{"id":168,"date":"2022-12-26T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esustage.wpengine.com\/kansas-city\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:08:02","slug":"shakespeare-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU National Shakespeare Competition &#8211; Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"kc-nsc-block\" class=\"content-over-image show-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006.jpg');\">\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n                <h5 class=\"title\">THE ESU NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION &#8211; NAPLES<\/h5>\n        \n                <div class=\"subtitle\">A performance-based educational program serving grades 9-12<\/div>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"buttons\">\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"kc-nsc-program-overview\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n                            <div class=\"tagline heading-5\">\n                    PROGRAM OVERVIEW                <\/div>\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Naples Shakespeare Competition                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <h4>The ESU National Shakespeare Competition is a performance-based education program. High school students develop analytical and communication skills by performing Shakespeare at the school, community, and national levels. Since 1983 more than 360,000 students have brought the timeless works of Shakespeare to life.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Competition helps students develop speaking and critical-thinking skills while they explore the beauty of the language and the timeless themes in Shakespeare&#8217;s works. By preparing a monologue and sonnet for public presentation, students bring Shakespeare to life in their own way and learn to express his works with understanding, clarity, and feeling. Approximately 2,500 teachers and 20,000 students in nearly 60 ESU branches participate each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High school students from the Naples area (Grades 9-12) will be competing for First Place at the Naples Finals with the winner advancing to the National Finals in New York City in April 2025. Students perform and recite Shakespeare monologues and sonnets in three qualifying stages: school, branch, and National levels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are a Theatre, English, Forensics teacher, or administer a home school program, we encourage you to enter to give your students an opportunity to participate in this exciting competition. If you are an interested high school student, please alert your teachers to this valuable program.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006.jpg\" alt=\"Shakespeare Competition\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/08\/Resized_IMG_8630006-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>2025 Naples Winners<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place &#8211; Jacob Cox &#8211; Mason Classical Academy<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place &#8211; Cadence Goddard &#8211; Barron Collier High School<\/li>\n<li>3rd Place &#8211; James Corliss-Rivera &#8211; Golden Gate High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Naples 2025 Prizes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: $500<\/li>\n<li>2nd place: $250<\/li>\n<li>3rd place: $100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>National 2025 Prizes Include:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: British American Drama Academy Mid-Summer Conservatory Program in Oxford, London<\/li>\n<li>2nd place: American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp in Staunton, VA<\/li>\n<li>3rd place: $1000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n                            <div class=\"buttons\">\n                                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/school-participation-form\/\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-small\" target=\"\">Register your School<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"program-details\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n                            <div class=\"tagline heading-5\">\n                    Program Details                <\/div>\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Everything You Need to Know to Get Started                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <h4>Documents &amp; Forms<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All materials including the online school participation form, teacher and student handbooks, and packets of monologues and sonnets are <a href=\"\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\"><strong>located here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Branch Contact<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact Naples Branch Competition Coordinator Dr. Cindy Gomez : <a href=\"mailto:phd2012@hotmail.com\">phd2012@hotmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n                            <div class=\"buttons\">\n                                                                                                                                            <a href=\"\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-small\" target=\"_blank\">More information about NSC<\/a>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ESU National Shakespeare Competition - Naples - Naples<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ESU National Shakespeare Competition - Naples\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Naples\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-23T20:08:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\",\"name\":\"ESU National Shakespeare Competition - Naples - Naples\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-26T11:29:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-23T20:08:02+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What We Do\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/naples\/what-we-do\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"ESU National Shakespeare Competition &#8211; 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