Brave Spirits Theatre was a small, non-Equity theater based in Arlington, VA. The company was founded in 2011 by Charlene V. Smith and Victoria Reinsel. Brave Spirits was a “feminist-leaning classics troupe”, which produces plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the era of “verse and violence”. The company regularly cast women in traditionally male roles. In doing so, the roles are often fully re-gendered: for example, in the company's repertory production of Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II (styled as Henri IV, Part I and Henri IV, Part II), the lead characters were portrayed as Queen Henri IV, Princess Hallie, and Dame Jill Falstaff, with Doll Tearsheet switched to Dick Tearsheet. In late 2020, it was announced that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Brave Spirits Theatre would be