Current Supporters

Our Town by Thornton Wilder, fall 2015

Support and Funding for the Skidmore College Theater

We are incredibly grateful to the many generous donors who have supported our program over the years. Through their generous gifts, the following contributors have enabled us to bring many guest performers, speakers, workshops, directors, and designers to our program. The endowments established by these donors continue to enrich our program each year.

Arnold Bernhard Foundation Endowed Fund to Benefit Skidmore Theater
Special thanks to Jean Buttner

Nancy Mergentime Silverman Theater Fund
Special Thanks to Irving Silverman


The Stephanie Mnookin Theater Department Research and Creative Project

This provides financial support for a senior to pursue professional projects upon graduation

Special Thanks to:
David & Meredith Apicella
Robert and Eva Levine
Steven and Peggie Shore
Steven Hirschberg and Marke Rubenstein


The Shakespeare & Company Summer Intensive Scholarship

This enables deserving students to attend the five-week Summer Intensive actor training program at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Special thanks to our Anonymous Alumni Donor


Second City Improv Comedy Program

Special thanks to alum David Miner


Pettigrew Memorial Donors

The Skidmore Theater Department wishes to thank the following donors for their thoughtful and generous contributions in memory of Kazuko Pettigrew, one of our most loyal supporters:

Barbara Adams, Louis Gold, Elaine Blair, Lorraine Grant, Edna Bourdeau, Elaine Pettigrew Hurley, Patricia and Thomas Fox, Ingrid Keys, Carol and Dale Gerbing, Bethany Pettigrew Maglione, Joy Pinnell, and William Schilling


Friends of the Theater

Our Friends of the Theater program provides vitally important support for departmental functions and academic activities, as well as for the productions themselves.

By subscribing to our performance Season, you’ll be supporting the work we do and getting some great perks for yourself, such as show tickets, preferred seating, invitations to special events, and your name listed in our programs and lobby display. We host a special reception annually in the spring to honor and pay tribute to all the Friends of the Skidmore Theater.

Please visit our Support page if you would like to become a Friend of the Theater and contribute to our program.

THANKS TO OUR 2021-2022 FRIENDS:

Angels ($2,500 +up)

Adirondack Theater Festival
Anonymous Alum
Francis P. Chiaramonte, M.D. Family Foundation
David and Jennifer Miner
The Miranda Family Fund

Producer’s Circle (starting at $1,000)

Susan and William Dake
Dougla Gray & Leslie Koch Gray
Brad Nyberg & Anne Loo
Margaret O’Meara Storrs
Barbara and Fabrizio Zichichi

Director’s Circle (starting at $500)

Dorinne Shutter Armstrong
Elaine Pettigrew Hurley
John & Martha Precheur

Benefactors (starting at $200)

Patrick Brannan
The Bushwick Starr
Philip & Marie Glotzbach
Deborah Innes
Scott Katzmann
Joshua Kuperman
Juliana Moreira
Susan Schwaidelson Siegfried

Patrons (starting at $100)

Carolyn Anderson
Lynne Gelber
Christine McDonald
Kathy O’Leary
Michael Okrepkie
Helen Porter
Loretta Quigley
Lawrence Ries
William Rubenstein
Tonya Steele
Mark A. Thurner
George & Delores Wilson

Friends (starting at $50)

James Barber
Thomas Caruso
Terrance & Ann Diggory
Joseph Haedrich
Susan & Robert Hahm
Judith Lerman
Sondra Katz
Zoe Morsette
Jonathan Pogash & Megan Hale Fitzgerald
Michael Ravin
Dr. Lewis Taub & Barbara Kass
George Zanotto