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Corporate Sponsorship

Enabling everyone to discover the magic of Shakespeare.

Overview

Founded in 2003, Delaware Shakespeare brings our community together for thrilling classical theatre and learning experiences. With help from our corporate sponsors, we serve 4,000 to 6,000 people annually, including over 700 children, in Delaware and the surrounding region. We invite you to be a Delaware Shakespeare supporter as we continue to grow!


Sponsorship Levels

Delaware Shakespeare will work with corporate sponsors to create a custom benefits package, potentially including logo placements, complimentary tickets, playbill ads (only for the Summer Festival), and more.

Scroll down to learn more about the sponsorship categories. Click the images to access our full sponsorship package for each production.

  • Headliner Sponsor | $5,000
  • Benefactor Sponsor | $2,500
  • Sponsor | $1,000
  • Summer Festival
  • Community Tour

Additional programs that target specific populations (The Bridge [At-risk Youth], Family Nights, Children’s Activity Tent, and the Nancy B. Lynch College Apprentice Program) can be sponsored, with benefits tailored to suit your philanthropic goals.


Headliner Sponsor: $5,000

Your company can be a production sponsor for the three-week Summer Festival or the four-week fall Community Tour. Benefits range from announcements to social media video posting. Rehearsal access and a creativity and collaboration workshop means connecting with our artists.


Benefactor Sponsor: $2,500

Your company can be a benefactor sponsor for the three-week Summer Festival or the four-week fall Community Tour. Benefits range from social media video posting to rehearsal access.


Sponsor: $1,000

Your company can be a sponsor for the three-week Summer Festival or the four-week fall Community Tour. Benefits include invitations to the production’s first rehearsal / meet and greet.

For more information, please contact:

Danielle Sullivan
Delaware Shakespeare
4 S. Poplar St.
Wilmington, DE 19801


Black Lives Matter

View “Anti-Racism Next Steps” Shakespeare is not a voice we naturally turn to for racial justice. There are elements of his work that are problematic for Black artists and audience members. But at his best what Shakespeare tries to do in his plays is to see every person as a full and complete human being. […]

Send a Shakespeare Love Note to Our Community

Let’s fill social media with messages of love in the run-up to Valentine’s Day! We’re inviting Del Shakes fans to record a video of a brief Shakespeare love quote, and share it with us. We’ll post on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Here’s a list of ten Shakespeare love quotes compiled by Associate Artist Emily Schuman. Or you […]

Shakespeare + St. Valentine

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 at 7:30pm ONLINE Our annual Valentine’s program shifts to a virtual format in 2021. A diverse group of Del Shakes actors will read romantic Shakespeare scenes. Each scene will be paired with a drink idea from Swigg and a chocolate from a local chocolatier*. In this interactive program, there will also be […]

Hip Hop or Shakespeare? Quiz Night

Hip Hop or Shakespeare? Quiz NightFebruary 4 at 7:00pmOnline via ZoomPay-What-You-Decide  Think you can tell your 2Pac from your Shakespeare? Join us for a virtual quiz night to find out. In this fun interactive program, you’ll learn about the surprising connections and poetic similarities between the wordplay of the Bard from Avon and hip hop artists […]

An ancient tale told anew

by Gail Obenreder, Arts Journalist-in-Residence To end a challenging season – an amalgam of virtual events and safely distanced outdoor presentations – Delaware Shakespeare rounded out 2020 with an online reading of a challenging play, William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. After a year spent offstage, exploring the canon’s scenes, monologues, and nooks and crannies, Del Shakes actors […]

Building Bridges Through Culture

by Christian Wills, Arts Journalist-in-Residence The topic around race and culture among Shakespeare productions is an ongoing conversation with those in the theatre. Audience members can gleam onto an actor’s struggle between their true selves and what’s being represented on stage. For Del Shakes, the discovery of what a culturally-specific production is and how impactful […]

  • New Castle County

    Matthew S. Meyer, County Executive. New Castle County's Rockwood Park is the summer home of Delaware Shakespeare. www.rockwood.org

  • Delaware Division of the Arts

    Delaware Shakespeare is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on delawarescene.org.

  • Janssen's Market

    Delaware Shakespeare is delighted to have Janssen's Market as our Picnic Sponsor. www.janssensmarket.com

  • Highmark Delaware

    Highmark Delaware is our Children's Activity Tent Sponsor.
    www.highmarkbcbsde.com

  • Swigg

    Swigg is our Wine Shop Sponsor.
    www.swiggwine.com

  • Delmarva Power

    Delmarva Power have generously donated assistance and resources to Delaware Shakespeare. www.delmarva.com

Summer Festival Location

Rockwood Park
4651 Washington Street Extension
Wilmington, DE 19809
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4 S. Poplar Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-468-4890
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We envision a Delaware where people from all walks of life celebrate and explore their shared humanity through the lens of Shakespearean works.
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