Shakespeare didn't have A.I.

But your team does.

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Your team is already using AI.

The question is whether they're using it — or just getting used to it.

Copiloting Shakespeare is a 90-minute live workshop that uses AI as a creative tool and Shakespeare as the text.Not because Shakespeare is sacred. Because Shakespeare is hard — and learning to crack something hard, together, with an AI at your side, is exactly the skill your team needs right now.No performance required. No background needed. Just your people in the conference room.What they walk away with:
A practical feel for how to collaborate with AI — and a developing speaking voice that gets heard.90 minutes · At your location · Groups of 8–20[Book Copiloting Shakespeare →]

Copiloting Shakespeare

A 90-minute workshop for teams who want to think faster, speak more confidently, and actually enjoy working with AI.

What this is?You're already using AI. Your team is already using AI. The question nobody's asking out loud is: are we using it well, or are we just using it?Copiloting Shakespeare puts that question in the room — with Shakespeare as the text and AI as your live creative partner. Not a lecture. Not a demo. A working session where your team cracks something genuinely hard, together, and walks out knowing something they didn't know when they walked in.No performance required. No Shakespeare background needed. Just your people in the conference room.What happens in the roomThe session moves in nine steps — from cold read to full voice. Here's the shape of it:You start with a sonnet. Out loud. Together. Nobody's ready. That's the point.Then AI enters — not as a shortcut, but as a research partner. Context, vocabulary, the bones of the language. Your team learns to ask it the right questions.Then you go back to the text. Physically. What do you already own in this language? What's still locked? You sort it, you speak it, you find out.Then AI comes back — this time to build alongside you. Plain language next to the original. Two versions of the same thought. Your team starts to hear the difference between words that land and words that don't.By the end, people are speaking across the room to each other — Shakespeare in one hand, their own voice in the other. The AI didn't replace the work. It made the work possible.What they walk away with- A practical feel for how to collaborate with AI — not just use it
- A developing speaking voice that gets heard
- A shared experience that actually means somethingThe details90 minutes · At your location · Groups of 8–20 · From 6,000złCopiloting Shakespeare is launching in 2026. Pilot pricing is available for first sessions — you get a lower rate, I get a real room and real feedback. If that interests you, let's talk.[Book a pilot session →]Why ShakespeareBecause it's hard. Deliberately, beautifully hard.If your team can learn to unlock four-hundred-year-old language with an AI at their side — in ninety minutes, with no preparation, in a conference room — they can do anything you put in front of them on a Tuesday afternoon.The Shakespeare is the door. What's on the other side is the point.Who built thisSeth Compton has spent thirty years getting people who "can't do Shakespeare" to do Shakespeare — children, executives, second-language speakers, beginners of every kind. He knows where the text locks up and exactly how to open it.He holds an MA with Distinction in Acting from Manchester Metropolitan University (administered by Teatr Pieśń Kozła, one of Europe's leading physical theater companies) and an MA in Education (2025), with applied research examining AI and creativity in international arts classrooms.The AI layer in Copiloting Shakespeare isn't a gimmick bolted onto an existing workshop. It's the result of years of watching what happens when people stop being afraid of hard things — and start playing with them instead.[Full bio →]Ready to bring this to your team?First sessions are booking now. Pilot pricing available.[Get in touch →]

