The Greenville Shakespeare Festival is a community-based theater festival in Greenville, NH. Founded in 2002, GSF brings interested community members into contact with young, enthusiastic theater professionals to work on productions more demanding, innovative, and rewarding than standard community theater fare.

GSF is dedicated to increasing access to arts in the rural town of Greenville and its surrounding area. While there are other performing arts groups in nearby towns, GSF is the only regional summer Shakespeare festival, and the only group to make its productions accessible to all by refusing to charge admission to performances. In addition to free performances, GSF offers evening and weekend classes in diverse subjects for only $5 per session, and week-long affordable workshops for children.

In addition to its arts-related missions, GSF works to support Greenville's civic action group, Greenville PRIDE. GSF hopes to help bring more local residents in contact with PRIDE by publicizing their mission and collecting donations for them at performances.

GSF exists primarily as a result of the overwhelming generosity of the people of Greenville, so many of whom have done all that is within their power to help us find and keep a home in their town. We owe tremendous thanks to all of them, but particularly to the following: the Greenville Select Board, Zebediah Kellogg-Roe, Emilia Rainwalker, Steve and Deb Spratt, Bruce Mann, Vince Collins, Kathy Valliere, Linda Langille, Irene and Vic Sherburda, Suzanne MacDonald (of Durham), Martha and Kaylea Verville, Anne Piche, Tashin Talbot, Medicine Story, Wyckham Avery (of Dublin), Mary Pelletier, Cynthia DeSantis, and Stuart Weeks (of Temple).

During the 2002 summer season, offices and living space in downtown Greenville were provided for us by SeaChange Systems. We used Greenville's Town Hall for rehearsals, and performed at the Merriam Hill Center a little further out of town.

The Greenville Shakespeare Festival thanks all of its private donors for supporting this endeavor. GSF also receives financial support from the Henry L. and Patricia J. Nielsen Fund of the Monadnock Community Foundation.

The Monadnock Community Foundation is a regional division of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, New Hampshire's statewide community foundation. The Monadnock Community Foundation is the fifth regional division, established in May 1998 to build a permanent endowment for the Monadnock Region. This permanent endowment comes from the gifts from many individuals, families, corporations and organizations. Earnings from the endowment are used to make grants and loans to nonprofit organizations serving the region and for scholarship awards to area residents.