Dear Friends of Taffety Punk,

We are tremendously grateful for your support of Taffety Punk Theatre Company. We thank you for a fabulous year! Our 2025 season was a celebration of what Taffety Punk does best and we are ever grateful for your amazing support.

Our most recent production of Cyrano played to packed houses and rave reviews. Adapted and directed by company member Lise Bruneau, DC Theater Arts called the show “flawlessly directed” and rallied all saying, “Don’t miss it!” Broadway World extolled the incredible talents of our artists as “vibrant, visceral, and immediate” and continued the praise of their “unforgettable performances” saying, “this extraordinary cast delights and breaks our hearts.”

Earlier in the year, we mounted my own adaptation of Beowulf, directed by company member Chris Curtis. We were thrilled at how excited our community was to hear the oldest story in English, and how the tale continues to resonate so clearly to modern ears. 

Now more than ever, your gift is absolutely crucial to our success. 

It is no secret that funding for the arts is in a crisis. Historically reliable government sources of funding are drying up—and the sting felt from this realignment has hit us and other groups like us hard. Major funding for The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ is being stripped away. While we cannot blame them—they have always done well for all of the arts organizations in town—they have had to make difficult decisions. We are now facing a $15,000 deficiency in support right at the top of 2026.

It is directly because of you and our other wonderful Taffety Punk supporters that we are able to bring the highest quality and most affordable theatre to life. DC Theater Arts recently praised Taffety Punk’s Beowulf, A Retelling saying, “This…is the true role of art: to remind us of those enduring human values that don’t change over time: courage and generosity and kindness and empathy, selflessness and strength of character.” With your help we can continue to enrich the lives of our audience in this way: with art that invigorates us. 

Make your contribution via Square, Venmo, or PayPal.

Or become a monthly donor via Patreon.

Or send a check to Taffety Punk, PO Box 15392, Washington, DC 20003.

We are so grateful for your generous support and we are very excited to start rocking again in 2026!

Thank you so much!

Marcus Kyd, Artistic Director