Naman Ramachandran Award-winning actors Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman, and theater producer Francesca Moody (“Fleabag”) have created the Theatre Community Fund to support theatrical artists and professionals whose livelihoods and creative futures are threatened in the wake of COVID-19.The fund has raised £1 million ($1.3 million) so far from founding donors who include Gillian Anderson, Richard Curtis, Tim Bevan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daisy Ridley, Danny Boyle and Andrew Scott, among many others.
Donors will contribute through initial lump sums and fixed, confidential percentages of their incomes over the next two years.The fund will be separated into two priority strands dispersing up to £3,000 ($3,900) in the form of hardship grants.
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