Exhibit Opening Event! “Histories of Local Productions from the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Archive”

Join us from 4-5pm on 5/28 to toast our new student-curated exhibition about the history of Shakespeare Santa Cruz!

The exhibition is now open in McHenry’s 3rd floor hallway.

The items in these cases were chosen by four student interns, working under the direction of Sean Keilen (Professor, Literature). The students are Makayla Buckholz, a second-year Literature major from San Diego; Maddie Haddad, a third-year Literature major from San Luis Obispo; Saoirse Plafker, third-year Literature major from Lafayette; and Gianna Sandoval, a third-year History major from Modesto. The students’ research into the history of local productions of Much Ado about Nothing and Macbeth was funded by the Dean of Humanities and Shakespeare Workshop. The assistance of Kelsey Knox, Teresa Mora, and Sam Regal of Special Collections in McHenry Library is gratefully acknowledged. Production histories that the interns wrote will appear in the program for the 2026 summer theater festival at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.