Northlight's Next Act

The success of Northlight’s Next Act depends on the support of generous donors like you.

We would love to meet with you and share further details of this exciting project! To learn more, please contact Kim Hoopingarner, Capital Campaign Director, khoopingarner@northlight.org or at 847.324.1614.

Steering Committee

Thank you to our generous supporters

$4,000,000 +

Illinois Arts Council

State of Illinois

$1,000,000 - $3,999,999

Anonymous

City of Evanston

Mary and Paul Finnegan

Nan and Wally Greenough

Sue and Tim Sullivan

$500,000 - $999,999

Anonymous

Sandra and William Farrow III

Grumman|Butkus Associates

Katten

Revada Foundation

Greg and Anne Taubeneck

$250,000 - $499,999

Anonymous (2)

Jimmy and Mary Allen

Lisa M. Altenbernd and Stephen H. Hagerty

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Ann and Brian Balusek

Douglas R Brown and Rachel E Kraft

Byline Bank

Marcia Caulkins

Eckenhoff Saunders Architects

Barbara Goodman and Seth Weinberger

Freddi Greenberg and Dan Pinkert

Grumman Family

The Offield Family Foundation

Bob Regan and Cindy Clark

William & Eleanor Revelle

Pat Ryan Jr.

Sloan Valve Company

$100,000 - $249,999

Anonymous (5)

Judith Kamps Artwick

Julie and Josh Chernoff

Jennifer W. Christensen

CoBank

The Davee Foundation

Barbara V. and Michael W. Davis

Mary Dillon

Paul L. Epner and Janet E. Gans Epner

Michal and Craig Golden

J. Douglas and Marion Cameron-Gray

BJ Jones, Candace Corr, and Family

Kirkegaard: Acoustics & AV

Paul Lehman and Ronna Stamm

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Bonnie and Jay Lytle

Jim and Joanell McKenna

Susie McMonagle and Dan Reinberg

Lloyd B. Morgan

Carol and Steve Mullins

Northwestern University

Brent and Michelle Rogers

Sara and Horst Schastok

Thomas D. Stringer

Constance and Hugh Williams

Joan Yohanan

Gifford Zimmerman

$50,000-$99,999

Diane and Karl Berolzheimer

Mike Brody and Libby Ester

Patricia and James Corirossi

Evanston Community Foundation

Franklin Square Foundation

Donna and Gene Frett

Bernard Friedman

Susan Mabrey Gaud and Henry T. Gaud Jr.

Guy and Joan Gunzberg

Annie and Greg Jones

Tiffany and Tobi Laczkowski

Leslie and Paul Lehner

Paul Lurie

Blythe McGarvie

Marie and Arch McKellar

Merril Prager and John Levine

Ben Pritzker

John and Julie Rapisarda

Catherine and Bart Rocca

Ed Smolevitz and Rhonda Stein

Mr. and Mrs. Kent Swanson

TGRWA

Tony Valukas and Cathy Beres

$25,000-$49,999

Anonymous

Ken and Nancy Arlen

Anne C Berkeley

John and Jennifer Bienko

Robert and Sara Brenner

Mark and Margaret Burka

Carole Cahill

The Crown Family

Mary Dolan and David Haracz

Joanie and Jim Ducayet

James and Pam Elesh

Tim and Jane Evans

Margaret and Joseph P Flanagan Family

Reetu Gowdar Sanders and William Sanders

The Gwilliam Family

The Hackney Family Fund

Thomas and Gail Hodges

John J. Cahill Inc.

