Our Story
Lara Hollaway, Founder
Lara Hollaway, Founder
Lara Hollaway, Founder
Lara Hollaway is a dancer, singer, actor, and marketing professional with a deep passion for the performing arts and community outreach. Her work in refugee resettlement not only showcases her commitment to helping others but also highlights her charitable impact, as she strives to make a meaningful difference through compassion, creativity, and connection. Lara’s dedication to theatrical excellence further enriches her ability to connect with communities and promote positive change.
Matt Wiedle, Founder
Lara Hollaway, Founder
Lara Hollaway, Founder
Matt Wiedle is an actor, director, and a passionate advocate for the performing arts. As the Founder and Executive Director of Theatre for a Cause, he merges his love of theatre with a commitment to community outreach, fostering charitable impact by uniting artists and audiences to support meaningful causes through live performance while maintaining a standard of theatrical excellence.
History & Misson
Founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 2013 by performers Lara Hollaway and Mathew Edwardsen, Theatre for a Cause was established on a simple belief: great theatre can create a meaningful charitable impact. The company later brought that vision to Austin, Texas, where it produced theatrical works that supported local nonprofit organizations.
Notable performances, such as Love, Loss and What I Wore, benefited Breast Cancer Resource Centers and exemplified the organization's commitment to community outreach.
Today, Theatre for a Cause embarks on an exciting new chapter in Western North Carolina, continuing its dedication to theatrical excellence, charitable partnerships, and making live theatre accessible to a broader audience.
OUR MISSION
Great Theatre. Meaningful Causes. Stronger Communities.
Theatre for a Cause brings artists and audiences together through compelling live performances that support charitable organizations and strengthen our communities.
Our mission is built on three commitments:
- Theatrical Excellence: Producing engaging, high-quality live theatre.
- Charitable Impact: Raising funds and awareness for nonprofit organizations doing meaningful work.
- Community Outreach: Expanding access to theatre for underserved communities.
Austin Cast of Love Loss and What I Wore
There's a Place for You in Our Story.
Be Part of the impact!.
Great theatre takes more than talented performers.
It takes a community.
Whether you're joining us in the audience, sharing your talents onstage or behind the scenes, partnering with us as a nonprofit organization, or supporting a production as a sponsor, you can help make a difference.
Together, we can create extraordinary theatrical experiences that give back to the communities we call home.
