About Us

Shakespeare in Delaware Park has been a Buffalo summer tradition since 1976. It is the country's second most successful outdoor Shakespeare festival in terms of audience, attracting an average of 50,000 patrons each summer. Only New York City draws more attendance for a FREE Shakespeare festival.

Our festival takes place in a historic park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, father of landscape architecture, and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Behind the Park's rose garden stands our grand Tudor-Style stage on a sweeping hill of green. In this beautiful setting under the stars, Shakepeare's stories live on to explore the truths of the human heart; tragedy, jealousy, foolishness, passion, laughter, and love.

Our Mission

Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Inc. is a non-for-profit, professional theatre company dedicated to providing free, high-quality public theatre to the widest possible audience by performing Shakespearean plays outdoors. Our goal is to promote and support the cultural and economic well-being of the Buffalo/ Niagara Region through dramatic arts performances and educational programming.

Our Sponsors

M&T Bank
The Buffalo News
New York State Council on the Arts
Commercial Print and Imaging
WBFO 88.7FM
WGRZ-TV

Shakespeare in Delaware Park is a proud member of

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Staff Saul Elkin Founder/Artistic Director Lisa Ludwig-Kramer Managing Director Susan Drozd Office Manager Nell Mohn Development Coordinator

Board of Directors Tod A. Kniazuk President Ellen V. Weissman Vice-President Darren Kempner Treasurer Lisa Zolnowski Secretary Renee Caputi Christina Casto R. Scott DeLuca Esq. Charles Gordon, RA Bonita Hodur Chris Less Peter Manka Norman Sfeir, M.D. Rosemary Testa-Mack Karen Tashjian Donald G. Williams II

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