For Artists

The Verona Shakespeare Fringe warmly invites productions and project proposals for its Festival—keep an eye out for the opening of its calls.

Held alongside the Shakespeare and the Mediterranean Summer School and organised by the Skenè Research Centre at the University of Verona, the VSF serves as a dynamic space for creation and exchange: a laboratory, studio, incubator, and platform for new work.

The Festival champions experimentation and dialogue, fostering expression, debate, and a vibrant exchange of ideas

The Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival seeks proposals that fit the Festival’s vision for new, untried, untested, and/or innovative Shakespearean productions or adaptations, and  animated by some combination of the following: 

  • New, original, and/or experimental approaches to Shakespeare’s plays and poetry
  • Artists, researchers, and companies engaged in intercultural, multi-lingual, or otherwise international work
  • Devised Theatre
  • International co-productions
  • Intersectional work in terms of live and digital performance
  • World Premiere performances
  • Intergenerational work

Festival participants will engage with students, scholars, audience members, and other artists in a rich exchange of performances, classes, and social events.