The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company was founded in 2002 and quickly received a great deal of attention for its high-energy approach to the works of Shakespeare and other classics. Performing both in its indoor and outdoor homes in Ellicott City, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company attracts a regional audience from Howard County, Baltimore, Washington and beyond.

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio (Editor), 2004.

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has performances spaces in Baltimore and Elliott City, Maryland. It's main indoor space, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater opened in 2014 after a $7M renovation of the Mercantile Bank Building, a site listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. In addition, The Studio, is located next door on the fourth floor of the Merchants Club space and is used for educational programs, rehearsals and as an alternate performance space for CSC. They continue to perform outdoor every summer at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, Maryland.

CSC has won a number of awards in its short history including six Greater Baltimore Theater Awards including Outstanding Production of 2004 (Much Ado About Nothing) and Outstanding Production of 2006 (King Lear), The BroadwayWorld.com's Reader's Choice Award for Best Classical Production of 2007 (Macbeth) and a Best of Baltimore from the City Paper for their 2005 production of an original verse translation of Lope de Vega's play The Dog in the Manger and a Helen Hayes Award to Founder and Artistic Director Ian Gallanar. CSC is the only Maryland theater company invited by the Kennedy Center to participate in the 2007 Shakespeare in Washington Festival. Other companies involved include the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Kirov Ballet and The Library of Congress.

...
Wikipedia