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Support About Face Theatre
About Face Theatre is a 501(c)3 non-profit devoted to advancing LGBTQ+ equity through community building, education, and performance. Whether you contribute on an annual basis or this is your first time making a donation, thank you for your generosity!
Your Support Helps About Face Theatre…
- live out our mission of advancing LGBTQ+ equity through community building, education, and performance.
- create ground-breaking artistic work that amplifies LGBTQIA+ voices to spark social change.
- offer free workshops that help create affirming environments for working and learning.
Deepen Your Impact with a recurring gift.
Join the Queer Futurists, our monthly giving program!
Ready to claim your place in a passionate community committed to advancing LGBTQ+ equity? Build the future with us!
As a Queer Futurist, your monthly gift paves the way for the world we’re dreaming toward—one where LGBTQ+ stories thrive, and queer futures shine brightly.
Whether your priority is providing essential meals and workshops for our Queer Youth Ensemble or bringing new plays to glorious life onstage, your monthly donation will ensure we can deliver on our mission well into the future.
As an expression of our solidarity and appreciation, we’ve got some perks to give back to you when you sign up with a monthly donation.
$10/month = $120 Dreamer
Your name highlighted on the website & annual report
$25/month = $300 Builder
All Dreamer perks, plus a signature company “Queer AF” T-shirt
$50/month = $600 Visionary
All Builder perks, plus an invitation for you and your guest to our Opening Night performance of Modern Gentleman, including a post-show reception
$100/month = $1200 Catalyst
All Visionary perks, plus an invitation to an open rehearsal for a behind-the-scenes look at how About Face Theatre artists bring new work to life.
If you are interested in making a single or monthly donation above this level, please contact Managing Director Jamie Meun at jamie@aboutfacetheatre.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Recurring giving isn’t just convenient—it’s revolutionary. Select the recurring donation option on our donation page and let’s keep queer theatre daring and accessible.
Our Supporters
About Face Theatre relies on individual, corporate, foundation and government contributions from our community to support our mission to create exceptional and innovative theatre. Without this support, we would not be able to develop exciting new work in collaboration with the finest emerging and established artists in the nation, nor would we be able to provide exceptional education programming to LGBTQIA youth and their allies.
Institutional Funders
Below is a list of our institutional funders for our 2024-2025 season.
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
Individual Donors
The below list is a complete list of supporters who donated between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025. This list is updated every September (at the end of our fiscal year).
Founders Society
With a generous annual contribution or monthly gift totaling $1,000 or more in a year, Founders Society members support today’s LGBTQ+ artists creating About Face Theatre’s mainstage performances as well as tomorrow’s leaders with AFT’s youth and outreach ensembles.
$5,000-$9,999
Steven Cross
Ted Grady
Ed Talideh & Will Roberts
Denis Weil
J & L Catering
$1,000-$4,999
Geoffrey Anderson
Mr. Jim Andrews
Greg Thompson and
Greg Cameron
Judget Tom Chiola
Carol Cohen
Eileen Dordek & Chris Landgraff
Evette Cardona & Mona Noriega
Prof. James A. Glazier
Rana Hobbs
Becky Huinker
Hal Kugler
Dovid P. Germaine & Robert D. Loprete
Amy Matheny
Julia Fabris McBride & William McBride
Bill Michel & Mark Botelho
Sharon Mylrea
John Rooney
Katherine Soodek
Foundation
Kate Warner
Emilio Williams
Brian Woodworth & Brian Phillips
$500-$999
Jill Bellak
Michael & Robin Carney
Jeffrey Davis
Mr. Howard Heyman
Amy Hutchison
Sarah Ludden
Michael McAdams
Robert McCamant
Katie Metos
Mary Morten & Willa Taylor
Jacob Mueller
Robert Murphy
Charles Rhee
Hadley Rue
Bernadette Smith
Benjamin Sprunger
Brad Suster
UIC Gender & Sexuality Center
Michigan State University Federal
Credit Union
$100-$499
Amy Abraham
Mollie City Alexander
Sofia Anastopoulos
Brian Austin
Phillip Bahar
Tracy Baim
H. Russell Bauer
Dorian Bezanis
Roger J. Bialcik
Lisa Bowden
Mark Brewer
Laura Brown
Michelle Buscemi
Evette Cardona
Megan Carney
Edmund & Victoria Carney
Parvesh Cheena
Darwin Corrin
John D’Emilio
Mary DeBacker
Dan Dornbrook
Kenneth East
Alan Eddington
Jeffrey Edwards
Michael Elkow
Michal Eskayo
Pat Ewert
Brian Feller
Marcia Festen
Denise Foy
Lisa Freeman
Jacquelline Frett
Emmanuel Garcia
Joy & Marc Gerber
Allegra Giulietti-Schmitt
Judy and Barry Glaser
C Godell
Ethel C. Gofen
William Greaves
John P Green
Ted Hoerl
E. Patrick Johnson
Pat Kane
Lynn Katsulis
Kim & Ed Kleine
Jason Lagrue
Chris Lonn
Lynn Macal
sue maliszewski
John E. Matthews
Bonnie Metzgar
Carolyn Miller
Kathy Munzer
Scott Nelson
Eric Nelson
Diane Pascal
Sarah A Powers
Anna Rangos
Daryl Ritchie
Monica Ritter
Amy Rooney
Lauren Sack
Elizabeth Sales
Mr. W. Curt Schade
David Schoon
Roche Schulfer
Alicia M Senior-Saywell
Patrick Sheahan
RJ Silva
Lisa May Simpson
Sarah Slight
Brian Smith
Patricia Staszak
Jonny Stax
Casey Street
Amanda Suckow
Catherine Taylor
Julie Taylor
Stephanie Tillman
Joshua Turnbull
Eddie Urzua
Jean-Pierre Vidrine
Ray Wagner
Jeremy Wechsler
James Wiltshire
Greg Woolford
$1-$99
Arielle Amiri
Rex Babiera
Chris Baer
John Barry
Jane Beachy
Elizabeth Bobrick & Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
James Brott
Jerry Caldwell
John Callen
Sister Margaret Carney
CC Carter
Tonia Caruso
Paul Caulfield
Paul Chandler
Aurelia Cohen
Alexis Davis
Mr. Cecil Dearborne
Joe Digilio
Tony DiPisa
Helen Ella
Janet Ferguson
Eric Frederickson
David Galloway
Norden S. Gilbert
John Golanty
Heidi Hoblit Graham
Kailey Azure Green
The H Household
David Hackett
Nick Harkin
Megan Harkins
Elizabeth Harper
Jim Hennessey
Maria Hillary
Adria Hunter
Brian Johnson
Carol Kennedy
SK Kerastas
Alicja Kolendo
Beth Kuczera
A.S. Larsen
Jamie Link
Dr. Paul M. Lisnek
Gloria Lloret
Laura Lopez
Nancy Jones Lowe
Melissa May
Eric McCool
Sarah McDaniel
Mike McMillan
Andreas Melinat
Beatriz Menendez
Ellen Morris Palermo
Lindsay Mummert
Deanna Myers
Devon Nelson
Michealeena Nielsen
Lisa Oppenheim
John Peller
Mia Poplawski
Frank Popowski
Nikola Ranguelov
Chad Roat
Rene Rosa
Matt Schutz
James Sexton
Mark Sherkow
Peggy Shinner
Shannon Smith
Aaron Stigberg
Rick Stoneham
Thomas Timp
Michael Turkal
Sacha Urban
Valeria Valkova
Gray Vogelmann
Andrew Volkoff
Dan Washelesky
Peter Wuertz
Samuel Yu
Pedro Zavala