We may live in uncertain times, but thankfully we’re also part of a great community. Your support these past few years helped us survive a global pandemic not every regional theater made it through – and we still see more theaters closing in 2023 from the damage already wrought. The way we do business has changed likely for good, with costs still at an all time high.

Since we started our Annual Campaign, the funds raised have allowed us to inspire and entertain over 100,000 people while employing over 400 artists – all who call this region home. It has allowed us to develop an education program that has offered over 25,000 students access to professional, engaging theater while sparking the imaginations of even more directly in their classrooms at school. The Annual Campaign also allows us to keep a majority of the cost of a ticket going into the pockets of our artists, and not to overhead.

This fall, we will take a major step to offering a living wage to our artists when we increase guaranteed actor and stage manager salaries by 41%, with offstage salaries increasing between 25-50% by area. Jobsite also pays all apprentices and interns at a rate no less than $15/hr, and can boast that not a single person is volunteering their time to the creation of a show out of simple passion.

In 2020 we brought over 1,600 students into our theater for A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the way to impacting over 5,000 students in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, and Manatee counties. In 2022 we were among the first to return to in-person field trips with Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet just set records with a sold-out field trip run.