NORTHERN STAGE ACHIEVES $8.5M ACT II CAMPAIGN GOAL
Northern Stage is proud to announce that through the generosity of more than 300 individual donors, we have achieved our fundraising goal of $8.5 Million to support the Act II Campaign: A Vision For the Future of Northern Stage, White River Junction, and The Region. This initiative will secure the future of the Upper Valley’s premier professional theater. This announcement follows significant progress at the construction site at 156-174 Gates Street in White River Junction. Construction is expected to be substantially complete by July 2025, with actors, artists, and staff occupying the housing this fall.
Northern Stage is already benefiting from the pillars laid out in the campaign. Annual withdrawals from the Impact Fund have enabled us to bring salaries up to a competitive level, improve our benefits offerings, and retain talented staff. Our Endowment has grown significantly and is now generating more funds to support our annual operating budget. And beginning this fall, the new artist housing development will ensure an annual savings of $200,000 for the company, a major relief to the operating budget.
The Act II Campaign was launched in December 2021 and was announced to the public in May 2024. Major Challenge Grants from the Couch Family Foundation and the Barrette Family Foundation were critical to the Campaign’s success, as was a significant award from the Agency of Commerce and Community Development of the State of Vermont.
The artist housing development is designed by Jim Pulver of Bread Loaf Corporation, the same architect who designed Northern Stage’s 2015 Barrette Center for the Arts, and ground was broken in July 2024.
Our Investment - $8.5 million
Learn more about our campaign goals below
Our Campaign Committee
Chair
Nancy Murray
Committee Members
Nissa Cullen
Carolyn Dever
David Grant
Trish Jackson
Sven Karlen
Hunt Whitacre
Act II Campaign Supporters
Brooke & Jim Adler
Beyhan Aksel
Robert Aliber
Emily & Errik Anderson
Anonymous
Jennifer & Paul Argenti
Jeanne Baer & Michael Miller
Kenneth Baker & Judith Reeve
Lola Baldwin
Charles Barlowe & Amy Stephens
The Barrette Family Fund
Christine & Donald Bartlett, Jr.
Amy Barton
Eileen Barton
Peter & Joan Beardsley
Tom Beck
Shoshana & Townsend Belisle
Heather & Jay Benson
Priscilla Benson
Iris Berezin
Edward D. Blanchard & Nancy Putnam
Ruth & Pete Bleyler
Karen & Alfred Blum
Stephen Bobin & Linda Hallock
Lynn & Charles Bohi
Kathleen Briscoe
Barbara H. Brown
Chip & Jennifer Brown
Mary & Scott Brown
William & Jean Brown
The Burkehaven Family Foundation
Barbara Y. Butler
Chris Byrne & Heidi Chapman
The Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation
Robin Caissie
Peter & Debbie Carter
Alicia Casey & Ben Van Vliet
Cashdan/Stein
Great Grandmother Fund
at the Vermont Community Foundation
Bala Chaudhary
Deborah & Keith Chrisman
Couch Family Foundation
Keri & Kinson Craft
Fred & Sophia Crawford
Charmaris Darias
Matthew Delmont & Jacqueline
Wernimont
Deecie McNelly Denison
Bryant & Marilyn Denk
Alek Deva & Jess Johnston
Carolyn Dever & Paul Young
The Whit & Closey Dickey Legacy Fund at the New Hampshire Community Foundation
