DAF plays knight for actor playing King Arthur
Financial-aid recipient: David Novinger has been performing with area theater companies since graduating from high school. He’s played a wide variety of roles around the metro area, including in recent years King Arthur in “Spamalot” for the Evergreen Players, Mr. Weston in “Emma” for Vintage Theatre, coming up next, John Hancock in “1776” for the Performance Now Theater Company (He played Richard Henry Lee in the same show for the Town Hall Arts Center).” Among the companies David has performed with also include Center Stage (Evergreen), Stagedoor Theatre (Conifer), Castle Rock Players, Main Street Players, Washington Park Players, East Hampden Players and more. He is the father of young actors Carter and Preston Novinger. Carter Novinger has participated in several previous fundraising efforts for The Denver Actors Fund.
His medical story: What started as a simple journey to remove several small kidney stones turned into a medical ordeal that lasted almost two years, involved six separate medical procedures (mostly failed) and months of tolerating a ureteral stent. The saga culminated with the removal of one beat up, non-functioning kidney last July. While David had medical insurance, his total out-of-pocket costs for these procedures reached nearly $12,000. Toward the end of 2021, still paying off his medical bills, David lost his job. A friend suggested he apply for help from the Denver Actors Fund to help ease the remaining financial burden.
How we helped: The Denver Actors Fund has paid off the final $2,787.50 in accumulated medical expenses.
‘I CANNOT THANK THE DAF ENOUGH FOR HELPING EASE THE STRESS OF A DIFFICULT TIME FOR ME AND MY FAMILY.’
A message from David: “I am humbled and so appreciative of the help the Denver Actors Fund provides to the theater community. Their response was swift, compassionate and so generous. I cannot thank the DAF enough for helping ease the stress of a difficult time for me and my family.”
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Video above: The Denver Actors Fund receives the Colorado Theatre Guild’s 2016 Community Impact Award.
The Denver Actors Fund is a modest source of immediate, situational relief when members of the local theater community find themselves in medical need. To date, the Fund has allocated more than $928,000 to artists facing medical need. In addition to financial relief, a team of more than 100 Denver Actors Fund volunteers offers good neighborly assistance including meal prep and delivery, child care, transportation, errands, construction, pet-sitting and more. For more information, visit our web site at DenverActorsFund.Org.
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MONDAY, APRIL 18: Our friends at Town Hall Arts Center are continuing on their incredible promise to designate one performance per run with 100 percent of all proceeds from ticket and concession sales to be donated to The Denver Actors Fund. Join us for “Once on This Island.” Based on a novel inspired by the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” this Caribbean-Calypso one-act musical tells the story of a fearless peasant girl who falls in love with a wealthy boy from the other side of the island. When divided cultures keep them apart, the island gods assist our heroine as she embarks on a quest to reunite with the man who captured her heart. Tickets only $25. Reserve your seats at at 303-794-2787 or townhallartscenter.org.
ONGOING: “Quarantine Week by Weak” is a new photographic coffee-table book by Susannah McLeod and her wife, Chloe McLeod, who chronicled their home life during the COVID19 shutdown with a light-hearteded photo series documenting their lives during quarantine. They produced more than 35 sets of humorous photos comparing the beginning of quarantine to later in the “stay-at-home” period. Susannah pulled out her camera and we started to play,” said Chloe McLeod. As popularity for the series grew on Instagram and after a feature in Westword, the couple started exploring options to publish the series as a book to benefit The Denver Actors Fund. To order, visit mcleod9creative.com. This project is generously sponsored by: The Albritton Family; Natalie Bowen and Jim Corbett; Dave Dyer; Julie Dyer; and Denise Gentilini and Lynette Prisner. Additional support provided by Angie Flachman and Sandy Birkey at The Publishing House and Sandra Lee Stuart.
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