The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Founded in 2002, by Ian Gallanar and Heidi Busch-Gallanar, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has grown into one of the twenty largest Shakespeare theaters in the United States under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Ian Gallanar and Managing Director Lesley Malin. The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has performance spaces in Baltimore and Elliott City, Maryland. Its main indoor space, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater opened in 2014 after a $7M renovation of the Mercantile Bank Building, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, The Studio, is located next door on the fourth floor of the Merchants Club space and is used for educational programs, rehearsals and as an alternate performance space for CSC. They continue to perform outdoor every summer at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, Maryland.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio, 2004.
Notable projects over the years include participation as the only Maryland Company in 2007's international Shakespeare in Washington Festival with their productions of As You Like It and Henry V, a 2007 production of Macbeth that performed at the Patuxent Institution, a maximum security prison based in Jessup, Maryland, the 2014 Maryland debut of Shakespeare's Richard II, Wild Oats, a rare 18th Century play and their own Baltimore themed adaptation of A Christmas Carol running every December from 2014 - 2019. In 2017, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company hosted the international Shakespeare Theatre Association conference.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's education programs include professional artist development, community education, innovative K-12 school programming, summer camps for kids, high school Shakespeare Festivals and workshops using methodologies created by CSC in cooperation with National and International Institutional Partners.
Production history
2002 Twelfth Night Directed by Ian Gallanar2003 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2003 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Christopher Marino
2004 Troilus & Cressida Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2004 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Ian Gallanar
2004 Measure for Measure Directed by Christopher Niebling
2005 The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2005 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2005 Coriolanus Directed by Ian Gallanar
2006 The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Ken Elston
2006 King Lear Directed by Ian Gallanar
2006 The Taming of the Shrew Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2006 Love's Labor's Lost Directed by Jenny Leopold
2007 The Front Page Directed by Ian Gallanar
2007 As You Like It Directed by Ian Gallanar
2007 Henry V Directed by James Ricks
2007 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2008 A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen Directed by Kevin Costa
2008 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Ian Gallanar
2008 The Tempest Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2008 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2009 The Country Wife Directed by Heather Nathans
2009 Cyrano de Bergerac Directed by Ian Gallanar
2009 Twelfth Night Directed by Jenny Leopold
2009 Julius Caesar Directed by Frank Moorman
2010 Lysistrata Directed by Ian Gallanar
2010 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Ryan Whinnem
2010 Hamlet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2010 Titus Andronicus Directed by Kevin Costa
2011 Cymbeline Directed by Ian Gallanar
2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2011 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Directed by Scott Alan Small
2011 Our Town Directed by Ian Gallanar
2012 The Merchant of Venice Directed by Teresa Castracane
2012 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Jenny Leopold
2012 Pride and Prejudice Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2012 Richard III Directed by Ian Gallanar
2013 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2013 The Taming of the Shrew Directed by Ian Gallanar
2013 Antony and Cleopatra Directed by Ralph Alan Cohen
2013 Dracula Directed by Scott Alan Small
2014 As You Like it Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2014 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2014 Richard II Directed by Kevin Costa
2014 A Christmas Carol Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 Uncle Vanya Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 The Importance of Being Earnest Directed by Erin Bone Steele
2015 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Scott Alan Small
2015 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Matthew R. Wilson
2015 Titus Andronicus Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 A Christmas Carol Directed by Ian Gallanar & Scott Alan Small
2016 Wild Oats Directed by Ian Gallanar
2016 Macbeth Directed by Paul Barnes
2016 The Three Musketeers Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick & Ian Gallanar
2016 Othello Directed by Ian Gallanar
2016 Anne of the Thousand Days Directed by Kasi Campbell
2016 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2017 Richard III Directed by Ian Gallanar
2017 Taming of the Shrew Directed by Ian Gallanar
2017 The Fantasticks! by Schmidt & Jones Directed by Curt Tofteland
2017 The Tempest Directed by Lizzi Albert
2017 Julius Caesar Directed by Michael Toylado
2017 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2018 Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti Directed by Shirley Basfield-Dunlap
2018 A Winter's Tale Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2018 Alice in Wonderland by Florida Friebus & Eva Le Gallienne Directed by Ian Gallanar
2018 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2018 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Directed by Ian Gallanar
2018 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2019 Henry IV Part 1 Directed by Ian Gallanar
2019 Henry IV Part 2 Directed by Ian Gallanar and Gerrad Taylor
2019 Diary of Anne Frank by Goodrich & Hackett Directed by Eve Muson
2019 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2019 Love's Labour's Lost Directed by Erin Bone Steele
2019 Dracula by Steven Deitz Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2019 A Christmas Carol by Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2020 Measure for Measure Directed by Lisa Bruneau
2020 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield Directed by Ian Gallanar