Fall 1993
Ron Gural, Buzz Podewell, Paul Schierhorn, and Jeanne Button (all Tulane University Theatre & Dance faculty) decide to fill a void in the New Orleans summer theatre scene with the creation of the Tulane Summer Shakespeare Festival.

Summer 1994 - 1st Season
Much Ado About Nothing
King Lear

Summer 1995 - 2nd Season
Othello
As You Like It

Summer 1996 - 3rd Season
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Macbeth

Fall 1996
Aimée K. Michel appointed new Artistic Director

January 1997
Shakespeare Alive! launched with Macbeth for Schools

Summer 1997 - 4th Season
The Tempest
BellSouth Institute on Teaching Shakespeare launched

January 1998
The Tempest for Schools

Spring 1998
The name is officially changed to the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane

Summer 1998 - 5th Season
Julius Caesar
Romeo & Juliet
Twelfth Night (Intern Production)

January 1999
Romeo & Juliet for Schools

Summer 1999 - 6th Season
Antony & Cleopatra
Twelfth Night
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Intern Production)

Fall 1999
Shakespeare on the Road launched

January 2000
Twelfth Night for Schools

Summer 2000 - 7th Season
Taming of the Shrew
Hamlet
Endgame (Lagniappe Stage)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Intern Production)

January 2001
Hamlet for Schools

Summer 2001 - 8th Season
Richard II
The Winter’s Tale
With Malice Towards All (Lagniappe Stage)
Wages (Staged Reading - Lagniappe Stage)
Much Ado About Nothing (Intern Production)

January 2002
Hamlet for Schools

Summer 2002 - 9th Season
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Slow Fugue Before Dying (Lagniappe Stage)
Taming of the Shrew (Intern Production)

January 2003
Romeo & Juliet for Schools

Summer 2003 - 10th Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A House Not Meant to Stand (Co-Production with Tennessee Williams Literary Festival)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Intern Production)

January 2004
A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Schools

Summer 2004 - 11th Season
Richard III
Macbeth
The Comedy of Errors (Intern Production)

January 2005
Macbeth for Schools

Summer 2005 - 12th Season
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Intern Production)

August 29, 2005

The administration and production offices of the Shakespeare Festival are completely lost to the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina

April 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Schools

Summer 2006 - 13th Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo & Juliet

The Tempest (four person experimental production)

Fall 2006

Ron Gural, Professor in the Tulane Department of Theatre and Dance, co-founder of the Shakespeare Festival, and company member since its inception, assumes the role of Artistic Director

October 2006

Romeo & Juliet for Schools

Summer 2007 - 14th Season

Henry V

Coriolanus

Macbeth (Intern Production)

Vote Lear: A Theatrical Manifesto (Staged Reading - Lagniappe Stage)

January 2008

The Taming of the Shrew for Schools

Pictured Above:  Othello, Summer 2005

Photo by Brad Robbert