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Denver Actors Fund Celebrates Dr. Brian Kelly’s Selection as 2026 Colorado Theatre Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

June 22, 2026

The Denver Actors Fund is thrilled to celebrate Dr. Brian Kelly, DDS, as the recipient of the Colorado Theatre Guild’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award. As DAF’s partnering dentist and a member of our board of directors, Dr. Kelly has provided more than $200,000 in emergency dental care to Colorado theater artists facing financial hardship. His generosity has relieved pain, restored health and helped countless members of our theater community continue doing what they love. A Broadway veteran himself, Dr. Kelly

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PAWS Fund Now Offers Up to $1,000 in Veterinary Assistance

June 9, 2026

The Denver Actors Fund has been working to grow and stabilize the pool of restricted donations that make it possible for our separately managed PAWS Fund to help Colorado theater artists pay down their pet veterinary expenses. Thanks to the community’s generosity, the board of directors has authorized an increase in the annual household limit from $500 every 12 months to $1,000. Effective immediately, every qualifying household will be eligible for up to $1,000 in reimbursed veterinary expenses for any

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Denver Actors Fund introduces the PAWS Fund

April 20, 2023

The Denver Actors Fund has announced its latest innovation to help Colorado theater artists: The creation of a new, separate support source called the PAWS Fund that will make limited financial relief from pet-related medical bills available to qualified members of the Colorado theater community. “We started the Denver Actors Fund to help Colorado theater artists experiencing medical hardships, and we have discovered that emergency pet medical expenses can be just as financially devastating to them as their own medical

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