The author of Offshore was born in 1973 before the founder of the Summer Shakespeare Festival. Offshore was about her time spent on boats.
Vclav Havel (] ; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech writer and former dissident, who served as the 1st President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. 
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916  28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. 
 The festival was originally initiated by Vclav Havel. 
Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. 
