Funding Appeal for The Relentless Pursuit of Ice by Max Langert, Punchkin Repertory at FronteraFest, January 2014

Posted at IndieGoGo on December 15:

PunchkinRepVideo from Jessica on Vimeo.

(*) Funding Appeal: Classic Theatre San Antonio Moves to the Woodlawn Black Box

Classic Theatre San Antonio is moving to the Woodlawn Theatre black box in January, 2014, and needs $4000 to renovate that space, especially for relocation of the air conditioning ducts.  They've appealed via Indiegogo for contributions of funds, under the difficult-to-locate title 'Expand the Box for Classic.'  Click either logo to go to that page, which features a video posted by Rick Malone about the Classic's five-year history (inexplicably, with no mention of the relocation project).

 

Video: Center Stage, Austin, 2013

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Funding Appeal for Devised Theatre: Florence by Gale Theatre Company, December 6 - 15, 2013

A video by Ráchel Lowery to support the

(click to go to IndieGoGo page)

funding appeal for

Florence

by Gale Theatre Company
December 6 - 15, 2013 in Sparky Pocket Park
3701 Grooms Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Austin - click for map



Hi there! We’re Gale Theatre Company. We make new devised theatre here in Austin, Texas and we need your help to bring our first season to life.

What is devised theatre? Well, it means that we start in the room with actors, physical training, ideas, and NO SCRIPT. We build a universe from scratch and make shows in the moment. It is a big process that involves immense collaboration and trust. We love what we do.

Katherine Wilkinson, our Artistic Director, has been teaching, performing, and directing all around the world (USA, Australia, India, Greece) for the last 6 years. Celina Chapin has been choreographing new work internationally as well and most recently trained at the American Dance Festival and with Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. Their diverse backgrounds and shared love for physical theatre inspired the creation of Gale Theatre Company.

GALE from Ráchel Lowery on Vimeo.
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Gale Theatre Co is dedicated to making work that is aesthetically arresting, emotionally compelling, physically daring, and dedicated to the unending power of live performance. Why do we need your help? Gale Theatre Co has begun building its first season and we need support to make it happen. We are currently in rehearsal for 2 brand new shows.

The first, Florence, is an ensemble-devised work about Florence Lawrence, the first movie star. Florence is a co-production between Gale,Bottle Alley Theatre, and the City of Austin. Show dates: December 6-9 & 12-15, 8pm, Sparky Pocket Park, Austin. TICKETS ON SALE NOV
Our second show, WK, is a play about first loves. It is also ensemble devised and will premiere at the New Orleans Fringe in November. Out of 150 applications, WK was one of 24 chosen by the Fringe. WK will return to Austin in January and have a three-week run at the Vortex.
Show dates:

NOLA Fringe, The Old Firehouse718 Mandeville St. BUY TICKETS HERE

11/21 @ 7pm, 11/22 @11pm, 11/23 @ 5pm, 11/24 @7pm

The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd, Austin. TICKETS ON SALE HERE IN JANUARY

1/17-1/19 @ 8pm, 1/23-1/26 @ 8pm, 1/30-2/2 @ 8pm

Funding Campaign for The North Plan by Jason Wells, Street Corner Arts, Austin

The company's seeking to raise $4,000 for the production via

(Click to go to Indiegogo page)

The North Plan is Street Corner Arts' return to the fast-paced, politically-charged world of Jason Wells, writer of their 2011 hit Men of Tortuga. This pitch-black comedy will have its regional premiere at Hyde Park Theatre (511 W. 43rd St.) in Austin, Texas from December 6 to December 21, 2013.

The North Plan tells the story of Carlton Berg, a bureaucrat for the U.S. State Department, who runs off with the top secret enemies list of a ruthless faction that has seized power in Washington creating a state of martial law. Unfortunately for Carlton, the chase has come to an end in a police station in the Ozarks town of Lodus, Missouri. With a pair of Department of Homeland Security agents on the way, Carlton's last hope arrives in the form of fellow prisoner Tanya Shepke, a motor-mouthed redneck who's turned herself in for drunk driving and has a penchant for raising hell.

The revolution will not be televised but it will have a soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd. And it starts right now!

Street Corner Arts began with an idea (over a glass of good whiskey as all good ideas do): what if theatre could exist as a conversation between audience and actors, addressing current topics that affect the average person in an accessible way. That is the challenge which we always place before ourselves. By helping us to fund this project, you are becoming an active participant in that conversation. You are allowing us to continue to present collaborative, relevant, and engaging theatre to the Austin community.

Click to go to the Indiegogo page for more information and to contribute.

Video Appeal: Support Robert Matney's Fight Against Cancer, via YouCaring

A few weeks ago, Robert Matney- actor, technology designer, and all-around extraordinary person was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma that had spread to his lymphatic system. In 2008, Rob was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Rob beat it. Last year, a pulmonary embolism tried to do its worst. But Rob beat that, too.

Rob started his new fight the day after Lowell Bartholomee and Beth Burns of Hidden Room Theatre shot this. We want to help get some of his medical bills out the way so he can win this one, too. Any contribution means the world to Rob, his family, his friends, and his future friends family family. Because he's awesome. Please click on the YouCaring image to go to the contribution page.

There will be a benefit performance of Hidden Room's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at York Rite Theatre (311 West 7th Street 78701) on June 30 and a "tent revival" benefit at The Off Center (2211 Hidalgo 78702) in late July. Go to youcaring.com/matneyvscancer for benefit details and to make a contribution to the medical bill fund.

Rob constantly proves himself to be a treasure among people. We want to make sure that stays true for many years to come. Thank you!

