We at the Old School Shakespeare Collective are committed to bringing Shakespeare as Shakespeare would have performed Shakespeare to Chicago and beyond!

Our dedicated team and cast come from various walks of life with beautiful and diverse backgrounds. We as a collective strive to bring back the classical arts to the forefront of the modern communities we live in. Our founder Wyatt McCall has had a passion for Shakespeare since he was a child and since then has had a passion for maintaining it in his adult life. Inspired by the way Shakespeare was performed in the Elizabethan Era, inside pubs, alongside the townspeople, brimming with life and culture, Wyatt sought to create a space where these plays could once again be performed in such a manner. You can't break the 4th wall when it was never there to begin with.

We ask you to help us bring this dream to life! Our inaugural show will be the Twelfth Night but we need your help to put all of the pieces together. Twelfth Night is a story about love, loss, rebirth, and self-discovery. It asks questions like, “who are we without each other?”, “Where do we draw the line between what we are obligated to do and what we need to do?”, “What do we need to find ourselves?” Twelfth Night is full of kindness and laughter, which is something that is required of all of us at this very interesting juncture we find ourselves at. Please join us as we seek answers to the questions this play poses. We can't answer them without you!

Your generous and gracious donations will go to production costs, costumes, sets, and other expenses that come with putting up a play. We are eternally grateful for your generosity and hope you can make it to Chicago to see our final production.