CINDERELLA LIBERATOR LOST ITS NEA FUNDING.
Now we need you more than ever.

Dear Friends,

We lost our NEA funding.

There’s no easy way to say it. At a time when art should be a balm, a provocation, a meeting place—we’re watching public support shrink. And we’re feeling the weight of that here at Marin Shakespeare Company. We had counted on that support to help bring Cinderella Liberator—a bold, heart-forward collaboration between Rebecca Solnit (yes, that Rebecca Solnit) and Lauren Gunderson (America’s most-produced playwright and one of its fiercest hearts)—to the stage.

This story of joy, agency, and liberation is exactly what children and families need right now. It doesn’t discard the fairytale—it transforms it into something honest, expansive, and deeply possible.

This isn’t just a show. It’s a conversation between generations. A space for kids and their grownups to laugh, reflect, and see themselves—not as what the world expects, but as who they truly are and who they might become.

We’re holding on with everything we’ve got, because we believe in it. Because kids deserve to see themselves in stories of freedom and kindness. Because families deserve to share an experience that opens the world, not shrinks it.

And now, we need you.

If you believe in art that changes people—across ages and generations—please support this project.

Your donation, in any amount, becomes the breath that keeps it alive.

Thank you for dreaming with us, for standing with us, and for refusing to let this kind of art fade.

Please watch the video below for words directly from the mouths of those who will make this thing happen… with your help.

With gratitude,
Jon Tracy
Artistic Director
Marin Shakespeare Company


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Marin Shakespeare Company
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San Rafael, CA 94913

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