News & Updates - Denver Actors Fund

Denver Actors Fund DEAR Fund expires at $100,000

March 23, 2020

NOTE: The Denver Actors Fund’s DEAR Fund has expired after having provided Colorado theatre artists more than $100,000 in emergency income replacement following the COVID-19 shutdown. The DAF is actively exploring new ways in which it might be able to provide long-term artist assistance specific to the ongoing ban on indoor public performances. Check back for developments.

Slider Tara Falk

November 28, 2019

Why The Denver Actors Fund has retired ‘Miscast’

October 24, 2019

‘Miscast’ fundraiser retired; community input sought on moving forward For six years, the tagline for the popular annual “Miscast” fundraiser was: “It may be all wrong … but it feels so right.” It no longer feels right. From 2014 through 2019, hundreds of area actors and musicians kindly donated their time and talents to the feel-good fundraiser, which was billed as an opportunity for members of the local theatre community “to sing songs from roles they would never get cast