The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) maintains an Emergency Assistance Fund to aid Members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) who are experiencing financial hardship. The Fund was established in March 2020 when directors and choreographers sought to help fellow directors and choreographers meet their basic needs.
The Fund was established in March 2020 when directors and choreographers sought to help fellow directors and choreographers meet their basic needs. Leadership gifts were provided by SDC Members Marc Bruni, Rachel Chavkin, Michael Greif, Thomas Kail, Susan Stroman, and Evan Yionoulis, and Josh Lehrer & Jeffrey Seller. Additional gifts were made by Liz Diamond, Andréa Burns & Peter Flynn, Sue Lawless, Des McAnuff, Jason Moore, Bartlett Sher, and Seema Sueko, and SDCF Trustees Mark Brokaw, Sheldon Epps, and Linda Hartzell. A full list of donors is below. A portion of this fund is specifically earmarked for New York City-based Members, thanks to a generous donation from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
How to apply:
SDC Members and SDC Associate Members can find applications through the SDCF Website or by emailing EmergencyGrant@sdcfoundation.org.
How to donate:
If you are able to donate, please click here. When donating please be sure to write “ SDCF Emergency Assistance Fund COVID-19” in the Additional Comments box.
Everyone at SDCF extends their heartfelt thanks to all who have donated to the
SDCF COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Program
Leadership Gifts:
Marc Bruni, James and Deborah Burrows Foundation, Rachel Chavkin*, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Michael Greif, Thomas Kail, David Lee, Joe Mantello, Miranda Family Fund, Casey Nicholaw, Josh Lehrer & Jeffrey Seller, Susan Stroman, Julie Taymor, Evan Yionoulis*, and two anonymous donors.
Additional Gifts:
Charles Abbott, Emily Abrahams, John Achatz, Dean Adams, Eleanor Adcock, Sunny Almeyda, Stewart Alter, Helen and Paul Anbinder, Karl Lance Androes, David Atwood, Nina Avedon, Karen Bachman, Linda Bacon, Pat Baker, Dennis Banks, Elizabeth Banks, Allison Barlow, Christopher Barns, Claire Basescu, Behind The Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legends, Sara Bennett, Melia Bensussen*, Ron Berger, Joan Bernard, Susan Bernofsky, Jonathan Bernstein, JoAnn Bertges, Barbara Bevington, Lisa L. Blake, Marge Blaine, Ofra Bloch, Marcia Blum, Jean P Bordewich, Peggy & Joe Bracewell, Tonya Brito, James C Brock, Mark Brokaw*, Bob Bronzo, Tricia Brouk, Leigh A. Brown, Patrick Brown, Vince Bruns, Peter Buck, Robert G Buckles, Sara Buckley, Lee Buckley & Robert A. Jud, Carole Bundy, Carol Burnes, Erin Burns, Margaret Burrows, Karen A. Callaway, Christopher Caltieri, Luke Camery, Marian Caracciolo, James Carnelia, Julia Cassetta, Leslie Castay, Darlene A Catello, Maryann Chach, Debra Chaplan, Ping Chong, Jack D. Cogen, Deborah J. Cohen, Elizabeth Cohen, D’Vera Cohn, Diane Colasanto, Els Collins, Patricia Conneen, Ginnie Cooper, Shana Cooper, Deborah Correa, Lisa Cox, Lee Cullum, Celeste Curran, Steve Curry, James Curtis, Kay Cynamon, Sheila Daniels, Rupa Datta, Robert E. David, Karen DeMoss, Liz Diamond*, Matthew Diamond, Elin Diamond, Diane Diamond, Charles Dillingham, Robert M Disch, Elsa Dixler, Chris Doherty, Alexander Domnitser, W Houston Dougharty, Ann Siegle Drege, Golde Dudell, Laurie Duesing, Mary Dulka, Patrick Dwyer, Shelly Elliott, Kathleen Emerman, Sheldon Epps*, David H Epstein, Martha Erickson, Andrea Estepa, Patricia Estess, John Everson, Ellen Fader, A. Scott Falk, Mary Dorothy Faucher, Myra Feeney, Kenneth Feiner, Sandy Feinstein, Judy Ferber, Sarah Ferguson, Marsha Feris, Jeffrey Fischer, Karen Fitzpatrick, Lorraine Flaherty, Sheila A Flanagan, Marie T Flanagan, Andrea Burns & Peter Flynn, Elizabeth and Bill Fogarty, Julie Frahar, Elizabeth E Frankel, Rhona and Julian Frazin, Larry Freund and Gloria Berkenstat Freund, Barbara J Friedman, Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, Lew Gantwerk, Sherri Garber, Jean Garber, Michael John Garces*, Adam Garth, Jeremy Gerard, Kay Gilcher, Marcia Ginsberg, Amy Glancy, Joan