Success Stories

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Meagan Holdeman: $3,000 (from the PAWS Fund)

After kitty comes back from the brink, audio engineer says: ‘I really hope we can keep the PAWS Fund going!’ Who we helped: Loveland native Meagan Holdeman is an audio engineer at the Denver Center for Performing Arts and the founder of Greener Theatre Colorado, an organization to mobilize the […]

LEANNE JEWELL

Leanne Jewell and son: $12,195

When medical challenges visited both a mother and her son, the Denver Actors Fund answered the door Who we helped: Actor, improv comedian, and commercial and film actor Leanne Jewell has been performing from her living room since age 3. She was cast as the understudy for the one-woman play […]

Adriana Gonzalez

Adriana Gonzales: $611

‘I’m going back to school, and I’m so grateful I don’t have to worry about this bill thanks to the Denver Actors Fund’ Who we helped: Adriana Gonzales has been in Colorado’s entertainment industry since 2015 working with immersive entertainment and local theaters. Most recently, she appeared in Firehouse Theatre […]

Carter Edward Smith FEATURED

Carter Edward Smith: $3,000 (from the PAWS Fund)

News PAWS Fund gave actor some hope when his beloved Peep was diagnosed with cancer PAWS Fund recipient: Busy local actor Carter Edward Smith, a newly minted Henry Award winner for his performance in Give 5/Parker Arts’ “Footloose,” has been working consistently in the Colorado theater community for 11 years. […]

Hannah Duggan: $3,588

‘The Denver Actors Fund has had my back for eight years now,’ says Buntport’s Hannah Duggan Who we helped:  Hannah Duggan is one of the original members of Buntport Theater, an ensemble of five pals who met in the late 1990s while they were all attending Colorado College in Colorado […]