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.

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Staff

Saul Elkin
Founder/Artistic Director

Lisa Ludwig-Kramer
Managing Director

Susan Drozd
Office Manager

Board of Directors

Lisa Zolnowski
President

Tod A. Kniazuk
Vice-President

Cary Anderson
Treasurer

Virginia Schmidt
Secretary

Jennifer Berner
Renee Caputi
Trisha Charles
Christina Casto
R. Scott DeLuca. Esq.
Jennifer Dougherty, Esq.
Charles Gordon, RA
Bonita Hodur
Sue Hough
Chris Less
Peter Manka
Raquel Schmidt
Norman Sfeir, M.D.
Rosemary Testa-Mack
Karen Tashjian
Ellen Weissman
Donald G. Williams II

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