In the past decade, my professional activities have centered on presenting, producing, curating and directing plays by William Shakespeare in languages other than the early modern English he spoke. Eleven years ago, Lit Moon Theatre Company, the locally based company I co-founded in 1992 and have served as artistic director, traveled to Gdansk, Poland, to present our production of “Hamlet” at their annual international Shakespeare Festival. That 2004 festival began the company’s—and my—work in Global Shakespeare. I have since directed five Shakespearean productions in three different languages for audiences in Sopot, Gdansk, Legnica, Prague, Kotor, Podgorica, Skopje, Bitola, Strumitza, Ohrid, Tirana, Butrint, London, Beijing, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. We’ve performed in a 4th century B.C. Hellenistic theatre on the shores of the Ionian Sea, a 12th century Orthodox church in Macedonia, a 16th century Catholic cathedral in Poland, a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s theatre in London, and the almost brand-new, gleaming white theatre of the National Theatre of China in Beijing. 1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...