For Cara's Love of Theatre!

I'm fundraising for Island Shakespeare Festival, a company I am fortunate to finally be joining after two long years of waiting. I was originally slated to be a part of the Stage Management team for the 2020 season before it was so rudely interrupted by, ... well you, know. I look forward to making my triumphant return to theatre with such an amazing company.

ISF fosters and empowers awesome art. I'm thrilled to collaborate with ISF because they're Pay What You Will--they don't charge ticket admission, so anyone and everyone has access to the really incredible theatre my friends and I work so hard to make. 

I also love that ISF is committed to making space in the classical canon for folks who've historically been excluded from it, onstage, offstage, and in the audience. At ISF, artists and audiences get to share in an experience of belonging. “ISF has the power to make amends - ISF has the power to create peace - ISF has the power to liberate - ISF is a place where you see yourself - and know that you, yourself, are enough - you, yourself, are great.” - Ada Karamanyan (she/her)

This summer at ISF, we're bringing to life three plays that have been on hold for two years. At long last, Love’s Labors Lost, Titus Andronicus, and an exciting new world premiere adaptation Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy with Many Acts will finally take to the ISF stage. Many of the folks helping to make these shows happen have been waiting to share in these stories for two, three, and even four years. You know how the pandemic devastated the performing arts. My colleagues - friends - and I spent two years away from the stages we love, stages like ISF, away from sharing the necessary and nourishing experience of live theatre with you. We are so excited to get started.

Please, join me in supporting this company this summer. Now more than ever, the world needs theatre and theatre needs you. Your choice to make a gift now will help all of us take a deep breath together and step forward into realizing our hope. Let’s create a space together where everyone belongs.