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.

https://www.marinshakespeare.org/teen-touring-company/

The Teen Touring Company is a unique opportunity for actors aged 13 - 18, to create and tour a Shakespeare play to schools, senior centers and community organizations.  Students work with a professional director and dive into conservatory-style rehearsal and training in voice and text work, acting and movement. All roles are available for performers of any gender.

Under the direction of an experienced teaching artist, young actors will explore a variety of theatre skills including acting technique, movement, voice and Shakespeare's language. Great for experienced performers and students curious about theatre and Shakespeare.   This 8-week workshop culminates, in a performance of Shakespeare selections and orginal work. 

Teaching Artists: Elana Kepner & Gillian Eichenberger

Join Gillian Eichenberger and Elana Kepner, the team behind Teen Company's The Lightning Thief, for this cool new class! Fine tune your singing, storytelling and acting skills while building a personalized cabaret.  This class includes group exercises and individualized coaching on  musical theatre solos and contemporary text, chosen especially for you.  Culminates in a cabaret performance of songs and monologues for family, friends and the public. 

8 Mondays, March 16 - May 11 (no class April 6), 4:30-6:30

Final Cabaret Performance: Monday, May 11 at 6:00

Tuition: $320

Need-based scholarships are available for all Marin Shakespeare Company classes.

Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael

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.

Production Title TBA

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. 

Only 15 spaces available!

Four-week session, Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Location: 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael

Tuition: $1600

Performance: Friday, July 10 at 2:00 PM

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.

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.