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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Join the incredible team of volunteers who help the Playhouse run!
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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
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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 – June 30, 2026. Thank you!
Champions
$5,000 +
Wes & Diane Campbell
Susan Crocker
Elizabeth & Fred Fountain
Suzan Fraser
Richard Gummer
Sarah Hampson & Mark Raynes Roberts
Alan Jeffers
Leslie McCain & Scott McLean
Monica Sontrop
Farhad Vladi & Associates
Jim Spatz & Val MacDonald
Rose Wilson
Leaders
$1,000 - $4,999
Adam Barrett
Ann Barry
Thomas Boyne & Debi Conrad
Richard Calder
Joan Cleather
Elizabeth Crocker
Henry & Rena Demone
Doug Doucet
Sara K Filbee
Jane Filbee
Peggie Ann Findlay & Steven E. Bush
Jay Forbes
Gary Foshay & Mary Steckle
Mary Fowke
Wayne & Barbara Grigsby
Andrew & Nora Gross
Douglas Hall & Sherry Porter
Robert & Anna Healy
Dean Leland
Kirk & Elisabeth MacCulloch
David Mann
Colin Matthews
Victoria McGregor
Lloyd & Kelly McKnight
John McLennan
David Miller
Tim & Bernadine Moore
Bill & Sally Morris
Nancy Murray
Grainne Neilson
Ross Norman
Tracy & Peter Oliver
Kirby Putnam
Catherine Read
Cheryl Rice Millar
Leigh Robertson
Arif Samad
Elaine & David Shaw
Jeff & Angie Somerville
Grant & Pamela Stonehouse
Bruce Towler
Virginia Veinot
Derek & Alison Wells
Christine & David Wilson
Pelka Wiltshire
Linda Young
Robert & Joanna Zed
Builders
$250 - $999
Peter & Oyungerel Akerley
Esther Amiro
Robert John & Philip Ayling
Susan Belliveau
Peter & Sandi Bergen
Edward Blackbourn
Debbie Bond
Hugh & Marie Bowness
Lee & Amy Bragg
Jim & Debbie Breeze
Gavin Brimer
Margaret Brown
Patsy Brown
Sandra Bryant
Chris Campbell
Diana J Chandler
John & Susan Chandler
Christopher Church
Rhonda Church
David Connolly
Janet & Larry Creaser
Julia Creighton & Michael Frevola
Alastair & Georgie Cribb
John & Donna Curry
Jennifer Anavi Davies
Carolyn Davis Stewart
Gordon & Linda Deeks
James Dimitroff
Maureen Donovan & Andrew Hamson
Paul & DeeDee Dyer
Carolyn Feindel
Chris & Hiya Field
Elaine Finlay
Wilson Fitt & Thelma Costello
Jill Flinn
Ronald & Jennifer Friesen
Karen Gallant
Robin & Dianne Gilbert
Tammy Gonsalves
Mary Jane Hampton
Kelli Harrington
Reid & Marilyn Harrison
Brenda Hartley
David & Carol Hilchey
William Hughes
Ward & Sharron Isnor
Paul & Angela Kidston
David Lester
Sue & Paul Logan
Barbara Luedecke
David & Mary-Anne Lyons
Katie Macdonald
Rosemary K MacInnes
Lisa MacIntyre-Smith
Anne MacLaren
Robert & Nancy MacLeod
Pam Maloney
Gerrie Masters
Malcolm & Sandra Matthews
Kit & Gretchen McCurdy
Lili McCurdy
Daniel & Marie McDougall
Alison McEachern
Kathy & Ken McNab
Ross & Stephanie McNeil
Duncan & Sylvia McNeill
Tony and Julie Metlege
Janice Moreside
Moira Murphy
Anne Murphy
Thomas & Glenda Murphy
Rowena & Robert Nunn
Erin Obrien Edmonds
Richard & Barb Oland
Colin Paul
Bill & Luann Polk
Laraine Poole
Elihu & Wendy Rees
Brian Robertson
Trevor Rogers & Krissi Michaud
Doug & Lynne Ross
Martha Scott
Diane Scott
Allan & Leslie Shaw
Stewart & Sidney Spahr
Mary Steckle
Lynn Stewart
Teana Stewart
Victoria Stanhope
Oscar Straus III
Mila Surrette
Anne & Grant Tipler
Lisa Totman
Carol Vaughan
Shane Vieau
Mark Watling
Community Circle
$20 - $249
Lisa Aiken
Gerri Allen
Margaret G Anderson
Rodney Andreychuk & Richard Malone
Gail Atkinson
Jamie Baillie
Barry Baker
Jeremy Banks
Gary Barkhouse
Janet Barkhouse
Avril Barton
Linda Beaudoin
Marrie Berkelaar
Patricia Bilek
Diane Binmore
Fiona & Malcolm Black
Pat Bloodworth
