A Sound Called Home!
An original gospel musical about grief, healing, faith, and finding your way home.
Bring A Sound Called Home to the Stage!
Help bring an original gospel dramedy about grief, faith, accountability, and belonging from the rehearsal room to the stage!
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Help Us Bring A Sound Called Home to the Stage
Every voice deserves somewhere it can be heard.
A Sound Called Home: The Choir Rehearsal is an original gospel dramedy set inside New Hope Church, where an ordinary choir rehearsal becomes a place of laughter, grief, confrontation, and healing.
The story follows Yolanda, a grieving mother searching for enough faith to sing again; Darius, a teenager carrying survivor’s guilt after the death of his best friend; Reggie, a choir director whose ministry has left him emotionally exhausted; and Sister Mae, a longtime church member who must finally confront a painful truth that New Hope buried for decades.
Through gospel music, humor, testimony, and difficult conversations, the production asks an important question: Can a place that caused pain become a home again by telling the truth about what happened?
Our Goal
Campaign funds will help support:
- Compensation for actors, vocalists, musicians, designers, and production personnel
- Original music, vocal arrangements, and music development
- Rehearsal-space and performance-venue expenses
- Sound, lighting, staging, and technical equipment
- Costumes, choir robes, props, and scenic materials
- Marketing, printing, photography, and promotional video
- Insurance, administrative, accessibility, and front-of-house expenses
- Community access tickets for audiences who might not otherwise be able to attend
Our planned use of the $30,000 campaign goal is:
- $8,000: Cast, musician, and creative-team compensation
- $5,000: Original music, arrangements, and rehearsals
- $6,000: Venue, sound, lighting, and technical production
- $4,000: Scenery, costumes, choir robes, and props
- $3,000: Marketing, printing, photography, and video
- $2,000: Insurance, administration, accessibility, and audience services
- $2,000: Community tickets and additional production needs
About the Creator
A Sound Called Home was written and created by Washington, DC area playwright and producer L-Tyree.
Drawing from experience in events, live production, theater, and community centered storytelling, L-Tyree creates work rooted in Black life, faith, family, humor, and the complicated places people search for belonging. His goal is to create theatrical experiences that entertain audiences while opening space for honest conversations that continue after the final curtain.
Why This Story Matters
Many people know what it feels like to lose their voice inside a place where they once felt at home. This production does not offer easy answers or pretend that grief disappears after the right song. Instead, it explores what becomes possible when people stop hiding pain behind performance, listen to the voices they have ignored, and make room for one another without demanding that everyone be healed first.
Your contribution will help employ local artists, complete the show’s original music, build the production, and make this story accessible to the community it was created to serve.
Whether you contribute $25, $250, $2,500, or simply share the campaign, you become part of the sound.
One voice may begin the song but it takes a community to bring it home!
Rewards
Name in the Program
Donate $250.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Receive all previous digital rewards plus recognition in the official production program. Supporters must provide their preferred name before the published program deadline. Gifts received after that deadline will be recognized digitally.
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Digital Backstage Pass
Donate $50.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Receive a digital behind-the-scenes collection featuring production updates, selected rehearsal images, creative notes from playwright and producer L-Tyree, and an electronic campaign thank you.
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Supporter Recognition
Donate $100.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Receive the Digital Backstage Pass plus recognition as a production supporter on the official A Sound Called Home website or digital supporter page. Recognition is optional and may be listed under the donor’s name, organization, or “Anonymous.”
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Special Preview Performance Experience
Donate $500.00 or more
Amount over $70.00 is tax-deductible.
Receive all previous rewards plus two reserved tickets to a special preview performance of A Sound Called Home. Performance selection will be offered after the production schedule is announced and will be subject to seating availability.
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VIP Production Experience
Donate $1,000.00 or more
Amount over $200.00 is tax-deductible.
Receive all previous rewards, four reserved performance tickets, premium program recognition, and admission for four guests to a designated post-show reception or audience conversation.
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Associate Producer Recognition
Donate $2,500.00 or more
Amount over $300.00 is tax-deductible.
Receive honorary Associate Producer credit in the program, six reserved tickets, and post-show reception or discussion admission for six. Credit conveys no ownership, financial interest, creative authority, or control.
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Executive Producer Recognition
Donate $5,000.00 or more
Amount over $400.00 is tax-deductible.
Receive honorary Executive Producer credit in the program, eight reserved tickets, and post-show reception or discussion admission for eight. Credit conveys no ownership, financial interest, creative authority, or control.
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