Support the Theatre You Love
For over 80 years, the Chester Playhouse has played a unique and important role within the Chester Community by bringing world-class theatre and entertainment to audiences of all ages. The Chester Playhouse has played a vital role in shaping Chester’s past, and with your help, we can continue to build upon its success into the future. As a not-for-profit theatre, we rely on the generosity of our individual donors for approximately 60% of our funding.
Donate to Your Playhouse
Click here to donate online. A tax receipt will be provided immediately after.
Corporate Sponsorship
Our corporate partners demonstrate their support for the arts and for community.
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with Us
Join the incredible team of volunteers who help the Playhouse run!
The
Foundation
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Sir Christopher Ondaatje Theatre Foundation
Our Sponsors
Our corporate sponsors are partners in helping the Playhouse continue to enrich the Village of Chester and the broader region with cultural and community programs. The 7000 patron visits to the Playhouse each year signal the importance of the Playhouse to residents, visitors, and local businesses.
The Chester Playhouse offers a range of corporate sponsorship opportunities to suit your objectives and budget. When you support the Chester Playhouse, not only do you help create the magic of live performances in an intimate setting, but you can entertain your key clients, host your valued employees and share with them experiences that will entertain and delight them, creating shared memories and strengthening relationships.
Please consider partnering with the Chester Playhouse, signaling your civic leadership to our audiences, and gaining access to unique opportunities for logo exposure, client entertainment, and employee engagement.
To learn more about becoming a Chester Playhouse Sponsor, contact Executive Director, Andrew Chandler, at andrew@chesterplayhouse.ca.
Our Supporters
Donate
The Support Chester Playhouse fund supports programming and staffing at your Chester Playhouse, allowing us to deliver more of the great shows, classes, summer camps, and experiences that you’ve come to love. While we’ve enjoyed remarkable success since reopening the rebuilt Playhouse in 2023, earned revenue (like ticket sales) makes up only one-third of our revenues. Along with operating grants from all three levels of government and generous corporate sponsorship, our donors play the most important role in ensuring that we can continue to bring exceptional events to your Playhouse.
Show your support by clicking the “Donate Online Now” button below. You can also donate by calling or visiting our Box office. Of course, you can also mail a cheque payable to the Chester Playhouse Society:
Chester Playhouse Society
22 Pleasant Street
PO Box 293
Chester, Nova Scotia B0J 1J0
For more information, call us: (902) 275-3933
A tax receipt for total yearly donations of $20 or more will be sent via email before the end of February, just in time for tax time!
If you wish to donate securities, please download this form.
Charitable Registration Number: 127727444RR0001
Supporters of the Foundation
These individuals have recently made a significant contribution to the Sir Christopher Ondaatje Theatre Foundation, which supports the Chester Playhouse.
Linda Young
Operating Fund Donors
The following donors made a contribution between Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 30, 2025. Thank you!
Champions
$5,000 +
The Black Family Foundation
Wes & Diane Campbell
Susan Crocker
Suzan Fraser
Richard Gummer
Sarah Hampson & Mark Raynes Roberts
Alan Jeffers
Jim Spatz & Val MacDonald
Farhad Vladi & Associates
Leaders
$1,000 - $4,999
Adam Barrett
Ann Barry
Thomas Boyne & Debi Conrad
Richard Calder
Spencer Family Charitable Foundation
Elizabeth Crocker
Henry & Rena Demone
Doug Doucet
Sara K Filbee
Jane Filbee
Jay Forbes
Gary Foshay & Mary Steckle
Elizabeth & Fred Fountain
Mary Fowke
Wayne & Barbara Grigsby
Andrew & Nora Gross
Douglas Hall & Sherry Porter
Dean Leland
Kirk & Elisabeth MacCulloch
Janet Malone
David Mann & Lois Dyer-Mann
Colin Matthews
Victoria McGregor
Lloyd & Kelly McKnight
Leslie McLean & Scott McCain
John McLennan
Bill & Sally Morris
Nancy Murray & David Miller
Kirby Putnam
Catherine Read
Leigh Robertson
Arif Samad, Md
Victoria Stanhope
Bruce Towler
Virginia Veinot
Derek & Alison Wells
Rose Wilson
Christine & David Wilson
Pelka Wiltshire
Robert & Joanna Zed
Builders
$250 - $999
Esther Amiro
Robert Ayling & Philip John
Debbie Bond
