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Partnering Dentist Brian Kelly comes to the rescue again About Stewart Tucker Lundy: Stewart Tucker Lundy, an actor with a visible disability, played the only sitting U.S. president with a visible disability when he portrayed FDR in Phamaly Theatre Company’s 2017 production of “Annie.” A month later, he was elected onto the Board of Directors… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action, Stewart Tucker Lundy: $2,309

Denver Actors Fund announces The KINDNESS Fund: An immediate source of relief for Colorado theatre artists – with a call to service $65,000 seed money includes record donation from Bonnie Cashin Foundation APPLY TO THE NEW KINDNESS FUND HERE DONATE TO THE NEW KINDNESS FUND HERE The Denver Actors Fund today announced an innovative new… Continue reading Introducing the DAF’s new Kindness Fund

  ‘I am a part of a community that takes care of its own in a profound way’ Aid recipient: Melissa Lucero McCarl is a prominent Denver playwright, director and actor. She is perhaps best known for writing the Denver Post Ovation Award-winning “Painted Bread,” about the fractured life of Frida Kahlo; “Poignant Irritations,” about… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Melissa Lucero McCarl

  ‘Now I can use my strengths and energy to help others and pay it forward’ Aid recipient: Actor Teal Jandrain is a Fort Collins native who has has been acting since childhood. She got her start at the educational Debut Theatre Company, and has been a company member with OpenStage Theatre Company for two… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Teal Jandrain $4,195

‘Without your help, I never would have been able to see a light at the end of this very long tunnel.’ Aid recipient: Rob Riney has performed on stages around the state for more than 10 years, most recently in the Aurora Fox’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Equinox Theatre’s Disaster The Musical and the… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Rob Riney

  Aid recipient: Emma Maxfield is a busy local actor currently performing in the Arvada Center’s children’s theatre production of Seussical and having just understudied the two female roles in BDT Stage’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change in Boulder. She previously starred as Julia in Performance Now’s The Wedding Singer and played Taylor… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Emma Maxfield

Aid recipient: Maggie Lamb (who long went by the name Margie), had been performing in the local theatre community for two decades when she was cast as the bipolar wife and mother Diana in Next to Normal, and it changed the trajectory of her stage career forever. Maggie would never be looked at the same… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Maggie Lamb

Aid recipient: Fort Collins native Will Ferrie, a graduate of Rocky Mountain High School, is an award-winning actor and longtime member of OpenStage & Company in Fort Collins who most recently played Sir Robin in Monty Python’s Spamalot. He won the OPUS Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his work as Bartley in The Cripple… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Will Ferrie

The actor: Xavier Frétard was a longtime circus performer who came to Colorado Springs in his early 20s and performed for 15 years with the Millibo Art Theatre in Manitou Springs. His signature routine, according to co-founder Birgitta De Pree, was riding a tall bicycle he built while wearing 5-foot stilts and a red top… Continue reading Denver Actors fund in Action: Xavier Frétard

Aid recipient: Tresha Farris is a 25-year-old Colorado native who studied acting and writing at the University of Colorado Denver and at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through its Education classes. She most recently played Cordelia in Fearless Theatre’s production of “King Lear” and was in the ensemble of an original play called… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Tresha Farris

  Aid recipient: Broc Timmerman of Loveland has been an actor at the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Johnstown for most of its 10-year existence, most recently as a tumbling salt shaker in Beauty and the Beast; in the ensemble of Kiss Me, Kate; as Tenario in Man of La Mancha, and, coming up next, in Newsies.… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Broc Timmerman

Aid recipient: Gloria Shanstrom’s involvement in the Colorado performing-arts community began in 1985 as an usher at Boettcher Concert Hall. She was named the  House Manager at the Auditorium Theatre (now the Ellie Caulkins Opera House) in 1997, then the Buell Theatre just before it opened in 1991. In 1997, she was hired as a… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Gloria Shanstrom

  Aid recipient: Tim Campbell is a well-known local actor currently working as the Food Service Manager at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, located 45 miles north of Denver in Johnstown. Tim, a graduate of Lakewood High School and Metropolitan State University of Denver, most recently played bumbling alcoholic uncle Billy in Candlelight’s A Wonderful Life. Other… Continue reading Denver Actors Fund in Action: Tim Campbell