Our Supporters

The board of directors, staff, students, artists and everyone at Cleveland Play House express our deepest gratitude to the thousands of supporters who made a gift to CPH.  The donors listed below made gifts between July 1, 2022 and September 9, 2024.

Every effort has been made to ensure names are listed correctly.  We apologize for any errors or omissions. Please contact Evan Smittle at 216.400.7056 or esmittle@clevelandplayhouse.com to make a change in your listing. Thank you again!

Institutional Donors

Gifts made by Corporations, Foundations, and Government

$100,000+

Anonymous
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
The George Gund Foundation
KeyBank Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
Ohio Department of Development
Ohio Department of Education
The Shubert Foundation
U.S. Department of Education

$50,000+

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Stocker Foundation

$25,000+

The Abington Foundation
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
DLR Group | Westlake Reed Leskosky
The Hankins Foundation
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
Kulas Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
David & Inez Myers Foundation
Theatre Forward

$15,000+

Eva L. & Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
Galen Miller Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
The PNC Charitable Trusts
RPM International Inc.
George Garreston Wade Charitable Trust

$10,000+

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP
The Frank Hadley & Cornelia Root Ginn Foundation
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
The Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Group
K & D Group
The Thomas H. White Foundation

$5,000+

Ancora
BakerHostetler
Bank of America
Barton Communities
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland Magazine
Dominion Energy
Eaton Corporation
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund for Cleveland Play House of the Cleveland Foundation
The Harry K. Fox & Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation
Jones Day
Kaulig Giving
Medical Mutual
The Crispin & Kate Oglebay Trust of the Cleveland Foundation
O’Neill Brothers Foundation
Turner Construction Co.
S.K. Wellman Foundation
Harold L. & Patricia D. Williams Charitable Fund of the Cleveland Foundation

$2,500+

Barnes Wendling CPAs
Cleveland State University
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.
Cuyahoga Community College
Erie Bank
Flannery | Georgalis, LLC
The Giant Eagle Foundation
Hispanic Fund of the Community Foundation of Lorain County
Intel Future Skills
Junior League of Cleveland
The Laub Foundation
The Lozick Family Foundation
McDonald Hopkins LLC
The Murch Foundation
Oswald Companies
The Union Club of Cleveland

$1,000+

ASI International Ltd.
Charities Aid Foundation
Humana Healthy Horizons
Maloney + Novotny
McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Foundation
Music & Drama Club
Caroline Brown Prescott Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
John A. Wiegman Fund of the Cleveland Foundation

$300+

Junior Ratner Club
Victor C. Laughlin, M.D. Memorial Foundation Trust
The MetroHealth System
MyCom Youth Development Initiative
Nordson Corporation Foundation
Old San Juan Jewelry Inc

$100+

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Judson Park
MetLife Legal
Tucker Ellis LLP

Individual Donors                               

$200,000+ 

The Roe Green Foundation
Walter & Jean Kalberer Foundation
The Milton & Tamar Maltz Family Foundation

$100,000+

Jon & Jane Outcalt

$50,000+

Kathleen E. Hancock

$25,000+

Linda & Saul Ludwig Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Meisel & Pesses Families
Robert G. Paul & Margaret Kennedy
The Ralph & Lucille Schey Foundation

$15,000+

Megan Arth
Amy & Stan Brady
Chuck & Char Fowler
Drs. Robert & Mary Salomon

$10,000+

Anonymous
Arter Family Charitable Fund
Carol Barnak
John & Suellen Englhardt
Walter P. Ginn
Kathy & James Hogg
Janet L. Kramer
Rob & Holley Martens
Ronna & Darrell McNair
Ellen & Mike Meehan
Sonia & Mike Mintun
Catherine Suever
Paul E. Westlake, Jr.

