Let's Talk
About...

A series of lively and informative panel conversations

In the Spring of 2024, SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and Board Member Dan Rabinowitz began hosting an online series of panel discussions with Shakespeare scholars, directors, performers, and designers..

Use the button below to register for the Dec 16, 2024 ‘Let’s Talk About… SF Shakes’ 2025 Season’ with Directors Ely Sonny Orquiza and Katja Rivera. Check out recordings of previous conversations as well.

Components from any of the programs below can be combined for a fully customized educational experience.
Don’t miss our Shakespeare on Tour program, which centers around a live performance but also offers optional educational playshop programs as well.
Check out our Current and Past Partnerships.
Meet our current roster of Teaching Artists, or if you’re interested in becoming one, Join Us!
For pricing and any other education questions, contact us at education@sfshakes.org or 415-558-0888.

let's talk about....

LET'S TALK ABOUT
SF Shakes 2025 season
December 16 @ NOON VIA ZOOM

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!

LET'S TALK ABOUT
The Tempest
september 9 @ NOON VIA ZOOM

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.

LET'S TALK ABOUT
The Tempest
aUGUST 19 @ NOON VIA ZOOM

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.

Let's talk about
The Tempest
recorded panel discussion

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.

Let's talk about
The Tempest
Recorded Panel discussion

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.

Let's talk about
As You Like It
recorded Panel discussion

We’re delighted to share a recording of this fascinating panel conversation (that took place on March 25, 2024), featuring 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.

embodying shakespeare

Catered to enhance your curriculum and aligned with the Common Core in subjects such as English, History and Theater Arts, an interactive course that bring Shakespeare to life for students of all backgrounds and levels of interest. This in-depth residency helps students gain skill and enthusiasm, and can be carefully crafted to the needs of your classroom.

shakespeare's heartbeat

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.

takes on shakes

These on-demand, performance-based video lessons illuminate Shakespeare’s work in exciting ways that encourage students to think critically and come to their own conclusions. Each episode offers fresh, often unexpected ‘takes’ on famous scenes that interrogate complex, and sometimes controversial topics in Shakespeare’s canon.

specialty shakes

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.