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Update #5: New Project!
Hi Suspicious Package backers!
Just wanted to let you know about my newest project, Greetings from Coney Island! It's a story told via your mailbox, and I think it's pretty cool. You can check it out here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thefifthwall/greetings-from-coney-island-a-story-told-via-your
There is an early-bird discount, but it's going fast. Wanted to make sure you had a chance if you were interested.
Again, thank you all so much for donating to the Edinburgh trip. It was an awesome experience.
Gyda
Update #4: Home at last!
Dearest backers,
Home at last from a hectic, busy, exhausting, fulfilling month in Edinburgh!!
The festival was amazing, unlike anything I've ever seen. Seriously, you must go if you haven't, there's really nothing like it in the world for theater junkies!
Suspicious Package went quite well! We got some great reviews, had an amazing spot on BBC, and introduced the show to approx 500 new audience members over the course of the month who ADORED the show. If you haven't been keeping up via facebook, you can see all the audience photos at
http://www.facebook.com/suspiciouspackageshow...
Once again, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your support! Taking a small show like this to Edinburgh is crazy expensive and because of you it was possible. There's no way we'd be able to do it without your help.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you!
Gyda
Update #3: East to Edinburgh - NYC dates!
Hi everyone,
I just sent off the contract to 59E59 Theaters for their East to Edinburgh festival, in which Suspicious Package will be appearing in July! I'm very excited--I hope you can join me!
Backers who have earned a free show:
Performances will be in the afternoons of Saturday July 17, 24, and 31 -- so mark your calendars, and let me know which date you'd like to attend!
Gyda
Update #2: We DID IT!
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Posted on May 12, 2010
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Update #1: Video Posted & Thank You!!!!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 15, 2010.
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Gyda Arber is a writer/director best known for creating Red Cloud Rising, a theatrical ARG (“brilliant”—New York Times), and the multimedia iPod noir Suspicious Package, which drew acclaim from a host of publications, including The New York Times (“A singular experience.”) and The Village Voice (“Impressive!...Makes for thrills.”) and was nominated for an IT Award for Outstanding Production of a Play. Named Person of the Year by nytheatre.com, Gyda is also the director-creator of the interactive play Q&A: The Perception of Dawn (“quite ingenious”—nytheatre.com), and the writer-director of the short film “Watching” (commissioned by the horror festival Sinister Six). Also an actress, she has appeared at The Public Theater, Joe's Pub, the Metropolitan Playhouse, and most frequently at The Brick, in shows including Fassbinder's Blood on the Cat's Neck ("Phoebe Zeitgeist, an excellent Gyda Arber"—New York Times), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (Anna Nicole Smith), the English-language premiere of Vaclav Havel's Mountain Hotel (Liza), Ian W. Hill's noir pastiche World Gone Wrong (Dolores), and the musical Ich Liebe Jesus! (Virgin Mary). She also serves as the Executive Producer of the Game Play festival at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A San Francisco native, she has a degree in musical theater from NYU, and is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