Linda Karn

Judy and Bob Kemp

Molly G. Levitt

Sally and Darush Mabadi

Minasian Rug Company

Neal Moglin and Mark Tendam

Judy Newton

Meghan Otis and John Tompkins

Missy Pascal

Atlee Valentine Pope and Rick Pope

The Margot and Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation

Cecelia and Tom Ricketts

Rahul and Anuradhika Roy

Judy and David Schiffman

Schuler Shook Theatre Planners / Lighting Designers

Robert and Charlene Shaw 

Bob and Lisa Silverman

Alvin and Kate Spector

Ingrid and William Stafford

Neal and Trimmy Stamell

Joan Waggoner

Zacek-McVay Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation

$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous

Judith Aiello-Fantus

Diane and Mike Beemer

Christy Callahan and Drew Pfeifer

Joe Cappo

Dan Chow and Candance Parks Chow

CBOE

Cathy Clark

Fay Clayton

Jeff and Liz Coney

Jane & David Doyle

Robert M. Easter and Linda Brennan Easter

Sarah and Brian Flax

Neil and Marge Gambow

Matt Gehringer and Suzanne Metzel

William and Anne Goldstein

Sallie and Alan Gratch

Eleanor Grumman

Eric Haab and Kim Yee

Dorothy Harza

Kim and Kirk Hoopingarner

Susan Karol and Glenn Warning

L. Klug and B. Farrelly

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Jordan and Jean Nerenberg

Ginny Noyes

Kathleen Okrent and Peter Haleas

John and Christine Peschier

Stacy and Scott Simpson

Mel Smith and Janet Carl Smith

Vicky Vaccaro

Linda and Payson Wild

Dr. Eric Witherspoon

Carolyn Young

$5,000 - $9,999

Anonymous

Bernstein Cleveland

Deborah and Thomas Brejcha

Margo and Paul Brown

Ron and Kavita Chadha

Mary Jane Chainski

Diana Cohen and David Spitulnik

Max and Beth Boosalis Davis

Dave and April Deming

Matt and Ellen Feldman

Janet Fischer

Bonnie S. Forkosh and Dick Cohen

Robert and Maurita Freas

Bryna and Edward P. Gamson

Virginia Gerst

Laura Tucker and Peter Giangreco

Hagerty Consulting

Tom and Jan Hazlett

Mitch and Mary Lou Horwat

Charles Jaffe

Rita Kashner

Diana H. King

Kittleman & Associates

Ann J. Kolb

Janet Mullet

Jeff O'Neill

Barbara Putta

Holly and David Reynolds

Michele Y. Rogers

Joe and Natalie Romano

Antony Burt and Karin Ruetzel

Rhonda Rush

Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill

Shabnum and Sunil Sanghvi

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sevcik

Craig Smith

Marcia Mead Stillerman

Tawani Foundation

JWT Family Foundation

Richard Miller and Nina Uziel-Miller

The Weatherlow Foundation

Melissa A Wynne and David Foster

Margie and Mark Zivin

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous (2)

Susan Barret-Kelly and Peter M. Kelly

Patricia and Edward Blumen

Joyce Chelberg

Joel and Katie Cory

Mary and Dan Cox

Daniel R Cyganowski and Judith Metzger

Dorothy C. Dare

Joe Dempsey

Mort and Reva Denlow

Cliff and Laura Deremo

Brian Hanson and Karen Alter-Hanson

Rick Kolsky and Anne Jacobson

Gretchen and David Livingston

Michelle and Jim Marvin

Bob and Barb McCullough

Bridget McDonough

William Miceli and Cindy Nowinski

Annette Rehmke

Ian and Sheau-Ming Ross

Toby and Penelope Sachs

Sue and Tim Salisbury

Michael Schnur and Janice Liten

Marybeth Schroeder

Fredric and Nikki Will Stein

Karin Tappendorf

Elizabeth Tisdahl

UL Research Institutes

William and Barbara White

Ina Winer's Grandchildren

David Zarefsky

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous

Jonathan Abarbanel

Susan and David Abraham

Todd Abraham

Melanie Anderson

Debi and Clark Ardern

Judy Ashworth and Achim Steup

Kelly Austin and Scott Hurwitz

Robert Bailey

Carol Barnett

Ann Barrett

Carole Bass

Bruce Baumberger and Ann Weatherhead

Lauralyn and Dale Bengel

Esther Berman

Shana Bernstein

Daniel Bleier and Caroline Glasser

Jeffrey Boarini

Wally Bobkiewicz and Patrice Frey

Susan Booth & Max Leventhal

Betty A. and William J. Boyd

Edward J Bradley

Alan Brown

Michael and Joan Callahan

Frank Carroll

Tom and Marion Clemens

Lauren and Dan Consiglio

John and Kitty Culbert

George de Lama

Anthony T. Dean

Edward Jones

Daniel and Nancy Engel

Jean and Andy Fies

Willard A Fry, M.D.