$5,000+

Roland & Dale Anglin
Carolyn D. Cole & Kamla Lewis
The Ruth & Elmer Babin Foundation
Fred G. & Mary W. Behm
Jon & Laura Bloomberg
David & Kathy Bronson
Maria Cashy
Carrie Cronkey
Ryan R. Cross
Paul & Teri Eberl
Robin Gilliland & Emily Westlake
Jeffrey & Lisa Kapp
Andrew & Katherine Kartalis
Kevin & Sheila Margolis
Nancy-Clay Marsteller
Nancy & John McMillan
Deborah L. Neale
Kim & Paul Pesses
Rosemary & Dale Rehner
Sally & Larry Sears
Paul Siemborski
Anne Marie Warren
Robert C. Williams
Chuck & Ann Zellmer

$2,500+

Anonymous
Juan & Stephanie Antunez
Margo & Tom Bertin
Robert & Cynthia Bruml
Gertude Kalnow Chisolm & Homer D.W. Chisolm
Marianne Crosley & Arthur L. Clements
Cheryl Drake
Mark & Evelyn Duffy
Betsy J. Fallon
Barry Feldman
Bruce & Nancy Fisher
Janice E. Focke
Traci L. Forrester & Sven Nielsen
Sam Foti
Joe Garry
Sandra Gidich
Amy Green & Eric Konicki
The Gries Family Foundation
Scott & Lisa Hamilton
Brian Harte

Peter & Sunnie Hellman
Carolyn G. Holt
Joan Horvitz
Richard Horvitz & Erica Hartman Horvitz
Stewart Kohl
John & Jo Ann Lane
Margaret McKenzie & Clairmonte Cappelle
Anthony M. Panzica & Cindy Panzica
Scott & Judy Pendergast
Julie & Peter Raskind
Alan M. Rauss & Marcie Bergman
Mark & Shelly Saltzman
Dario & Emily Savron
Kim Sherwin
Karen A. Skunta
Samuel & Susan Steinhouse
Sally & Terry Stewart
Anita Stoll & Pete Clapham
Dennis Swit
Amy & Thomas Willey

$1,800+

George Beckmann
Robert Brandon
Jenny & Glenn Brown
Karen & Cliff Daugherty
Larry & Bonnie Frankel
Megan Frankiewicz
Donna M. Koler
Gilbert & Carol Lowenthal
Megan L. Mehalko
Mark & Sara Midkiff
Heather Moore
Melvin G. & Deborah E. Pye
Robert & Marti Vagi
Mary C. Warren

$1,200+

Charles M. Bailin & Linda Myers
Anthony Barabani
Mark Cuddy
Phyllis H. & William H. Evans Charitable Foundation
David & Eileen Fink
Greg & Susan Griffith
Michael & Jane Horvitz
In Memory of Faye Kaplan
Ann V. Klotz
Dinah Kolesar
Ken Ludwig
Margaret McKenzie & Clairmonte Cappelle
John & Norine Prim
Robin Richmond
Bob Smith
Linda Springer
Martha H. Zlotnik

$600+

Anonymous
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Christine Bidwell
Chuck & Christy Bittenbender
Akram & Suzanne Boutros
Ken & Jana Beck
George Beckmann
Daniel & Shelley Boyle
Robert & Eileen Blattner
R. Bruce & Beverly Cameron
Janice & John Campbell
Quo Vadis Cobb
Thomas Collin
Margot James Copeland
Diane Downing
Jack & Carol Filak
Bruce & Nancy Fisher
George Gelehrter
Douglas Green
Deborah Glosserman
Lynn & Kathy Hoag
Valerie A. Hughes
Kenneth Kalynchuk
Colleen Longshaw Jackson
Jeremy Johnson
John & Mitzi Lai
Joan Laro
India Lee

Cathy Lincoln
Beth Mooney
Joan Naro
Steele Nowlin & Christine Jayjack
Michael & Shari Perlmuter
James D. Pivarski Jr.
Sethu & Lalitha Reddy
Griselda Rondon
Debbie & Jeff Rosenthal
Barbara D. Rosskamm
Kathy Moses Salem Philanthropic Fund of Akron Community Foundation
Martin I. Saltzman, MD
Richard & Mary Lou Sanders
Jack H. Schron
Laurel & Peter Scriven
Mary Ann & Gary Shamis
Randall & Sara Shaner
Frances Sharp
Eileen Sill
Beth & Howard Simon
Marvin & Judith Solganik
Joseph Stanforth
Julie & Peter Taft
Kenneth & Martha Taylor
Jeff & Tracey Weaver
David & Nancy Zenker

