“the case for Amelia Bassano Lanier is as plausible as Shakespeare’s”
(‘Rethinking Shakespeare’ The Queen’s Quarterly, 2008)

The theater practice re-invents existing performance techniques for the Shakespearean plays. Our ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking is re-creating the industry paradigm, and generating innovative techniques that can be applied to projects in other industries.

Hundreds of years of searching for the author of the plays reached a climax when the Dark Lady Players put forward an innovative new solution. Our methodologies suggested they were written by the so-called ‘dark lady’, Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645). The first woman to publish a book of original poetry, she came from a family of Venetian Jews and was the long-term mistress to the man in charge of the English theater. Watch the 30 second video trailer.

Our work soon led her to be listed as one of the leading authorship candidates. In October 2009 a major article on her, Amelia Bassano Lanier; A New Paradigm, appeared in the special issue of the Shakespearean authorship journal on the top candidates.

Read the lecture Who Wrote Shakespeare? or watch the short documentary The Dark Lady Discovery. See the feature story on the Jewish Channel News. You can even watch an extract from University Hour at Eastern Connecticut State University

Our demonstration productions (listed on the left column) show how this radically changes the plays.