud
RI. (grade). 1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis
RI. (grade). 3 Compare and contrast two or more characters
RI. (grade). 7 Demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, and plot
L. (grade). 5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language
W. (grade). 2 Use precise language and techniques such as metaphor
SL = Speaking and listening / RI = Reading Informational Text / W = Writing
• Minimum 20×25 foot performance area, with a minimum 8 foot ceiling when indoors.
• Adequate lighting for the audience to see the show (theatrical lighting not required).
• Show may take place indoors or out, on a lawn, in a gym, library, theater, multi-purpose room, or other space.
Deepen your students’ experience of Shakespeare by adding a Playshop.
This active, one-hour, participatory classroom experience will deepen your students’ appreciation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Imaginative vocal and physical exercises, led by actors from the performance, will have your students embodying Shakespeare’s language and discovering on their own that it’s readily understood as well as relevant. Content is appropriate for all grades K-12; specific exercises and material may vary based on grade levels.
Shakespeare on Tour Playshops are designed to accompany the performance. If you are interested in stand-alone Playshops and Residencies, please check out our other offerings in Your Classroom.
2026 PRICING BELOW
Within 50 miles of the Festival office (1560 Davidson Ave, San Francisco 94124)
• One show: $1275
• Two shows, back-to-back: $1900 (30 minute break between shows)
• Two shows, same venue but not back-to-back: $2225
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 32 students: $500
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 64 students: $750
Within 50 – 120 miles of the Festival office (1560 Davidson Ave, San Francisco 94124)
• One show: $1940
• Two shows, back-to-back: $2445 (30 minute break between shows)
• Two shows, same venue but not back-to-back: $2775
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 32 students: $615
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 64 students: $930
Over 120 miles from the Festival office (1560 Davidson Ave, San Francisco 94124)
• One show: $2210
• Two shows, back-to-back: $2720 (30 minute break between shows)
• Two shows, same venue but not back-to-back: $3010
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 32 students: $615
• 1 hour Playshop, up to 64 students: $930
BRANDON DIPAOLA
JULIUS CAESAR/CINNA/GHOST
Growing up in Hawaii but originally from the Bay Area, Brandon DiPaola is an actor, fight director and instructor with Dueling Arts International. Brandon started his training at the Hawaii Conservatory of Performing Arts where he found a love for theater. His passion led him to study at the East 15 Acting School in England where he holds a Bachelor’s in Acting and Stage Combat. His recent Bay Area roles include Choir Boy at Shotgun Player, Shaxspeare Reimagined for AASC and Nofal in Leili & Majnun at Central Stage.
GINA WHITE
BRUTUS
Gina White is excited to be back in the Bay Area and working with SF Shakes again, after having previously been a performance intern during A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2018. Originally from San Jose, Gina recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BFA in Acting, and is currently based in Chicago and the Bay Area. Recently credits include #46 in The Wolves (Renegade Theatre), and Time, u/s Antigonus, u/s Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (Illinois Theatre). In their free time, they enjoy art in all of its non-theatre forms. ginakwhite.com IG: ginakathwhite
CHRISTOPHER PRESCOTT
CASSIUS/STRATO
Christopher Prescott is a prolific actor. He has worked with such theatre companies as Stanford Repertory Theatre in Moby Dick Rehearsed, and Theatreworks in Big River. He appeared in the original stage production of The Kite Runner. He is working with Fever in The Jury Experience as well as Murder on the Seaside and American Immersion Theater in Death of Gangster. He is the recipient of the Hal Todd Award for Excellence in Acting (2010), as well as a Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble (2015). This production marks his fourth season with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
WILLIAM BROSNAHAN
MARK ANTONY/SOOTHSAYER/DECIUS BUTUS
William Armstrong Brosnahan (he/him) is pumped to be returning for a third season with SF Shakes on Tour. He is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and has loved making the Bay his new home. His past roles include Romeo Montague/Servant-Abram in the SF Shakes tour of Romeo and Juliet, Orlando in SF Shakes As You Like It, a handyman/daemon in Mas Marami Art’s Filipino family drama Maldysion, and Shotgun Player’s Yellow Face in the role of Marcus.
