The Dos Pueblos Theatre Company is always seeking sponsors, individuals and corporations who believe in the mission of DPTC and are willing to invest in the future of our educational theatre programs. Below, you will find not only information about our various levels of sponsorship, but also the specific ways we are seeking help right now. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Clark Sayre at csayre@sbunified.org. If you would like to make a donation under $500, please visit our "Donation" page HERE.
Our Current Sponsors Include
The Patricia Bragg Foundation
Santa Barbara Bowl
Boone Graphics
The DeMaria Family (Encore Circle)
in loving memory of Monique Henderson DeMaria
Homecoming Queen, DP Class of 1977
Johnson Ohana Foundation (Donor)
Jill Ross Beres (Donor)
Ann Rasmussen (Donor)
John Reardon (Donor)
Coldwell Banker (Donor)
Santa Barbara Bowl
Boone Graphics
The DeMaria Family (Encore Circle)
in loving memory of Monique Henderson DeMaria
Homecoming Queen, DP Class of 1977
Johnson Ohana Foundation (Donor)
Jill Ross Beres (Donor)
Ann Rasmussen (Donor)
John Reardon (Donor)
Coldwell Banker (Donor)
Specific Giving Opportunities Available Now
Contribute to the Dos Pueblos Theatre Endowment Fund ($500,000+)
If you are interested in helping us begin an endowment fund, ensuring quality theater experiences for theater students for decades to come, please email Clark Sayre directly (csayre@sbunified.org) to schedule an appointment. These gifts may include naming opportunities as well as a variety of very speical benefits.
Sponsor DP's Young Playwrights' Program (formerly the Girsh and Hochman Families' Young Playwrights' Program)
Dos Pueblos Playwriting Students have the unique opportunity to work with professional writers, actors, and directors to see their words come to life. The 2012 Girsh and Hochman Families’ Young Playwrights Festival featured professional theater artists from New York and Los Angeles including: Keith Eric Chappelle (The Public Theatre’s Love’s Labor’s Lost), Jeffrey Evan Thomas (The Ritz on Broadway), Cass Bugge (Going The Distance with Drew Barrymore), Mathew Henerson (Ahmanson & La Jolla Playhouse), and Tamara Zook (nominated for Broadway World award for Wizard of Oz). Readings were first developed in class by YP Director Clark Sayre and directed for the YP Festival by Gioia Marchese. In addition to performing the eight student-written readings, the company of professional actors taught a week-long residency for Dos Pueblos High School’s acting students.
Another element of the Dos Pueblos playwrighting class is its’ mentorship program. Each student playwright is paired up with a professional writing mentor. Past mentors have included Ed Solomon (Men In Black, Now You See Me), Pamela Gien (Pulitzer Prize winner for Syringa Tree), Kathy Nijimy (The Kathy & Mo Show), Peter Seman (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Shrek III), Rick Mokler (past SBCC Theater Department Chair), Michael Bernard (42nd Street Project Director, New York), Sammy Buck (Like You Like It), Shelly Markham (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day composer), Ellen Anderson (Founding Member of Dramatic Women), Rich Hoag (Will Rodgers America), Mark Stein (At Long Last Leo), Gib Johnson (Heartbreak and Love in the Eastern Sierra), and former Young Playwright and NYU playwriting graduate Lindsay Woodard. Numerous other past Young Playwrights' Alumi, who now work in the entertainment industry, also serve as mentors.
Festival Founding Artistic Director Clark Sayre received his inspiration for Young Playwrights’ Festivals from New York Young Playwrights’ Festival Founder Stephen Sondheim, who knew of Sayre’s passion for teaching. Since then, Sayre has developed Young Playwrights’ Festivals for Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Access Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, and most recently, Rubicon Theatre. Sayre’s past students have found success in film, TV and stage, including several winners of national playwriting competitions like the New York Young Playwrights’ Festival. Most recently, Tatjana Mutinelli received that honor which included a week-long stay in New York and the opportunity to see her play, Murphy’s Law, read by professional actors in an off-Broadway theater. Recent graduate Quinn Sosna-Speare, now a screenwriting student a USC, was commissioned by a professional theater company to write a sequel to a play she’d written for the 2009 Rubicon Theatre Festival. Rubicon Theatre fully produced her next play Funny Little Thing the following year as part of its main stage season. Kit Steinkellner, another Young Playwrights’ graduate, won several top playwriting awards including the American College Theater Festival culminating in performances in Washington D.C. and New York. Another Young Playwrights' Alum, Teddy Steinkellner, recently had his book, Trashcan Days, published by Disney/Hyperion.
