Individual Donors
As a nonprofit organization, CTC relies on your generosity to create extraordinary theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities. We gratefully recognize the following donors and our entire donor community, who make everything we do possible. The following gifts were made to the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026.
Key
◊ Member of CTC Board of Directors
● Former member of CTC Board of Directors
Luminary Circle
Leadership Circle
$50,000+
Halloran Family Foundation
Bill and Jane Johnson, Noreen Charitable Trust ◊
Gail Munsell
Producer
$25,000 – $49,999
Edward R. Bazinet Charitable Foundation ●
Ruth and John Bergerson
Michael J. Blum and Abigail Rose ◊
Morgan Burns ◊
C. Curtis Dunnavan Fund
Ron Frey and Steve Thompson ◊
Conor Green and Quannah Parker-McGowan ●
Chad M. and Rafina Y. Larsen/Larsen Fund ●
Louise Leatherdale
Kit Schmoker ●
Bonnie Scott
Director
$10,000 – $24,999
Stefanie Adams ◊
Jill E. Applebaum ◊
Gulzar Babaeva and Bobak Ha’Eri ◊
Corie and Martin Barry
The Bendel-Stenzel Family ◊
Kwadwo Boadi-Aboagye ●
Karen Bohn and Gary Surdel ●
Karen L. Braun
Joe Carroll and Caroline Ullom ◊
Michael and Ann Ciresi ●
Charles H. Clay Family CLAT Trust
Gregg and Beth Cummings
Scott and Tracy Cummings ◊
Sue and David Cummings
Mary Anne Ebert and Paul Stembler
Jean Freeman and Chris Raih ◊
Ryan and Jenny French
Robert and Sharla A. Frenzel ◊
Betsy Frost and Charlie Anderson ◊
John Geelan and Megan Feeney ◊
Lili Hall ●
The Hanifl Foundation
Andy and Melissa Ho ●
Hoyt and Zhen Zhen Hsiao ●
Dominic and Cassie Iannazzo ●
Katherine Johnson ◊
Melissa and Robert Leick ●
Anne Lockner Bernat and Brian Bernat ◊
Ralf and Mary Loeffelholz ◊
Trisha L. and Steven London ◊
Gaby and Joe Long ◊
Wendy Mahling ◊
Martinsen Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Kunal and Emmanuelle Mehta ◊
Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller
Kelly and Jon Miller ●
Sonny and Amy Miller ◊
Nnamdi and Karla Njoku ◊
Todd Noteboom and Nancy Brasel ●
Marri M. Oskam
Silvia Perez and Marcelo Valdes ●
Donald and Katie Porter ◊
Maria and David Reamer ◊
Gordon H. Ritz, Jr./Larsen Fund
Jack and Marilyn Rossmann
Anne Sempowski Ward
John L. Sullivan Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation ●
Margaret Wurtele
The Yoshikawa Family ◊
Patron
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
Brynn and Daniel Anderson
Jim and Julie Chosy ●
Joseph and Lois Duffy
Meredith and Jacob Englund ●
Lisa and William Finley
Fleetwood Foundation ●
Kathleen Flynn Peterson and Steve Peterson ●
Richard and Carrie Higgins ●
The Hodder Family Foundation
Paul Johnson and Jennifer Goodman Johnson
Lindsay J. Kruh
Melissa and Matt Ostrom ◊
Kristine and Matt Rauenhorst
Jeff and Susie Rissman
Hillery Shay ◊
Wendy C. Skjerven ●
WMN Foundation
Thomas and Julianne Youngren
Artist
$2,000 – $4,999
Anonymous (3)
Suzanne Ammerman
Barbara C. and Van O. Anderson ●
Gregory C. and Penny J. Anderson
Kay and Rick Bendel ●
Kari Blotske
Gary and Janet Christenson
Heather Cox
Jeff and Ann Davidman ●
Cy and Paula DeCosse Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Tami Diehm ◊
Peter and Lisa Diessner ●
The Dixit Family ◊
Henry and Hazel Dow
Meghan and James Dunbar
Nathan Dungan and Susan Hawks
Mark Fiecas and Renae Barilar Fiecas
Jim Hale ●
Gretta Hanson and Jeff Martell
Rachelle Haroldson and Matt Fransen
Dr. Brian Harrison
The Head Family Foundation ●
Sandy and John Hey ●
Josh and Alissa Hilman
John and Andrea Hutchinson
Jill and Mark Jensen
Scott and Julie Kammer
Rick Kassing
Gloria and Ivars Kauls
Joe and Anne Keeley ●
Charlie and Emily Kelley
Justin Kirk
Kimberly Krohn and John Fishpaw
Liz Lapetina and James Huang
Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier
Diane Lindquist and Jeff Huggett
Caroline and James Loken ●
Mary Meyer and Gordon Haugen
Bill and Katie Miller
Bruce and Tracy Mooty
Drew Moratzka and Anne Stephenson Moratzka
Luke and Laura Motschenbacher
Jeb and Charlene Myers ●
Jonathan Nygren and Anna Horning Nygren
Michael and Heather Olivier
JoAnne Pastel ●
Ronald and Kathryn Peterson
Kay Phillips and Jill Mortensen Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Andrew and Lisa Robertson
John Rodriguez
James and Joanne Smith
Rebecca and Mark Sorensen
Margaret and Matt Teasdale