Hugh Bowness
Lee & Amy Bragg
Jim & Debbie Breeze
Gavin Brimer
Margaret Brown
Diana J Chandler
John & Susan Chandler
Rhonda Church
Christopher Church
Janet & Larry Creaser
Julia Creighton & Michael Frevola
Alastair Cribb
John & Donna Curry
Carolyn Davis Stewart
Gordon & Linda Deeks
James Dimitroff
DeeDee Dyer
Carolyn Feindel
Chris & Hiya Field
Peggie Findlay
Wilson Fitt & Thelma Costello
Ronald & Jennifer Friesen
Robin & Dianne Gilbert
Tammy Gonsalves
Rob Healy
Robert & Anna Healy
David & Carol Hilchey
William Hughes
Ward & Sharron Isnor
Michael Kennedy
Paul & Angela Kidston
Katie Macdonald
Rosemary K MacInnes
Lisa MacIntyre-Smith
Anne MacLaren
Robert MacLeod
Pam Maloney
Malcolm & Sandra Matthews
Kit & Gretchen McCurdy
Lili McCurdy
Daniel & Marie McDougall
Alison McEachern
Kathy & Ken McNab
Ross McNeil
Tim & Bernadine Moore
Thomas Murphy
Anne Murphy
Erin O’Brien Edmonds
Richard & Barb Oland
Bill & Luann Polk
Elihu & Wendy Rees
Brian Robertson
Diane Scott
Allan & Leslie Shaw
Elaine & David Shaw
Jeff Somerville
Stewart & Sidney Spahr
Mary Steckle
Teana Stewart
Lynn Stewart
Oscar Straus III
Anne & Grant Tipler
Lisa Totman
Kelli Tynes-Harrington
Mark Watling
Community Circle
$20 - $249
Lisa Aiken
Peter Akerley
Oyungerel Akerley
Gerri Allen
Margaret G Anderson
Rodney Andreychuk & Richard Malone
Jamie Baillie
Barry Baker
Piers Baker
Gary Barkhouse
Janet Barkhouse
Avril Barton
Linda Beaudoin
Susan Belliveau
Patricia Bilek
Diane Binmore
Fiona & Malcolm Black
Edward Blackbourn
Margie Blundell
Marie Bowness
Bruce Bowser
Heather Brophy
Patsy & Glen Brown
Kelvin Browne
Catherine Burchell
Anna Camp
Katie Carroll
K. Rebecca Chandler Nauta
Lisa Christensen
Mary Sandra Clark
Joan Cleather
Sarah Collins
David Connolly
Matt Conrad
Donna Cooper
David Corkum
Simone Cottreau
Dan Cox
Hawley Crosby
Duncan & Deborah Cross
Dawn Curry
Arlene Dalton
Laurel Darnell & Reid Campbell
Peter Debruin
John DeRoche
Scott Drummond
Dave Duchene
Sydney & Sandra Dumaresq
Doug Eisan
Candice Ellis
Mary Filbee
Wade Fisher
Karen Flinn
Max Flinn
Jill Flinn
Jennifer Fraser
Linda Fraser
Wenda Fraser-Housego
Myra Freeman
Barbara Fry
Nicole Gale
William Gallacher
Joseph Gallagher
Lisa Gallivan
Omar Gandhi
Deborah Gass
Stephanie Gatszegi
Gerry Giffin
Laura Gillis
Francine Gingras
Erin Gore
Sherry Lee Gregory
Wayne Groszko
Charlotte Hache
Sara & Jonathon Hall
James Hallett
Margaret Hallett
Carol Hansen
Kim Hardacker
Reid & Marilyn Harrison
Brenda Hartley
Dawn Harwood-Jones
Trudi & Robert Helms
Alex Hickey
Gillian Hill Regimbal
Sheryl Hoblitzell
Cheryl Hodder
Karen Hooper & Frank Metzger
Heather Hughes
Paul Ingram
Frances Jamieson
Karen Janigan
Rita & Keith Johnson
Bethany Johnson-Theedom
Michael Kaczorowski
Eimear Kelly
Chippie Kennedy
Andrea Kew
Marshall Kidston
Elizabeth King
Sheila Knowlton – MacRury
Charli Laforce
Lisa Lafrance & Nicholas Spencer Lewin
Terri Langille
Stewart Lindsay Jr.
Sue & Paul Logan
Patricia Lounsbury
Barbara Luedecke
Steve Lumb & Joanne Corbett
Deborah Lusby
David & Mary-Anne Lyons
Daniel MacDonald
Cameron MacKay
Sue Mackintosh
Dave & Peggy MacLean
Roger Mader
Stephen Marinelli
Thomas & Kathleen Marrie
Gerrie Masters
Lisa McCabe
Donna McCready
Donna McGrath
Shirley McInnes
Rob & Joan McInnes
Amy McKay
Michelle McKillop
Duncan & Sylvia McNeill
Stacey McRae
Louise Michalos
William Middleton
Bruce Middleton
Cheryl Millar
Tristan Mills & Lane MacDonald
John Montgomerie
Senator Wilfred Moore & Jane Ritcey
Janice Moreside
Emily Mosher
Evelyn Murphy
Jeanne Nash
Ross Norman
Sheilagh O’Brien-Parker
Katherine Osler
Phil Otto
Jennifer Paterson
Jane Pattillo
Kevork Peltekian
Robert E Pietrafesa II
Karen Pinsent
Philip Poirier & Sharlene Wolchik
Robert Presson & Deborah Byrd
Eleanor Publicover
Lisa Quigley
Christopher Quigley
Richard Rachals
Leonard J Rafuse
Stephanie Ray
Eileen Reardon
Barbara Richman
Eileen Richmond
Sarah Riley
Jill Robbins
Jan Rofihe
Doug & Lynne Ross
Cathy Ross
Matthew Ross
Mary-Jane Saffrey
Jenny Sandison
Claudette J Sapp
Margo Schwartz
Martha Scott
Kathryn Shaw
Jonathan Silverman
Whipple Smith
Fred Smithers
Jane Solomon
Rob Steele
Paul Stockall
Don Stoddard
Darlene Stonehouse -Clark
Lana Sugarman
Wanda Suppanz
Mila Surrette
Kathie Swenson
Geraldine & Wayne Tuck
Robert J Tupper
Carol Vaughan
Judi Vincent
John Volcko
Monica Wallenfels
Mary Elizabeth Walton
Anne Watling
Patricia Watson
David & Alison Williams
Deborah Windsor
Sheila & Gary Woodcock
Stephen Young
Linda Young
David Zitner & Lezlie Oler
In MemoriAm
We respectfully acknowledge that donations have been made in memory of the following:
Judy Wells, Dirty Dougie & the Divine Dandies