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We are grateful to so many individuals and organizations who generously supported Live Arts during our 2023/24 EXPECTATIONS Season. This list recognizes philanthropic gifts received between July 1, 2023 and January 31, 2024. If you would like your name to appear in a different format, please contact us at donate@livearts.org.

Season Sponsors

Show Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor:
Elizabeth LeVaca remembering Joe LeVaca
Media Sponsors:
C-VILLE Weekly & WTJU 91.1FM
Pay-What-You-Can Sponsor:
Ting
IT Partner:
PJ Networks

Live Arts is supported in party by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts a federal Agency.

LIFE SUCKS:
Barbara & Jay Kessler
UNCLE VANYA:
George Worthington & Cameron Mowat
MISS BENNET:
The Caplin Foundation
KINKY BOOTS:
Scarpa
Story House Real Estate
Woodard Properties
FIREFLIES:
City of Charlottesville, Office of Social Equity
Pamela Friedman & Ronald Bailey
WATERWORKS:
The Madwoman Project
Open Hands, in memory of Michael Parent

Program & Event Sponsors

Education:
Hankel-Citizens Insurance
Tech Dinners:
Miller & Lee Susen
Project Access Sponsor:
The Madwoman Project
Receptions:
The Frayser Group
Wells Fargo

Locally Sourced:
Pamela Friedman & Ronald Bailey
Geri & Bruce Schirmer
Concessions:
Albemarle Baking Company
Bold Rock
Early Mountain Vinyards
Mudhouse Coffee
Three Notch’d Brewing Co.

Theater Lighting Upgrade:
Anonymous
Dorothy Batten
Perry Foundation 
Thane Kerner
Jessica Nagle
Wyn Owens

In Kind Donations

Cake Bloom
Catalysis Fund
Circa
Dominion Energy Foundation

C&O
Kathleel & Andy Mueller
Foods of All Nations 
Anne Hunter & Scott Taylor

JLA Photography
Mudhouse CoffeeJacquelyn Nasca
US Energy Management
Linda & David Zuby

Gifts From Individuals & Organizations

Dr. Beverly Colwell Adams
Cyndy Alaimo
Albemarle County
Lani & Fritz Angle
Emmett Angle-Davis
Patricia Asuncion
Rachel Baker & James Burnett
Heather Balmat
Bama Works Fund
Erica A. Barnes & Matthew C. Yohe
Will Barnett
Becky A. Bartness
Jennifer Bates
Judy & Ferdi Bazin
Kim & John Beard
Nicole & Earle Betts
Katherine Birdsall & Karl Pfefferkorn
Jeanne Blake & Mike Simpson
Mary & Jay Blanton
Blondel Family
Betsy & Tom Bloom
Patricia & George Bloom
Joan Boatner & Dudley Doane
Bevin Boisvert
Joyce Boland
Maria Borga
Regan Borucke
Besty Bowman & Randy Pendleton
Karen & Robert Boyle
Susan Braun & Scott Williams
Larry Bouchard & Margaret Galloway
Dee & Dickson Brown
Wendy & Jack Brown
Kate & Chris Burke
Jane & Mike Burns
Jill Campbell
Mary B. Campbell
Michael Caplin
Dorthy & Kelly Carney
Elizabeth Carpenter & Daniel Feigert
Matha Cassell
Catalyst Fund
Cyndy & Samuel Caughron
Christina & Ernest Chambers
Cynthia Chapman
Donna & Donald Charlebois
Jonathan Chasen
Donna Chen & Brad Worrall
Janis & Robert Chevalier
Suzanne Tanner Chitwood
Terri Di Cintio & Chip King
City of Charlottesville
Lise Clavel
Clayton Family Fund
Annemarie Clemente
Diane Cluck
Shelley Lee Cole & Alex Citron
Jill Collier
Josey Conover & Jeff Erkelens
Martha Conway
The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
Taylor Cottingham
Adam Courville
Wilson Craig
Carly Crickenberger
Neely Dahl
Hope Dance
Virginia Daugherty
Shilpa Davé
Bill Davis
Sue Davis-Dill
Gia DeAngelis
Donna & Richard DeLoria
Helen Dempsey-Henofer
Elizabeth Derby
Nancy Deutsch
Jan Dix
DN Batten Foundation
Mariko Doktor
Laney Dorazio
Honor Dorsey
Kelly Dowd
Carolyn Doyle
Lisa Draine & Joel Schectman
Bobbi & Lewis Dunn
Laurel & Geoff Dunn
Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler
Noah Elias
Tricia Emlet & John Holdren
Deborah Erikson
Jane Erwine
Carol Evans
Ellen Evans
Janet & Howard Evergreen
Shana Fabio
Betty Farell
Lisa & Ken Ferguson
Stephen Finn
Christine Fleckles & Edwin Rushia
Windy & Paul Forch
Jody Forman
Joan & Robert Forrest
Kay & Jeff Fracher
Pamela Friedman & Ronald Bailey
Martha S. Fruehauf
Elizabeth Rose Fuller
The FUNd at CACF
Laurel Gamm
Cady & Bryan Garey
Elizabeth Gay
Cheryl Gaughen
Thomas Gibson
Janna & David Gies

