Tennessee Shakespeare Company is a professional, 501(c)(3) theatre and education organization which performs the plays of William Shakespeare seasonally outdoors and indoors with partnering organizations; performs classical and Southern writers seasonally indoors and outdoors; provides innovative year-round educational and training programming; and will produce a Southern-centric new play festival: Southern Exposure. Established in 2008. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in Germantown, Tennessee, in 2008 as the Mid-South's professional, classical theatre and education organization, Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) is the creation of native Memphians Dan McCleary (Producing Artistic Director) and national Disney Teacher of the Year, E. Frank Bluestein (Executive Director). Since then, TSC has grown into a $716,000 (FY15) theatre and education organization that has performed, among other titles, "As You Like It" an all-female "Julius Caesar" , "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Othello," "Themes from a Midsummer Night (in collaboration with IRIS Orchestra)," Macbeth, and "Romeo and Juliet" TSC's education program has grown at twice its projected pace, having served over 100,000 Mid-South school children from over 100 Memphis area and Southeast schools. The N.E.A. and Arts Midwest have recognized TSC in each of the past two seasons.