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Thank You to all our sponsors for their support!


Our 2025 Premier Sponsors $20,000+

Cherry Lane Alternative

THE PLAYWRIGHT SPONSOR $15,000+

Jeremy Hobbs of The Western Wind Foundation,
Harold Matzner,
Gus Van Sant of The Wendy Foundation,
Fiordellisi Williams Family Foundation

THE PRODUCER SPONSOR $10,000+

Margarida De Brito & Caitlin O’Shaughnessy 

THE DIRECTOR SPONSOR $5000+

City of Palm Springs, Paul Reid & Thomas Hartnett, Mel & Dorothy Lefkowitz, Jason Smith & Tom Valach

GOLD SPONSOR $2500+

The Riverside County Office of Education, Houston Family Family Foundation, John & Elizabeth Mace Charitable Trust, Eddie Nestlebush & Scott Poland, David Youse

SILVER SPONSOR $1000+

Susan & Jim Caruso, Joe Corner & Kevin Stotts, Alberto Tejero

BRONZE SPONSOR $500+

Jack Kenny, Staci Munic, Bob Nunes, Marni Raab, Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler, Peggy Trott


FESTIVAL DONORS $100+

Shawn Abramowitz, Valerie Armstrong, David Atkisson, Michael Bonnabel, Lee Bryant, Mark Chelgren, J. Marty Dormany-Keenan, Clark Dugger, Nancy Eiler, Jerome Elliott, Carol Fragen, Winston Gieseke, Carol Lippert Gray, Elizabeth Gulick, Bill Hutton, Andi Matheny, Joyce Murphy, Mark Nichols, Rick Polenek, Melissa Eddy Quilty, Mark & Wanda Ramos, Andy Schmiedel, William Schroeder, John Shaffner, Steve Shuman, David Urman, Lynda Wells, Greg White

FESTIVAL BENEFACTORS $150+

Kevin Scott Allen, Bill Barker, Julie Rosser Balbini & Francesco Balbini, Armour Black, Gailya Brown, Jon Angle & Rhett Burns, Jim Cain, Sean Dwyer, Ginny Ehrlich, Sharon Harris, Keith Hoffman, Lisa & David Kaufman, Heather Lake, Rob McManus, Mike Misa, Kate Misskelley, Jeffrey Norman, Lorene Peirce, Wendy Radford, Elizabeth Reilly, Perry Sayles, Cece Tio, Ken Valach, Cindy Yantis, Dusty Yates


FESTIVAL FRIENDS $1-99

David Adler, Diane Alianiello, John H. Anderson, Kevin Anderson, Colleen & Darin Anthony, Patricia Barnett, Carolyn Bauer, Michael Brown, Emilio Caraballo, Jimmy Cuomo, Terry Dalton, Loretta Fox & Lou DiMaggio, Jennifer Davis, Andrea Gorzell D’Haene, Hanz Enyeart, Helen Faith, Gloria Feldman, Michael Harris Fink, Nina Stewart Furukawa, Andrea Giambrone, Ellen Goodman, Donna Graham, HH Hanson, Brian Harridine, Donna Hebert, Dick Henke, Paul Hogrefe, Randall Huskinson, Judith Ivey, Marsha Jordan, Robert Karp, Barbara Kerr, Mitchell Levin, Colman Lydon, Ferrell Marshall, Helen Marie Marshall, Pablo Marz, Phylicia Mason, Al Meritt, Anna Montgomery, Lori Taylor-Morgan, Donna Norberg, Brian O’Connell, Daniel Orlandi, Astride Otto, Dann Peterson, Bev Byers-Pevitts, Jill Phelps, Ken Allan Phillips, Nikki Powers, Mel Rocco, Michael Shiedschlag, Jennifer Sorenson, Elizabeth Southard, Sue Spitzer, Rick Springer, Paul David Stanko, Zak Stephens, Eileen Stern, Greg Stewart, Joe Straw, Cyd Strittmatter, Jane Stuart, Bridget Terry, Tamara Trexler, Nita Upton, Sherwin Vegas, Marsha Waterbury, Marie Weilman, Alden West Ellen Wolf, Yo Younger, William Youse, Harvey Zuckman