Genevieve Aichele has performed, directed and taught theatre arts nationally and internationally for over 40 years. She was the founder of New Hampshire Theatre Project, an applied theatre company in Portsmouth NH, and served as the Executive Director for 35 years. She directed the NHTP Youth Repertory Company for 20 years. Genevieve has taught as an adjunct faculty member for the University of New Hampshire, Great Bay Community College, and Plymouth State University, teaching integrated arts, nonprofit management, public speaking and community leadership. She is also an affiliate with The Woodland Group, an international consulting firm, and a public speaking consultant with the Environmental Defense Fund. Genevieve has coached hundreds of clients in public speaking, specializing in those for whom English is a second language and those dealing with high anxiety.

Recent professional directing credits include NHTP’s productions of An Inspector Calls, Men on Boats, The Time Machine, Metamorphoses, The Crucible, I Am My Own Wife (Spotlight Award for Directing), Finding the Prince, Waiting for Godot, Dreaming Again, Twelfth Night, Amadeus, Lysistrata, Celebration, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Spotlight Best Play & Ensemble Awards), Mitty!, The Elephant Man and A Woman’s Heart; Almost, Maine and Communicating Doors for Hackmatack Theatre (nominated for Spotlight Best Ensemble); The Music Hall’s 125th Anniversary production of Caste and John Wopps (Spotlight Best Director Award); and Clara’s Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker for MaD Theatricals which toured throughout New England and New York.

Recent acting credits include Ruth in Collected Stories, Janine in The Niceties, Mary in It's a Wonderful Life, Olive in The Odd Couple - Female Version, Dorothea in Eleemosynary, Gracie in Faith Healer, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, and a vocalist in Jacques Brel at NHTP, Sister Esther in A Shaker Entertainment at Canterbury Shaker Village, and her original one-woman show Resurrection for Act One Productions. Genevieve also tours with musician/composer Randy Armstrong in World Tales and their storytelling CD’s have received national and international acclaim, including Outstanding Awards from the National Parents Council, the Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media, and three Children’s Music Web Awards.

Genevieve has written hundreds of playscripts for young people, represented by Leicester Bay Theatricals as well as an original musical adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the oral history play Neighborhoods, for which she received the 2001 Spotlight Community Arts Award, and Dreaming Again, a docudrama about immigration in New Hampshire commissioned by the NH Humanities Council which has toured four times throughout the state. Her first novel for young readers, Ocean Secrets with co-author Tracy Kane, was published in 2015.

In 2001 Genevieve received the prestigious NH Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Arts Education and the Portsmouth Spotlight Award for her work in Community Arts. In 2002, she received an award for Outstanding Achievement in American Theatre from the New England Theatre Conference, and in 2008, she received the NH Theatre Award for Youth Theatre. NHTP’s Elephant-in-the-Room Series®, which Genevieve co-founded, received the 2021 NH Governor’s Arts Award for Arts in Health.