Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles

Founded in 1986, the Shakespeare Center of LA’s mission is to provide Los Angeles with innovative, world-class theatrical productions of Shakespeare and other great works, high-quality arts education and workforce development programs for underserved youth, veterans, and formerly incarcerated people — because arts engagement builds community and changes lives. We have consistently produced critically acclaimed theater linked to arts-based workforce programs that have been nationally replicated; have created thousands of summer arts-based employment opportunities for poverty-threshold youth; paid youth more than $2 million in wages; and have hired and trained hundreds of chronically under-employed veterans to crew our productions, paying them more than $500,000 in wages. Our programs and productions have received recognition from the National Youth Employment Coalition, U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.