SARAH DUNNAVANT
PORTIA/CALPURNIA/MESSENGER/CASCA/MESSALA
Sarah Dunnavant (she/her) is thrilled to be part of this ensemble and creative team at SF Shakes! Recent work includes the West Coast Premier adaptation of A Christmas Carol (CenterREP), World Premier adaptation of Frankenstein (Theatre Lunatico), Othello (New Canon Theatre Co.), Life Sucks (New Canon), Hamlet (New Canon), The Importance of Being Earnest (6th St Playhouse) and Steel Magnolias (Cinnabar Theatre). She is honored to share timely and relevant interpretations of Shakespeare with young audiences and audiences of all ages..
BRANDON DEAN
ALTERNATE – JULIUS CAESAR/CINNA/GHOST/BRUTUS
Brandon Dean is an artist native to Washington, DC. He discovered his love for acting through doing short films in his last year of college at North Carolina A&T State University. There, he studied Kinesiology and uses this background to inform the physicality used in his performances. Since graduating, Brandon studied the craft at the American Conservatory Theater through their Summer Training Congress and San Francisco Semester, honing his voice, movement, and process for creating characters and performances. Through his art, Brandon aims to inspire different thinking and arise questions in his audience. This is Brandon’s Shakespeare debut. brandondean.art.
MIRIAM VALENCIA
ALTERNATE – CASSIUS/STRATO/PORTIA/CALPURNIA/MESSENGER/CASCA/MESSALA
Miriam is giving an enthusiastic “huzzah!” making her debut with the SF Shakespeare Festival! She has been acting locally in Sonoma County for about 2 years, and recently earned her acting certificate from Santa Rosa Junior College. Studying and performing Shakespeare has been a pivotal part of her journey as an artist, and she is looking forward to being a small part of bringing this incredible story to life..
MAGDALENA DEL CASTILLO
BENVOLIO/NURSE – ALTERNATE
Magdalena del Castillo (she/they) is a local actor and Bay Area native from Marin County and is excited to be a part of the San Francisco Shakespeare touring team. Recent credits include As You Like It with Jacobethan Theatre Workshop, Lysistrata with Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show, and Best Available with Ashland New Plays Festival. They have a BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting from Southern Oregon University, in addition to undergrad training at American Conservatory Theatre. When not acting you can find her doing improvised lights for BATS Improv, walking dogs that aren’t hers, or listening to an audiobook on Libby. IG: @mag.del
CHRISTOPHER PRESCOTT
FRIAR LAURENCE/MERCUTIO/AUTHORITY – ALTERNATE
Christopher Prescott is a prolific actor, producer, director, standup comedian, writer, and teaching artist. During his career in theatre, he has had the opportunity to work with such astounding theatre companies as We Players, Stanford Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks, Merlin Entertainments, American Immersion Theater, Northside Theater, Pear Avenue Theater, and many others. He is the recipient of the Hal Todd Award for Excellence in Acting from San Jose State University (2010), as well as a Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble (2015). This production marks his third tour with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
ANTHONY DOAN
TYBALT/LADY CAPULET/PARIS- ALTERNATE
Anthony Doan (he/they) is delighted to return to San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
They are a queer, first-generation Vietnamese-American theatre artist currently based in
the Bay Area. Notable acting credits include Notable acting credits include Celia/Adam/Phebe in last year’s
educational tour of As You Like It, Nguyễn/Quang/Sam in the world premiere in the world premiere of Colonialism is Terrible, but Phở is Delicious (Aurora Theatre Company & Oregon Contemporary Theatre), The 39 Steps (San Francisco Playhouse), Cyrano de Bergerac: A Queeroic Comedy (Island Shakespeare Festival), Vietgone (City Lights Theatre Company), and Porcelain (Brown Bag Theatre Company). Anthony strives to viscerally entertain and challenge audiences, provoke political thoughts, and inspire people to empathetically listen to the world in a different vibration. IG: @theanthonydoan
KATJA RIVERA
DIRECTOR/PROPS
Katja is a Theater Artist, Bodyworker and Abuela. She is originally from Los Angeles, and studied theater at LACC Theatre Academy and Drama Studio London at Berkeley. Bay Area acting credits include: Shotgun Players, Magic Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, Center Rep. Directing credits include Shotgun Players, Theatre Cultura, Douglas Morrison, CustomMade, RPE (Danville), SF Playground and TheatreFIRST. She is a long-time company member of Shotgun Players, an associate producer with PlayGround-SF and a member of Latinx Mafia. Recent directing credits include: Yerma (Shotgun Players) La Vida Loca (Theatre Cultura) References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Custom Made Theatre).
