{"id":257,"date":"2020-02-26T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psf.2ss.net\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2022-08-25T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:21:02","slug":"mission-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/about\/mission-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &#038; Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival<\/strong>\u00a0is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other master dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Festival&#8217;s core values:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bul1\">\n<li><strong>Quality:<\/strong>\u00a0the revelation of beauty through transformative artistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shakespeare:<\/strong>\u00a0producing plays of the greatest playwright in the English language<\/li>\n<li><strong>Education:<\/strong>\u00a0illuminating Shakespeare, the power of language, and the professional theatre<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relationships:<\/strong>\u00a0cultivating and mobilizing enduring collaborative alliances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Vision 2030: A World \u2013Class PSF<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By 2030, the following statements will be true:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bul1\">\n<li>The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is a world-class Shakespeare festival, celebrated regionally and recognized nationally for a level of artistry consistent with leading regional theatres.<\/li>\n<li>The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival enriches the human community through the revelation of beauty and the illumination of fundamental truths of human experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two years before the 20th anniversary season, the leadership at PSF, led by former Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy, recognized the importance of assessing the Festival&#8217;s founding and developing years and looking ahead to a point on the horizon 20 years from now. PSF needed a vision for what the Festival would become and a strategic plan to bring that potential to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>A committee was formed, including the leadership of the Festival, the founder, board members, a Broadway producer, a managing director of one of the nation&#8217;s leading regional theatres, and the retired head of global strategy for a Fortune 500 company in our area. The Festival engaged a consultant from the top arts management consulting company nationally to facilitate a retreat in the fall of 2009, and the results were\u2026visionary.<\/p>\n<p>At the retreat, Mulcahy read an inspirational description of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/vision-2030-a-patrons-experience\/\">a patron&#8217;s experience visiting PSF in the year 2030<\/a>\u00a0that set the tone for the development of a bold vision statement. (See above).<\/p>\n<p>The next step in the process identified what that vision would look like in the form of a major concrete goal, often called a BHAG\u2014big, hairy, audacious goal. The PSF 2030 BHAG includes an expanded summer festival\u2014doubling the current duration and running mid-May through late August, doubling attendance by becoming a destination theatre as well as a regional attraction, featuring six major productions, three of which are Shakespeare plays, running in repertory so that destination travelers can see five or six plays in a single visit, hiring an industry-leading actor or two each season, featuring productions that would start here and have a future life on tour or on Broadway, opening a Shakespeare Caf\u00e9, and building a third performance venue to help make it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>PSF is in pursuit of an exhilarating and inspiring vision. We are blessed with a terrific staff, tremendous support from DeSales University and the many constituencies committed to the Festival, and the ever-deepening good will and gratitude of our patrons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/vision-2030-a-patrons-experience\/\">Click Here to View\u00a0<i>Vision 2030: A Patron&#8217;s Experience.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival\u00a0is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other master dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs. 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