Join The Creative Studies Academy Founder's Circle
Scheduled to open in September of 2017, the Creative Studies Academy will prepare Dos Pueblos students for a future in the arts with a rigourous course load.
Learn more at:
https://docs.google.com/a/sbsdk12.org/document/d/1SCa1y5DlNwd1vwqao-rV4OTr0wPASO-lTy5hegTUG50/edit
If you are interested in helping us begin an endowment fund, ensuring quality theater experiences for theater students for decades to come, please email Clark Sayre directly (csayre@sbunified.org) to schedule an appointment. These gifts may include naming opportunities as well as a variety of very speical benefits.
Sponsor DP's Young Playwrights' Program (formerly the Girsh and Hochman Families' Young Playwrights' Program)
Dos Pueblos Playwriting Students have the unique opportunity to work with professional writers, actors, and directors to see their words come to life. The 2012 Girsh and Hochman Families’ Young Playwrights Festival featured professional theater artists from New York and Los Angeles including: Keith Eric Chappelle (The Public Theatre’s Love’s Labor’s Lost), Jeffrey Evan Thomas (The Ritz on Broadway), Cass Bugge (Going The Distance with Drew Barrymore), Mathew Henerson (Ahmanson & La Jolla Playhouse), and Tamara Zook (nominated for Broadway World award for Wizard of Oz). Readings were first developed in class by YP Director Clark Sayre and directed for the YP Festival by Gioia Marchese. In addition to performing the eight student-written readings, the company of professional actors taught a week-long residency for Dos Pueblos High School’s acting students.
Another element of the Dos Pueblos playwrighting class is its’ mentorship program. Each student playwright is paired up with a professional writing mentor. Past mentors have included Ed Solomon (Men In Black, Now You See Me), Pamela Gien (Pulitzer Prize winner for Syringa Tree), Kathy Nijimy (The Kathy & Mo Show), Peter Seman (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Shrek III), Rick Mokler (past SBCC Theater Department Chair), Michael Bernard (42nd Street Project Director, New York), Sammy Buck (Like You Like It), Shelly Markham (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day composer), Ellen Anderson (Founding Member of Dramatic Women), Rich Hoag (Will Rodgers America), Mark Stein (At Long Last Leo), Gib Johnson (Heartbreak and Love in the Eastern Sierra), and former Young Playwright and NYU playwriting graduate Lindsay Woodard. Numerous other past Young Playwrights' Alumi, who now work in the entertainment industry, also serve as mentors.
Festival Founding Artistic Director Clark Sayre received his inspiration for Young Playwrights’ Festivals from New York Young Playwrights’ Festival Founder Stephen Sondheim, who knew of Sayre’s passion for teaching. Since then, Sayre has developed Young Playwrights’ Festivals for Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Access Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, and most recently, Rubicon Theatre. Sayre’s past students have found success in film, TV and stage, including several winners of national playwriting competitions like the New York Young Playwrights’ Festival. Most recently, Tatjana Mutinelli received that honor which included a week-long stay in New York and the opportunity to see her play, Murphy’s Law, read by professional actors in an off-Broadway theater. Recent graduate Quinn Sosna-Speare, now a screenwriting student a USC, was commissioned by a professional theater company to write a sequel to a play she’d written for the 2009 Rubicon Theatre Festival. Rubicon Theatre fully produced her next play Funny Little Thing the following year as part of its main stage season. Kit Steinkellner, another Young Playwrights’ graduate, won several top playwriting awards including the American College Theater Festival culminating in performances in Washington D.C. and New York. Another Young Playwrights' Alum, Teddy Steinkellner, recently had his book, Trashcan Days, published by Disney/Hyperion.