Ellen Galland

Linda and Hal Gerber

Yvette Gideon and Rodger Sonneborn

Lee Golub

Dale and Erica Granchalek

Gary Gundersen

Mr. John W. Hammerschlag

Paul and Mary Ann Harvey

Catherine Hayden

Ryan Hedges and Jocelyn Francoeur

David Hellman

Joyce and Rich Hirsch

Brian and Janet Hoffman

John Holton

Elizabeth Hopp-Peters and Kurt Peters

Lynn Hughitt and James Shaeffer

Burgess Huntley

I-Country, Inc

Ann Jennett

James L Jensen

Marcia and Tim Kazurinsky

Judith Keller

Chris Kenney

Dennis and Barbara Kessler

Cynthia Kirk

The Kiwanis Club of Evanston

Lightspring Capital, LLC

Jackie Mack & More

Dennis Marino and Barbara Beck

Mather

Dale Matschullat

Jenifer McCartney

Bill and Molly McDowell

John and Linnea Mead

Lisa Miceli

Laura and Barry Miller

Peter and Margaret Morris

Margaret Moses

Kathy Fredricks Oswald

Dr. Thomas and Jan Pavlovic

Greg and Nicki Pearson

Melanie and Dan Peterson

Michael and Christine Pope

Melinda Prawer-Stock and Adam Stock

Quarles & Brady LLP

Bob and Patty Reece

Beth and James Reiman

Doug Rothrock and Aimee Hucek

Roberta Rubin

Catherine Saccany

Joan Safford

Garrett Salk

Cliff Saper and Christy Bowman

Mr. and Mrs. David Saunders

Philip Schluter and Julie Kimmel

Schmid Family Fund

Joseph Scudder and Nancy Gray

Ann Searles

Gary and Enid Shapiro

Rick and Nancy Simon

Gerri Sizemore

Sondra Sonneborn

Oehme and Winslow Soule

Stephens Dentistry

Nancy Straus

Will and Jenni Suvari

Dave and Shirley Ter Molen

Andrew Thomas

Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation

Jan Tranen

Lois and Dennis Trautvetter

Angela and Stel Valavanis

Sarah Wagner

Frieda A Walter

Ellen Wartella

Bonnie Wilson

Wintrust Financial Corp

Bobbi and Sheldon Zabel

< $1,000

Anonymous (3)

