| the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company |
Michigan's only year-round, touring professional Shakespeare company
This past summer season, we produced Julius Caesar
and The Comedy of Errors, both of which toured to
multiple Michigan venues to fantastic audience
response. One audience member wrote to us that they
were “blown away” and that “everyone involved with this
production should be so proud.” Another said “I am
once again reminded why I love Shakespeare and the
theatre.”
Julius Caesar went on Pigeon Creek’s first ever tour to
New York City, where the 12-person cast performed at
the Kraine Theater. This is the third summer in a row
that Pigeon Creek has taken a production on out of
state tour, and we are very happy to provide this
opportunity to our regional actors.
In August, the company began rehearsals with a select
cast of high school students from Wayland Union High
School in Wayland, Michigan, for a production of The
Winter’s Tale. The high school actors acted along
side Pigeon Creek’s professional actors, learning
through apprenticeship in much the same way that
young actors did in Shakespeare’s own lifetime.
Performances of The Winter’s Tale occurred in mid-
September. We are proud to continue helping West
Michigan’s students learn to love Shakespeare
In October, Pigeon Creek presented scenes from The
Winter’s Tale and a full-length production of Twelfth
Night at the Shakespeare Connects! Conference at
Grand Valley State University. We thoroughly enjoyed
sharing ideas about Shakespeare in performance with
the academic community at this conference and are
eager to participate again in 2011.
We concluded our 2009 season with a winter production
of Pericles, and are now beginning preparations for our
exciting 2010 season! This season brings productions
of Hamlet, The Tempest, Henry V, and The Merry
Wives of Windsor, as well as another high school
residency; special school matinees of Hamlet at the
Beardsley Theater in Muskegon; and more staged
readings of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries in
our “Early Modern Others” series.
You can help support this exciting programming. Your
generous donations will help to pay for our actors’ tour
expenses, for the ongoing workshops that our actors
conduct with high school and university students, and
for the actor contracts and other production costs that
make our performances possible. Pigeon Creek is a 501
(c)3 non-profit organization, and all donations to the
company are tax-deductible. Please think of us as you
plan your charitable giving this year.
The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company is dedicated
to providing professional quality performances of
Shakespeare’s works to our regional audiences, and to
providing professional opportunities to local actors and
directors. We are grateful for the continued support of
our audience members, and hope that you will help us
continue to grow and thrive. If you are interested in
contributing, please call us at 616-850-0916, e-mail
admin@pcshakespeare.com, or mail checks payable to
“The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company” to 823
Slayton Avenue, Grand Haven, MI, 49417.
Thank you for your support of non-profit arts and
cultural organizations!
and The Comedy of Errors, both of which toured to
multiple Michigan venues to fantastic audience
response. One audience member wrote to us that they
were “blown away” and that “everyone involved with this
production should be so proud.” Another said “I am
once again reminded why I love Shakespeare and the
theatre.”
Julius Caesar went on Pigeon Creek’s first ever tour to
New York City, where the 12-person cast performed at
the Kraine Theater. This is the third summer in a row
that Pigeon Creek has taken a production on out of
state tour, and we are very happy to provide this
opportunity to our regional actors.
In August, the company began rehearsals with a select
cast of high school students from Wayland Union High
School in Wayland, Michigan, for a production of The
Winter’s Tale. The high school actors acted along
side Pigeon Creek’s professional actors, learning
through apprenticeship in much the same way that
young actors did in Shakespeare’s own lifetime.
Performances of The Winter’s Tale occurred in mid-
September. We are proud to continue helping West
Michigan’s students learn to love Shakespeare
In October, Pigeon Creek presented scenes from The
Winter’s Tale and a full-length production of Twelfth
Night at the Shakespeare Connects! Conference at
Grand Valley State University. We thoroughly enjoyed
sharing ideas about Shakespeare in performance with
the academic community at this conference and are
eager to participate again in 2011.
We concluded our 2009 season with a winter production
of Pericles, and are now beginning preparations for our
exciting 2010 season! This season brings productions
of Hamlet, The Tempest, Henry V, and The Merry
Wives of Windsor, as well as another high school
residency; special school matinees of Hamlet at the
Beardsley Theater in Muskegon; and more staged
readings of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries in
our “Early Modern Others” series.
You can help support this exciting programming. Your
generous donations will help to pay for our actors’ tour
expenses, for the ongoing workshops that our actors
conduct with high school and university students, and
for the actor contracts and other production costs that
make our performances possible. Pigeon Creek is a 501
(c)3 non-profit organization, and all donations to the
company are tax-deductible. Please think of us as you
plan your charitable giving this year.
The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company is dedicated
to providing professional quality performances of
Shakespeare’s works to our regional audiences, and to
providing professional opportunities to local actors and
directors. We are grateful for the continued support of
our audience members, and hope that you will help us
continue to grow and thrive. If you are interested in
contributing, please call us at 616-850-0916, e-mail
admin@pcshakespeare.com, or mail checks payable to
“The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company” to 823
Slayton Avenue, Grand Haven, MI, 49417.
Thank you for your support of non-profit arts and
cultural organizations!
Support Us!
Karen Lange, Scott Lange and
Katherine Mayberry posing in a
promotional advert for our 2008
fundraiser "90 4 the Bard"
Katherine Mayberry posing in a
promotional advert for our 2008
fundraiser "90 4 the Bard"
Kelly Knoll and Caroline Gaddy
as the Clown and Autolycus in
The Winter's Tale.
as the Clown and Autolycus in
The Winter's Tale.
