National Shakespeare Competition

High school students memorize and perform a Shakespeare monologue at a school-level competition, then advance to a local English-Speaking Union branch round performing both a monologue and a sonnet. Branch winners compete at national finals held in New York City each spring.

First place receives the British American Drama Academy Mid-Summer Conservatory Program at Oxford, second the American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp in Staunton VA, third $1,000 cash; People's Choice awards of $1,000/$500/$250