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Scranton Shakespeare Festival Accessible, professional theatre for all! Scranton Shakespeare Festival brings world-class performances, education, and community events to NEPA.

We’re looking for a Marketing Intern to join our team! 💡📑🎨Marketing InternshipHelp audiences discover SSF’s work through...
10/13/2026

We’re looking for a Marketing Intern to join our team! 💡📑🎨

Marketing Internship
Help audiences discover SSF’s work through social media, publicity, and creative campaigns. You’ll support marketing across the organization’s productions, programs, and initiatives.

-Create and schedule social media content.
-Help write newsletters, publicity materials, and website updates.
-Organise photos, videos, and other promotional materials.
-Support marketing at Festival events.
-Review audience engagement and contribute ideas for future campaigns.

Gain hands-on experience in arts marketing, from planning a campaign to seeing how audiences respond. Your supervisor will guide your work and provide regular feedback as you develop your writing, content creation, and organisational skills.

Someone with an interest in theatre and marketing, a thoughtful approach to writing, and a willingness to learn. You should be organized, comfortable using social media, and enjoy working with others.

Bonus if you are interested in photography/videography, publicity events, and marketing data analysis.

Dates: now-January 11, 2027 with potential opportunity to extend
Hours: ~10 hours a week, Flexible, depending on the production schedule and the needs of the role, with commitments agreed in advance
Location: Remote, with in-person attendance at agreed Festival events.
Pay: This is an unpaid placement.

Please send an email with the subject “YOUR NAME - Marketing Internship 2026” to [email protected].

Please include your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the position and why you believe you would be a strong candidate for the role. Selected candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview.

Announcing our favorite Scranton Holiday Tradition: Panto 2026! Join us this December for ROBIN HOOD! 🎯Scranton Shakespe...
10/09/2026

Announcing our favorite Scranton Holiday Tradition: Panto 2026! Join us this December for ROBIN HOOD! 🎯

Scranton Shakespeare Festival’s holiday panto is a high-energy, family-friendly comedy packed with pop songs, local jokes, ridiculous characters, holiday cheer, and plenty of wacky audience participation. Think The Muppets meets Monty Python meets Rock of Ages. This year, Robin Hood and his Merry Folk take on the greedy Sheriff of Scrantonham and Prince John in a hilarious holiday adventure for the whole family where cheering, booing, singing along, and shouting back at the stage are all part of the fun! Check back for when tickets go live very soon.

Directed by Joe McGurl Joe McGurl
Choreographed by Kelly Jean Graham Kelly Jean Graham

And, we’re seeking our band of Merry Folk! ✨
We’re looking for fabulous local individuals to join our Panto cast for this festive season! If you love to make people laugh, can bring big energy to the stage, and want to be part of this joyful holiday tradition, we want to hear from you.

Click the link in our bio to submit and learn more! Auditions due Friday, October 16th! 🎵

Happy Fall! We are so excited to be partnering with Valley In Motion to bring you an evening of September Serenades at t...
09/12/2026

Happy Fall! We are so excited to be partnering with Valley In Motion to bring you an evening of September Serenades at the Scranton Iron Furnaces! 🍂🍁

🎶 Join us on September 19th at 6:00pm for a FREE to the public concert featuring SSF favorites including Kelly Jean Graham, Sarah and Rocco Pugliese, Dominique Ferraro, and many more — all singing cocktail crooner classics, accompanied by Stephen Murphy.

🧺 Don’t forget to bring your own blanket or chair and snacks for this unforgettable evening! It’s the perfect way to welcome autumn.

🍂 Fall at the Furnaces is coming!This September and October, Valley in Motion invites you to experience four unforgettab...
09/11/2026

🍂 Fall at the Furnaces is coming!

This September and October, Valley in Motion invites you to experience four unforgettable events at one historic destination: the Scranton Iron Furnaces.

🎶 Sept. 12 — Good Things Are Happening Fest
Music, art, food, drinks and local vendors

🎭 Sept. 19 — Scranton Shakespeare Festival September Serenades
Broadway favorites performed by vocalists and an orchestra

🎨 Oct. 1–2 — Scranton Fringe Festival
Dynamic performances and immersive 3D art installations

*The ANTHRACITE HERITAGE MUSEUM’S October 10th ODDTOBER FEST event has been cancelled.

Powered by Valley in Motion in partnership with the Anthracite Heritage Museum, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Creative Industries and the Willary Foundation, Fall at the Furnaces celebrates Northeastern Pennsylvania’s creativity, culture and community.

Three events. One historic destination.