About

An impossible thing

Here's a truth: you can't actually become someone else.Thirty years of acting, and that's still true. You can study, train, research, rehearse — and when you walk out in front of an audience, something happens that nobody has ever fully explained. They believe you. Not because you fooled them. Because you both agreed, for a moment, to try something impossible together.That's why I'm still doing this.The room full of yourselfIn my twenties I was auditioning in Los Angeles. The calls would go out: young guy, reddish-brown hair, hip. You'd show up and there would be two hundred people who looked like you. Same hair, slight variance. Some taller, some prettier, some with straighter teeth. The same person, endlessly repeated, each one waiting to get picked.I understood something in those rooms. The value being offered was nearness to a standard. The closer you were to the ideal, the better your chances.A lot of acting is waiting. Waiting for the call, the role, the yes. I wasn't interested in that competition. So I picked myself.Miasto spotkańWrocław calls itself miasto spotkań — the city of meetings. It sits at the intersection of Central Europe's cultures, languages, and histories. People come here from everywhere. They bring different assumptions, different references, different ways of being in a room together.That variance isn't a problem to manage. It's a resource.I've spent over a decade here building programs — for children, for schools, for communities — that treat difference as a creative asset. The international classroom taught me something commercial auditions never could: when nobody in the room shares the same defaults, everyone has to actually listen.That's the skill. That's what Copiloting Shakespeare is built on.The workSeth Compton is an American actor, director, educator, and NGO founder. He is the founder and president of Fundacja Aardvark Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and has spent thirty years making theater with people who think they can't — children, executives, second-language speakers, beginners of every kind.He holds an MA with Distinction in Acting from Manchester Metropolitan University (administered by Teatr Pieśń Kozła, one of Europe's leading physical theater companies) and an MA in Education (2025), with applied research examining AI and creativity in international arts classrooms.He has taught IB Drama and Media. He has acted in Polish film alongside John Malkovich. He has produced a Shakespeare festival for all ages in Los Angeles. He has trained educators for the US State Department.The through-line across all of it: Play. Make. Share. Care.What colleagues say"Not only a talented actor — a deeply dedicated educator. He has created a rare community of international artists who guide students in creative processes across all arts fields."
— Alex Helfrecht, film director (A Winter's Journey)"He is an innovator who thinks about inclusion and education in everything he creates. He will be an asset to your community."
— Jessica Hanna, Director/Producer; Chair of the Board, SITI Company; Artistic Associate, Outside In Theatre; Member of The KilroysReady to work together?[Book Copiloting Shakespeare →]
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Schools

Shakespeare doesn't have to be a dusty statue in the library.

For over a decade, Seth Compton has been bringing Shakespeare to life in Wrocław classrooms — at international, bilingual, and multilingual schools where English is a second, third, or fourth language. Every kid gets a part. Nobody auditions. The barrier is low. The experience is real.Two ways to work togetherShakespeare Club
A full year. One group. One performance.Once a week, 45 minutes, the same group of kids — building toward a performance at the annual Shakespeare in the Park festival in May. Scripts are drawn from a growing library of adapted material, tested in real classrooms, built for young performers working in their second or third language. No improvisation required. Every student has a role. The group does the rest.Available as a daytime class or after-school program.Shakespeare Lives
A semester, a day, or a single session.A shorter burst — one semester of weekly sessions leading to a small presentation, a full school day cycling through classes, or a single deep-dive workshop with one year group. Flexible format, adaptable to your curriculum, your schedule, and your students' level.Previous sessions have included physical explorations of Macbeth, mixed-genre mashups, and movie trailer voice workshops. If you're studying a Shakespeare play, we can build around it.Where it all comes togetherEvery Shakespeare Club year builds toward a public performance at Shakespeare in Park Grabiszyn — an outdoor culmination event bringing together students from multiple Wrocław schools. First your school. Then your parents. Then the park, in May, with everyone watching.That's the moment the work becomes real.Schools we've worked with in WrocławWrocław International School · Wrocław Cosmopolitan School · American School of Wrocław · NAVIGOInterested?Get in touch and we'll find the right fit for your school, your students, and your parent community.

Contact

Shakespeare doesn't have to be a dusty statue in the library.

# Let's talk.Whether you're booking a workshop, exploring a school partnership, or just want to understand what this is before committing to anything — this is the right place to start.No lengthy forms. No automated responses. Just a real conversation about what you need and whether we're a good fit.Email: [email protected]Phone:
Poland: +48 794 617 602
US: +1 213 534 8269Based in Wrocław, Poland. Working across Europe and beyond.[Send a message →]"Come, and take choice of all my library."
— The Tempest (verify before publishing)