The Atlanta Shakespeare Company (ASC) is among 40 nonprofit professional companies across the nation to receive a portion of a $1 million grant from The National Endowment of the Arts and ARTS Midwest this coming year. This grant will allow companies to perform William Shakespeare’s work for students this coming year through Shakespeare in American Communities. 

Through this grant, the Atlanta Shakespeare Company will present productions of Shakespeare’s work to at least 10 schools/2500 students along with workshops before and question and answer sessions after the performances. ASC will be touring their production of Romeo and Juliet Abridged to schools across the state of Georgia with special outreach to rural counties with little or no access to professional theatre performances. This past year, the production reached over 1100 students in metro Atlanta and Northeast Georgia and neighboring states.