Matching Capital Grant Challenge: Austin Playhouse's New Theatre

Austin Playhouse's funding appeal at

   About This Campaign


After ten years in our previous home, a renovated warehouse at Penn Field, we found ourselves paying almost $150,000 a year in rent - and the rent was about to rise even more. We started looking for a place to build a permanent home for Austin Playhouse and found an ideal location at the Mueller Austin redevelopment. (http://www.muelleraustin.com/)



We have been raising funds for over two years to build a new home at Mueller adjacent to the new Austin Children's Museum. We have made significant progress, raising almost $1 million in individual contributions. The project is now fully permitted and shovel ready. We expect to break ground this summer.



Thanks to a $25,000 matching grant from the Carolyn Rice Bartlett Charitable Foundation, all new building fund donors through June 13, 2013 will have their gifts matched up to our $25,000 goal! We're launching this campaign to reach new donors, especially those in the Austin arts community, who would like to see their impact doubled.


If you have the capacity and would like to donate at a higher level than those listed with this campaign, please contact us directly to hear about naming opportunities: development@austinplayhouse.com.

We welcome multi-year pledges too!



We believe that Austin needs another first-class facility, built by and for artists with a long-term stake in this community. We're asking for your support. Thank you.


As Austin Playhouse is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, all donations are fully tax-deductible!

More information available at the Austin Playhouse IndieGoGo page. . . .

Kickstarter Appeal from Steve Moore for 'Adam Sultan,' Celebrating Austin's Theatre Community, Mortality and This Moment in Time

 



How would you as an Austin theatre artist want to be remembered decades from now? Steve Moore explains the rationale for his play Adam Sultan, scheduled to open at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre at the end of March and asks for your support.

Adam Sultan is a real person here in Austin - a composer, performer, teacher, friend. At the moment, he is still alive.

You can select your own memento and lend it to Steve and the Physical Plant Theatre Company, as many of us already have. You can also donate toward the $4900 the company needs to produce the show. Click HERE or on either Kickstarter logo for further information and to pledge.

 

Adam Sultan is a play slated to open in Austin on March 28th - just about two months from now.
The play centers around a real person in the world named Adam Sultan. Great guy. Lives here in Austin. He's a musician, composer, dancer, storyteller, actor, and teacher.

We imagine Adam's life about forty years in the future. It's the year 2052, and Adam is in his eighties. Many of his dearest friends have died, including his wife -- and much has changed. Including Adam. Over the years he's gone from happy and adventurous to cranky and withdrawn, in large part because the community he was once a part of has disintegrated around him. That's where we begin.

One day, seemingly at random, an exact puppet version of Adam arrives at his apartment. It can't see Adam and can't hear him, but it is definitely alive. It walks, eats, drinks, and sleeps. And it's living some version of Adam's own life....


Go to the Kickstarter page for more information. . . .

Funding Appeal: Vodka, F***ing and Television by Maxsym Kurochkin, Breaking String Theatre

Breaking String's artistic director Graham Schmidt and director Liz Fisher appeal via Kickstarter for $4200, about a third of the budget for Vodka, F***ing and Television by Maxsym Korochkin, to be staged at the Hyde Park Theatre in Austin November 29 - December 15. Click the Kickstarter logo to go to the donations page for more information and to donate.

A writer struggles with his vices, in a twisted comedy by one of Russia's finest living playwrights, Maksym Kurochkin.

• Launched: Oct 24, 2012 Goal: $4200
• Funding ends: Nov 21, 2012

NEW RUSSIAN DRAMA!

Vodka, F***ing and Television by Maksym Kurochkin, directed by Liz Fisher, translated by John J. Hanlon is a hit play by one of Russia's greatest living playwrights, and it's being staged by Breaking String Theatre Co. in Austin, Texas. Facing a nervous breakdown, our hero - a struggling writer - resolves to quit the vices that are holding him back.

The twist?

In a move worthy of Tim Burton, Kurochkin propels actors and audience into a strange fantasy, and transforms the three vices - vodka, f***ing and television - into full-fledged characters. Each vice gets a chance to justify its presence in the hero's life, or get the boot. With a sexy script, mind-blowing design and performances from one hell of a creative team, this show promises to make a splash.


Click to read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Kickstarter Appeal from Uprise! Productions: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf

Received directly and followed up on-line:

We are producing a theatrical production of Ntosake Shange's For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. There are seven women cast in the production. We would like to be able to pay these women as much as possible for the time, effort, and talents they are contributing to this production. At the present time, we do not have the funding to pay these women anywhere near what they are worth. This Kickstarter will help us to provide a base salary of $300 or more for each actress. These women will have rehearsed over 90 hours a piece in preparation for this production. If you do the math, that comes out to $3.33/hr. Your support will not only help to pay these women a decent wage, but to let them know their efforts and talents are deeply appreciated by you. The production itself is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Click on the image below to go to the Kickstarter page and video:

From Director/Producer Zell Miller III, August 9:

For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Zell Miller, III, and I am the artistic director of Uprise! Productions and the director of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf”. We are a small non-profit, but we try not to allow the all mighty dollar to dictate the work that we bring to our amazing community. For those of you know me or my work, you know that I give, give and then give more to this community. You know that I have done tons of things in this community over the years and a lot of it has been for reduced rates, or free. I have never asked before, but now I’m asking.

I’m asking that you please help us find a way to pay these 7 amazing women a base rate for this production. As of today, we have 19 days left on our Kickstarter. We will easily meet our goal if 350 people donate $5 or 174 people donate $10. Please support and help us pay these amazing women. If you are in the Austin area, please come see the show at the Vortex, August 25 through Sept 10^th. I don’t ask, but I’m asking now. Please help us.

Thank you, Zell Miller, III