Marlow Golan, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Carol Gould, Sue Greenberg, Max Haggblom, Maggie and Steve Greif, Susan Harmon, John Harney, Lori Harris, Allison Hart, Jean Hartman, Linda Hartzell*, Barbara Hauptman, Phyllis Herman, Susan Herman, Patrick Herold, Sandra Hess, Caitlin Higgins, Katrin Hilbe, Susan Hilferty, Barbara J. Hill, William Hillman, Anne and Leon Hoffman, Cynthia Holden, Joan S Hollander, Stephanie Holmes, Nina Hope, Rick Horowitz, Elise Howard, Cynthia Huffman, Andrew Hugos, CLU, ChFC, Chisa Hutchinson, Adam Immerwahr, James F. Ingalls, Irina Irgon, Maxine Isaacs, Ann Manikas and David Isaacson, Dana Ivey, Frederick D Jackes, Edward A Jacoby, Anne Kauffman* & Jill Kauffman Johnson, Eric J. Johnson, Karen F. Jones, Joy, Donald Kalischer, Brenda Kamen, Arnold Kanter, L & M Kaplan, Amy Katz, Barbara Kaufman, Geoffrey Kent, Evan Kingsley, Brian Kite, Debra Kline, Robert Klein, John Klemme, Cheryl Kligler, Dan Knechtges*, Donna Knipp, Zosia & Jacek Kostyrko, Dick Kraeuter, Sybil Kramer, Michael Kreyling, B. J. Krintzman, Janet Kuech, Judith Kunitz, Beth Lambdin, Mark N. Lance, Neil Immerman and Susan Landau, Sarah P Lanning, Michele LaRue, Suzanne M. Latham, Sue Lawless, Wayne Le Blanc, David & Nancy Lee-Painter, Susan B. Leeming, Paul D Lehrman, Robin Leidner, Jonathan Lerner, Robert Leventer, B Levine, Judy Levine, Margo L. Levine, Philip Lilienthal, Lisa Lipton, Lisa Liss, Adrianne Lobel, Joan Lunoe, Joe Luttrell, Jennifer P Lyman, John Lynch, John D. Mahoney, Katie Manglis, Mara Manus, Alan Marcus, Carl Marcus, Elysa Marden, Ted Marks, Judith Furash and Mark Mattucci, Barbara T. Martin, Susan Vaneta Mason, Dr. Jim Wilentz and Robin Maxwell, Cary Mazer, Des McAnuff, Davis McCallum, Mary McCorry, Anna McDuff, Robert Mchugh, Naomi McLean, Chris McNeil, Sur Ellen Mehok, Diane Meier, Gail Mellow, Faye Menken Schneier, Laurie Merel, Adrienne Meyer, Larry Meyers, Dean M. Michaels, Erik Midelfort, Pamela Milam, Tam Milton, Douglas Mintz, Phyllis Molle, Jason Moore, Tom Moore, Rosemary Moore, Nancy Morgan, Susan Munsinger, Felice Nachbar, Beverly Nadel, Anita Nager, Cherrie Nanninga, Dominie Nash, Benjamin Natelson, Shira Nayman, Melissa Nelken, Molly Noble, Judy Nobles, Marianne Novy, Barbara Orozco Armstrong, Karen Oster, Richard Pahl, Janet Paist, Ted Pappas, Jonathan Parker, Nicole Pearce, Helen Pelletier, Rick Pender, Carey Perloff, Laura Porter, Jonah Pregerson, Linda Quigley, Bill Rauch, Rosemary Regan, Patricia Reilly, Carol Reisen, Susan Reiter, Mitchell Relin, Elizabeth Renomeron, J. Harrell Rentz, Marcia Ringel, Christie Robbins, Ilyse Robbins, Sanford Robbins, Linda Robertson, Esther Robison, Nancy Rogers, Deborah Rogow, John Rohrkemper, Steven M Rosenberg, Elsa Rosenberg, Susan Rosenstein, Robert Roth, Brian Sands, Lydia Sangree, David Sauer, Claude M. Scales, David Schachter, Peter Scherer, Michael Andrew Schield, Susan Schulman, Lucia Schultz, Alison Scott, Seret O Scott-Williams*, Judith Segall, Sylvan & Sandra Seidenman, Frank M Shanbacker, Laura Shapiro, Bartlett Sher*, Jane B Sherwin, Udi Shorr, H Claude Shostal, Carol Sicherman, Paula Siegel, M.Beatriz Silveira MD, Jim and Susan Phinney Silver, Nancy Simon, Laura Sirota, Rima Sirota, Molly Smith, P Smith, Bruce M Smith, Pamela Smith, Barbara M. Smith, Ann Sochi, Michelle Sokolowski, Stephen Spicehandler, Elissa Strauss, Craig Stockwell, Seema Sueko*, Susan Sullivan, Barbara Szudy, Susan Tabor, Ronna S Tapper-Goldman and Jim Goldman, Carolyn Terry, Tom Tullius, Francesca Turchiano, Frances Unsell, Melissa Vail, Joan VanAntwerp, Stephen Vaughan, Arline Vogel, Zelda Warner, Lyndsay Watson, Janet Weaver, Joel Weber, Zarine Weil, Terry L. Weill MD, Ann & Richard Weiner, Rebecca Weinstein, Justin Weiss, Gabriel Vega Weissman, Susan B. Whitlock and Earl Lewis, Lynne Whitman, Michael Wiener, Connie Grappo & Lee Wilkof, Jaye Austin Williams, Anne Elizabeth Williams, Inga Fisher Williams, Jane Wilson, Peter Winkler, Julie Wolkoff, Carol Wood, Bill Young, Judith Zaborowski, Barbara Zane, Gil Zicklin and six anonymous donors.
* denotes an SDC and/or SDCF Board Member
This list is current as of January 5, 2021.
