Great Art. Greater Impact.

Downstage is a small professional theatre company and registered charity known for being resilient, ambitious and impactful. Our work is funded through a combination of ticket sales, granting programs, and the support of generous individual donors, foundations and businesses. If you're excited by our work bringing new Canadian plays to the stage that engage with challenging topics, or increasing access to all Calgarians through our innovative approaches, please consider making a donation. 

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WHY GIVE?

Downstage creates award-winning theatrical works that spark meaningful conversations between Calgarians about issues that matter to them. We are passionate about creating opportunities for social bridging - helping people to form connections to others who are different from them in some way - and have introduced a number of initiatives to make theatre more accessible for a diverse range of Calgarians. 

Over the years, we've built a robust little theatre company. We have five staff members who are also working artists and we have strong leaders in our volunteer Board of Directors. We produce Canadian scripts, premiere original creations, workshop new plays by local artists, and curate an affordable theatrical venue - all on a minimal budget where every gift helps us to increase our impact in our community. 

Please contact Director of Communication and Development, Katherine Rawlinson, by email (katherine@downstage.ca) to discuss how your donation could make an impact.

Money raised can be directed to the play of your choice, including artist fees, script workshops, and/or sets and costumes in support of our charitable purpose, or to a specific project to increase access to a play. We are happy to provide prospective donors with copies of our financial statements as well as answer any questions you may have. Our legal name is "The Downstage Performance Society". We are incorporated as a society in Alberta and our charitable registration number is #856625835RR0001.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR DONORS!

Jocelyn Adema, Christine Armstrong, Tara Beagan & Andy Moro, Elena Belyea, Wren Brian, Christine Brubaker, Gerry Burger-Martindale, Burns, Heather Campbell, Anne Clarke, Cobb's Corn Maze, Laura Coffell, James Conley, Victoria Cramer, Sarah Culkin, Maryam Dashti, Jennifer Delisle, Colleen Dickson, Karen Dingwall, Charlie Doyle, Sunny Drake, Kate Easton, Meg Farhall, The Flanagan Foundation, Jeremy Fokkens, Megan Fox, Daniela Galindo, Sarah Garton Stanley, Beth Graham, Grant, Danielle Griffin, Blythe Haynes, Alysha Kanji, Salimah Kassam, Sonia Kee, Sam Kelley, Matt Knox, Kimberly Koch, Natasha Komery, Courtney Lancaster, Mervin Leach, Sanja Lukac, Darwin Lyons, Rob Macaulay, Frederick Mallett, Simon Mallett, Mary Marchinw, Jean McClure, Jon McInnis, Shelby McNeilly, Jennifer Brewin & Arthur Milner, Keri Lee Mitchell, Janet Monteith, Heather Moore, Rosemary Morrison, Alon Nashman, Pattie Neice, Danny Nguyen, Nickle Family Foundation, Kristen Padayas, Camille Pavlenko, Erin Peplinski, Mike & Marg Perlette, Brent Pickerl, Vanessa Porteous, Rosemary & Peter Preuss, Grahame Renyk, Natalie, Rewa, Jenna Rodgers, Alex Sarian, Maureen Sheppard, Robert Simon, Alane Smith, David Smith,  Kathryn Smith, Barbara Sontag, Bronwyn Steinberg, Lana Sugarman, Kim Sutter, Lee Sutter, Leanna Brodie & Jovanni Sy, Alaina Thursby, Emma Tibaldo, Ashley Towns Lewis, Pam Tzeng, Vectorworks, Jermyn Voon, Grace Waschuk, The Wettstein Family Foundation, Everett Wilson, Bob and Wendy Whyte, Robb Whyte, Everett Wilson, Richard Young, Karen Youngberg, Anonymous Donors x 6, a gift in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, a gift in memory of Holly Clark and a gift in memory of Michael Green.

If you made a donation during the last twelve months but don't appear on this list, please contact Danielle Whyte (danielle@downstage.ca) and we'll correct that right away!