Margie Blundell
Kate Borden MacKinnon
Bruce Bowser
Ina Brogan
Heather Brophy
Kelvin Browne
Jennifer Buchanan
Catherine Burchell
Joanna Butler
Anna Camp
Jennifer Carrier
Katie Carroll
Nicholas Cart
Andrea Celovsky
K. Rebecca Chandler Nauta
Margaret Chase
Lisa Christensen
Mary Sandra & Greg Clark
Catherine Clute
Sarah Collins
Sandra Conrad
Matt Conrad
Donna Cooper
David Corkum
Jeff Cotter
Simone Cottreau
Dan Cox
Hawley Crosby
Duncan & Deborah Cross
Dawn Curry
Arlene Dalton
Laurel Darnell & Reid Campbell
Simon Davenport
Helen Davenport
Peter Debruin
Terri DeMont
John DeRoche
Peter Doig
Susan Doucette
Scott Drummond
Bryan Drummond
Dave Duchene
Sydney & Sandra Dumaresq
Lois Dyer-Mann
Doug Eisan
Candice Ellis
Mary Filbee
Wade Fisher
Karen Flinn & Guy Skipworth
Max Flinn
Grace Fong
Jennifer Fraser
Linda Fraser
Wenda Fraser-Housego
Anne Freeman
Myra Freeman
Barbara Fry
William Gallacher
Joseph Gallagher
Lisa Gallivan
Omar Gandhi
Deborah Gass
Stephanie Gatszegi
Gerry Giffin
Stephen & Nancy Gilbert
Laura Gillis
Francine Gingras
Erin Gore
Tom Green
Sherry Lee Gregory
Wayne Groszko
Charlotte Hache
Sara & Jonathon Hall
James Hallett
Margaret Hallett
Carol Hansen
Kim Hardacker
Dawn Harwood-Jones
Trudi & Robert Helms
Alex Hickey
Michael Higgins
Gillian Hill Regimbal
Sheryl Hobitzell
Cheryl Hodder
Karen Hooper & Frank Metzger
Heather Hughes
Paul Ingram
B James
Frances Jamieson
Karen Janigan
Rita & Keith Johnson
Beverley Johnson
Bethany Johnson-Theedom
Don Jones
Sharron Josey
Michael Kaczorowski
Louise Karlson
Eimear Kelly
Chippie Kennedy
Andrea Kew
Marshall Kidston
Elizabeth King
Heather Kitchen
Sheila Knowlton – MacRury
Charli Laforce
Lisa Lafrance & Nicholas Spencer Lewin
Terri Langille
Claudia Legacy
Mylene Lehoux
Jacqueline Leppard
Amy Lewis
Jean Lightfoot Peters
Stewart Lindsay Jr.
Patricia Lounsbury
Kate Lum
Steve Lumb & Joanne Corbett
Deborah Lusby
Daniel MacDonald
Melanie MacFarlane
Krista MacInnis
Cameron MacKay
Mary Beth MacKenzie
Sue Mackintosh
Dave & Peggy MacLean
Alana MacNeill
Roger Mader
Janet Malone
Stephen Marinelli
Thomas & Kathleen Marrie
Nancy Matyas
Lisa McCabe
Kim McCallum
Brenda McCarrol
Donna McCready
Donna McGrath
Jean McHarg
Shirley McInnes
Rob & Joan McInnes
Amy McKay
Michelle McKillop
Grace McKnight
Stacey McRae
Louise Michalos
Bruce Middleton
William Middleton
Tristan Mills & Lane MacDonald
John Montgomerie
Senator Wilfred Moore & Jane Ritcey
Emily Mosher
Lisa Murphy
Evelyn Murphy
Jeanne Nash
Katherine Osler
Phil Otto
Jennifer Paterson
Jane Pattillo
Carolyn Paulen
Kevork Peltekian
Robert E Pietrafesa II
Paul Pilon
Karen Pinsent
Philip Poirier & Sharlene Wolchik
Shannon Power
Robert Presson & Deborah Byrd
Eleanor Publicover
Christopher Quigley
Lisa Quigley
Richard Rachals
Leonard J Rafuse
Gillian Ramsey
Stephanie Ray
Eileen Reardon
Gillian Reid & James Moye
Barbara Richman
Eileen Richmond
Sarah Riley
Jill Robbins
Jan Rofihe
Tony Rogers
James Rosbe
Cathy Ross
Matthew Ross
Michael Rowan-Legg
Mary-Jane Saffrey
Jenny Sandison
Claudette J Sapp
Margo Schwartz
Kathryn Shaw
Jonathan Silverman
Pamela Sinclair
Whipple Smith Kanellakos
Fred Smithers
Jane Solomon
Francoise St. Denis Leblanc
Rob Steele
Paul Stockall
Don Stoddard
Darlene Stonehouse -Clark
Lana Sugarman
Wanda Suppanz
Pauline Sutow
Kathie Swenson
Geraldine & Wayne Tuck
Robert J Tupper
Christine Umlah
Otto Van Barneveld
Libby Vant
Saundra Vernon
Judi Vincent
John Volcko
Monica Wallenfels
Mary Elizabeth Walton
Anne Watling
Patricia Watson
Tabitha Webber
David & Alison Williams
Deborah Windsor
Sheila & Gary Woodcock
Stephen Young
Nateleen and Maurice Zinck
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