CT Humanities Sponsor Shakesperience Productions

CT Humanities Sponsors Shakesperience Productions Neighborhoods Program

Waterbury, CT - Emily Mattina, Artistic Director of Shakesperience Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the company’s receipt of a generous grant from CT Humanities.

Thanks to this grant, Shakesperience can continue to grow with expansion of proven programs such as our oral local history focus with the Waterbury Interactive: Our City, Our Neighborhoods program.

Waterbury Interactive: Our City, Our Neighborhoods is an inter-generational humanities and arts program, focused on human condition through storytelling. The project is a natural progression from a company named for the playwright who utilized empathy to create a sense of communication and a connection between the actor and audience. It’s a company that views Shakespeare as a catalyst for human interaction across time and space. The connection implied in Neighborhoods goes beyond those people and ideas in our immediate vicinity and connects us through mood, culture, thought and experience.

Connecticut Humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society. Through grant funding and capacity building, CTH strives to ensure the public humanities will continue to inspire storytelling, lifelong learning, informed public dialogue and civic engagement in ways that strengthen communities and enhance quality of life for all Connecticut’s residents.

Shakesperience is a nonprofit professional theater company located in Connecticut that reaches a Northeast audience of adults and students alike with outdoor and in-studio performances, Saturday and private acting classes, school & camp tours, and residency programs. Shakesperience was founded in 1996 by Emily Mattina and Jeffrey Lapham with a mission to educate and inspire students, families, and theater professionals through the arts.