Sh.Ed

The place for Shakespeare education

ABOUT US

We are a two-person Shakespeare education consultancy bringing decades of experience and research exploring Shakespeare in schools, colleges, universities, communities and theatres direct to you.

Our dynamic, theatre-based and research-informed approach to engaging learners in Shakespeare has the potential to transform how you teach literature and performance in your setting.

Learn more about our existing publications and work here, as well as what we can offer you.

Meet the Team

Co-Director

Dr Tracy Irish

Tracy Irish is an experienced teacher, theatre practitioner and education researcher with a specialism in Shakespeare. She has worked with a wide range of schools, theatre companies and cultural organisations in the UK and internationally, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Prince’s Teaching Institute and the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. Her research interests focus on the place of Shakespeare in education and the value of theatre-based approaches for learning.

Co-Director

Dr Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer has worked as a theatre education practitioner and researcher, specialising in Shakespeare, for over a decade: in schools, colleges, universities and with organisations such as Shakespeare's Globe and Coram Shakespeare School Foundation. She has lectured in education, theatre and literature at the Universities of Warwick, Glasgow and Highlands and Islands. She is passionate about the social justice potential of theatre-based Shakespeare practice in her teaching and research.

Publications

Cover of book 'Critical Pedagogy and Active Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare'

cover of book 'Teaching and Learning Shakespeare: Through Theatre-Based Practice'

TESTIMONIALS

"Irish and Kitchen create a compelling argument for theatre-based Shakespeare teaching: fundamentally intercultural and democratic by respecting students' lives, providing academic and socio-emotional learning and encouraging critical questions of culture."

Laura Turchi

Arizona State University, USA

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