Possum Point Players Receive Donation to Improve Sound Experience

A generous donation will soon benefit audience members, actors and musicians alike in Possum Point Players' home theatre in Georgetown. A donation of $5,000 from Jerry's Fund Foundation Inc. will pay for new equipment and a reconfiguration of the existing orchestra "loft" in Possum Hall.

Theatrical performer and Possum Point Players' acting veteran Jerry Gietka, who is also president and founder of Jerry's Fund, made the presentation recently that will allow the theater group to purchase professional quality equipment for a sound system that will greatly improve orchestra members' sound experience. Also, the funding will pay for installing sound deadening materials so that the audience will hear sound through the sound system alone and no longer ambient sound from the loft behind them.

Possum Point Players President Jonathan Sharp, said, "This wonderful donation will allow us to coordinate several necessary changes and complete desired improvements all at once. This furthers our goal of delivering a quality sound and overall theatrical experience for our performances."

Gietka and his sister administer three family related foundations, with Jerry Gietka's funding focus being the arts. In addition to funding individual projects in the arts, his foundation supports a graduate theater scholarship for $5,000 yearly at Towson University.

Explaining his enthusiasm for supporting arts and other projects that benefit from the family foundations, Gietka said, "I have been very fortunate and this is my way of giving back. Plus, they allow me to connect in ways that allow for my creativity to be used."

Gietka recently played R. H. Macy in Possum Point Players' production of "Miracle on 34th Street, the Musical." He has been active in theatre both on the Eastern Shore and the Baltimore/Washington area. He is considering what theatre experiences might come his way in the future and is enjoying Delmarva Eastern Shore life, especially since it provides him "plenty of time to pursue my passion for theater and to go fishing."

Possum Point Players is supported, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.