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Education Coordinator(s)

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Hello!  We are overjoyed to welcome both Michael Wamara and Sadie Epstein-Fine to
Shakespeare in the Ruff’s team, as the newly appointed Education Coordinators.

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Introducing a new seasonal offering

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For our inaugural season as collective leadership, we are introducing a new seasonal offering that will take place each year in these late winter months. This event will act as the official launch of our new season and will kick start a series of events which each interrogate the themes we are focusing on for the year.

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2022: Othello

2022 Season Announcement

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Our vision for Shakespeare in the Ruff begins with our collective leadership model: five artists from different intersections bringing different perspectives to Shakespeare’s plays, and the great big question of why we (and so many others) keep doing them.

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To my fellow artist-parents…

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“I started rehearsing Prince Hamlet when my daughter was 7 weeks old” has become something of a badge of honour for me. Pregnant artists ask me about it. New parents marvel at it. I look back at it from where I am now and it seems impossible. But that’s because now things are way harder.

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Renaming Ruff’s Levels of Giving

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A small but important thing on our New Leadership To-Do List was to rename Ruff’s levels of giving. The original names, which had been around since the company was founded, had an implicit hierarchy that we wanted to move away from. We’re grateful for any donations, of any size – it’s all equally valuable to us – and we wanted the new names to reflect that. We also wanted to move a little farther away from the Shakespeare part of our name, and a little closer to the Ruff.

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Seeking – Education Coordinator for Shakespeare in the Ruff

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Shakespeare in the Ruff is seeking applications for an Education Coordinator to join the Artistic Leadership Collective and company to guide the Youth Development and Outreach Program, focusing on the Young Ruffian Apprenticeship Program (YRAP).  The role of the Education and Outreach Coordinator is to lead with passion, dedication, and a desire to create meaningful and vibrant programming for youth. 

The contract runs from February 1st, 2022 to October, 2022 with an increase in activity in March/April and July/August.    

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