What we offer
Three girls.
All of William Shakespeare’s words.
Lunacy, speed, flips, tricks, stunts.
All for a nickel.
Players for hire at your event
The Nickel Shakespeare Girls started in 1999 at the North Carolina Renaissance Faire. Players for hire, we will come to your Faire, festival, school or event in a duo or in a trio. We approach patrons, we ask them to name any Shakespeare play, and we perform something of that play right on the spot.
We include clown work, choral work, fight work, acrobatics, special requests and songs and just about anything that anybody can try and stump us with. We play all day. We can dress to any period, and perform in any conditions. We are a hoot and we mean it.
You might have seen us at:
- The Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington DC)
- The St. George's Day Festival (St. George, Bermuda)
- The North Carolina Renaissance Faire
- The Carolina Renaissance Festival
- The Georgia Renaissance Festival
- The Arizona Renaissance Festival
Elizabethan Tymes Renaissance Festival
- The Kentucky Highland Renaissance Faire
- The Kentucky Medieval Renaissance Faire
- Shakespeare and Friends Renaissance Faire (TN)
- A Camelot Christmas (Raleigh, NC)
- The Virginia Renaissance Faire
Stage shows
We offer a variety of stage shows:
- Pants and Poise, Women in Shakespeare
- The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet - The greatest hits of William Shakespeare
- A Plague o’ both your houses! - Violence in Shakespeare
- Supernatural Soliciting - Shakespeare’s Ghosts
- Little Fooleries - Shakespeare’s clowns
Education program
Bring us to your classroom! The Nickel Shakespeare Girls will come and do workshops or residencies at your Elementary, Middle or High School. We offer workshops in
- Shakespeare's Clowns
- Stage Combat
- Structure of the Verse
- A Play in an hour!
To hire us, please contact us at info@nickelshakespearegirls.com or 919-771-3281.
Quotes
"What a pleasure it was working with you this past weekend. Your act is truly inspiring. Your timing is spot on. I look forward to future encounters." -- Brad (Captain Fletcher Moone, The Pyrates Royale)
"The audience members called out the show and these ladies performed not only with words but with bodily contortions and acts of balance. It the most impressive acts at this year's faire" -- Jeff Buckner, Raleigh NC
"Thanks for your contribution to living history" -- Arizona patron