The Greenville Shakespeare Festival (of Greenville, NH), which I co-founded and directed with Elizabeth Martin, ran from May-August of 2002 and 2003. The Festival housed a resident company of semi-professional actors, and held open auditions to recruit talented members of the community to join us in mounting productions of a range of Shakespeare’s works. In addition to presenting the plays, we ran a number of workshops for pre-teens and teenagers, and helped fundraise for a local community group focused on refurbishing the Town Hall and otherwise improving Greenville.
The festival received financial support from the New Hampshire Charitable Trust in 2003, and received financial and logistical support from the Merriam Hill Center and The Center for American Studies.
2002 Season
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Elizabeth Martin, dir.)
Measure for Measure (Melon Wedick, dir.)
2003 Season
Twelfth Night (Wyckham Avery, dir.)
Macbeth (Lauren Hynek, dir.)
Love’s Labors Lost (Elizabeth Martin, dir.)
Hamlet (Melon Wedick, dir.)
Photo Gallery:
- 2002: Our storefront home on Main Street.
- Shakespeare duck
- July 4th shenanigans
- Two Gents
- Two Gents cast photo
- Let me be bold
- Death is a fearful thing
- O, but your desert speaks loud
- Twelfth Night
- Twelfth Night, Olivia
- Twelfth Night, Sir Toby and Maria
- Twelfth Night
- Twelfth Night, Sir Andrew Aguecheek
- Twelfth Night, Olivia and Viola
- Twelfth Night, Toby and Andrew spy on Malvolio
- Twelfth Night, Malvolio professes his love
- Macbeth, the witches
- Macbeth with blood on his hands
- Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
- Banquo’s assasination
- Lady Macduff’s demise
- Lady Macbeth’s madness
- Macbeth welcomes challengers
- Macduff kicks the crap out of Macbeth
- Loves Labors Lost, downtime
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost: Here there be Russians!
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Love’s Labors Lost
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Hamlet fight call