Joshua Sedelmeyer's Fundraiser

Cider Mill Playhouse 17-18 Season Launch

 

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Joshua Sedelmeyer

This company has been an artistic home to me for the last 3 years, and has been offering opportunities to regional and local actors like me and to theatre students (Binghamton University, SUNY Broome, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, and out-of-state too) for over 40 years. I have also had the incredible pleasure of helping to co-found a youth enrichment program with the Cider Mill Playhouse, known as Fresh Cider, which is in it's second full season. We educate high school students and community members through immersive college-quality workshops, and we also perform fun and unique professional musicals for local families and young audiences. I support Cider Mill Playhouse because I have seen the positive impact we have in our community. As the token professional theatre company in Broome County, we engage over 25,000 patrons a year, give professional training and opportunities to over 500 artists annually, and support our local economy and culture! We are one of the few cultural or artistic entities in Endicott to survive and enrich our community for more than 25 years. Together, we make Broome County a better place to live, work and visit. The Playhouse is working hard to meet needs in our community and I encourage you to help meet those needs as well with your donation. Thank you!

About this Campaign

Joshua Sedelmeyer

Cider Mill Playhouse provides great theatre in upstate NY! Enable us to launch our 17-18 season while developing a forever home due to our lease termination!

Cider Mill Playhouse needs a home...

After 41 seasons, our lease ends on August 31, 2017 and unexpectedly will not be renewed. 

Cider Mill Playhouse is people, not a place.

...and we're standing alongside each other and our community.

As citizen-artists, we meet important needs in our community, and our community has responded. Together, we have raised almost $120,000 in just over 4 months.


These funds have allowed us to move ahead as a unified group. We've continued to produce our final season at our current location. We've made plans for a future. We've secured a temporary home and made an offer on a permanent one. 


We've pledged to continue impacting our audiences, our artists, our students, our community. We meet needs from entertainment to enrichment to education. We make Broome County in upstate NY a better place to live, work, and visit. And we hope you'll stand with us.

We must raise another $80,000 by March 1 to take our next steps...

The Board of Directors has determined this benchmark must be reached in order to responsibly enter into contracts for venues, licenses, and other commitments for the 2017-18 season. We must be able to assure subscribers and professionals that "the show will go on" after our lease ends. And in order to close on a permanent home, we must announce next season and assure those investing in our work that we will live on.

Your gift makes a difference. $50,000 allows us to reach the $80,000 needed.

Thanks to the Virginia & Conrad Klee Foundation, this campaign will receive matching funds up to $30,000; so raising $50,000 allows us to ensure the Playhouse continues.

We invite you to read our stories, and consider there are hundreds more like them. Your gift will set the stage for many more like them. Thank you!

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