Magic Gala 2025 Auction
TWO TIME OSCAR NOMINEE FOR BEST ACTOR, EMMY AWARD WINNER, FASHION ICON, WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, MAGIC THEATRE BOARD MEMBER COLMAN DOMINGO offers a once in a lifetime experience as gift for the 205 Magic Theatre Gala Auction. The winner of this one of a kind, invaluable, experience auction item will bring 2 special people into the world of Colman Domingo: the person, the artist, and now the feature film director. Win a chance to be a guest of Colman’s for one day (up to four hours) on the Hollywood Studio filmstage, while Colman directs the Miramax Films movie Scandalous. Be on set while Colman directs Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, White Lotus) as Kim Novack and David Jonsson (BAFTA Rising Star Awardee, Alien: Romulus) as Sammy Davis, Jr! You will be on the soundstage as he creates this soon to be movie magic, Scandalous. Enjoy a private studio film set lunch with Colman Domingo, alongside one of the film’s actors- and the Magic Theatre Lead Director- Sean San José. Memorialize this experience with special photo opportunities with Colman that day. Hollywood swinging! Date TBD in January-February, 2026, in Los Angeles.
Travel accommodations NOT provided, individual on set insurance required and NOT provided.
Value: PRICELESS
Starting Bid: $2,500
DONOR: Colman Domingo
Cocktails and dinner at the home of Lauren Gunderson, which is situated in one of the gothic towers above Saint Pancras Hotel and train station for two shows:
2 Tickets to one show at the Globe Theater in London
2 Tickets to another show on the West End, potentially a show written by Lauren Gunderson.
Airfare for 2 included.
Value: $1,600
Starting bid: $1,500
DONOR: Lauren Gunderson
Spectacular Villa for 5 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
A one week stay at Casa de Moody (the vacation home of Magic Producer and Bay Area Theater luminary Craig Moody), Including airfare for 2.
Fully Furnished home.
3 rooms (sleeps 5)
3.5 Bathrooms
2 queen-sized beds
Fully featured kitchen
Multi-level rooftop patio
High-speed internet access
San Miguel de Allende was voted the #1 city in the world to visit by Conde Nast and Travel + Leisure readers. –Casa de Moody is less than a ten minute walk from world class galleries, restaurants, museums, and theater.
NOTE: The one week stay must be from one Monday to the following Monday.
Value: $2,500
Starting bid: $1,000
DONOR: Craig and Kathy Moody
A short interview with the winner, conducted by Migdalia.
Migdalia will write a 20-30 minute play based on the information collected from the interview.
The play will receive a staged reading with actors from the cast of Macbeth in March of 2026.
The winner will receive a “production binder” copy of the script, signed by Migdalia and the actors
Migdalia Cruz is one of the foremost Latina Playwrights in the country –A protegee of Maria Irene Fornes
Value: PRICELESS
Starting Bid: $1,000
DONOR: Migdalia Cruz
Be a Shakespearean Star for a Night!
One Performance
Costumed
Date to be determined with the auction winner.
Join the seven person cast of professional theater actors for a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of a live theater production with your own walk-on role in Magic Theater and PlayOn Shakespeare’s upcoming production of Macbeth. Walk-on part includes: a costume fitting, costume, short put-in rehearsal with the director and cast.
Value: PRICELESS
Starting bid: $1,000
DONOR: Liam Vincent and the cast and crew of Macbeth.
2 Tickets to a Select Performance at the San Francisco Ballet.
2 Tickets to be redeemed for one select SF Ballet Performance during their 2026 repertory season at the War Memorial Opera House. Estimated value of $200.00 T
he SF Ballet 2026 program includes: Eugene Onegin: a world premiere by choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov, which brings new depth to Alexander Pushkin’s classic ballet or love and regret.
Balanchine: A tribute to the driving force behind modern ballet in America.
The Blake Works: An electrifying series that pushes the limits of contemporary ballet that sets William Forsythe’s groundbreaking choreography to the multi-layered music of Grammy Award Winner James Blake.
4 Tickets to Nightlife Thursdays at the San Francisco Academy of Sciences 4 Tickets to any Thursday “Nightlife” event at the San Francisco Academy of Sciences. – “let your inner child loose and explore the academy at night, starting at 6pm on any Thursday. There will be Creatures and Cocktails, Music and Movement, Science and Spectacle.”
4 Tickets to One Performance in the 2025-2026 San Francisco Performances Season From The website: There’s something for everyone in San Francisco Performances’s 2025–26 season, whether you’re a longtime aficionado of chamber music, or are new to it. From classic repertoire to boundary-pushing works, countless memorable moments await you this season. –Intimate concerts with internationally renowned musicians.
2 Tickets to One Performance at the San Francisco Opera – 2 Tickets to any performance in the remainder of SF Opera’s 2025 programming year. – Operas Include: Rigoletto Dead Man Walking (Based on the 1995 film directed by Tim Robbins) Parsifal The Monkey King
Value: $860
Starting bid: $500
DONOR: Kathryn Kersey (Magic Theatre Board Co-Chair)
Tickets to dress rehearsal of new opera The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay on Sep 18th at the Met plus 2 airline tickets (economy class within continental US) ; airfare included. Visit with Composer Mason Bates and Director Bartlett Sher; $200 gift card to The Grand Tier Restaurant
Value: $1,470
Starting bid: $1,200
DONOR: Kathryn Kersey (Magic Theatre Board Co-Chair)