Tennessee Shakespeare Company

Specialties

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is a professional, 501©(3) theatre and education organization which performs the plays of William Shakespeare seasonally outdoors and indoors with partnering organizations; performs classical and Southern writers seasonally indoors and outdoors; provides innovative year-​round educational and training programming; and will produce a Southern-​centric new play festival: Southern Exposure.

History

Established in 2008.

A 501©(3) not-​for-​profit organization founded in Germantown, Tennessee, in 2008 as the Mid-South’s professional, classical theatre and education organization, Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) is the creation of native Memphians Dan McCleary (Producing Artistic Director) and national Disney Teacher of the Year, E. Frank Bluestein (Executive Director).

Since then, TSC has grown into a $ 716,000 (FY15) theatre and education organization that has performed, among other titles, «As You Like It» an all-​female «Julius Caesar», «A Midsummer Night’s Dream,» «Othello,» «Themes from a Midsummer Night (in collaboration with IRIS Orchestra),» Macbeth, and «Romeo and Juliet»

TSC’s education program has grown at twice its projected pace, having served over 100,000 Mid-​South school children from over 100 Memphis area and Southeast schools.

The N.E.A. and Arts Midwest have recognized TSC in each of the past two seasons.

Meet the Business Owner

Dan M.

Business Owner

Dan McCleary is a native Memphian and a graduate of Germantown High School and its Poplar Pike Playhouse. Dan directed and acted in TSC’s inaugural production of As You Like It as well as The Glass Menagerie and The Taming of the Shrew. He directed TSC’s Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, all-​female Julius Caesar, Othello, Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and Themes from a Midsummer Night with IRIS Orchestra. He also has directed critically-​acclaimed productions of As You Like It at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, The Servant of Two Masters outdoors in downtown Atlanta and at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and All’s Well That Ends Well at Georgia Shakespeare Festival. At the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, he has directed the world première of The Stone Face and has played the title roles in Antony and Cleopatra and Richard III, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Porfiry in Crime and Punishment, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, and Falstaff in The Merry Wi