Hamilton-Gibson Productions has announced that Ward Manufacturing is HG’s Season Sponsor for 2024.Ward is continuing its financial support of HG for the third year in a row. The company was HG’s season sponsor in 2022 and 2023 and will be again in 2024. 

“We are grateful to Ward for their continuing support,” said Thomas Putnam, artistic director for the community performing arts organization. “The Season Sponsor’s dollars are not designated for any particular HG program or production. They are a safety net that provides the resources to take care of what is not covered by individual sponsorships for our community theater productions, choir concerts, and special programs,” Putnam said.

Hamilton-Gibson Productions is financed by several local sources. “It’s like a puzzle with a myriad of pieces that help keep us afloat by providing opportunities for people of all ages to enrich and empower their lives through community performing arts,” Putnam said. 

Each program or production offers sponsorship opportunities, which go directly to specific costs of an event. “Venue fees, royalties (rights to produce a play or musical), director and choreographer honorariums, scripts, marketing, costumes, and set materials all require a substantial amount of money,” he said  “Revenues from box office admissions cover a very small fraction of our total operating costs,” said Putnam. “HG has been blessed with a large number of local businesses, foundations, and entities—including families—who have joined in our mission and help us remain sustainable by being sponsors of a program or production they choose to support,” Putnam said. 

“Although many of our 2024 events are sponsored, there are several that are in need of financial support,” said Putnam. Among them are main stage productions such as  “Night of The Living Dead Live”; “Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic”; and “Once Upon A Crime: The Trial of Goldilocks” as well as two choir concerts and the annual production of “A Christmas Carol” during Wellsboro’s Dickens of a Christmas in December. A business, family or agency willing to support ongoing community programs, such as the theatre arts camps for youth, are asked to contact the HG office at 29 Water Street, Wellsboro, PA 16901 or call 570-724-2079, or email hamgib@gmail.com.  Recently, HG sent out an annual appeal to patrons. “We rely on a large number of patrons who contribute $10 to thousands of dollars and are incredibly thankful to all who help sustain us by sending in their contributions year after year, however large or small,” Putnam said.