$100 - Will cover the cost for 3 community members to attend the Public Works Day performance of The Hobbit and attend a pre-show lunch or post-show reception where they can break bread with the performers and artists working on the show.

$250 - Support at this level provides artist engagement in a classroom, a community center, or delivered in a virtual presentation for a skill-building or process workshop. As the leading professional theatre company in Hampton Roads, it is important that we invest in our artist community. Workshops, presentations, and visiting artists are the way that we invest in the future of artists here in Hampton Roads. For many students at schools or community centers for whom field trips are difficult - especially post covid - this is a great opportunity to meet professionals and grow their craft.

$500 - Open Captioning has become an integral part of making theatre available to all people at the Wells Theatre. Whether for friends who have a hearing loss, friends who may have English as a second language, or for those who just like a little extra reinforcement of the text, Open Captioning is provided for one performance of each show of the mainstage season through community partner Access Virginia, and with support, in part by The Language Group.

$1, 500 - Support at this level allows 3 students to participate in our 6-week Black Light Puppet Theatre program. Through this program, young people and adults in the autism community participate in creating a puppet performance while exercising life and social skills. Costs for this program include puppet building supplies, two lead teaching artists per group of ten students, and "shadow" - actors who rehearse and perform alongside the participants.

$2,500 - With over 7 programs that run year-round, we provide the BEST local teaching artist teaching skill building and voice amplifying workshops. Your support will enable an artist like Meaghan Mozingo to spend 2- 12 weeks in workshops teaching Dramatically Able, our theatre program for Low Vision and Blind Students in partnership with Access Virginia. Students from these workshops will then be able to participate in our mainstage Public Works Virginia production next summer - The Earth Remembers.

Other teaching artists will be placed with - The Kroc Center, Booker T Washington High School, Armed Services Arts Partnership, and "55 and Better" with Chesapeake Parks, Recreation and Tourism.