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Education Program Annual Report
 

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

Education Program FY10 Annual Report

Sponsored in part by The Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund and The City of Germantown

 

·      15 student matinees were presented of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar;

·      3,272 Shelby County students attended – nearly selling out;

·      13 TSC actors volunteered to go into 24 area classrooms to speak to and play with 630 students;

·      Participating students ranged from 3rd grade to 12th grade, and from English classes to Drama classes to IB and to Special Education;

·      335 Memphis area children aged 17 and younger took advantage of the Free Will Kids Tickets to both productions (TSC projected 196);

·      All 5 Germantown elementary, middle, and high schools took advantage of TSC’s free in-school playshops, not once but twice, totaling 51 playshops serving 1,347 students;

·      80 TSC teacher hours were spent with 21 students in preparing them to perform in prelude scenes prior to TSC’s performances;

·      3,320 original, interactive Study Guides for both productions were created and delivered to students and teachers attending morning matinees;

 

Currently

 

·      Because the majority of TSC’s audiences are young people, we listened to what they wanted to see in the upcoming season.  They chose Othello and Romeo and Juliet, and these comprise TSC’s Third Season.  Study Guides are nearing completion;

·      TSC’s first one-week summer camp for students aged 10-17 finished very successfully with near-capacity enrollment of mostly Germantown children;

·      TSC’s first two-week summer camp underway.

 

In less than two years

 

·      Nearly 9,000 Shelby County schoolchildren have seen TSC productions and participated in playshops and in-school residencies;

·      Over 10,000 audience members have attended TSC productions;

·      $1.2 million economic impact on our community by TSC, as calculated by Dr. David Ciscel, Dean of Business School at Christian Brothers University.

 

 

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