Photo gallery: DCPA Teaching Artist John Hauser performs with ‘Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’ at the recent Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival. To see more, click the forward arrow on the image above. All photos by John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter.

Traveling to high schools across Colorado, DCPA teaching artists perform abridged versions of Shakespeare plays for a popular education program called Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. The next day, the actors often conduct classroom workshops to help students make the connection between the play its current-day relevance in their own lives. Here are photos from spring 2017, when the cast performed 45-minute versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

Now finishing its third year, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot has now served about 25,000 Colorado students, 15,000 this school year alone. DCPA Education traveled to 31 schools in eight counties, did 98 performances and conducted 59 classroom workshops. The photos above come from performances of Midsummer at a local library, as well as the Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival.

Our full coverage of the DPS Shakespeare Festival

The current cast is made up of Jessica Austgen, John Hauser, Kevin Quinn Marchman, Chloe McLeod, Jenna Moll Reyes and Justin Walvoord, with technical support from Stuart Barr. The director is DCPA Director of Education Allison Watrous.

Teachers can book performances for the fall by emailing education@dcpa.org.

All photos by John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter. 

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is made possible by a grant from Anadarko.

Selected previous coverage of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
How Shakespeare in a truck rolls down the window on today’s world
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot brings Bard to life at Weld Central High
2015 True West Award: Rosaline the 1980 Ford F-250 Farm Truck
The Shakespeare in the Parking Lot home page

More Colorado theatre coverage on the DCPA NewsCenter