Work

Founded in 1987, HVSF is a critically acclaimed, professional, non-profit theater company based in Garrison, NY, one hour north of Manhattan. The Festival has established a reputation for lucid, engaging, and highly inventive productions – plays by Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights alike – staged in an open-air theater overlooking the Hudson River. By reaching over 35,000 audience members and more than 15,000 students and educators annually, the impacts of our work are broadly felt throughout the tri-state region. In recent years, we’ve toured to venues within the Hudson Valley, transferred productions to other regional theaters, engaged our community through radically participatory art-making, and connected with area schools through year-round education programming.