With the arrival of Philip Sneed in 2006, CSF began producing six plays each year, including non-Shakespeare works such as "Woody Guthrie’s American Song" (2008) and "To Kill a Mockingbird" (2009). To "Kill a Mockingbird" was widely praised by critics and earned a prestigious Ovation Award from the Denver Post for its director, Jane Page. Sneed was a CU-Boulder graduate and former CSF actor who came to the festival after serving as director of the Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, California.