$300+

Joel & Teresa C. Andreani
Carol Arbaczewski
Kate & Ric Asbeck
Michael Barakiva
George & Ramona Bause
Jack & Carolyn Blackwell
Karen Biel-Goebel
M.A. Brennan
Peter & Tamar Brosse
Cindy & Tim Carr
Karen & Jim Dakin
Susan Delaney
William & Eileen DeWood
William Doggett
Lee C. Drickamer
Jane Dugan
Duvin Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Richard Figge
Rachel L. Fink
William Frey
Tom Gallagher
Anna Z. Greenfield
Ian Haberman
Jon & Roberta Hardacre Charitable Trust
Sheldon & Nancy Hartman
Douglas Hicks
Maxine W. Houck
Lynn Iams
Robert & Patricia Jeffreys
Peter Lawson Jones
Patricia L. Kalbac
Bernie & Nancy Karr
Andrew & Katherine Kartalis
The Joseph P. & Nancy F. Keithley Foundation
Amy E. Kellogg
Kennedy & Cloyd Family Charitable Fund
Sharon Klonowski
Kuechle Family Foundation
Michael J. Lane
Sharon McIntyre & William Mullen
Scott Miller
Julia Mirtes
Craig Mohre
Robert S. Kunkel
Frank & Ingrid Kunstel

Brian & Stacey Lawler
Heinen Lee
Craig Mosier
Peter & Linda Nintcheff
Seth Orbach
Alec & Tamara Pendleton
Dierdre Pim & Kurt Haas
Terrell & Susan Pim
Linn & Jodie Raney
Judy & Robert H. Rawson, Jr.
Catherine C. Reed
Jim Regan
William & Christine Robertson
Barbara Robinson
John & Joanne Rohrer
Roberta Rosell
David Rosenberg
Jackie Rothstein
Stephen Rowan
Kathryn Saccany
Darl Schaaff
Susan & Paul Schumacher
Meredith Seikel
Carolyn Sihler
Shelley Spooner Cooper
Todd Stern
Carol Pearson Stocchi
Gary & Peggy Streiff
Karl & Carol Theil
Arthur L. Thomas
Towar N. Vilas & Chris White
Gregory Videtic
Denise Vinton
David & Dianne Vogt
Carolyn Wald
Ruth Wasem
Harriet L. Warm
Ed & Ellen Weber
Carol Weinstock
Carol Wellman
Jill & Vern Welsh
John Wiedemann & Pamala Schnellinger
Daniel & Ellen Worthington
Brian R. Wynne
James Vail
Kathleen Zaharewicz

$120+

Anonymous
Dolores V. Adler
Thomas & Joann Adler
Judie & Bruce Amsel
Chadrick Anderson
Michael Andrews
Morena Baccarin
Susan Barlow
Stephen A. Baum
Dan & Carolyn Beears
Errol Bellon
Jodi Berg
Nancy Boehm
Karen Bradley
Richard Brockett
John & Eleanor Brucken
William & Carol Bruml
Barbara Brown
Marilyn K. Brown
Mike & Carole Brown
Nia & Tim Button
David Sean Byrnes
Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst & Mark
Rosniel Castro
Clara Clark
Maureen K. Cole
Tom & Anita Cook
Lowell & Carole Davis
Dorr & Joyce Dearborn
Audrey P. DeClement
Tom Decter
Jan Devereaux
Pamela DiPasquale
Katinka Domotorffy
Barry & Marlene Edelstein
Ed & Cheryl Eiskamp
Andrew Fabens
Rachel Feinleib
Klaus Fritsch
Joseph Frolik & Karen Long
Katherine Funkner
William L. Garrison & Mary Jo Mlakar
Charles Garven
Ted & Nancy Goble
Gay Marie Goden
Joe Gogol & Lee Friedman
Susan Golden
Barbara Gordon-Lickey
Germaine Gibian
Iris Greene
David M. Greene
Marcie Groesbeck
Bonnie Hagerman
Josh Haney
Ann Holland
Diane Homolak
John & Rosemarie Hoopingarner
J. Atlee Horner III
Rolande L. Howard
William Ivancic
Linda L. Johnson & R. Mark Jones
Stephen L. Kadish Family Philanthropic Fund
Ed & Audrey Kancler
Kathleen Kapp
Howard Karfeld
Catherine Keating
R. Douglas Kepp & Sally Carr
Stuart F. Kline
Steve Kohn
Martin & Sandra Kiely Kolb
Richard Knapp & Ellen Mattingly
Cathy Kuhn
Susan Kuilder
Robert S. Kunkel
Frank & Ingrid Kunstel
Brian & Stacey Lawler
Heinen Lee

