About this project
"23 Feet in 12 Minutes" will debut at the NYC Fringe Festival this year, coinciding with the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. This play, based on interviews with over 60 Katrina survivors and New Orleans transplants, follows 6 real-life New Orleans characters whose lives were irrevocably changed by the storm. We are seeking to raise funds to PROFESSIONALLY VIDEOTAPE this production so that it will have a life beyond the Fringe Festival performances.
Without a video of our show, we can't get outside producers to help us take it around the country, and especially to New Orleans, to expose people to the nuanced impact this historical event had on peoples' lives. $400 gets us a full video of the show plus a photo shoot that we can use for promotional purposes. The goal of our production company, Word on the Street Productions, is to create theater that is intimate, challenging, and true to life. Help us bring these stories to stages beyond the Fringe!
For more information, visit our website at http://wordonthestreetplays.org/
Thank you so much for considering our project!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 17, 2010.
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one free ticket to the New York performance (must be donated by Friday, Aug. 27 to attend either Sat. or Sun. show) PLUS thank you in all promotional materials and updates on the show
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copy of the completed DVD of the show PLUS thank you in all promotional materials and updates on the show
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Mari Brown is a writer, director, and dialogue facilitator based in New York City and Boulder, CO. She is the co-founder of Word on the Street Productions, a documentary theater company dedicated to intimate theater based on real-life experiences. She recently ran a successful public dialogue series about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the off-Broadway play “Masked”; the series was featured on Al Jazeera English and in The New York Times. Mari has organized several politically themed talkbacks for off-Broadway productions, including Tim Robbins’ “Embedded” (The Public) and Synapse Productions’ “Chicago Conspiracy Trial” (The Culture Project). Mari is the author of “There Goes the Neighborhood,” a play about the gentrification of a neighborhood in Brooklyn that received significant media attention. She has directed over 20 plays in New York and Wisconsin, has led numerous workshops on documentary theater, and is a member of the screenwriting association Writers Boot Camp. She is also the co-founder of "Is There Life After New York?", a social networking website for former (and questioning) New Yorkers. She believes theater has the power to keep us from being strangers to ourselves.
