Support + Sustain
Thank you for keeping the fire lit.
Thanks to you, friends, we are in our 9th season at Firelight!
Your presence + generosity keep the creative engine humming and move us toward sustainability as a nonprofit arts organization. We make theatre for you, because of you, and with you. Read on about our supporters and about how you can make an impact at Firelight.
Firelight Theatre Workshop is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization. All gifts are tax-deductible. Firelight’s EIN: 61-2107029
To become a Firelight Major Underwriter or for Wire Transfer details, please email firelighttheatreworkshop@gmail.com.
Ways to Support Firelight
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ONE-TIME DONATIONS
Your generosity helps us improve our production values, increase audience access, develop a sustainable infrastructure, and fairly compensate the artists who create the work that brings you to the studio.
Gifts of any amount make a big impact at Firelight.
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MONTHLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Your ongoing, steady generosity sustains the day-to-day work at Firelight.
Your monthly contribution supports the Firelight Studio, vital operations, and development of new and longer-term work.
Monthly contributors sustain the fire.
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THE UNDERWRITER COMMUNITY
Underwriters support Firelight both financially + artistically. Underwriters contribute $1k+ to the Spring or Fall Productions and are crucial audience at our a preview performance.
Underwriters offer exponential impact and become a vital part of the Firelight family.
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MAJOR GIFTS PROPEL FIRELIGHT
Major Givers help Firelight grow into the next stage of sustainability. Major Gifts have included significant support over multiple years, donations of vital services + equipment.
If you would like to make a big impact at Firelight, let’s discuss what’s possible.
Special Thanks
We extend our deep gratitude to you, our Firelight community, for your generosity + presence.
In 2025:
• We issued 1,392 tickets to our performances
• We received 430 gifts from 198 donors
• We welcomed 83 first-time donors
• We grew our fundraising by 51%!
We thank all of our donors, attendees, collaborators, and volunteers for your support + presence. We would like to acknowledge the ongoing generosity of Paul Merrill and Gail Carroll, who are champions of the arts + community. We recognize The Putnam Foundation, which awarded Firelight a deeply impactful grant in 2024 and 2025. We extend our gratitude to an Angel Donor, who is dedicated to improving our sound + lighting infrastructure, our production systems, and seating + risers.
And we thank our Board of Directors — Tim Riley, Lenny Matczynski, Jep Streit, Gina Carballo, Cathy Cambal-Hayward, Michele Steckler, Justin Voshell, Tara Kessler, and David Bernstein — who are exceptionally generous with their effort + care to make Firelight a sustainable + exciting arts organization. We cannot thank this dream team enough.
Your impact on Firelight
We like to think of the work we create at Firelight as a homemade gift, or a homecooked meal. We’re excited about the ingredients, and we feel pretty certain it’s going to taste good. Delicious, we hope. It may not have been what you ordered, but you probably didn’t know it was on the menu. You’ll come back for more, we hope. But it will be different next time. Tasty in a new way.
You, dear friends, are the secret ingredient.
Theatre is by nature for an audience. We create this work for you. And we think about you all along the way. Without you, we’d be in eternal rehearsal. We’d be stirring and stirring with no one to taste.
Thank you for eating what we cook up. Thank you for coming back for another helping. Thank you for bringing friends to the table.
We are so proud to be growing + evolving with you and because of you.
Your support makes an enormous difference at Firelight. Your contributions directly support the people + programming at Firelight — from essential equipment to artist + technician compensation.