Chris Loeser
Laurie Maldonado
Greg Marbais
Sharon L. Mathisen
Arthur Charles Mayer
Allison McCallum & Mark Welfley
Martha & Patrick McGraw
Donald M. McPherson
Paul Melnykowski
Karen D Melton
The Mersol Family
Antoinette S. Miller
Todd Clark & Stacy Miller
David & Leslee Miraldi
Marianne Monahan
Ann J. Morgan
Leonard & Carole Naft
Janet Narten
Mike & Marcia Neundorfer
David B Oldham
Anthony D. Oliverio
The Orr Family
William Patton
George Payerle
Susan Petruccio
Jeffrey & Jackie Ponsky
David Porter
Joanne & Richard Prober
Clifford Reeves
Jeff & Nancy Reinhart
Brendan Reynolds
Bradford & Margaret Richmond
Jane Richmond
David & Svetlana Rook
Brenda Rose
Angeline Rowan
Otmar Sackerlotzky
Michael & Joanne Schwartz
Paula R. & Walter S. Schwartz
Charles & Susan Schenkelberg
Sanford Seigerbaum
Adam Severs
Margaret Shackell
Barbara Shearer
Laura & Ben Sheridan
Charna Sherman
David & Faye Sholiton
G. Michael Skerritt
Sherry Sowerby
William E. Spatz
Arthur E. Spector
James & Marsha Spitz
Mark Stevens
Don & Jackie Stimpert
Barbara & Howard Smith
Katherine Smith
Susan A. St. John
Glenn Steffens
David Stetler
James & Isabel Summers
Anthony Supan
David Swank & Clare Paquelet
Stuart & Marcie Terman
Frank & Vicki Titas
Jodi Tucker
Teresa Uter
Kenneth Vinciquerra
Louise Warner
Edward & Gail Weintraub
Larry & Lisa Weiser
Jorene Whitney
Doug & Arlene Wieder
Leigh Wilson
James & Monica Wilcosky
Eileen & Jim Wilkoff
Cheryl Davis & Jonathon Wise
Sharon Wollen

$60+

Anonymous
Joseph & Judith Adato
Suzanne Agins
Constance J. Alden
Jack Arnold
Darcel A. Arrington
Eva & S. Thomas Balazs
Kraus Barbara
Robert & Dalia Baker
Nancy E. Bartholomew
Cherie Bauer
John & Susan Bazyk
Jodell Bender
Sherry Bicak
Henry Billingsley & Karen Kidwell
Anne & Glenn Billington
Dorothy Blaha
Marlene & Kenneth Blatnik-Freeze
Elaine Bolasny
Charles P. & Julia Bolton
Geoff & Julie Bonebrake
Dorothy F. Borer
Phoebe H. Bowers
Conda Boyd
Joe E. & Dolores M. Bright
Leslie Buck
Cynthia L. Buckosh
Patricia Butts
Stephanie J. Byrne
Christina Callos
Andi & Larry Carlini
Donald Carrier & Anaya Farrell
Alexander Ceddia
Michael & Lois Cellura
Henry Chisholm
Donald Chubb
Kathleen Coleman
Virginia Collings
Dale & Susan Cowan
Clifford Cribbs
Debbie Dacone
James Dayton
Alex Derkaschenko
Jacquelyn Derrow & Steve Kutnick
Albert & Kathleen DiLauro
Michael Dowell
Diana & Edward Dutton
Carol Eckner
Michael & Elizabeth Eckstein
Randy Ehrenberg
Peter & Kathryn Eloff
Marie Engstrom
James Erickson
Nancy M. Facchiano
R. Jeffrey & Ruth Fast
Roger Faulb & Martha Krebs
Bob & Marcia Fein
David Feldshuh
Arnold & Carol Feltoon
Anne Ferlito
Joseph A. Ferritto & Sherry Dangremond
Carol & Daniel Fishwick
David V. Foos
Dave Fouts
Barbara Framke
Avrum & Phyllis Froimson
Beverly Gans
Joseph & Vickie Getz
Dean Gladden
David Glorioso
Carol Gobel
Virginia T. Goetz
Richard Goodban
Nicole Graham
Kathy Grekco
Jean E. Gubbins
Daniel & Maureen Haggerty
Richard & Wendy Halle
Nancy Y. Hammond
Barbara & Glenn Hanniford
Linda F. Harper
Robert A. Harris
Thomas & Francine Hayden
Stephen Hirschfeld
Maxine Singer & Peter Hochberg
Richard & Katherine Hoenigman
Joyce Hoffer
Jan Hornack
Catherine R. Hoy
Jennifer Hurd
Gale & Jim Jacobsohn
John Jarvey
Ryan Jenkins
William R. Johnson
Amelia C. Joynes
Margy Judd
Juliann Kalbrunner
Donna M. Kasunic
Lauren Kawentel
C. William Keck
Gordon D. Kinder
Karen King
Peggy Kington
Albert C. & Karen Kirby
Jennifer Klug
Anthony D. Konkoly
Richard B. Kotila
Alan Kovacik