Luke Adams

Mary Alukos

Eileen Anthony

Patricia Arient

Peggy Bagley and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer

Trish Barr

Christine Barrett

Mary Jo Barrett and Dennis O'Keefe

Robert Barry

Shilpa Bavikatte

Nancy Beckwith

Charles Bennett

Michele Benson and Jon Benson

Gabrielle Berger

Jill Kushner Bishop

Bob & Linda Bonges

John Bowman

Kay Bowman

Nancy Bradt and Laury Lewis

Sara and Bob Brenner

Gabe and Judson Brooks

Maureen Browne

Chris Buck

Rev. Daniel Buck

Lisa Bullard-Cawthorne

Roxane C. Busey

Susan Cahill

Tor Campbell

Brian Carey and Stacey McAuliffe

Leasha and Joel Carp

Patricia Carrington

Roger and Chris Castino

William Chamberlain

Ron and Mary Charles

Georgia and Frank Cheswick

Lynn and Robert Clark

Mary and Dick Clark

Patrick and Barbara Clear

Melanie Cody

Kimberly Cole

Ellen Collar

Mary Kay Conlon

Joe Cothrel

Leslie and Jim Cousineau

Mary and Dan Cox

Brian and Lisa Crowley

Peter Cummins

Nancy M. Cunniff

Diane and Jerry Cuzelis

Sandra Danforth

Paula and Jeff Danoff

Hannah Davenport

Bruce and Laurie Davidson

Laurie and Chad Davidson

Luke and Karen DeGrand

Elizabeth Derrico

Leonora Dickson

Erik Doeff

Paige Dooley

Downtown Evanston

Tamra Drees

Ann Dwyer

Barb Ellson and Frank Baldwin

Cody Estle

Joan and Kevin Evanich

Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club

Victoria Fabie Warms

Brian and Susan Fargo

Danny Ferenczi

Drs. Wes and Diane Fisher

Richard Fisher

Peter Fitzgerald

Ronald & Jan Fleckman

Missy Fleming and Jack Block

Rosie Forrest

Anthony Fox

Kate Fry

Denise and Jack Gallagher

Elizabeth Galliani

Linda Gartz and Bill Lasko

Stephen Geis

Lynn Gendleman

Helene Gerstein

Kyle Gibson

Paul Gillen

Stephanie Giordano

Geoffrey Glass

Carol and Jeff Glassroth

Marilyn Glazer

Fred and Gloria Gleave

Cindy Gold

Maureen Gorman

Robyn and David Grossberg

Jane Grover

Lauren Gunderson

Rick Gustafson

Betsy Gutstein

Douglas Haight

Toni Hanrahan

Brenda Hansen

Tim and Trude Harrington

Jeffrey Hatcher

Paula and Mark Hays

Constance Heneghan

Avis Henkin                                                   

Barbara Hermansen

Mike and Cindy Herrington

Cheryl Holm

John Holton

Nathan Hosner

Stephanie Eleen Howard

Laurie Howick

Christine Huge

Elliott and Robyn Hurtig

Sarah Iles

Toby Inoue

Kathy Jaeck Hall

Susaan Jamshidi

Bernard D. Johnson and E. Faye Butler

Carol Johnson

Kari Johnson

Janice Jones

Logan Jones

Michelle and Dan Jordan

Paul and Jeannie Kachoris

Martin and Susanne Kanter

Jane Kaplan

Mark and Cheryl Kaplan

Mark David Kaplan

Deborah Kasindorf

Mary Kavoosi

Ellen and Tom Kenemore

Maureen and Chris Kenney

Jennifer and Tom Kenny

Carolynne Kent

Elizabeth Kinney

Starrin Kinser-Petersen

Nathan Kipnis

Jordi Kleiner

Emily Kneer

Michael A. Krutsch

Julie Lambert

Carl LaMell

Rachel Laritz

Michele Larose

James Leaming

Angela Lee

Marianne and Michael Lembeck

Steven and Elaine Lev

Cindy Levitt

Gerald Lewis

Ron and Mary Lewis

Terri and Michael Lipsitz

Barbara Liss

John Lister

Edward A Lott

Heidi and Ned Lott

Bob and Carol Lounsbury

David Lutken

David Macknin

Jo Ellen Madden

Laura Maheshwary

Laura Maloney

Edward and Holly Mann

Jules Marling

Mary Martin

Vicki Martini-Rosowicz

Larry and Susan Mason

Brad and Sue Matson

Amy May and Larry DeMar

Liesl McDonald

Molly and Bill McDowell

David and Laura McHugh

Jim McKee

Kevin McKenna and Christine Young

Joan McLane

Linda and Andy Mendelson

Meredith Mendes and Michael Levitin

Suzanne Meyering

Mara and Bob Mihlfried

Lois Milburn

Mary P. Miller

Eileen and Armen Minasian

Randy Monsegur

Chris Moore

Joseph Moos

Kelly Morgan

John H. Morrison

Ed and Leigh Ann Muller

Joseph Myers

Jennifer Nack

Lee Nagan

Carol and Pat Navin

Kate and Steve Newman

Jennifer Newton

Jonathan and Christine Nieuwsma

Elena Nocera

John Noyes

Stuart and Carol Oken

Richard Olson

Kathleen Ostrreicher

Thomas and Heather Palmer

Katherine Peterson

Cory Pickett

Cindy Pingry

Kathryn Pinter

Jennifer Pope

Raymond Pruchnicki

Susan Rabe

Norman and Helene Raidl

Jared Ranere

Jennifer Reddick

Margaret Redding

Ruth Richman

Barbara Rittenhouse and Frank Putrino

Beth Roman

Suzanne Ross

Sharyn Rothstein

Virginia Russell

Peter Rybolt

Rebecca Saccomando

Penelope and Toby Sachs

Jeffrey Salzgeber

Jodi Samuels

Jean Saunders

Mitchell Scallet

Ruth Schaefer

Marianne Schapiro

Sara Schiffler

Lee and Debbie Schwartz

Martin Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz and Lynn Hornig

Stuart Schwartz

Margaret Sents

Joe and Ann Settimi

Karen Shankman

Anna Shapiro and Ian Barford

Chethan Sharma

Gil Sharon and Ann Taylor

Elaine Shea

James Sherman

Patti Sherry-Crews

Suzanne Shield

Stuart and Leslie Shulruff

Eileen Shupe

Alan Silberman

Ellen Simon

Tammy Slatinsky

Sarah Slight

Stephanie Smith-Schellhorn

Jason Smith

Sacella Smith

Noel Spain

Gina Speckman

Mimi Spivack

Hal Sprague and Stephanie Whitman

Margaret Stager

Leslie Stentz

Gail Straus

Susan and Matt Struve

Melissa and Joe Stump

James R. Sullivan

Linda Surlak

Socorro Swanson

Nia Tavoularis and Mike Otte

Amy Teschner

Jessica Thebus

Michael Patrick Thornton

Joe Towarnicky

Bonita and David Turner

Jill Twery

Daniel and Lisa Tyler

Georgette Verdin

Alice and Stephen Vile

Gayle Wagley

Ms. Dana Wahrenbrock & Mr. Rich Letchinger

Joyce Anne Wainio and John Fulcher

Craig and Linda Walker

Michael Walker and Anne Murdoch

John Walsh

Terrence M. and Janice E. Walsh

Blythe Watkins

Eryn Weber-Shifrin and Andy Shifrin

Sally and Rick Weiland

Darla Weissenberg

Carole Whitacre

Ann Whitney

Marilyn Wittenberg

Cheryl Wollin

Jan Womack

Julie Womack

Robert and Carol Wooldridge

David Woolley

Dr. Alan Zunamon

** Last updated February 23, 2026