Margie Gilbert
Carol Gilbert-Sacks
Margaret Gilges & John Rabasa
Grace Giras
Marjie Giuliano
Deborah & David Godden
Amy Goffman & Jim Horstkotte
Larry Goldstein
Susan Greene & Larry Stopper
Bridget Bryer Groff & David Groff
Karen & Alex Grunsfeld
Vickie Gullet & Mike Iwanik
Naci & Jeff Gould
Laurel Gunn
Danait Haddish
Ruth Mary Hall
Sharon & James Harrigan
Paige Harris
Mittie & Will Harvey
Erica Haskins
Fern R. Hauck & Hillel Finder
Jarett Heath
Elain Heffelfinger & Douglass Murphy
Heiner Family Fund
Charles Heiner
Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown
Maria Henderson
Mary Jay Henderson
Eve Hesselroth
Heather Hill
Kinne Hoffman & Christopher Milner
Brian Hogg
Nancy Hopkins & Bruce McKenney
Sharon Lee Hostler
Kristen & Jonathan Howard
Amanda Hunt
Cynthia Hurst
Nada Ismael
The J&E Berkley Foundation
Deborah Jackson
Anthony Jareb
Jocelyn Johnson & William Hunt
Rebecca Johnson
Anna C. Jones
Jeannie Jones
Joan & John Kammire
Catherine F. Kane
Eunie Kelly & Jim Deter
Heather Karp & Ira Herbst
Kevin Kaugher
Jennifer Kelly
Barbara & Jay Kessler
Karen Kigin
Ian F. Kimbrough
Jonelle Kinback
Michael King
Mary & Donald Kirwan
Ruth & Tom Klippstein
Karen & Scott Knierim
Glenda Kohlhafer-Regan
Ron Krauss
McCrea S. & David W. Kudravetz
Beth & Nicholas Kuhn
Ludwig Kuttner
Kathleen Ladika
Jacqueline Langholtz & William Taylor
Marcia & Harold Langsam
Jacalyn LaPierre
Janet LaPointe
Maria A. Lasagna
MJ Lauter
Carol Lawson
Karen Lawson & Lawrence Karpen
Rebecca L’Ecuyer
Barbara Leonard
Bill LeSueur
Martha Levering
Payton & Bill Lewis
Paige Linkins
Cathy & Hal Lippard
Douglass List
Debbie & Andy Lockman
Lotta Lofgren
Amy London
Teresa Long
Jennifer Love
Barbara MacCallum & Robert Johnson
Zanne Macdonald
Kelley MacDougall
Joan Manes
Carol Manning & Eric Turkheimer
Monica Markelz & Julian Connolly
Lea Marshall & Will Kerner
Fredrick J. Martin
Virginia Masterson
Abigail Maynard
Donna & Sandy McAdams
Jane McBrian
Beverley McCaskill
Sue & David McConaughty
April McLaughlin
Kyle McPherson
Brian Menard
Mary & Jon Mikalson
Kari Miller
Kathi & David Minton
Kate & Joe Monaghan
Jami Montambault & Hoke Perkins
Julie & Geoff Montross
Kerry Moran & Mark Rylander
David Morris
Kathleel Mueller
Madeleine Munce
Susan & Chris Munson