Doug Kramer
Shannon Kriegmont
Ewald & Tish Kundtz
Rosalind Kvet
James F. Lang
Steven Lauer & Marilyn Klar
Col. Cheryl Kyle
Sandra S. Laurenson
William F. Lavigna
Richard & Barbara Ledermam
Jim & Diana Leitch
Frederic Levine & Janine Martyn
Regina Lomanno
Karen Horton Loughridge
Arlene Mann
Marilynn Martin
Joel Marx
Cathy McCall
Blane & Linda McCoy
Robert & Dorothy McDonald
Maeve McGuire
Roger & Elizabeth McKinney
Terri McMahon
The Mikelbanks
Brant Miller
Kahle Miller
James L. Miraldi
Kevin Mirande
Marianne Monahan
Fred Monreal
Ann M. Moy
Pat Murphy & Mike Kupiec
Murad Mustafa
Steven Norris
Brenda Norton
Josanne Notaro
Carolyn Oakes
Kristi Ory
Amanda Oswald
Sarah Ott-Hansen
Todd D. & Lydia F. Peter
The Peterman & DeMinico Family Foundation, Inc
Alexandra Pittaway
Jeffrey Piwowar
Mary & Douglas Powell
James & Susan Prince
Linda Rae
Valerie Raines
Jacquelyn Reingold
Kathryn Reinhardt
William Reinhart
Erick & Erica Remer
Kathy Retz
Nancy Richner
Marc Robbins
Laura Rocker
Walter Rom
William F. Ross
Mark Rowland
Roberta & Michael Rusek
Wayne Salamon
David & Sui Bi Samols
Charlotte Scheidler
Ed & Roberta Searle
Debby Shewitz
Dale Shields
Vivian & David Singer
Margaret & David Sloan
Edward & Donna Rae Smith
Sandford & Andrew Smith
Trinidad Snider
William Hines & Margaret Sondey
James Stafford
Glenn Steffens
Nicholas Steinhouse
Peter Straffon
Thomas Strickler
Will & Janet Sukenik
Elizabeth Sullivan
Virginia Supan
Kathryn Sweeny
Ed & Mary Tatman
Lyn & David Thomas
Martha & Ed Towns
Ralph & Barbara Trepal
Sandra & Michael Truett
Anne Unverzagt & Richard Goddurd
Jack & Blanche Valancy
Fr. Robert-Steven Vellenga
Michel & Jean Venot
Michael & Corrine Wagner
Kathleen Waits
Margot & Robert Watson
Scott Webb
Catherine Weidner
Robert Weiss
Rona Weiss
Julie West
Marilyn Weston
Barbara & Ogden White
William Whitely
J. Daniel Whittenberger
Leah A. Wolfe
Jane A. Zaharias
Mary Frances Haerr & Kal Zucker
Rebecca Zuti