The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove

New Swan Shakespeare Festival is an award-winning professional Shakespeare festival located on the campus of UC Irvine in Orange County. We produce two Shakespearean works in rotating repertory under the stars. New Swan features students and professionals working side by side to produce scintillating Shakespearean productions in a 135 seat, 15 ton, portable, mini-Elizabethan space. The community, campus, and press have embraced New Swan’s productions, seminar series, and outreach programs. The New Swan company is comprised of current and former students, faculty, and staff of the Drama Department at UC Irvine.

“New Swan Shakespeare Festival…. one of the hidden gems of the SoCal Shakespeare scene. The productions in the festival’s summer repertory season, full of lunar magic, are distinguished as much for their poetic sensitivity as for their interpretive boldness.”  – Charles McNulty, LA Times

Production directed by Eli Simon

Adapted by Eli Simon & Anna Fitzgerald, from William Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

New Swan Shakespeare Festival is hosted and produced in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the Department of Drama and the UCI Office of Research.