Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival

Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival was founded in 2009 by American playwright Michael Lederer, whose family roots hail from Croatia. After buying a home here in 2006, Lederer quickly saw that while the long standing Summer Festival and the Julian Rachlin Music Festival provide the city with wonderful cultural activity for a combined two months of the year, that still left Dubrovnik with the rest of the year during which visitors and residents alike would clearly welcome more to do and see. Even in the warm spring the evenings here were quiet, and so the idea for Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival was born. Also most theatre produced in Dubrovnik was in Croatian language only, with no subtitles, and therefore not available to the millions of visitors who pass through the Old Town every year. DSF's aim is to extend the cultural season of the city, while also developing a theatre available to both visitors and residents alike.