Welcome to Wonder
Alliance Theatre Sets Wonder Free
In giggles and gasps, it takes hold. And what delights during performances ignites a brighter future.
Introducing the Imagine Campaign, a $10 million endowment that will sustain access, capacity, and programming for the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families, a transformative new space designed to showcase year-round programming dedicated to children and youth. This fund will support access for youth to experience world-class programming on a stage that's all their own in perpetuity so that generations will experience what wonder can do.
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It's Time to Act
Our community’s low literacy rates and the nation’s urgent youth mental health crisis carry sobering effects.
But we are optimistic because research shows we have a proven role in the solution: early and consistent access to Alliance Theatre performances has the power to help reverse these trends. Independent research and studies in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education show our arts education programming:
- Enhances reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills
- Boosts standardized test scores and course grades
- Improves self-confidence and resilience
- Generates higher levels of tolerance
- Reduces behavioral infractions and absences
Support the Imagine Endowment
Alliance Theatre’s Imagine Endowment will ensure youth and children in our city, state, and beyond have access to the Alliance’s life-changing experiences for generations.
Alliance Theatre is a national leader in arts education with decades of delivering profoundly impactful social-emotional curriculum—demand for which grew by more than 80% in the past five years. By 2026, the Woodruff Arts Center will overhaul an outdated, underutilized auditorium into the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families, a premier performance space dedicated to unparalleled programs and professional theatre productions for young audiences.
Your support of the Alliance's Imagine Endowment will deliver on this promise:
 Double in-person access to reach more than 150,000 youth |
 Eliminate price as a barrier for children and families |
 Enable consistent, year-round youth and family programming to meet demand |
 Support streaming of programs to break geographic barriers to access |
 Expand grade-level field trip partnerships to all eight Metro Atlanta school districts |
 Add exceptional staff to support ambitious programming goals |
 Subsidize tickets and transportation for Title 1 schools |
 Empower positive emotional and learning outcomes that address mental health and literacy crisis |
Admit Everyone
In the heart of our city on its most iconic street will be a space to explore, grow, connect, and belong. For everyone.
To make a gift of $5,000 or more and for a list of naming opportunities, please contact Development Director Trent Anderson at trent.anderson@alliancetheatre.org or 404.733.4710.
Imagine Campaign Contributors
Current as of April 5, 2024.
Anonymous
Kristin Adams
James Anderson
Elizabeth Armstrong
Ken Bernhardt & Cynthia Currence
Cindy & Bobby Candler
Around the Table Foundation
Joel Babbit & Virginia Shackelford
Terri Bonoff & Matthew Knopf
Jennifer & Brian Boutte
Ann & Jeff Cramer
Jeffrey & Roxanne Cashdan
Joe Crowley & Phil Mack
Linda & Eugene Davidson
Reade & Katie Fahs
Howard & Ellen Feinsand
Richard & Marsha Goerss
John & Laura Hardman
Timothy Hardy & Allegra Lawrence-Hardy
Mr. & Mrs. Quill Healey II & Family
The Hertz Family Foundation
Jocelyn J. Hunter
Malvika Jhangiani & Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
John Keller
James & Lori Kilberg
Phyllis Kozarsky & Eliot Arnovitz
Alan McKeon & Evelyn Ashley
Hays & Anna Mershon
Hala & Steve Moddelmog
Phil & Caroline Moise
Starr Moore & the James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation
Victoria & Howard Palefsky
Papa John’s Foundation
Jamal & Tiffany Powell
Patty & Doug Reid
Robert & Margaret Reiser
Ronald Ridgeway
Maurice & Tricia Rosenbaum
Mark & Ruth Rosenberg
Mike Schleifer & Laura Hackman
The Selig Foundation // Linda & Steve Selig, Cathy & Steve Kuranoff
Kristen & Jordan Silton
William & Margie Sleeper
E. Kendrick & Caryl Smith
Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright
Benny & Roxanne Varzi
Rebekah & Mark Wasserman
Ben & Ramona White
Suzanne Bunzl Wilner
Todd & Amy Zeldin
