For us at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, The Big Payback is an opportunity to raise much-needed funds, $3,000 to be exact, to support our educational outreach programming including our annual High School Shakespeare Festival. The Second Annual High School Shakespeare Festival, held April 18th, 2015, included Pope John Paul II High School, Nashville School of the Arts, Hillsboro High School, Pearl Cohn High School, and Maplewood High School, and was funded in part by the 2014 Big Payback. Coordinated by the Nashville Shakes, students and teachers from these area high schools came together for a full day of theater workshops and Shakespeare performances, all for free!