The Valerie Players
Est. 2021 · Inverness, FL
The Valerie Players
Est. 2021 · Inverness, FL
Every show we stage is underwritten by neighbors who decided a small town deserves big theatre. These are the businesses and families who keep the ghost light burning at the Valerie — and when you need what they do, we hope you'll remember who kept our curtain rising.
Top billing belongs to Jenkins. A family business that grew from Ocala into one of Florida's largest dealer groups — and never stopped acting like a neighbor. From Crystal River to Homosassa, their storefronts anchor the same communities our audiences drive in from.
Their Platinum sponsorship underwrites more of this company than any single name on this page: the sets, the rights, the lights, and the scholarships that send young Citrus County performers on to bigger stages. When a curtain rises at the Valerie, Jenkins helped raise it.
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Our Platinum Sponsor
If it floats, they've got it. Apopka Marine has been putting Nature Coast families out on the water for years — new boats, brokered boats, and the service bay that keeps them running long after the sale. On a chain of lakes like ours, that's not a luxury; it's a way of life.
They've backed our seats as faithfully as they've backed the lake, and we'd trade them a standing ovation for a pontoon any day. (They haven't taken the deal yet. We keep asking.)
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Silver Sponsor
Every set begins as a drawing — and so does every home in this county. Since 2006, this family-owned design studio has turned Citrus County dreams into permit-ready blueprints: custom homes, barns, additions, and everything between.
They understand better than most sponsors ever could that nothing gets built — not a house, not a stage — without someone putting the plan on paper first.
Visit Bluewater Drafting
Silver Sponsor
The best after-party in Citrus County. Waterfront, warm, and always ready for a cast that's still running on adrenaline an hour after the curtain call. The Cove has fed our company, toasted our openings, and hosted more unofficial cast parties than anyone's officially counted.
Dinner and a show is a tradition older than either of us. We're proud to be their show; go be their dinner.
Visit The Cove
Silver Sponsor
Some sponsors take the spotlight; some hold the ladder. The Green Mills Group is a steady, generous friend of live theatre in Citrus County — the kind of backer every small company needs and too few ever find.
Sponsors like this rarely ask for the marquee. Which is exactly why we put them on it.
Silver Sponsor
For nearly forty years, Slaymaker and Nelson have helped Citrus County families put their affairs in order — wills, trusts, probate, elder law. Quiet, careful work that protects what people spend a lifetime building.
It's fitting that a firm devoted to legacies chose to invest in one: a theatre company built to outlast all of us. They've extended their steadiness to our stage, and we don't take it lightly.
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Silver Sponsor
Landmark has sold the Nature Coast from historic downtown Inverness since 1986 — a few doors from our own stage door. Owner and broker Linda Bega has lived Citrus County since 1970, and knows every street our audience drives home on.
She also happens to serve as treasurer of The Valerie Players — which means she keeps the books for both houses. We're lucky twice over, and we know it.
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Bronze Sponsor
A working shop on South Florida Avenue, founded by Hillary Dube and Ross Rivkin — machine work, lathe work, refinishing, all done by hand and done right. It's a trade of patience, precision, and pride in the finish.
Craftspeople recognize craftspeople. A company that builds its sets by hand is glad to have a shop that builds by hand in its corner.
Visit HNR Gun Works
Bronze Sponsor
Three decades of defending Citrus County from an office on West Main Street — a short walk from the Valerie's marquee. Criminal defense, family law, and the kind of counsel a small town leans on when things get complicated.
She has been in our corner about as reliably as she's been in her clients'. Every company needs an advocate; we're glad ours is this good.
Visit Militello Law
Bronze Sponsor
Alongside our business sponsors stand the individuals and families whose generosity fills the gaps no ticket price ever could. Their names belong in lights, so here they are.
Special Thanks TooFar · Water & Natural Resource Foundation · The City of Inverness · The historic Valerie Theatre · Every volunteer who has ever swept a stage, sewn a costume, or cued a light for us.
Season sponsorships put your business in front of every audience we seat, on every program we print, and on this page — in the company you see here. Let's talk about next season.
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