Meredith and Sam Tutterow ●
David and Greta Van Benschoten ●
Adebisi and Joffrey Wilson ◊
Steph and Nate Wissink
Heather K. Wolf
Gary Zywotko
Community Circle
Headliner
$1,000 – $1,999
Anonymous (3)
Marstal and David Aamodt
Martha and Bruce Atwater Fund of Prospect Creek Foundation
GerShun Avilez ◊
Marissa and Robb Bader
Kassie and Jeff Beck
Pat Bennett
Jancyn and Jevon Bindman
Gregory and Susan Bishop
Judy Bond
Glenn Bottomly
Jessie and Will Brady
Jeff Brockmann and Shane Swanson ◊
Jessica and Clayton Burke
Jesseca and Michael Cockson
Joe Colletti and Tanya Wilcox-Colletti
Dr. Colleen Cooper and Mr. Richard Ihrig ●
David Crosby ●
Eleanor Crosby
Maryann D’Angelo
Jean M. Dehning
Tess Erickson and Mike Meyer
Leeann and Jeffrey Ettinger
Todd Hartman
Patricia Hinz
Julie A. Hoffer
Steve Hoffmeyer
M. Janice Hogan-Schiltgen
Elizabeth and Greg Horvitz
Roy and Kathy Jenson
Claire and Barney Johnson
Vint Johnson and Audrey Gaard Johnson
Terry Jones
Kelly Kabat
Kate Kelly and Todd Katopodis ●
Katie and Tyler LaGrange
Louis and Carrie Lambert
Brad Larson
Traci and Christopher Leffner
Todd and Beth Leonard
Curt MacKenzie
Ashley and Ricky Margarit ◊
Russell and Janice Michaletz
George Montague and Nan Dreher ●
David and Leni Moore Family Foundation
Polly Morrison
Erika and Bob Moser
Emily and Will Nicoll
Franklin L. Noel ●
John Owens and Pat Strong
Ann and Todd Parriott ●
Christine and Ben Phelps
Polly Posten ●
Mariana Quiroga and Sam Schinazi
Keith and Jody Radtke
Anton Rang
Cristie Ritz-King and Kevin King
Kenneth J. and Betsy Roering ●
Rebecca and Mark Roloff ●
Sandra and Paul Rosso
Frank and Betsy Russomanno ●
Jennifer and Adam Schmitt
Greg and Stacy Schumacher
Theo and Laura Schweitz
Casey Shultz
Ion and Sarah Skillrud ◊
Dr. Anne Stavney ●
Timothy and Sarah Stoeger
Nick and Anne Stukas
Debra Schipper
Laura and Matt Tanner
Nicholas Tygesson
Paula J. Vesely
William Weiner
Frances Wilkinson
Shay and Brenda Wyley
Leader
$500 – $999
Anonymous (6)
Brad and Cheryl Anderson
Howard and Wendy Bach
JP Beaty and Lilly Bendel-Stenzel
Bill and Mary Bemboom
Cathy Bendel and Joe Nuñez
Marcy and Randy Betcher
Sharon Bigot
David and Cynthia Blomberg
Deborah C. Bohn
Debbie Bonner
Ann Brilley
Steve Carlson
Mary and Wayne Carter
Nneka Constantino
Laurie and David Dahl
Robert Christian Davidson
Becky and Ryan Davis
Thomas E. Davis and Steve Boyle
Mairi Doerr
Rick and Murph Dow
Laura Duncombe
M. Vaughn Emerson and Katie Haag
Yen and Frank Fasano
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Feeney
Tara Finn
Amy and Mike Fiterman
Terry Flatten
Mark Frey
Harold and Cindi Goldfine
Jessica and Wayne Gray
Melinda Greer
Mary Ann and Loren Gross
Liv Guillaume
Rochelle Gunn and James Mayer
Kristie and Blake Hampton
Rebecca Harris
Sarah and William Hartong
Beverly and Todd Heilicher
Maia Hendel
William Hession and Jane Anderson
Heather Hinkel
David and Jackie Hogshire
Marilyne and Steven Honebrink
Bobby and Natalie Hunter
Lorna Beth and Brad Hutter
Richard and Kathleen Jackson ●
Toni Michelle Jackson
Michael and Danielle Jastrow
Elizabeth Johnston
Jane and Bert Kasiske
Margaret T. Kelly
Stacey Ketko and Kevin Grullon
Jill and Chuck Koosmann
David and Anita Kordonowy
Ellie Krug ◊
Ardella and Ronald Lagerquist
Anne and Charles Leck
Vera and Mark Lee
Cory and Laura Lukens
Mel Marvin
Kathryn McIntyre-Anderson
John G. and Lois M. McNutt Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Jacqueline Monroe
Jessica Moody
Vikram and Aradhna Narain ◊
Katie Nelsen
Dirk and Laura Nelson
Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Julia and Tom Nicholas
Dale and Kelly Nitschke
Caroline Njau and Jaisel Wachori
Patrick and Bridget O’Brien
Asha Okorie
Meredith and Tom Olson
James and Stephanie Pierce
Chelsea and Chris Radford
Thomas D. and Nancy J. Rohde
Ted and Kathy Saltzman
Jonathan and Marcee Schwartz
Kate Sherburne
John Siffert
Hilary Smedsrud
Betsy Tello
Patrick Thompson
Julie Troutman
Rita J. Trupe
Kristin Vlasak
Mike Watson and Beth Janetski
Grant and KariAnne Wayland
Brian J. Whinnery
Mark and Suzanne Wisniewski
Zoe Wisnoski
William Wittkopt
Ellen R. Zacharias
Advocate
$250 – $499
Anonymous (10)
Frank and Barb Abramson
Ali Ainsworth
Paul and Margot Andress
Dr. Howard Ansel
Suneel Arora and Joan Morse
Linnea L. and Jonathan Asp, M.D.
Karen O. Bachman
Darla Mae Baker
Abby Barber
Fay P. and Dick Beauchine
Linus Bendel-Stenzel
DeAnne and John Bennett
Kim K. Benson-Johnson
Pat and Merle Berry
Eleanor Blanchfield
Layne Brandvik
Barbara Brauch
Hibbs Brenner Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Russell Brightman
Kathleen and Marvin Brooks
Kathryn M. Brown
Jasmine Carlson
Hillary Clayburgh
Hanna Coleman
Jennifer Collins Ritter and Alex Ritter
Xander Condie
Alexandra Cunliffe
Patricia Davis
Tammy Dickinson-Ferrell
Nathan Dietz
Jean Donham
Susan C. Eastman
Bill Elwood and Elizabeth Allis
Julie and James Erickson
Sally Feder
Carrie Felber
Nancy K. Fesler
Kerry and Monica Field
Jane Finke
Barbara and Stephen Fischer
Barbara Gaddie
Troy Gaul
Jamie Gehani
Sally and Michael Ginsburg
Martha Goldberg Aronson and Daniel Aronson
Judge Isabel Gomez ●
Brian Jeffrey Govern
Tamar Green
Sara Grewing and Jon Schmidt
Julie Gudmestad
Arthur Harris
Ladele Harris
Sarah Hauge
Matthew Hawkins
Sonja Holden
Marilyn Holm
Jennifer Huang
Lizbeth Huertes and Riley Truax
Joerg and Jill Hutmacher
Mark and Jeanne Innerbichler ●
Mary Jane Jallen
Dean and Shereen Jensen
Jen Johnsen
Ronald and Sheila Johnson
Arron and Beth Kalis
Paul Kaminski and Rich Bonnin
Kendall Kapitan-Hondl
Steve King and Susan Boren King
Jessica Koenig
Cheryl Kortuem and Claire Hovland
Siri Kristenson
Kathryn and Thomas Kromroy
Hannah Kuhn
Paulita M. Laplante
Lisa and John Lewis
Jerry Lindberg
Susan M. Litecky
D., L., E., and N. Litman
Stephen Lorence
Chris Maier
Carl Reginald Maijer
Robin and Steven Manthie
Paul Mattson
Margaret Mayerle
Steve and Andrea McCue ●
Elizabeth McKie
James McMerty
Todd Moitz
Jeanne Nagle
Regina Neville
Diane Nordstrom
Arlys Osborne
Deloris Ouren
Sarah Paisley
Patricia Parrish and David Schaffer
Helen Paul and Steve Arnold
Sylvia Pearson
Kay Pepin
Julie Perry
Jane M. Persoon
Megan Phillips
Mark and Amy Pihlstrom
Dawn Pruitt
Mark Ratner
Andrew Rausch
Martha Raymond
Laurence and Nancy Reszetar
Kevin and Nancy Rhein
Marcia S. Robinson
Mary Robison
Molly Rolfsmeier and John Abraham
Adam Ruben
Amy Sanborn
Jenny Saxton
Mary Lou and Stephen Scheid
Sheri Schellhaass
Suzanne Schermerhorn
Kathy Schliesman
Erin Sibley
Jennifer Sigfrinius
Lynn Slifer
Kara and Ryan Smith ◊
Linnea Sodergren
Ann and Roger Spinner
Anne Stanfield
Valentina Stone
Jane E. Stoufer
Katherine Stromberg
Jean Taylor
Melony Taylor
Sarah Taylor
Amy Tharp
David and Jennifer Thomas
Michele and Peter Timmons
Tina Timmrrs
Annie Tursi
Annie and Matt Whitesel
Lani Willis
Roma Witzig
Debra Wynn Anderson
Jillian M. Zebeck