Join The Creative Studies Academy Founder's Circle
Scheduled to open in September of 2017, the Creative Studies Academy will prepare Dos Pueblos students for a future in the arts with a rigourous course load.
Learn more at:
https://docs.google.com/a/sbsdk12.org/document/d/1SCa1y5DlNwd1vwqao-rV4OTr0wPASO-lTy5hegTUG50/edit
Production Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
$50,000+ Season Sponsor (Total FMV of Benefits = $5,410)
$25,000-$49,999 Show or Young Playwright's Festival Sponsor (Total FMV of Benefits = $1,910)
* Denotes applicable only if a $50,000+ Gold Sponsor is not found.
$1,000-$24,999 Encore Circle (Total FMV of Benefits = $320)
$500 - $999 Donor (Total FMV of Benefits = $197)
- Company or Individual's name prominently displayed as sole "Sponsored By ____" on all season press releases for TV, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine and Internet articles
- Company or Individual's name prominently displayed as sole "Sponsored By ____" on all season posters, programs, banners, flyers, and apparel
- Name on a permanent plaque at the top of the lobby stairs in the Elings Performing Arts Center ($110)
- Full page color ad in both main stage season programs ($1,000)
- Up to 10 reserved VIP seats per performance for both mainstage productions ($4,000)
- Pre-show curtain speech and check presentation ceremony at opening night performance of either our Fall or Spring production
- Attendance at invitation-only events like dress rehearsals and celebrity guest appearances
- An opening night post-show party in your honor
- Signed show poster
- Recognition as sponsor on Dos Pueblos Theater Company's website
- Recognition as sponsor on DP Parent Newsletter (reaching over 2,100 families)
- Performance by leads at a party or event of your choosing
- Reserved parking space as season sponsor
- $300 worth of DP Theater Company apparel
$25,000-$49,999 Show or Young Playwright's Festival Sponsor (Total FMV of Benefits = $1,910)
- Company or Individual's name prominently displayed as "Sponsored By ____" on all press releases for TV, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine and Internet articles*
- Company or Individual's name prominently displayed as "Sponsored By ____" on all posters, posters, banners, flyers, and apparel*
- Name on a permanent plaque at the top of the lobby stairs in the Elings Performing Arts Center ($110)
- Full page color ad in the program ($500)
- Up to 6 reserved VIP seats per performance to your sponsored production ($1,200)
- Pre-show curtain speech and check presentation ceremony at opening night performance
- Attendance at invitation only events like dress rehearsals and celebrity guest appearances
- An opening night post-show party in your honor*
- Signed show poster
- Recognition as show sponsor on Dos Pueblos Theater Company's website
- Recognition as show sponsor on DP Parent Newsletter (reaching over 2,100 families)
- Performance by leads at a party or event of your choosing
- Reserved parking space as show sponsor
- $100 worth of DP Theater Company Apparel ($100)
* Denotes applicable only if a $50,000+ Gold Sponsor is not found.
$1,000-$24,999 Encore Circle (Total FMV of Benefits = $320)
- Full page black and white program ad ($200)
- 10 reserved seats to a performance of your choice ($120)
- Signed show poster
- Recognition on DP Theater Company's website
- Recognition on DP Parent Newsletter (reaching over 2,100 families)
$500 - $999 Donor (Total FMV of Benefits = $197)
- 1/2 page black and white program ad ($125)
- 6 reserved seats to a performance of your choice ($72)
- Signed show poster
- Recognition on DP Theater Company's website
- Recognition on DP Parent Newsletter (reaching over 2,100 families)
Past Sponsors Include
Virgil Elings
Bragg Health Institute
The Girsh and Hochman Families
The Towbes Foundations
The Leonard Bernstein Foundation
The William P. Neill Foundation
The Orfalea Foundation
Venoco
Julie Isabelle
SinoWest Performing Arts
Bragg Health Institute
The Girsh and Hochman Families
The Towbes Foundations
The Leonard Bernstein Foundation
The William P. Neill Foundation
The Orfalea Foundation
Venoco
Julie Isabelle
SinoWest Performing Arts