Shakespeare In School

 

Based in Reno, Nevada Shakespeare Company is the only professional non-profit theatre company in the state. We are recognized under  501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and our federal tax identification number is 88-0423776.

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Joe Atack is NSC's Education Director. Mr Atack trained at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Acting Studies in 2004. He has experience developing and leading educational workshops in the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland teaching a range of acting classes on improvisation, devising and Shakespeare. Mr Atack has performed in several theatrical productions throughout the United Kingdom for the internationally acclaimed Artizani Street Theatre Company; played the role of Jason in the award winning O’Leary’s Daughters at the 24/7 Theatre Festival, various roles in StartWrite at the Contact Theatre in Manchester; the lead role of Dr Spinoza in Cabbages, and the lead role of Terry in the black comedy Ravioli at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. On film Joe played the lead role of Gavin in the short film The Reading Glasses and Keith Johnson (a terrible George Michael impersonator) in the BBC sitcom Where to Mate? He has worked as a stand-up comedian and musician; produced, staged and booked talent for a monthly comedy night known as The Alternative Cabaret in Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron Crain, President, has been a resident artist with Nevada Shakespeare Company since 1998. He has created and coordinated NSC’s Shakespeare In School program since its genesis in 2001. Having graduated from Washington State University with emphases in Literature, Philosophy and Theatre, Cameron has performed scores of roles for NSC including four roles in their 6-actor Hamlet, Rivers/Hastings/Clarence/Richmond in Richard III, Regan/Oswald/Kent in their 4-actor King Lear, and Everyman in NSC’s celebrated original production, A Single Woman, which he also directed. Other directing credits for NSC include Macbeth and Julius Caesar. In 1995, for the Sierra Arts Foundation’s Artist-in-Residence program, Cameron worked for 3 months at two Juvenile lock-down facilities, the product of which is the chapbook of student poetry, Suicide and other Options. He is recipient of a 2004 performing arts fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council and teaches theatre and at Sage Ridge School in Reno.

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