Shakespeare in Yosemite was founded by Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott in 2017. 
Its mission is to bring short, accessible, and FREE productions of Shakespeare’s plays to Yosemite National Park for Earth Day and Shakespeare’s birthday each April. Our shows are 90 minutes long, feature lots of music, and are adapted to address issues relevant to Earth Day and Yosemite. We say that Shakespeare is a renewable cultural resource: we can adapt these plays in new ways each year without damaging them. Just like Shakespeare himself did, we rework old stories to make them new!
Casts and production teams are made up of UC Merced students, park rangers and Yosemite employees, and community members. We now release a version of each production on our YouTube channel each summer.
We offer our productions on the campus of UC Merced and in Yosemite National Park's Curry Village for FREE every year. Help us keep this program going by donating here.
Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter @yosemiteshakes.
Past Shakespeare in Yosemite Productions:
One Touch of Nature, 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2018
As You Like It, 2019
Imogen in the Wild (film), 2021
Love’s Labor’s Lost: 1969 (show and film), 2022
Romeo and Juliet (show and film), 2023
A Midsummer Yosemite's Dream (show and film), 2024
The cast and crew of Romeo and Juliet, 2023.