Save the dates and follow along as we share more about each event!

Learn more at https://www.valleyinmotion.org/fall-at-the-furnaces

🍂 Fall at the Furnaces is here!!This September and October, Valley in Motion invites you to experience three unforgettab...
09/11/2026

🍂 Fall at the Furnaces is here!!

This September and October, Valley in Motion invites you to experience three unforgettable events at one historic destination: the Scranton Iron Furnaces.

🎶 Sept. 12 — Good Things Are Happening Fest
Music, art, food, drinks and local vendors

🎭 Sept. 19 — Scranton Shakespeare Festival September Serenades
Broadway favorites performed by vocalists and an orchestra

🎨 Oct. 1–2 — Scranton Fringe Festival
Dynamic performances and immersive 3D art installations

Powered by Valley in Motion in partnership with the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Creative Industries and the Willary Foundation, Fall at the Furnaces celebrates Northeastern Pennsylvania’s creativity, culture and community.
Lackawanna County
Three events. One historic destination.

Save the dates and follow along as we share more about each event!

Learn more at https://www.valleyinmotion.org/fall-at-the-furnaces

Four Events. One Historic Destination. Join us in celebration of Northeastern Pennsylvania's creativity, culture, and community centered around the historic Scranton Iron Furnaces.

Scranton Shakes has an exciting chapter to announce. Beginning today, we welcome our new Artistic Director, Simone Danie...
09/01/2026

Scranton Shakes has an exciting chapter to announce. Beginning today, we welcome our new Artistic Director, Simone Daniel, a long-time SSF collaborator, educator, and director.

Simone Daniel is a Scranton based writer and director whose theater works have premiered in several cities across the U.S. as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. An enthusiastic believer in Ensemble based work, Simone has supported and nurtured the life of and developed a large body of work for several companies. She is a frequent collaborator of the Scranton Fringe Festival where she serves as youth theater director in their partnership with the Youth Arts Coalition to provide afterschool arts education free to students. She is also a founding member of the New Vintage Ensemble. She has been working with the Scranton Shakespeare festival for over a decade in various capacities including directing their productions of Rent, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and their immersive production of Cabaret. She is a prolific costume designer and has years of experience in various departments of theater, film, and television productions. She is passionate about arts education for learners at all levels and greatly enjoys every opportunity to teach. She is currently earning her MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University.

Simone says: “I take on this role, not just as myself, but as a piece of every friend and collaborator I’ve worked with here. We have such an incredible community of truly audacious dreamers who, time and time again, create life changing works of art on very limited resources and near-impossible timelines. And we are going to meet the moment we are in by making work that speaks to our times with clarity, courage, and conviction. And we’re going to have a hell of a lot of fun doing it.”

Welcome! 🎉

Photo credit Mindy Tucker

08/25/2026
See SSF perform on the MainStage Saturday! 🇮🇹🍕🍝
08/24/2026

See SSF perform on the MainStage Saturday! 🇮🇹🍕🍝

08/24/2026

Marywood University and Scranton Shakespeare Festival are joining forces, with SSF becoming Marywood’s resident professional theatre company.

This partnership will bring professional theatre, creative opportunities, and hands-on experiences directly to our students and campus, connecting the new School of Communication with working professionals in the arts.

Today, we officially celebrated the start of this exciting partnership. Here’s to a new chapter of creativity, collaboration, and theatre at Marywood! 💚🎭

Read the full announcement: https://www.marywood.edu/news/marywood-ssf-partnership

We are still reeling from XV, our Birthday Celebration Gala celebrating 15 years of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival! W...
08/14/2026

We are still reeling from XV, our Birthday Celebration Gala celebrating 15 years of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival! We brought back the stories, characters, iconic costumes, and moments from some of our favorite out of the 65 productions we’ve produced. It was an honor celebrating this year’s company and welcoming back alumni across the past 15 years. It was a night we’ll never forget! ✨

Hosted at Sergei’s LIVE, we additionally were able to celebrate champions of the arts in our community, including John Basalyga (John Basalyga) and Alex Molfetas of Center City Printing Company (Print Shop, Center City Print). Thank you for all you do to keep Scranton running! 🪗

More to come very soon, including upcoming performances:

🇮🇹 LA FESTA: Saturday, September 5th at 8pm on the main stage

🍁 FALL AT THE FURNCES SEPTEMBER SERENADES: powered by Valley in Motion (Valley In Motion) Saturday, September 19th



📸: Jacob Layland

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300 Lackawanna Avenue
Scranton, PA
18509

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