{"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":"2024-09-19T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:14:08","slug":"shakespeare-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/what-we-do\/shakespeare-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU National Shakespeare Competition &#8211; Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"\" 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                    Tucson Shakespeare Competition                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1147 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/tucson-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/DSC_20420-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 425,000 students have brought the timeless works of Shakespeare to life.&nbsp;<\/p>\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 600 teachers and 3,500 students in nearly 45 ESU branches participate each year. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;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<h4>The 2025 ESU National Shakespeare Competition is underway in schools across the country. Following are upcoming deadlines for this year\u2019s competition:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Branch Registration Deadline \u2013 September 27, 2024<\/li>\n<li>School Registration Deadline \u2013 November 29, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Branch Competitions must be held prior to March 6, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Branch Winner Packets must be returned to ESU by March 16, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competition finals will be held at Lincoln Center in NYC in late April (Date TBA)<\/p>\n<h4>2025 Prizes Include:<\/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=\"\/2024-esu-national-shakespeare-competition-branch-participation-form\/\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-small\" target=\"_blank\">Register for the Tucson Competition<\/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>Please&nbsp;email your high school&#8217;s commitment of participation in the ESU Competition to Alicia Fodor:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:esushakespearetucsonaz@gmail.com\">esushakespearetucsonaz@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;as soon as possible. We will provide information about a participation fee and an invoice.<\/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>\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=\"history\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n                            <div class=\"tagline heading-5\">\n                    Previous Winners                 <\/div>\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Tucson Shakespeare Competition                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">40th Anniversary ESU National Shakespeare Competition Winner<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.esuus.org\/tucson\/news\/2023-ncs-winners\/attachment.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to the Tuscon Branch&#8217;s own&nbsp;<strong>Kiera Kuehnle<\/strong>, who was a top 10 finalist at the&nbsp;40th Anniversary&nbsp;<strong>ESU<\/strong>&nbsp;National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 24, 2023. Kiera, a student of Amy Byroad of Catalina Foothills High School, was one of forty-one semi-finalists who came from all over the country, along with parents, branch coordinators, teachers and supporters for this exciting weekend-long event.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tucson Branch 2021 Shakespeare Competition<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Congratulations to all of our competitions for a successful 2021 Shakespeare competition. We ran an all virtual&nbsp;competition with 18 students from across Southern Arizona.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Judges were esteemed Professors from the University of Arizona:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Modern<\/strong>, Associate Professor&nbsp;of Voice and Movement, School of Theatre, Film and Television<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frederick Kiefer<\/strong>, Professor of English\/Elizabethen and Jacobean Drama<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harold Dixon<\/strong>, retired Artistic Director of Theatre Arts\/Actor and Director)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patty Gallagher,<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor of Theatre Arts\/University of California Santa Clara.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">While Zoom was not our favorite tool the&nbsp;students&nbsp;participated excitedly while staying positive and offering encouragement to one another.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Kaya Lewis<\/strong>&nbsp;of Empire High School for winning 1st Place with Mercutio\/Romeo and Juliet. 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