Goffstown Theatre Company was chosen Best Performance 2010at the NH Educational Theatre Festival!!!
Many adjudicators believe that being chosen to perform at New Englands is an award in itself. However, our adjudicators saw fit to give 4 additional awards (out of 12 total given) to GHS.
The entire cast and crew was given an award for Excellence in Commedia Style. While our students studied the 16th Century commedia dell’arte technique, it is almost unheard of to recognize the entire troupe at the State level.
Excellence in Commedia Style
Zak Ahmad-Kahloon, Emilia Boisvert, Keith Bouchard, Mike Drolette, Kyle Duclos, Shani Edwards, Julia Macon, Shannon Moloney, Rosie Ouellet, Sandy Sargent, Mary Sawyer, Scott Schaaf, Pat Sheehy, Ceira Smith, Marissa Smith, and Tessi Terrible.
While we have often received acting awards for Excellence in Acting, we have never received an Ensemble award AND no school has ever won both acting and the ensemble award, but our kids did!
Excellence in Ensemble Zak Ahmad-Kahloon, Ketih Bouchard, Ceira Smith and Marissa Smith
Excellence in Acting
Ceira Smith and Marissa Smith
Finally, for the first time ever, a GHS student (Ceira Smith) was awarded the
Bob Stuart Award. This prestigious award is given to just one actor each year in honor of the festival founder. It is quite an outstanding achievement and speaks to the level of skill of that student as well as the support she received from our troupe.
Not only was it our students best performance of this show, it was clear from the moment they performed that this was the school to beat. The best part of this success was that we were very early on Saturday morning and our students spent the day receiving hand shakes and congratulations from hundreds of people.

The New England Theatre Festival is a showcase of talent from all over New England offering student forums and theatre workshops. Mark Roth once commented that being chosen to perform at New Englands might take a director their entire career. This is Goffstown’s third time in a decade – but make no mistake, as my adjudicators pointed out, this was the best show I have ever had the opportunity to direct. In festival history, few shows garner so many awards. This is truly something special.