The workshop, “Shakespeare: Words and Actions,” will focus on teaching Shakespeare’s language through performance, rather than teaching about the plays. Interactive sessions will have participants understanding Shakespeare’s language, acting out scenes and learning to use film and the Internet to teach Shakespeare. Teachers who attend will receive a certificate that can be presented for possible continuing education credit.

The Shakespeare workshop is scheduled from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in 226 Bruce Building. The cost of $15 includes lunch, coffee and teaching materials. Advance registration is suggested by not required. To register or for more information, contact Sherry Bosch, Berea College Office of Special Programs, at (859) 985-3552, or

Coinciding with the workshop is the opening weekend of the Berea College Theatre Laboratory’s production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III, which runs Feb. 27 - March 7, in the McGaw Theatre on Berea’s campus. Saturday’s performance will begin at 8 p.m. For information about Berea College’s production of “Richard III” visit www.berea.edu/campusevents.htm. For tickets, call the Theatre Box Office at (859) 985-3300.

Michael LoMonico is the Associate Director of Education of the English Speaking Union of the United States in New York City. He has conducted workshops for teachers in 38 states and directed the Shakespeare Across Cultures project that teamed American students with students in Russia, Australia, Romania and the UK.

He is the author of The Shakespeare Book of Lists and Shakespeare 101 and was the technical editor for The Complete Idiots Guide to Shakespeare. He is the founder and editor of Shakespeare magazine, published by Georgetown University and Cambridge University Press. He helped edit all three volumes of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Set Free series. His articles include “Teaching Shakespeare with Video,” in Shakespeare Set Free, “Teaching in the New Millennium” in CPB Digest and “Teaching Shakespeare With a Computer,” in The English Journal. Most recently, he contributed several articles for the PBS Web site “In Search of Shakespeare.”

Since 1986, LoMonico has worked at the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. as a Master Teacher and most recently as the Institute Director. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and was awarded an Independent Study Fellowship in 1989 to explore Shakespeare’s history plays. LoMonico is a professor at Stony Brook University where he is preparing language arts teachers in the use of performance and technology in teaching literature and composition.