APRIL BALLESTEROS
DIRECTOR
April Ballesteros (she/her) is an actor, director, educator, and stage manager. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura and worked in the Artistic Learning Department at the California Shakespeare Theater for 7 years. She has worked with SF Playhouse, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SFBATCO, and Shotgun Players, to name a few. She earned a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, East Bay, and hails from East Los Angeles. With every project she does, she hopes to empower and uplift BIPOC voices and stories.
CARLA PANTOJA
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/FIGHT DIRECTOR
Carla Pantoja (she/they), born and raised in the South Bay, is also an actor, teaching artist, intimacy director, and mom of two – as well as artistic director for San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She’s been a Resident Artist since 2014 and recently served as Director of Vision for the 2021 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directing episodes 2 and 4. In 2020, she was in the acting company at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, returning in 2022 as the festival’s first female fight director. Carla is an associate instructor for Dueling Arts International and serves on their governing body as Vice President. She is also a proud member of Making Good Trouble, an anti-racist training cohort based in the Bay Area. Carla has directed SF Shakes’ Shakespeare on Tour previous productions of Romeo and Juliet and Comedy of Errors and Assistant Directed the 2017 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. She played Paulina in Free Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. She’s performed with Cal Shakes, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, Playground, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and the SF Mime Troupe in the Bay Area to name a few.
LYRE ALSTON
COSTUME DESIGNER
Headshot/Bio conming soon!
JEUNÉE SIMON
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Jeunée Simon (she/her) is bicoastal actor, director, and consent educator. She is dedicated to creating braver spaces where artists can be vulnerable and play. Recent intimacy direction credits include: The Tutor (NCTC), Lear (California Shakespeare Theater), The Code (A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory), Coming Soon (Z Space), Boys Go to Jupiter (Word for Word), Circle Mirror Transformation (Custom Made Theatre Co.), Little Shop of Horrors (Berkeley Playhouse), and more. Simon is a proud recipient of the 2017 RHE Artistic Fellowship and was a 2019 Directing Apprentice with PlayGround. www.jeuneesimon.com.
KATE AL-SHAMMA
VOICE AND TEXT COACH
Headshot/Bio coming soon!
EVAN HELD
TOUR PROGRAM MANAGER
Evan Held (he/him) is a graduate from the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts (PCPA), and excited to be working with Shakespeare on Tour’s Romeo and Juliet! He’s been involved in numerous Shakespeare productions across the years. He’s done shows all over Sonoma and Marin counties with companies such as Shakespeare in the Cannery, Redwood Theater Company, Ross Valley Players, Spreckels, Word for Word, and Marin Summer Theater. He also performed in SF Shakes touring production of The Comedy of Errors.
Keep an eye on our Auditions Page for updates. We typically seek 10 actor/educators (5 full time and 5 alternates), and we greatly encourage BIPOC, LGBTQiA+, gender non-conforming and folks of all abilities to audition for this unique experience. SF Shakes is deeply committed to inclusive, empowering, and color-conscious casting.
Funding provided by Shakespeare in American Communities supports our residency programs, helping us in our goal to make Shakespeare accessible to all.
