Theatre Community Benevolent Fund

AREA THEATRES COME TO THE RESCUE ON “MAY DAY!”
TO BENEFIT THEATRE COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND
(BOSTON, MA) – Many Boston area theatres will again raise awareness for a crucial theatre community organization in May 2008. Throughout the month, audiences at theatres throughout the Greater Boston area will be asked to donate to the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund during its annual MAY DAY! campaign. In addition, the Boston Theater Marathon on Sunday, May 11, will contribute proceeds from their performances to TCBF. For ticket information, visit www.bostontheatrescene.com. TCBF is a non-profit organization that provides assistance in a respectful and discreet manner to members of the theatre community who have little to no resources for handling catastrophic occurrences. Other theatres not in performance in May will be participating throughout the theatre season.

For more information on the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, see below.
If your theatre would like to participate in May Day! call 617.720.6066.
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The Theatre Community Benevolent Fund (TCBF) is a non-profit theatre community organization administered by StageSource for the benefit of its individual and organizational members and the theatre artists who are or have been employed by those organizations who face dire need and require financial assistance. TCBF provides financial relief in a confidential, respectful manner to individual and organizations facing extreme illness, catastrophic acts of nature, and other events such as vandalism/theft, and who have limited or no resources with which to handle such occurrences.

TO DONATE, send your tax-deductible contributions to:

Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, c/o StageSource, 88 Tremont Street, Suite 714, Boston, MA 02108, or call 617-720-6066.

Guidelines
Intent to Apply
Application for Support – Individual
Application for Support - Organization

In 2005, cast members from several Boston-area theatres gathered on the stage of the Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion for a unique photo shoot to raise awareness for MAY DAY!. (standing left to right): Dick Van Patten as Al Lewis in Stoneham Theatre's “The Sunshine Boys”, Robert Saoud as Jack Warner in Lyric Stage Company's “Shakespeare in Hollywood”, Ed Peed as Malcom Geary in Zeitgeist Stage's “Tooth and Claw”, Neil Casey as Mason Marzac in SpeakEasy Stage Company and Boston Theatre Works' “Take Me Out”, and Robert Walsh as Brutus in Actors' Shakespeare Project's “Julius Caesar”, make donations to fill the basket held by Veronica Kuehn as Little Red in New Repertory Theatre's “Into the Woods”. (Photo by Craig Bailey, Perspective Photo)

TO DONATE to TCBF, send a tax-deductible contribution to: Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, c/o StageSource, 88 Tremont Street, Suite 714, Boston, MA 02108.