The Creative Pride Foundation is a new 501©(3) nonprofit and program of Prism Entertainment Group LLC, using the performing arts to help LGBTQIA+ young adults across the Coachella Valley build pride, confidence, and community — on stages where the generation that fought for today’s freedoms performs alongside the generation writing what comes next.

This spring, we take the stage for the first time with The Laramie Project, presented for two nights at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Written by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project, it tells the true story of Laramie, Wyoming in the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard — a story about hate, memory, and a community’s reckoning that speaks directly to why Creative Pride exists.

As a brand-new organization, we’re building this production, and this foundation, from the ground up. Every gift — from a first-time individual donor to a founding corporate sponsor — goes directly toward mounting a fully realized, professional-caliber production and toward the free classes, scholarships, and open doors that follow it. Help us reach $20,000 and give this community its first night on stage.

Help us keep the wildest little theatre in the desert open for business.

Prism isn’t your average theatre. We do the shows the big houses won’t touch — the cult favorites, the comedies with bite, the parodies that go just a little too far, the kind of nights you can’t stop telling your friends about.

But here’s the thing: making bold theatre is expensive. Ticket sales help, but they don’t cover everything it takes to run a 112-seat venue and pull off the kind of shows we put on. The sets, the sound, the costumes, the cast, the cocktails-and-couches vibe you love when you walk in the door — all of it takes real money.

If you’ve ever had a great night at Prism, this is how you make sure there’s another one.

Any amount helps. Every contribution keeps the lights low, the laughs loud, and the curtain coming up on the next outrageous show.