Help me create a one-woman show
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UPDATE: Just for transparency, here are the costs that I would like to cover in the additional funds added to the campaign:
- Rehearsals with an accompanist
- Payment for accompanist at show
- Payment for stage kitten
- Costumes, props, sets (including projector, mic stand, screen, wigs, and costume rack)
- Theatre rental for rehearsal/tech + Sound/lights
- Theatre rental for show
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In 2010, I left New York City. I dropped out of Columbia University, where I was studying for my MFA in theatre. I gave up the stage completely, and all because of my eating disorder.
That second and final relapse was a defining moment for me. My failure to make it in the city that never sleeps and in the career I had been interested in since I was a child hit me hard.
And it's only been the last year, since I started performing burlesque in the Bay Area, that I've begun to heal the old wounds and make my way back to the stage.
This month, I took a leap, and applied to be a part of 54 Below's concert lab series, where I'll have the opportunity to create and workshop a one-woman show--and I was accepted!
The project that I submitted is called "How Lovely to be a Woman," and it's a one-woman burlesque journey that's part therapy, part sparkles, and a total drag (the performance art, that is!) that will explore how we construct and identify "woman"--as told through broadway musicals!
I'll be choreographing, costuming, singing, dancing, and flying back and forth from New York, and I need help to make this dream come to life.
This opportunity is not only my chance to show the eating disorder that some endings can be new--and better--beginnings, but also create an experience that can help OTHERS on their journey to discovering themselves and their new beginnings.
As with most art, this is an unpaid workshop--I get "exposure," but it takes a village to help raise an artist to the point where exposure becomes a career.
If you believe in my vision, any amount will help--you'll be helping to fund travel back and forth from NYC, lodgings, and costumes.
I will be eternally grateful for your support--it's time to kick disorder and identity crises to the curb...with a pair of very sparkly stilettos.
Thank you in advance!
- Rehearsals with an accompanist
- Payment for accompanist at show
- Payment for stage kitten
- Costumes, props, sets (including projector, mic stand, screen, wigs, and costume rack)
- Theatre rental for rehearsal/tech + Sound/lights
- Theatre rental for show
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In 2010, I left New York City. I dropped out of Columbia University, where I was studying for my MFA in theatre. I gave up the stage completely, and all because of my eating disorder.
That second and final relapse was a defining moment for me. My failure to make it in the city that never sleeps and in the career I had been interested in since I was a child hit me hard.
And it's only been the last year, since I started performing burlesque in the Bay Area, that I've begun to heal the old wounds and make my way back to the stage.
This month, I took a leap, and applied to be a part of 54 Below's concert lab series, where I'll have the opportunity to create and workshop a one-woman show--and I was accepted!
The project that I submitted is called "How Lovely to be a Woman," and it's a one-woman burlesque journey that's part therapy, part sparkles, and a total drag (the performance art, that is!) that will explore how we construct and identify "woman"--as told through broadway musicals!
I'll be choreographing, costuming, singing, dancing, and flying back and forth from New York, and I need help to make this dream come to life.
This opportunity is not only my chance to show the eating disorder that some endings can be new--and better--beginnings, but also create an experience that can help OTHERS on their journey to discovering themselves and their new beginnings.
As with most art, this is an unpaid workshop--I get "exposure," but it takes a village to help raise an artist to the point where exposure becomes a career.
If you believe in my vision, any amount will help--you'll be helping to fund travel back and forth from NYC, lodgings, and costumes.
I will be eternally grateful for your support--it's time to kick disorder and identity crises to the curb...with a pair of very sparkly stilettos.
Thank you in advance!
Organizer
Kaila Prins
Organizer
Mountain View, CA