Keep the Arts Thriving: Support the Performing Arts Academy
Every time the curtain rises at The Performing Arts Academy in Middletown, Ohio, our audiences see the finished product: performers stepping into the spotlight, costumes bringing characters to life, sets transforming the stage, and stories unfolding in front of family and friends.
But there is so much that happens before that moment.
Behind every performance are hours of rehearsals, classrooms and performance spaces to maintain, costumes and props to create, lighting and sound equipment to care for, and countless everyday needs that make arts education and live theatre possible.
That’s why we created the Keep the Arts Thriving Fund.
What Is the Keep the Arts Thriving Fund?
The Keep the Arts Thriving Fund is the General Fund for The Performing Arts Academy, a nonprofit performing arts organization in Middletown, Ohio.
Donations provide flexible support that allows PAA to respond to the areas where funding is needed most. That may include building maintenance and facility improvements, theatre equipment, costumes and production expenses, educational programming, scholarships and financial assistance, and everyday operating needs.
Rather than supporting just one production or program, a gift to the General Fund helps support the organization that makes all of those experiences possible.
What Does the Keep the Arts Thriving Fund Support?
Ticket sales and tuition are an important part of supporting PAA, but they don’t cover the full cost of operating a nonprofit performing arts organization.
Just like any home, our building requires ongoing care and maintenance. Theatre equipment needs to be repaired, replaced, and improved. Productions require costumes, sets, props, scripts, and technical resources. And behind all of that are the everyday expenses necessary to provide a welcoming place where students can learn, rehearse, create, and perform.
Gifts to the Keep the Arts Thriving Fund may help support:
- Building maintenance and facility improvements
- Stage lighting, sound, and technical equipment
- Classroom, rehearsal, and performance spaces
- Costumes, sets, props, and production needs
- Student scholarships and financial assistance
- Arts education and programming
- Day-to-day operating expenses
- The areas of greatest need at the Academy
Because General Fund gifts aren’t designated for one particular production or project, PAA has the flexibility to use these donations where they can make a meaningful difference.
Why Your Support Matters
For us, maintaining a building isn’t simply about taking care of a building.
It’s about maintaining a place.
A place where someone can walk into an audition for the first time and discover the courage to step onstage.
A place where friendships form during rehearsals.
A place where creativity is encouraged, confidence grows, and performers of different ages can experience the excitement of bringing a story to life.
A place where students can discover a lifelong love of the performing arts.
And a place where families and our community can come together to experience live theatre.
When you support the Performing Arts Academy General Fund, you help make all of those moments possible.
Want to help create the next PAA moment? Make a gift to the Keep the Arts Thriving Fund.
Every Gift Makes a Difference
You don’t have to make a large donation to have an impact.
When members of our community give what they can—whether that’s $10, $25, $50, $100, or more—those gifts come together to provide meaningful support for the Academy.
Every contribution becomes part of something bigger: another rehearsal, another opportunity, another production, another student discovering what they can accomplish.
Every gift helps keep our doors open, our lights shining, and our curtain rising.
Help Us Keep the Arts Thriving
If The Performing Arts Academy has been part of your family’s story, if you’ve sat in our audience and cheered for someone you love, or if you simply believe that access to the performing arts makes our community stronger, we invite you to be part of PAA’s next chapter.
Your support today helps ensure that students and performers will continue to have a place to learn, create, grow, and shine for years to come.
Will you help us Keep the Arts Thriving?
From everyone at The Performing Arts Academy, thank you for believing in the power of the performing arts and in the people who bring them to life.
