The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA) was established to provide a forum for the artistic and managerial leadership of theatres whose central activity is the production of Shakespeare's plays; to discuss issues and share methods of work, resources, and information; and to act as an advocate for Shakespearean productions in North America.

History

The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America was organized at a meeting held January 12 and 13, 1991 at the Folger Library and the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. Sidney Berger, Producing Director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Douglas Cook, Producing Artistic Director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Utah Shakespearean Festival

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is a festival of repertory productions of the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists. The Festival is held during the summer and fall on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah.-Awards:...

, invited the producers, artistic directors and managing directors of over thirty-seven Shakespeare festivals and companies from the United States and Canada to this meeting. Berger was elected the first President,ref.Sidney Berger and Cook the first Vice President.

Past Conferences

The annual conference is the most important activity of STAA. The 2011 conference will be hosted by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Bolder, Colorado.

Host	City	Year
Shakespeare’s Globe	London, England	2010
Shakespeare & Company	Lenox, MA	2009
Utah Shakespearean Festival	Cedar City, UT	2008
Nashville Shakespeare Festival	Nashville, TN	2007
Marin Shakespeare Company AND Baja Shakespeare Festival	San Rafael, CA and, Los Barriles, Mexico	2006
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival	Vancouver, BC	2005
American Shakespeare Center	Staunton, VA	2004
Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Ashland, OR	2003
Shakespeare Theater Company	Washington, DC	2002
Idaho Shakespeare Festival	Boise, ID	2001
Royal Shakespeare Company AND Shakespeare’s Globe	Stratford-upon-Avon & London, England	2000
Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival	Orlando, FL	1999
Georgia Shakespeare Festival	Atlanta, GA	1998
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival	San Francisco, CA	1997
Stratford Festival	Stratford, ON, Canada	1996
Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company	Portland, OR	1995
Alabama Shakespeare Festival	Montgomery, AL	1994
Utah Shakespearean Festival	Cedar City, UT	1993
Houston Shakespeare Festival	Houston, TX	1992
Folger Shakespeare Theatre	Washington, D.C.	1991

Members

• A Company of Fools
• Advice to the Players
• African-American Shakespeare Company
• Alabama Shakespeare Festival
• American Shakespeare Center
• Arcadia Shakespeare Festival
• Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern
  Shakespeare Tavern
  The Shakespeare Tavern is an Authentic Elizabethan Playhouse located in the SoNo district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The Tavern is home to the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and Chef for a Night catering, which offers food and beverages before each performance...
  
  
• Austin Shakespeare Festival
• Baja Shakespeare Company
• Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
• California Shakespeare Theater
• Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater
  Chicago Shakespeare Theater
  Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...
  
  
• Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival
• Colorado Shakespeare Festival
• Delaware Shakespeare Festival
• Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival
• Flatwater Shakespeare
• Folger Theatre
• Foothill Theatre Company/Sierra Shakespeare Festival
• Freeport Shakespeare Festival
• Georgia Shakespeare Festival
• Globe of the Great Southwest, Inc.
• Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival
• Great River Shakespeare Festival
• Hampshire Shakespeare Company
• Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival
• Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
• Houston Shakespeare Festival (a professional project of the University of Houston School of Theatre)
• Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
• Idaho Shakespeare Festival
• Illinois Shakespeare Festival
• Institute of Outdoor Drama
• Judith Shakespeare Company
• Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
• Kings County Shakespeare Company
• Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival
• Lexington Shakespeare Festival
• Maine Shakespeare Festival
• Marin Shakespeare Company
  Marin Shakespeare Company
  The Marin Shakespeare Company was re-established in 1989 at the Dominican College’s Forest Meadows Amphitheatre by Lesley Currier and Robert Currier....
  
  
• Maryland Shakespeare Festival
• Milwaukee Shakespeare
• Montana Shakespeare Co.
• Nashville Shakespeare Festival
• Nebraska Shakespeare Festival
• New Renaissance Theatre and Film
• North Carolina Shakespeare Festival
• Ohio Shakespeare Festival
• Ojai Shakespeare Festival
• Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival
  Oregon Shakespeare Festival
  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October...
  
  
• Orlando Shakespeare Theater
• Pasadena Shakespeare Company
• Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University
• Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival
• Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival
• Quintessence, Language & Imagination Theatre
• Richmond Shakespeare
• Riverside Theatre
• Shakespeare Players program; Rochester Community Players
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
• Santa Fe Shakespeare
• Seattle Shakespeare Company
• Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival
• Shakespeare & Company
  Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts)
  Shakespeare & Company is an American theatre company located in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire region of western Massachusetts. It was founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Tina Packer, who stepped down in 2009. Tony Simotes is the current Artistic Director. A co-founder was Kristin...
  
  
• Shakespeare at Benbow Lake
• Shakespeare at Winedale
  Shakespeare at Winedale
  The Shakespeare at Winedale program, created in 1970 by James B. "Doc" Ayres, is a program affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, dedicated to Shakespearean criticism through performance of the plays...
  
  
• Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
• Shakespeare Festival/LA
• Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia
• Shakespeare Guild, Inc.
• Shakespeare in Delaware Park - Buffalo
• Shakespeare In the Parking Lot Theatre
• Shakespeare Napa Valley
• Shakespeare on the Rocks Theater Festival (El Paso Association for the Performing Arts)
• Shakespeare on the Sound, Inc.
• Shakespeare Orange County
• Shakespeare SA (South Africa)
• Shakespeare Santa Cruz
• Shakespeare Theatre Company
• Shakespeare Ventures
• Shakespeare's Globe
• Southwest Shakespeare Company
• Stratford Festival of Canada
• Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame
• Tennessee Stage Company - East Tennessee Shakespeare in the Park
• The Colonial Theatre
• The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane
• The Shakespeare Guild
• Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
  Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
  The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is an independent, professional theatre company located on the Drew University campus. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the USA — serving 100,000 adults and children annually — it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated to the...
  
  
• The Theater At Monmouth
• Unseam'd Shakespeare Co.
• Utah Shakespearean Festival
• Valley Shakespeare Festival
• Virginia Shakespeare Festival
• Woodward Shakespeare Festival