Harrisburg Shakespeare Company is in its 18th year of providing a unique and widely praised cultural resource to the Central PA community. HSC is best known for Free Shakespeare in the Park, which provides critically acclaimed free performances to thousands each summer.  HSC produces two mainstage shows at Gamut Classic Theatre and tours a Shakespeare work and a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories annually to high schools, middle schools and colleges.   We are the Visiting Resident Theatre Company of Penn State York and host Shakespeare-based Continuing Legal Education programs with the Dauphin County Bar Association. HSC is nationally recognized as well: Melissa Nicholson, Executive Director, has served as an officer of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, the preeminent Shakespeare Theatre organization in North America; and HSC has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.