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One-On-One Coaching
with Elana Kepner
Work with Education Director Elana Kepner to prepare for auditions for college, graduate school, summer intensives and professional productions. Tailored to the needs of the student, coaching can help build confidence and work through stage fright as well as working on the nuts and bolts of your audition including material selection, vocal production and speech, Shakespeare, dialect acquisition, presence, transitions, and fine-tuning your whole audition package.
Coaching is also ideal for actors working to polish their technique or work through challenges.
Cost: $75/hour.
Email Elana Kepner at education@marinshakespeare.org to schedule coaching sessions.Also available: coaching for public and special occasion speaking (perfect your presentation or wedding toast).Elana Kepner is an experienced audition coach whose clients have been accepted to highly ranked BFA programs, arts high schools and summer intensives and been offered roles at regional theatres across the country, as well as network tv and feature films. Elana’s clients have also placed nationally at the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition.
Young Company Session 1: Comedy of Errors (June 15-26, 2026)
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 2 week camp
Explore Shakespeare’s exciting characters, language, and stories, through creative play, games, exercises, character creation, and rehearsal, guided by professional teaching artists. Each session culminates in a performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play.
Teen Shakespeare Intensive 2026 (June 15- July 10, 2026)
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 4-week program
Our Teen Camp has been reimagined with four weeks of conservatory-style intensive training and rehearsal! Students will dive into classes and workshops in acting, voice, movement, and text, in addition to working with a professional director to rehearse and perform a fully produced Shakespeare play for friends, family and the public.
Young Company Session 2: Macbeth (June 29- July 17, 2026)
Explore Shakespeare’s exciting characters, language, and stories, through creative play, games, exercises, character creation, and rehearsal, guided by professional teaching artists. Each session culminates in a performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play.
Shakespeare's Stories Session 1: Shipwrecks & Adventures (7/20-7/24/2026)
Our youngest campers will learn the stories and characters of Shakespeare’s plays through story-telling, creative dramatics, theatre games, and creative projects. A fun way to introduce children to the plays, and spark young imaginations.
Young Company Session 3: Much Ado About Nothing (July 20- August 7, 2026)
Explore Shakespeare’s exciting characters, language, and stories, through creative play, games, exercises, character creation, and rehearsal, guided by professional teaching artists. Each session culminates in a performance of an abbreviated Shakespeare play.
Shakespeare's Stories Session 2: Royalty & Loyalty (7/27-7/31/2026)
Our youngest campers will learn the stories and characters of Shakespeare’s plays through story-telling, creative dramatics, theatre games, and creative projects. A fun way to introduce children to the plays, and spark young imaginations.
Shakespeare's Stories Session 3: Creatures & Clowns (8/3-8/7/2026)
Our youngest campers will learn the stories and characters of Shakespeare’s plays through story-telling, creative dramatics, theatre games, and creative projects. A fun way to introduce children to the plays, and spark young imaginations.