The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival

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The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival is a small nonprofit theatre that produces plays by or about Shakespeare in Baltimore, Maryland. It also has an educational program that introduces school children to Shakespeare.

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The first production of the BSF was A Midsummer Night's Dream which was performed at the Cloisters in Brooklandville, Maryland in 1994. The company was founded by Kelley Dunn-Feliz and Richard Feliz that same year. In its early years, the Festival was often faced with financial instability. In Spring 2008, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival announced that it would be cutting back its season to two productions due to poor attendance.

The highlight of the BSF year is their annual presentation of a Shakespeare production performed entirely by children. The Teen Performance Program began in 2004 with a production of Macbeth followed by 2005's production of Love's Labor's Lost, 2006's production of Hamlet and 2007's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Children from around the Baltimore area show themselves to be the equals of the regular professional thespians who perform for the BSF with outstanding performances inspired by such outstanding teacher/directors as Tony Tsendeas.

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