The Tempest Founded in 1935, the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is among the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres in the nation. Each year OSF presents an eight-and-a-half-month season of eleven plays in three theatres plus numerous ancillary activities, and undertakes an extensive theatre education program. Operating on a budget exceeding $24 million, OSF presents more than 770 performances annually with attendance of approximately 360,000.

Facts about Oregon Shakespear Festival

• The Festival is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for the not-for-profit professional theatre, and operates under a contract with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
• The Festival is a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America.
• The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2007 production of As You Like It, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet are part of Shakespeare in American Communities: Shakespeare for a New Generation, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.
• The Festival operates under a contract with the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
• Since its inception in 1977, the Oregon Governor’s Award for the Arts has been presented to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five of its artists: Angus Bowmer, Richard L. Hay, Jerry Turner, William Patton and William Bloodgood.

For more information, visit www.osfashland.org.