Business Support
Smart Business People Come to Play at Geva
For 50 years, Geva Theatre has been at the cultural heart of Rochester. Each year, Geva serves up to 160,000 people – including business and corporate leaders. families, children and youth, and potential customers for your business
Put Your Company in the Spotlight
Geva offers a variety of business sponsorships from our Executive and Co-Producers who align their brand with a specific production for maximum exposure to exciting opportunities to sponsor a performance, event or community program.
Benefits vary with gift level and opportunity. Sponsor Benefits can be tailored to suit your company’s needs and interests. To learn more about how you can form a strategic partnership with Geva Theatre to meet your organization’s specific marketing and philanthropic goals. please contact the Advancement Office at (585) 420-2041.
Business Support Benefits
Get the Star Treatment with a Geva Partnership
A partnership with Geva reinforces your brand excellence, offers unique marketing opportunities, provides opportunities for special business development events, gives employees and clients free and discounted tickets, and counts you among the businesses and community leaders who strive to uphold the vitality of the Rochester-area community.
Promotion, Advertising & Visibility
Logo and company prominently displayed in publications. programs. lobby displays. posters and banners.
Corporate Entertaining
Prime complimentary tickets and the opportunity to entertain in the Dawn & Jacques Lipson MD Lounge, our café or rehearsal hall.
Employee Benefits
Public Relations
Company image will be identified with the excellence, creativity, quality and community service that Geva Theatre represents.
Quality of Life
An investment in the community involves supporting its important institutions, which provide unique, high-quality programs for your employees, clients and customers.
Tax-Deductibility:
Geva Theatre is a non-profit 501(c)3) organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Play Your Part in Supporting
A Creative Engine
Exceptional theatrical art is created at Geva specifically for a community that appreciates quality, and recognizes its importance to our collective enrichment and entertainment. Over 75 new plays and musicals developed at Geva have gone on to productions across America and internationally over the past 15 years.
A Community Leader
Geva is a cultural anchor for downtown Rochester and a theatrical resource for the region, supporting more than 20 local theatre and dance companies since 2007. Each year 40.000 youth and adults are immersed in artistic expression, cultural understanding and the discipline of the performing arts through Geva’s educational and community programming. Geva’s full-time and part-time staff are an important part of the fabric of Rochesters community life.
A Dynamic Facility
At the gateway to the Center City, Geva Theatre is a central gathering place where the issues and stories of our time have been presented and explored for over 140 years, inspiring future generations to creative thought and cultural expression. Your support ensures that Rochester will continue to enjoy high quality theatrical programming. keeping the downtown area active every night of the week. This vibrant cultural life directly affects your ability to attract and retain employees in today’s competitive business environment.
Production Sponsorships
Executive Producers enjoy the highest level of exposure, recognition and benefits specially tailored to meet the dynamic needs of their individual organizations. These companies enjoy premium visibility while greatly enhancing and enriching the high standards of Geva Theatre and the greater Rochester community.
Lead Co-Producers realize tremendous promotional visibility by helping to underwrite the production costs of a Geva Wilson Stage production. These companies have a direct impact on the quality and artistry of our performances as they position their businesses directly in the public spotlight! Benefits include name recognition, all co-producer benefits, plus prominent recognition in our marketing and advertising (up to 15 million media impressions).
Co-Producers enjoy promotional visibility by helping to underwrite the production costs of a Geva Wilson Stage production. Benefits include name recognition, complimentary tickets, entertaining options, and extensive advertising and marketing (up to 10 million media impressions).
Geva’s engaging second stage engages audiences with the most innovative and imaginative artists and productions on the scene today – fresh contemporary theatre featuring plays, music, improvisation and more. Co-Producers enjoy promotional visibility by helping to underwrite the production costs of a Geva Fielding Stage production. Benefits include name recognition, complimentary tickets, entertaining options and extensive advertising and marketing.
Performance Sponsors are in the spotlight for a night! Your business is featured in a starring role as you welcome your guests on this special evening. The ideal way to entertain clients or employees – a reception and theatre tickets to a Geva production!
Arts Education & Community
Engagement Sponsorships
Underwriting for this program is offered in up to 16 $5,000 shares to cover the cost of providing 1,600 Rochester City School District students with free tickets to student matinees, Teacher Workshops, Teacher Previews of Geva’s shows, Discovery Guides reinforcing the curriculum, Discovery Workshops in schools, Talkbacks after the student matinee performance, and In-School Actor Visits.
Geva Theatre offers up to 20 education and outreach programs with each production. Sponsors have the opportunity to support school matinees, student ticket underwriting, Discovery Guide printing and post-performance discussions.
Special Event Sponsorships
Special events surrounding a production or theme presented in a show, including a reading of a play or benefit performance with post-show community forum and/or discussion.
Opening night reception for each production. Benefits include recognition as host for the evening, complimentary tickets to the production and invitations to corporate events.
Geva’s annual fundraising gala features performances by local celebrities and business leaders in a production created by Artistic Director Emeritus Mark Cuddy specifically for the event, live and silent auctions, and excellent food under a tent on Woodbury Boulevard and throughout the theatre. All proceeds benefit arts education at Geva Theatre.
Business Membership Levels
Become a Business Member at Geva
Business Membership provides exciting opportunities for businesses, employees and clients to enjoy Geva Theatres renowned productions through complimentary premium tickets and discounts on additional tickets. Business Members also enjoy visibility among Geva’s educated, loyal. professional audience, and occasions to go behind the scenes and learn how the magic of live theatre is made.
All Business Members Receive
- Season-long recognition in the Wilson Stage and Fielding Stage playbills
- Season-long recognition on donor signage in the theatre vestibule
- Discounts on tickets for performances during the first two weeks of Wilson Stage and Fielding Stage pro
ductions (up to 25%) - Invitation to the annual New Season Announcement in March
- Three ticket vouchers (each valid for 2 premium tickets; 6 tickets total)
- Backstage tour for four guests
- Six ticket vouchers (each valid for 2 premium tickets; 12 tickets total)
- Two VIP tickets to an Opening Night event for a Wilson Stage production
- Private backstage tour for six guests
- One-time space rental fee waiver (subject to availability; some fees and exclusions may apply)
- Twelve ticket vouchers (each valid for 2 premium tickets; 24 tickets total)
- Four VIP tickets to an Opening Night event for a Wilson Stage production
- Private backstage tour for six guests
- One-time space rental fee waiver (subject to availability; some costs and exclusions may apply)
- Recognition as an Associate Producer for a Wilson Stage production
- Recognition in select marketing for the production
- Recognition in all publicity for the production
- Half-page ad in the playbill for the production
- Fifteen ticket vouchers (each valid for 2 premium tickets; 30 tickets total)
- Eight VIP tickets to the Opening Night reception for the production
- Recognition on the cover of the playbill for the production
- Private backstage tour for eight guests
- Logo posted on Geva’s website with a link to the business website
- One-time space rental fee waiver (subject to availability; some fees and exclusions may apply)