Edward Murphy
Matthew Murray 
Jacquelyn Nasca
Elizabeth Natoli
Willa & Jim Neale
Ckalib Nelson
Kristine & Louis Nelson
Jennifer Newell
Cathi & Jeep Newman
Sylvia New-Strawn
Cecilia & Robert Nichols
Michelle O’Bier
Nancy O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien
Dennis O’Connor
Carolyn & Mark O’Hara
Cary Oliva & Judd Jarvis
Bradley Olson
Debbie & Charlie Owen
Leah & Jason Paladino
Chris Pasmore
Maria & John Paulus
Maite Brandt-Pearce & Daniel Pearce 
Aubrey Phillips
Elayne Kornblatt Phillips
Spencer Phillips
Betsy & David Poist
George Politis
Elizabeth Anne Powell
Lisa Provence
Michelle Prysby & John Woodell
The Pumpkin Seed Foundation
Estelle Rainsford & Sean Clinchy
Lizzy Ramey
Taylor & Bill Randolph
Gail Raymaker & Gerald Shea
Cathey & Stots Reele
Ann Regn
Carol Richart
Sara Rimm-Kaufman
Christine Robertson
Kathryn & Andrew Rockett
Claudia Scenna
Julie Scialla 
Wendy Seay
Molly & Matthew Shadel
Angilee Shah
Ginny & Vaden Shields
Paula Shiver
Amanda Shuker
Laurie Shulman
Naomi Slagowski
Kay Slaughter
Kathleen & Grady Smith
Markiana Smith
Patricia L. Smith & Ray R. Mishler
Larissa Sneathern
Lloyd Snook
Daniel Sprague
Brian Sosdian
Maria Stein
Kate Stewart
Lise Stoessel
John Stoner
Liz & Frank Stoner
Erika Struble
Martha Susinno
Grace Suttle
William Sweeny
Christine Sweeters
Patsy & Richard Swindler
Miller & Lee Susen
Catherine Tillack
Jesse Timmons
Nell & Steve Tharp
Ashlee’ L. Thompson
Dana Tornabene
William Trainer
Cindy Ann Trentacosta
Nora & Dick Trodden
Kim Trotter
Ellen & Gordon Tully
Lynda Tweel
Jacki Vawter
Ken Victor
Virginia National Bank
Ellen & Paul Wagner
John Waits
Madi Walker
Sarah Waller
Lily Garcia Walton
Bitsy & David Waters
Ashley Watkins
William Weathersby Jr.
Marian & Jerry Wendelin
Sara & Christopher Whiffen
Bonita White
Charles W. Swinney & Steuart White
Kellam White
James Whitlow
Joan & John Widomski
Martha Wiley
Barbara Williams
Blair Williamson 
Tammy Wilt
Alisa Wilson
Mary Catherine Wimer
Charles M. Winker
Khabira & Carl Wise
Elizabeth Wittner
Annette Zenker
Linda & David Zuby

Gifts in Honor of

William Thomas & Helen C. Chambers:
Christina & Ernest Chambers
Martha Donnelly:
Douglass List
Joan Forrest:
John Forrest 
Marietta Feigert:
Fran & Frank Feigert
Jim Heilman:
Patricia Smith & Ray Mishler
Barbara Germershausen:
Lise Stoessel
Howard Pape:
Morgan & Jeremiah Brophy
Jermey Pape & Annie Temmink:
Will Barnett
Darryl Smith:
Jocelyn Johnson & Billy Hunt
Austen Weathersby:
William Weathersby Jr.

Gifts in Memory of

John G. Conover:
Joey Conover & Jeff Erkelens
Lea Marshall & Will Kerner
Nora & Dick Trodden
Wren Cooper:
Deborah Jackson
Joe LeVaca:
Elizabeth LeVaca
Michael Parent:
Open Hands
Brian Menard
James C. Miller:
Christine Sweeters
Evelyn Nasca:
Jacquelyn Nasca

Gifts on Behalf of

Steph Finn & Sisters:
Stephen Finn
Barbara & Jay Kessler:
Sue & David McConaughy

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