Support us
Question: What is it that has two plays, 20 performances, and 4,000+ fans?
Answer: The 2025 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival!
Join us for…
Two full productions: King Lear and Twelfth Night, or What you Will
55+ CT-based professional actors, musicians, designers and technicians
Microphones, concessions and more
Double the Shakespeare, Double the Production Costs
We need you! Help us meet our expanded budget with an individual donation, sponsorship and/or program ad.
Individual donations can be made quickly, easily, and securely via credit/debit card, PayPal, and Venmo. You can also mail a check to our address below. AND, if your company has a matching program, please be sure to submit your donation for a match.
Explore ways to become a sponsor and market your business to our in-demand audience.
Advertise in our Festival program to reach 4,500 professionals, seniors, and families.
INdividual donors
producerS
Herb Emanuelson
The Kane-Fischer Family
Teneo/Matthew Morgan
DirectorS
Anonymous
Ben & Joan Engel
Susan Kerr
Luke & Stephanie Williams
PatronS
William Fuller
Barnaby Horton & Hannah Granfield-Horton
Mike Isko
Dennis Jakiela & Sandra Barnes
Llyn Kaimowitz
Laura and Geoffrey Sheehan
Edwin and Rachel Thrower
Maura and Doug Wheeler
SupporterS
Michael Astrachan
Bouvier Insurance
Mark Dean
Wayne Duckworth
Macca Plumbing & Heating
Kara Russell
Mary Jane and Timothy Sheehan
FRIENDS
Donations at the Friends level are listed in our Festival program.
Feature sponsors
Hartford Distributors, Inc.
weekly sponsors
The Hartford Insurance
Rheumatology and Allergy Institute of Connecticut
daily sponsors
Adams & Knight, Inc.
Atlantic Law Books
Calculate, LLC
Cantor Colburn LLP
Dennis Jakiela & Sandra Barnes
NBT Bank
Trinity Health/The McAuley
grantors
with the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency
