Photo by Benjamin Heller
Our Supporters
We are deeply grateful to all of the following, who support the work of our artists. We would not be HERE without them.
PUBLIC SUPPORT
HERE’s programming is made possible with Public Funds from the National Endowment on the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathleen Hochul and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and the Offices of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Eadie Adams, and New York State Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick. We are grateful for the support and advocacy of all of our dedicated elected officials: Senator Charles E. Schumer, Senator Kirsten R. Gillibrand, Representative Daniel Goldman, Governor Kathleen Hochul, State Senator Brian Kavanagh and Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick, Mayor Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Council Member Christopher Marte, and the Cultural Affairs Committee of the City Council.
FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE SUPPORT
American Opera Project
Svante Bergstrom Theater Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc.
Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Howard Gilman Foundation
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts
Agnes Gund Foundation
The Jane Henson Foundation
Jim Henson Foundation
JKW Foundation
The Leon Levy Foundation
Lucille Lortel Foundation
MacMillan Family Foundation
Mellon Foundation
The Mental Insight Foundation
National Performance Network
New England Foundation for the Arts
New Tamarind Foundation
New York Community Trust
New York Foundation for the Arts
OPERA America
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Silverman Foundation
Steven Phillips & Isabel Swift Foundation
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The Scherman Foundation
Select Equity Group, L.P.
The Shubert Foundation
Studio Institute
TDF TAP Plus Grant
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
The Tow Foundation
PARTNERS
ART/NY (Alliance of Resident Theaters)
Theatre Communications Group
OperaAmerica
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Hudson Square Business Improvement District
HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP)
The HERE ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM (HARP) is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Additional support provided by Alliance of Resident Theatres/ART NY; Café Royal Cultural Foundation; Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Doris Duke Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; The Fund for the City of New York; Howard Gilman Foundation; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; IRT Theater; The Jim Henson Foundation; Jerome Foundation; JKW Foundation; The Leon Levy Foundation; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Mellon Foundation; The Mental Insight Foundation; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; National Performance Network; New England Foundation for the Arts; New York Community Trust; New York Foundation for the Arts; OPERA America; Puffin Foundation; Royal Little Family Foundation; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; Select Equity Group; The Shubert Foundation; The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; Tow Foundation, and HERE’s generous community of individual donors.
DREAM MUSIC
DREAM MUSIC PUPPETRY is made possible through the generous lead support of Cheryl Henson and The Jim Henson Foundation with the additional support of Brian Selznick & David Serlin, Elissa Auther, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Andrea Kihlstedt, Hanne Tierney, and many other individual puppet fans.
MEMBERS
Anonymous (79), Noah Aberlin, Leah Abrams, Cassie & David Ackerman, Bruce Allardice & Victoria Abrash, Dawne Allen, Jennifer Allen & Deke Weaver, Paul An, Laura Anderson, Ed Anselm, Andreas Antoniou & William Castiglione, Adam Aron, Leslee Asch, Byron Au Young, Elissa Auther, Darius Babanoury, Joshua Babbitt, Veronica Bainbridge, Elizabeth Baker, Elizabeth I Banks, Franca Barchiesi, Tony Barkan, Judy Barker, Jason Baruch & Maree Johnson Baruch, Steven & Eda Baruch, Margaret Bates, Nathan Baugh, Jessica Bauman, Anne Beal, Peter Bearman, Elton Beckett, Eve Beglarian, Timur Bekbosunov, Peter Sumner, Sarah Bellin, David Belmont, Jindra Zitek & Ben Schott, Carolyn Benbow, Ivan Bennett, Jamie Bennett, Patrick Benson, Lori Benton, Svante Bergstrom, Craig Berkley, Stacey Berman, Susan Bernfield & Claude Millman, William Bernhard, Laurie Bernhard, Rebecca Bernstein, Glenn Berntson, Randi Berry, Roslyn Biskin, Carol Bixler, Gavin Black, Thomas Blessing IV, Steven Borecki, Louis Borodinsky, Theodore Bouloukos II, Marc Bovino, Antonia Bowring, Jeffrey Bratcher, Kate Brehm, Adam Broidy, Erin Brooks, Aileen Brophy, Andrew Brown, Linda Brumbach, Vince Bruns, Phil Buehler & Lisa Levy, Chris Burney, Bonnie Butkas, Thomas Cahill, Kevin Callahan, Susan Camp, Grace Campagna, Hunter Canning, Bruce Canon, Marvin Carlson, Christina Carroll, Brian Carson, Blair Casdin, Chan Casey, Pamela Cederquist, Michael Cerveris, Nancy Champness, Michael Champness, David Chapin, Hilary Chaplain, Alexandra Chasin, Cindy Chen, Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Travis Preston & Marissa Chibás, Emmanuelle Chiche, Sonal & Rohit Chopra
Alfred Ciaburro, Michele Clair, Patricia Clair, Janet D. Clancy, Daniel Cobleigh, Eli Cohen, Anita Contini, Karin Coonrod, Jason Cooper, Kendall Cornell, David Cote, Jose Covarrubias, Michael Crane, Charmian Creagle, Laura Crow, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Richard D’Albert, Kerri D’Ambrosio, Lisa D’Amour, Darlene Darrow, Stephen Davan, Sonya Sobieski & Robert Davenport, Christian De Gre, Stephanie Dean, Joe Del Gaudio, Janine DiTullio, Jean Dommermuth, Alexander Donnelly, Pat Doudna, Pamela Drexel, Karen Eckhoff, Dana Edell, Bill & Connie Egelman, Jeremy Ehlinger, Merrie Eisenstadt, Diane Eisenstat, Nils Eliassen, Dina Emerson, Michael Emerson, Jason English, Nicole English, Danielle Epstein, Althea Erickson, Emily Erstling, Ariel Estrada, Ross Eustis, Richard Evans, Josephine Falco, Karen Falk, Timothy Falotico, Rima Fand, Emily Fano, Barbara Farah, Amy Farley, Christine Farrell, R. Farrow, Sally Fenley, Ingrid Figueiredo, J Eric Fisher, James Fleckenstein, Jeanne Fleming, Jillian Flexner, CJ Follini, Julia Fought, Dale & Don Franzen, Patrick Fromuth
Abigail Gampel, Thomas Samuel Walport, Vallejo Gantner, Joan Ganz Cooney, Sev Gedra, Mary Louise Geiger, Darrell George, Amy E. Gewirtz, Andrea Gift, John Gillespie, Shomari Gilyard, Katherine Gleason, Marc Goldfarb, Kat Gooch-Breault, Jeff & Barbara Goodman, Ali Graham, Russell Granet, Carole Haas Gravagno, Fell Gray, Francis Greenburger, Jonathan Greenwood Harrison, Jessica Grindstaff, Annie Grossman, Joanne Gruber, Colleen Gulliver, Peter Gulliver, Jane Gullong, Alexandra Haddad, Umar Haider, Arthur J Hall, Thea Hambright, Tom Hamilton, David Hamlin, Martin Harries, Fred & Sally Harris, Shirley Hatcher, Lyell Haynes, Bethany Haynes, Kevin Heim, Mila Henry, Heather Henson, Lisa Henson, Cheryl Henson, Claude Hersh, David Herskovits, Anne Hiatt, Lisa Hickey, Dale & Stephen Hoffman, Leah M Hoffman, Todd Reynolds & Isabelle Holmes, Suli Holum & Trey Lyford, Grace Hong, Judy G Honig, Bianca Horn, Paul Hough, Jed Howbert, David Hume, Matt Sisneros & Will Hunter, John Hyslop, Kim Ima, Kimberley Ima, Asia Ingalls, Charlotte Isaacs, Ryutaro Ishikane, Jay Itzkowitz, Jill & Bob Jaffe, Meredith James, Morgan Jenness, Darin Johnson & Greg Keffer, Suzanne & David Johnson, Vida Jong, Maria Jose Salmeron, Melanie Joseph, David Juhren
Jonathan Kalb, Peggy Kalb, Kristy Kannapell, Alicia Kaplan, Oliver Karlin, Robert & Nina Kaufelt, Eileen Keane, Tjeert Keijzer, Conor Kennedy & John Young, Lynda Kennedy, Geoff Kessell & John Rutledge, Tanya Khordoc, Sabine Khusrokhan, Andrea & Tyko Kihlstedt, Maiko Kikuchi, Soomi Kim, Seth King, Marian & Robert Klein, Patricia klein, Marian Klein, Elysabeth Kleinhans, Daniel Klingenstein, Heather Klinkhamer, Elsie Heyrman Klumpner, Frederick Knecht, Heni Koenigsberg, Fred Kolo, Lydia Kontos, Alexandra Kosslyn, Marios Koufaris & Steve Rupp, Sarah & Victor Kovner, Carson Kreitzer, Gail Kriegel, Eugene Krishnan, Kate Kruckemeyer, Brad Krumholz, Itamar Kubovy, Louis Kunsch, Ming Kwang, Gyongy Laky & Tom Layton, Mahayana Landowne, Aaron Landsman, Matthew Landy, Ben Lasser, Pfiffer Huffington, Paula Lawrence, Michelle Lee, Carol Ann Lee, Paul Leibowitz, William Lenio, Jean Leo, Mark Lerman & Kathleen Jenkins, Mary Leuchars, Dan Levine, David Levine, David Levithan, Michael Levy, Lisa Levy, David Libby, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Gary Lin, David & Anna Linder, Laurent Linn, Peter Linz, Helen Little, Kate Loewald, Karen Hartman & Todd London, Jonathan Lonner, Kristine Louis Reynal, Jon Ludwig, Lisa Lurie, Ivan Lustig, Robert Lyons, Taylor Mac, Margaret T MacCary, Noel MacDuffie, John MacGregor, Laura Mackall, Justin Madden, Marc Madnick, Elizabeth Maley, Anne Maltz, Tim Maner, Nina Mankin, Matt Markowski, Sarah Martin, Lesley Martin, Andrew Martin-Weber, Leeda Marting, Kevin Matthews, Merio Maye, Pete McCabe, Katrina E. McCann, Mary McCormick, Donna McCoy, Nello Mcdaniel & Mary Giudici, Nello McDaniel, Sean McDermott, Tim McDonald, Patrick McEvoy, John McKinney, Ann & Chad McLaughlin, Justin McLean, Charisse Meloto, Patrick & Susan Meola, Jessica Meyer, Dimitri Michailidis, Daniel Micher, Suzanne Miller, Hillary Miller, Carl Mills, Helen Mills, Deborah Mintz, Setareh Mirhosseini, Lina Miyakawa, Michael Moran, John Morning, Lawrence Moss, Brian Mountford, Keith Murphy, Anne G. Myers, Dennis Mykytyn
Ruben Naeff, Alexandra Napier, Juliette Neil, Dennis Neveling, Mariana Newhard, Joseph Nucci, Meg O’Brien, Achiro Patty Olwoch, Alan Ostroff, Alan and Anna Ostroff, Susan Ostroff, Sharon Packer, Ellen Page, Jonathan Palmer, Suraj Patel, Sanjay Patel, Arienne Pelletier, Shannon Pendleton, Kerry Perretta, Michelle Pesce Goldfarb, Carole Pesner, Courtney Pettersen, Steven Phillips & Isabel Swift, Amanda Pierce, Paul Pinto, Amanda Pinto, Jill Piscatella, Hajnal Pivnick, Michael & Laurie Pollock, Kristin Pomeroy, Catherine Porter & Barry Rowell, Shawn Powers, Mike Pratt, Jessica Pratt, Travis Preston, Leonora P. Prowell, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Martin & Anna Rabinowitz, Raud Rahmanian, Mandie Rapoza, Joseph G. Rappaport, Andrew Rasmussen, Alisa Regas, Mark Reisman, Ed Rekosh, Shane Resmon, Scott Richards, Amanda K. Ringger, Mauricio Rivera, Patricia Roberts, Eva J. Pinney, Sam Rocca, Myke Rogers, Brian Rosen, Gloria Rosen, Jason Rosenbaum, Matthew Ross, Macha Ross, Sashka Rothchild, Jennifer Roux, Barry Rowell, Adam Rubinstein, Fiona Rudin, Tara Sansone, Paul Sartori, lora sasiela, Richard Sasson, George Schade, David Schafer, Nora Schmitt, Sophia Schneider, Alene Schneierson, Ben Schrager, Karen McLaughlin & Mark Schubin, Michael Schussler, Allison & Gary Schwartz, Michelle Schweber, Gavin Scotti, Christine Searl, Amy Segal, Jennifer Seifter, Randall Sell, Brian Selznick & David Serlin, Lee Selznick, Roslyn Selznick, Lizette Serrano, Marjorie Shaffer, Peggy Stafford & Mike Shapiro, Bree Sharp, Maura Sheehy, Aneesa Sheikh, Julie Shelton-Grimshaw, Dixie Sheridan, Elanah Sherman, Martha Sherman, Lucinda Sherwood
Yoko Shioya, Lorin Silverman, Slaughters, Robert Sloan, Niegel Smith, Justin Smith, Philip Snyder, Tommy Young, Stefanie Sobelle, Sonya Sobieski, Gary Sokolow, Genevieve Sonsino, Holly & Ed Spector, Akia Squitieri, Amy Staats, Ellen Staller, Kay Stalling, Rachel Stapleton, Leonard Steinbach, Jenny Steingart, Carlo Steinman, Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman, Carol Sterling, Alan Steven Hewitt, Susan Stevenson Borowitz, Christine Stodolski, Alanna Maharajh Stone, Maria Striar, Steve Strickland, Rose Sue Low Chee, Jennifer Suh Whitfield & Benjamin Whitfield, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Suzi Takahashi, Charles Tannenbaum, Gary N. Tannenbaum, Patrick Thomas, Niels Thomsen, Hanne Tierney, Alex Timbers, Barbara Tober, Susie Tofte, Angela Tribelli, Basil Twist, Zisan Ugurlu, Dan & Minami Urness, Steven Usdan, Cheryl Van Hooven, Wendy vanden Heuvel, Isaac VanDuyn, Constance Vecilla, Michael Vegas, Stéphane, Gianfranco Verga, Vicky Virgin, Robert Voges, Thomas von Foerster, Vince Wadhwani, Colin Waitt, Robert & Carol Walport, Carol Walport, Deke Weaver, Philippa Wehle, Robert Weinberg, Micky Weller, Carlos Wesley, Kim Whitener, Deena Whitfield, Regina Wickham, Lynn Bartner & Elisha Wiesel, Sarah Wigley, Scott Wilcox, Jaime Wolf, Teresa Woods Pena, Erika Worth, Cooper Wright, Brian Wu, Karen Yaeger, Gary Yan, Paul Yau, Kelvin Yen, China Young, Paul David Young, Tommy Young, Valerie & Tom Young, Francine Zerfas, Paul Zimet, Ariel Zurofsky