Playwrights Project gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

Foundation and Corporate Gifts

Amazon Smile Foundation
Anonymous
Community Service Association, San Diego Unified School District
The Betty Lynn Cooper Charitable Trust Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
Copley Foundation
Current Wisdom Foundation
Michael Ehrenfeld Insurance Company
The Samuel I. & John Henry Fox Foundation
Eve May Fleet Foundation Fund of the San Diego Foundation
Sidney E. Frank Foundation
The Gold Diggers
The James Irvine Foundation
Ken Jacques Photography
Kiwanis Club of La Jolla
Koko Beach Restaurant
Las Patronas
The Sheila & Jeffrey Lipinsky Family Fund
Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust
Mira Mesa Self Storage
Nordson Corporation Foundation
Northern Trust Bank Matching Gift Program
The Parker Foundation
The Arthur & Jeanette Pratt Memorial Fund
Allison & Robert Price Family Foundation Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
Qualcomm Foundation
Qualcomm Matching Gift Program
Reminisce Photography
Samsung Matching Gift Program
The William & Ruth Tippett Foundation
Torrey Pines Bank
VAPA Foundation
Patricia & Christopher Weil Family Foundation

Government Grants

California Arts Council
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
City of Carlsbad's Cultural Arts Office
City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health and Human Services
San Diego County District Attorney's Crime Prevention Program
San Diego County Community Enhancement Program
National Endowment for the Arts

Founders Circle of the Deborah Salzer Arts Education Fund

Anonymous
Joyce Axelrod
Lisa and Kirt Bonebrake
Michael J. Davis
Gwyn Enright
Favrot Fund
Bobbie and Jon Gilbert
Vicki Hamilton and David Carr
Lisa and Steven Kradjian
Law Office of Karen M. Ladner
The Jeffrey and Sheila Lipinsky Family Foundation
Susan and Ron Styn
Renee and Charles Taubman

Dramaturg Level ~ Individual Gifts of $1,000+

Anonymous
Molly & Chuck Brazell
Patricia Don Vito
Jenny Finkelstein
Vicki Hamilton & David Carr
Judy and Bill Garrett
Jill Hall
Mary Harrison
Ingrid & Jerry Hoffmeister
Ann Hornby, MD
Holly Smith Jones
Lisa & Steve Kradjian
Karen Ladner & Todd Stone
Sheila & Jeffrey Lipinsky
Annie Weisman Macomber & Bill Macomber
Coral Noble and the Almy Family
Sarah Price-Keating
Vanoli Chander & Vaishnav Srinivas
Joe & Elyse Stone
Susan & Ron Styn
Gene Summ
Maureen Steiner
Steve Teixeira

Designer Level ~ Individual Gifts of $500+

The Alpert Family Foundation of The San Diego Foundation
Mary Baum
James Carr
Luke Cowell
Ishita & Pranav Dayal
Aaron Garcia
Stefan & Marianne Generales
Martin Kevorkian
Teofla Rich
Linda Rose
Jodyne Roseman
Julie & Jay Sarno
Drs. Maria & Randy Zack

Actor Level ~ Individual Gifts of $100+

Anonymous
Joyce Axelrod (Jewish Community Foundation Fund)
Lisa Balderston
Chaitanya & Sundari Baru
Hiam & David Baum
Ava & Sunil Bhavsar
Les Birdsall
Colin Brown
Lorraine Caputo
Jamie Smith Carr
Linda Castro & Jeff Hatfield
Patricia & Guillaume Choquet
Michael Connelly
Timothy & Donna Connelly
Susan Cosentino
Ariel Cowell
Demetrice Davis
John & Judy Desantis
Alice & Doug Diamond
Michael Eichler
Elsa Feher
Suzie Finkelstein
Courtney Flanagan
Einar & Sally Gall
Norman & Patricia Gillespie
Virginia Giuliano
Michel Glouchevitch & Caroline Janda
Georgia Gomez-Ibanez, in honor of Deborah Salzer
June Gottleib
Karen Hartman & Todd London
Louise Hendon
Karen Herr
Elaine Hiel
Ron & Roseann Hoffman
Lois Hubbs
Pat Jacoby
Lynne Jennings
Phil Johnson
Katie Keller
Dee & George Kirazian
Cecelia Kouma & Jeff King
Teri & Karl Kotalik
Melissa Ladner
Judy Leff
Anna C. Lewis & Josh Slater
Judy Price Lewis and Marshall Lewis
Anna Lillian
Brigid Ann & Clark Lund
Richard & Elizabeth Macgurn
Mary & Alfred Manaster
Nate McCay
Michael & Joanne Midgley
James Myers
Daniel O'Rourke
William Purves
Elaine & Mark Regan
Kathryn Russum
Deborah & Beeb Salzer
Eileen Samuels, in memory of Mollie Samuels
Rosemary Santoni
Elise Schindler
Sheila Sheridan
Susan Shershenovich
Gerald Shukert
Stanley Silverman
Arshagouhi Tavitian
Christine & John Tyner
Susan Walter & Stephen Van Wormer
Karen Weiss

