Kickstarter

**Holy Smokes, We Made Our Goal!**

We've been absolutely flabbergasted by how little time it took to reach our goal. Thank you to everyone who donated, we can now pay the Kansas City Fringe Festival's production fee with no problems. We're going to the Fringe!! 

However, that they call this "show business" for a reason, and we are learning just how expensive it is to publicize, build, and costume a production. So if you are still interested in supporting our project, every donation will be put to good use! 

     $60 dollars means the difference between black and white posters and    color posters (and color posters for our backers, too!) 

     $25 dollars will let us buy 50 postcards to expand our publicity's reach. 

     $25 dollars will let us build the window set piece our playwright has been dreaming of for months. 

Thank you all so much for your support. 

Send the Amber Bastards to the Kansas City Fringe Festival 

Every July since 2005, artists from all over the Midwest have gathered at the Kansas City Fringe Festival for a ten-day theatrical extravaganza. This year, we want to join the fun! 

About the Amber Bastards
Lee Hannah Conrads—Director
Carly Putnam—Playwright and Stage Manager
Rachel Linder—Zoe
Sam Slosburg—James

Lee and Sam met in elementary school and in high school performed together in Carly’s first one-act play “The Air is Colder.” Those three got up to lots of theatrical high jinks until they parted ways for college. It was at college that Lee met Rachel and they received honors for their thesis production of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive.

Now as recent—or nearly—college grads, we come together this summer to bring a new play, Winter House,  to the Kansas City Fringe Festival. Our namesake--the lighting gel color "bastard amber"--was a botched batch of amber gel which has become one of the most prolifically useful gel colors available today. We hope to embody that spirit of spontaneity and resourcefulness in this project.

Our Play
James, a successful yet stuggling novelist, and Zoe, a physicist, are old friends and newly-weds. Winter House follows them as they wrestle boxes of bone china and books into (and later out of) their new home. The play asks how long do we have to explain ourselves to the people we love, what happens when we stop, and whether there is there anything sexy about a New England winter?

Your Money
Our fundraising goal is $375, which will allow us to pay the Kansas City Fringe Festival’s production fee (plus kickstarter's processing fee), even if we don’t sell is a single ticket. This is very important because it will:

1) allow us to perform in the Kansas City Fringe Festival!

2) allow us to put the money we make from ticket sales or kickstarter funds beyond the $350 towards publicity, props and costumes. After years of college theater, we are expert penny-pinchers and makers-do and Winter House was written to be produced on a shoe string, but your generosity will help us publicize more widely and raise our production values.

You can be assured that your money—no matter the amount—will be used to its full potential!