Texas Shakespeare Festival
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Matthew Simpson Associate Artistic Director and Director of Development at Texas Shakespeare Festival
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Kilgore, Texas, United States
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Paul Marszalkowski Music Director at Texas Shakespeare Festival-
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Laura Brennan Actor, Writer, Educator-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Angelina Herin Costume Designer at Texas Shakespeare Festival-
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
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Meaghan Simpson Artistic Director at Texas Shakespeare Festival-
Kilgore, Texas, United States
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Overview
The idea for the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College was developed in the early 1980's by Founder Raymond Caldwell. The goal was to establish a professional summer theatre for East Texas based in Kilgore that would be housed in the Van Cliburn Auditorium; to create a company with a name that would have broad appeal to professional theatre artists, employing high caliber actors, designers and directors from throughout the nation; to offer professional actors and theatre students the luxury of working on plays from the world’s storehouse of dramatic literary masterpieces; and to create a regional play about the East Texas oilfield discovery to be produced as a cultural historical memento of our unique and colorful heritage.
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