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Sponsorship Opportunities


Sponsorships play a vital role in The Festival's success by providing financial support to help underwrite productions and programs. These projects make it possible for us to serve an average of 50,000 students and citizens annually in our community, region and state.

Production Sponsorships:

Over $25,000: Institutional Sponsorship
The Festival looks forward to customizing a special sponsorship package for arts councils, public institutions, corporations, businesses, foundations, individuals and families that contribute at this level.


$25,000: Production Sponsorship

Lead Playbill Title Page logo recognition as sponsor of the chosen production
Private performance for the sponsor's employees, clients and/or friends
Twelve tickets to The Producers annual Chairman's Roundtable Dinner at J. Basul Noble Restaurant
Twelve tickets to The Producers Buffet
Full-page playbill advertisement
Web site recognition


$10,000: Production Co-Sponsorship

Supporting Playbill Title Page logo recognition as co-sponsor of the chosen production
200 Complimentary Tickets to a performance, or to be distributed over various performances
Eight tickets to The Producers annual Chairman's Roundtable Dinner at J. Basul Noble Restaurant
Eight tickets to The Producers Buffet
Half page Playbill advertisement
Web site recognition


$5,000: Production Co-Sponsorship
Supporting Playbill Title Page logo recognition as co-sponsor of the chosen production
100 Complimentary Tickets to a performance, or to be distributed over various performances
Six tickets to The Producers annual Chairman's Roundtable Dinner J. Basul Noble Restaurant

Six tickets to The Producers Buffet

Half page Playbill advertisement
Web site recognition


Program Sponsorships:

NCSF offers more than a dozen Outreach Education programs, for people from all walks of life, and all stages of life, from grade school children to seniors. We look forward to customizing recognition and benefit packages for these programs in accordance with a sponsor's particular interests and planned contribution level.

The following programs are available for sponsorship opportunities:
Shakespeare to go Tours - the region's premier in-school Shakespeare performance experience
ShakeSpirit - bring teaching artists into the classroom statewide
Hand-on Shakespeare - Teacher workshops
SchoolFest matinee performances - entire program or individual performances
Signed Performances for the hearing impaired
AfterWords post-show discussions


Current Sponsors (As of 1/8/2007):

Institutional Sponsor: The State of North Carolina
Special funding provided by The North Carolina General Assembly and distributed through The Department of Cultural Resources supports The Festival's productions and programs overall, particularly The Festival's statewide outreach efforts.

Institutional Sponsor: The High Point Area Arts Council
As a funded affiliate of the arts council, The Festival receives annual funding support for serving the greater High Point area with its productions and progams. High Point Area Arts Council funding includes allocations from The City of High Point and Guilford County.

Institutional Sponsor: The High Point Convention and Visitor's Bureau
The HPCVB's annual support helps the Festival advertise its productions throughout the greater Triad and the state.

Institutional Sponsor: Guilford County
Special funding provided by Guilford County supports The Festival's extensive service to students and teachers countywide through its SchoolFest matinees, ShakeSpirit classroom visits and GlobeWorks school tours.

Production Sponsor: New Breed Corporation
Over the past decade New Breed has played a leadership role in The Festival's success as both a sponsor and co-sponsor of our productions. This season New Breed has chosen to co-sponsor The Festival's production of Arthur Miller's masterpiece, The Crucible.

Production Sponsor: Flow BMW Mini

NCSF's productions of TRU and Faith Healer headline the premier of this new program of expansion into Winston-Salem, The Twin City Season. Flow BMW Mini's sponsorship support plays a vital role in The Festival's effort to diversify its progamming in order to serve a larger and more diverse population of students and citizens.

Production Co-Sponsor: The High Point Theatre
NCSF's inaugural production of its new Family Theatre season is Reynard the Fox, Aurand Harris's delightful tale of the wiley Reynard and his forest friends. Since its premiere season in 1977, NCSF has had the privilege of producing its major productions at the beautiful and well-equipped High Point Theatre stage. We're thrilled The High Point Theatre values our many years of service by co-sponsoring Reynard.

Program Sponsor: Banner Pharmacaps, Inc.

Banner Pharmacaps, Inc. continues its support of The Festival by again sponsoring Sign Interpreted performances for NCSF’s MainStage productions of The Crucible and The Comedy of Errors.