Rachel Hemphill Dickson
Frank C. & Joan R. Donath
Mary B. Doyle
The Dunne/Hackett Family
Bea & Tony Edgar
Brian & Susan Edwards
Dale F. & Christine* Eickelman
Paul H. & Sue C. Etkind
Sharon Fanger
Anne & Jon Felde
FitKids Childcare
Amy & Chip Fleischer
Randy & Ginny Foose
Barbara & Ivor Freeman
Carolyn & Milton Frye
Arthur Gardiner
Mike & Barbara Gerling
Roger & Elizabeth Gilmore
Dan & Michelle Gottlieb
David & Nancy Grant
Irene Green
Kathy Sherlock-Green
& Richard Green
Bobbi Gross & Phil Dunwoody
Jeff Hafner & Elizabeth Roberts
Bob & Honoré Hager
Carl & Nancy Hagge
Janet Miller Haines
The Philip & Alicia Hammarskjold
Charitable Fund
Laurie Harding & Peter Mason
David & Pat Harrison
Joey & John Hawkins
Kate & David Hewitt
Deming & Romer Holleran
Gray & Rich Horan
James & Nancy Horton
Kathryn & Jim Hourdequin
Brucie Hubbell
Kermit & Barbara Hummel
Fred Hunt & Mary MacVey
Steve & Susan Immelt
Trish Jackson & Will Millard
Jane’s Trust
Penny & Stuart Johnson
Rita and Win Johnson
Bryan & Cynthia Jones
Kathryn Jorgensen
John & Holly Kania
Alison and Nirav Kapadia
Jon & Frances Karlen
Laurie & Sven Karlen
Ann Kent (in memory of)
Leslie Dunne Ketner
& Robert Ketner
Paul & Joyce Killebrew
Joan Kinne
Debbie & Roger Klene
Jenn & John Langhus
Fred Lerner
William & Mary Ann Lewis
Daniel S. Longnecker
Jim & Ellen Lynch
Teresa & John* Lyons
Julie & Peter Machen
Peter & Maryann Magoun
Joe Major
& Melinda Brooks-Major
Joe & Lisabeth Maloney
Cynthia Marshall
Lucretia Martin
Mascoma Bank Foundation
Gary & Cynthia Mayo
Scott & Nina McCampbell
Martha McDaniel & Stephen Plume
Kristine & Pat McDevitt
Jane Kitchel McLaughlin
Carolyn & Peter Mertz
The Merwin-Zuccottis
Charlotte Metcalf
Nini & Rob Meyer
Keith Milne
Dennis & Linda Mitchell
Brenda Moore
Nancy Murray & Jim Feuille
Amy & Henry Nachman
Deborah Nelson
Patricia & Tom Norton
Jim Nourse & Sarah Shipton
Heather Nowlan
Janie & Ty Nutt
Betsy & Colin Osborne
David & Mary Otto
Judy & Tom Oxman
Anne Peyton
Ed & Pam Piper
Jim Pulver
Arthur & Cynthia Rand
Amy Redpath
Heidi Reynolds
Mary Reynolds
Laura Rice & Michael Wagner
Jennifer Rickards & Jonathan Roberts
Katherine Rines
River Valley Club
Andrew Robinson
The Roesch Family
Lisa Romano
Mary & Thomas Rossetti
Eric A. Sailer & Elaine Campbell
The Samwick Family
Karen & John Sanders
Molly Scheu
William Schmidt & Lisa Kaeser
William Schults & Elizabeth Maislen
Robert & Joanne Scobie
Michael & Lori Shipulski
Paul & Rubi Simon
Carolyn & Martin Singer
David Singer & Toni Vendetti
Kat Smith & Family
Marisa Smith
Jason Smoller & Rachel Starr
Wendy & Jon Spector
Deborah Stahl-Hannam
Dorothy Stanley
Elizabeth & Matthew Stedina
Jeanie & Bayne Stevenson
The Swett Family
Bonnie & Clint Swift
The Takoradi Fund
at the Vermont Community Foundation
Posie Taylor
Suzanne & Harry Tether
Hetty & Irv Thomae
Sarah & Marc Tischler
Linda & Steven Tofel
Edna & Arthur Torsiglieri
Jane VanBremen
Vermont Agency of Commerce and
Community Development
VISCC Construction Consultants
Timothy Wagg
Gail & John Wasson
Kathy & Curt Welling
Hunt & Lynne Whitacre
Peregrine Whittlesey & Bob Timpson
Michael Wilkinson
Joanne Wise
Marcia Wright
Susan DeBevoise Wright
John & Susan Zuccotti
