Support OUR CAPITAL CLASSICS ARTISTS FUND
The Capital Classics Artists Fund provides competitive payments to the professional artists employed by the Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival. Each summer, Capital Classics hires approximately 50 CT-based performers, directors, musicians, stage managers, designers, choreographers, and technicians.
Their professionalism — which comes from years of training and experience — is central to our success in producing authentic, entertaining, and artful Shakespeare for a modern audience. In fact, 80% of our annual Shakespeare Festival budget goes to hiring and compensating these professionals, who otherwise, would leave the region for summer work.
A gift of any amount will help us fulfill our mission of “providing job opportunities to Connecticut’s professional theatre artists” and keeping Connecticut’s talent in state.
If you’re a fan of our actors, and if you love our live musicians, please help us raise $10,000 to help pay salaries. Your tax-deductible donation to the Capital Classics Artists Fund will go directly towards salaries — and make a BIG impact on this summer’s Festival.
Individual donations can be made quickly, easily, and securely via credit/debit card, PayPal, and Venmo. You can also mail a check to our address below. AND, if your company has a matching program, please be sure to submit your donation for a match.
Explore ways to become a sponsor and market your business to our in-demand audience.
Advertise in our Festival program to reach 4,500 professionals, seniors, and families.
CARS FOR BARD
Did you know you can donate your old car — in any condition — to Cars Helping Charities and the net value after the sale will be donated to Capital Classics!
Won’t run? Didn’t pass emissions? Cars Helping Charities will take it.
The process is easy! They handle all of the title paperwork, towing, etc. And, you’ll be supporting our Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival, since Capital Classics is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that’s now listed with Cars Helping Charities.
INdividual donors
producerS
Barnaby Horton & Hannah Granfield-Horton
Kane-Fischer Family
Matthew Morgan & Family
DirectorS
Anonymous
Herb Emanuelson & Susan Kerr Emanuelson
Carmen P Holzman
Dennis Jakiela & Sandra Barnes
Alison Rogers-Mccoy
Laura & Geoffrey Sheehan
PatronS
Diane Erdos
Gary Greenberg & Jeannie Hayden
Mindy & Jeremy Jason
Barbara & Reinhard Kage
Owen McNamara
Christina & Ezra Ripple
David Silverman
Prasad Srinivasan
Edwin Thrower
Jennifer & Chris Whalley
Maura Wheeler
SupporterS
Dorien Barnett
Patrick Bowen
Madeline Perez De Jesus and Anthony De Jesus
Diane Erdos
Ellen Erway
Brian Federman
Greenbeat Financial
Natasha Lunin
Deb Shulansky
Kathleen Sullivan
Rachel Hasenauer-Thrower
Paul Volpi
FRIENDS
Donations at the Friends Level are listed in our Festival program.
Business sponsors
FEATURE sponsors
Rheumatology and Allergy Institute of Connecticut
WEEKLY sponsors
Adams & Knight, Inc.
Hoffman Auto Group
PeoplesBank
Calculate LLC
daily sponsors
Amphenol
Cantor Colburn LLP
Dom's Broad Street Eatery
Mindy and Jeremy Jason
Liberty Bank
Mercy Community/Trinity Health
NBT Bank
Senior Helpers
Kala & Prasad Srinivasan
Transilvania Bar & Restaurant in East Haven
grantors
connecticut Office of the Arts: SUPPORTING Arts GRANT
with the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency
