Membership and Annual Fund

Surflight Theatre’s Annual Fund coincides with our fiscal year — January-December. This fund is renewed each January and the proceeds support our operating expenses.  The majority of our operating budget is devoted to expenses related to our productions and educational programs. Such costs include sets, costumes, props, lighting and sound equipment and housing costs for our cast & crew and stipends for our interns.

By contributing at least $40 to our Annual Fund, you become a member of the Joseph P. Hayes Theatre, Inc.   Membership entitles you to attend our general membership meeting held every October and to nominate and vote for members of the Joseph P. Hayes Theatre Inc. Board of Trustees.  The various levels of membership offer assorted benefits, ranging from receiving a membership card and our newsletter, Surf’s Up, to discounts on MainStage tickets, to pre-seating for Children’s Theatre, to season tickets for all MainStage productions for the season. 

 

Membership Levels & Benefits

STARS ($40) Receive an individual membership in Joseph P. Hayes Theatre, Inc.

BENEFACTORS ($75) Receive a family membership in Joseph P. Hayes Theatre, Inc.

ANGELS ($100) Receive a family membership PLUS Listing on Lobby Plaque and a Backstage Tour for Two.  

SUPERSTARS ($250) Receive ANGELS’ Benefits PLUS $4.00 discount on any regularly priced MainStage tickets purchased, Pre-seating at Children’s Theatre performances, One Souvenir Book, Two tickets to a Technical or Dress Rehearsal.

 

 

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($500) Receive SUPERSTARS’ Benefits PLUS $5.00 discount on any regularly priced MainStage tickets purchased, SURFLIGHT discount at Show Place take out window, one Surflight clothing item.

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE ($1,000) Receive DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Benefits PLUS $6.00 discount on any regularly priced MainStage tickets purchased, and an additional Surflight clothing item.

FOUNDER'S CIRCLE ($2,500) Receive PRODUCER'S CIRCLE Benefits PLUS 2 season tickets to all MainStage Productions and $7.00 discount on any other regularly priced MainStage tickets purchased.

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($5,000 and above) Receive FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Benefits PLUS $8.00 discount on any other regularly priced MainStage tickets purchased and 2 tickets to all other special performances, including the Opening Gala.  

 

Capital Campaign

The goal of the campaign is to retire the 4 million dollar debt incurred when Joseph P. Hayes Theatre, Inc. purchased Surflight in 2001, allowing the theatre to operate as a nonprofit entity.

Funds raised through this 4-year campaign will also be used for capital improvements to our theatre building, shops and housing facilities.  While donors receive no tangible benefits for contributing to the Capital Campaign, all contributions will be recognized in our playbills and souvenir books for the entire length of the campaign (2001-2005).  There are several contribution levels and your contributions are acknowledged on a cumulative basis.  Therefore, if you contributed $50 the first year and then $150 each of the next three years, you would be acknowledged as a “Friend” the first year, as a “Supporter” the second year, and as a “Patron” by the fourth year.  We also offer naming opportunities as part of the Capital Fund, allowing your donation to be recognized in perpetuity.  Naming opportunities range from the theatre seats and bricks on our sidewalk to the theatre building itself.  Patrons have now named over 70 bricks as well as our Box Office, Lobby, Artistic Personnel Residence Living Room, Cast House Kitchen and two of the bedrooms in the Artistic Personnel Residence.  Donors who take advantage of naming opportunities are acknowledged in our lobby display, entrance to the room or building named and in our playbills.  Contributions of a $1,000 or more can be pledged over a period of up to 4 years.

 

Naming Opportunities

 

Theatre Name (e.g. “The _____ _____ Surflight Theatre”):    

Carpentry, Paint & Prop shops ( Original Theatre Building ):     

Auditorium:                                                                                       

Cast House ( 1101 South Bay Avenue ):           

Artistic Personnel Residence ( 209 Engleside Avenue ):

Women’s Dressing Room:

Men’s Dressing Room:      

Main Office:

Costume Shop:

Lobby:            

Costume Warehouse:

Outdoor Rehearsal Platform:             

Living Room/Family Room ( 1101 S. Bay Avenue ):        

Living Room/Family Room ( 209 Engleside Avenue ):

Cast House Kitchen:

Artistic Personnel Residence Kitchen                                                                

Cast House Laundry Room:

6 bedrooms ( 209 Engleside Avenue ):

16 bedrooms  ( 1101 S. Bay Avenue ):

Lighting System:

Sound System:

Bricks in front of the Theatre and on the Patio (Double Brick)

Bricks in front of the Theatre and on the Patio (Single Brick )

Theatre Seats: