Audition for your chance to be involved in our summer 2025 productions of Shakespeare’s magical romance masterpieces The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale. Our summer ensemble productions are pre-professional acting summer camps for teens ages 13 - 19.
A world-class education in Shakespeare.
Exceptional education, extraordinary artistry. Experience Shakespeare like never before.
AUDITION FOR SUMMER 2025
Join Shakespearean Youth Theatre onstage this summer in The Tempest or The Winter’s Tale.
Auditions are April 12th and 13th, 2025. Actors ages 14 - 18 are welcome to sign up to audition! We accept actors of all skill levels, experience levels, backgrounds, abilities, and identities.
SYT is a welcoming, inclusive community of young artists and theatre makers. If you want to work on a play you can sink your teeth into, this is the place for you — we can’t wait to meet you.
NOW PLAYING
The 2025 Summer Shakespeare Festival presented by the SYT Summer Ensemble opens July 18 and runs through August 3, 2025.
Join us behind the yellow door of the Crane Theater in Minneapolis for an unforgettable, family-friendly theatre experience like no other with Shakespeare’s two magical masterpieces, The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale.
“If you think you don’t like Shakespeare, this cast and this director will change your mind.”
SHAKESPEAREANCES: Ages 9 - 12
Open the door to the rich and enchanting world of William Shakespeare!
Learn how to “suit the action to the word, the word to the action”, and discover the best way to tell a story through gesture, movement, and physical collaboration.
Students will work together to discover the hidden meanings behind some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines and step into the shoes of his beloved characters -- cunning villains, witty fools, melancholy kings, and brave heroines!
Core Ensemble
Students in Shakespearean Youth Theatre’s Core Ensemble acting class spend six months delving into one Shakespeare play, studying the text and analyzing the story’s themes, characters, and poetic construction, as well as working with professional theatre artists to strengthen acting and performance skills in voice, movement, stage combat, and storytelling. In the second half of of the program, students rehearse with a professional director and perform in a full - length production of the play.
September - March, annually | by invitation only
All the world’s a stage.