Playwrights Circle ~ Individual Gifts under $100

Anonymous
Ann Briggs Addo
Marisa & Romero Apostol
Nivedita Bhattacharya
David Brin & Ann Brigham
Linda Canada
Mark Cavallo
Mary Jo Connelly
Randy Cohen
Emily Dailey
Bryan Dean & family
Barbara Eldridge
Elaine Eynon
Carla Fargo
Erin Galliher
Geraldine Gerencser
Merryl Goldberg
Lynn & Mark Hofflund
Elizabeth Hollo
Lori Husein
Trina & Ted Kaplan
Elaine Kuli
Glenn Lambert & Martha Cronin
Pat Launer
Paula Litchfield
Drs. Talma & Ezra Maguen
Elliott Mark
Millie McAuley
Ann McDonald
Sheryl North
Earl & Elizabeth Osterhout
Deborah Pantoni
D. Candis Paule & Robert May
Amy Peckner
Patricia Petersen
Cathy Potter
Richard Ross
Roy Sekigahama
Mary Shelton
Michele Taskin
Claudia Via
Sharon & John Western
Lynne Wheeler

Grants Corner

Playwrights Project thanks our donors for their support.  We are pleased to announce these recent grants:

Qualcomm Foundation supports our in-school playwriting programs for at risk youth, including programs in low income neighborhoods, Juvenile Court and Community Schools, juvenile hall and pregnant minors programs.

 

The James Irvine Foundation for its generosity and vision. The multi-year grant, awarded in 2013, continues to support new play development with the following adult populations:

  • Adults who experienced foster care (Telling Stories)
  • Mexican-American immigrants (Border Lines)
  • Active military and veterans (About Face)
  • Incarcerated and former inmates (Out of the Yard)

 

The Sidney E. Frank Foundation awarded Playwrights Project grants in support of our Write On! standards-based playwriting program conducted in schools throughout San Diego County.

The Tippett Foundation awarded Playwrights Project a grant in support of our education programs for youth.

Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, a local leader in philanthropy for the arts, has again provided underwriting for Plays by Young Writers, which was produced at The Old Globe in Balboa Park.

Support from state and local agencies has a large impact on our programming:

National Endowment for the Arts: An Arts Education: Art Works grant is supporting playwriting residencies for underserved populations in San Diego schools, including programs for students in juvenile court schools, pregnant minors, homeless teens and English language learners. Matching funds are required. Your support is welcome.

The San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture continues to provide the most critical support to the arts community by providing general operating support.

The California Arts Council, through its Artists in Schools program, awarded us a matching grant, supporting playwriting residencies at Creative, Performing and Media Arts Middle School this year. We also received funding through the new JUMP StArts program, which supports quality arts education and artists-in-residence programs for at-risk youth within the juvenile justice system. The CAC is primarily supported by the sale of Arts License Plates. Do you have one on your car?

Additionally, in partnership with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the California Arts Council has contracted with several organizations throughout the state to provide rehabilitative arts services in state correctional facilities. Playwrights Project is partnering with one of those organizations, William James Association, to provide playwriting to inmates at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility and the California State Prison, Centinela.