We’re now in our 30th year, and the anniversary celebration will culminate in a return to the Ritz-Carlton—after a couple years of COVID nomadism—for our Annual Cabaret Benefit Dinner and Auction. Throughout the pandemic we have continued to offer our Life Stories program free of charge to seniors, wounded veterans, incarcerated youth, adults and children affected by substance abuse, and many other groups. We’ve also increased youth and adult scholarships to our highest quality dramatic arts training, because need has been so great. We continue to serve over 2,500 children, teens, and adults each year, many of whom go on to professional acting careers, further training at esteemed institutions like Juilliard, or simply more fulfilling and enjoyable lives. And this year we’re leading the effort among a coalition of arts education institutions to launch a training program in which young people who have become disengaged from school and work will be paid to learn behind-the-scenes technical skills, demand for which is creating a mounting crisis throughout the American theatre world. We couldn’t offer so much to so many without the support of people like you.

The event will be on Sunday, November 13 at the Ritz-Carlton Washington, with about 500 influential Washingtonians in attendance.