UPDATE - Thank you for helping us reach our initial goal! Can you help us reach our stretch goal of $6,000.00 to cover some unexpected last minute expenses?

- replacement projectors
- hiring a videographer to film the performance

THANK YOU for any support you can give!

Hello! We are Genevieve, Katherine, Brittany, and Al – a group of independent artists producing the world premiere of BLOOM BLOOM POW, a theatrical play that celebrates queer joy in the face of climate devastation.

Bloom Bloom Pow is inspired by 1950s monster movies and the real-life 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when the tap water became deadly for humans because of toxic algal blooms.

In Bloom Bloom Pow, Mag, a nonbinary twentysomething, returns to their childhood home in a small conservative Ohio town. Everything is dull and weird and not queer at all. They are trying to keep it together despite desperate phone calls from their mom, chatty co-workers, and visions of melting icecaps and dead horses at the bottom of the east river. Mag's life gets more interesting (and sexy) when they meet The Creature and learn about the algae taking over the town's water supply. Will Mag save the city, or is it the algae's time to shine?

We are thrilled to be paying 27 NYC artists and technicians to help bring this project to life. We are $5,000 shy of our fundraising goal – can you help us get across the finish line? 

 

xo, Dead Horse Productions

Genevieve Simon, playwright (they/them)

Katherine Wilkinson, director (she/they)

Brittany Proia, co-producer (she/her)

Al Parker, co-producer (they/them)

WHAT WE NEED AND WHAT YOU GET 

Our production is already 85% funded, with generous support from NYSCA/A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund, The City Corps Artist Grant, Young Arts, and Arts Mid Hudson.

The majority of our budget (75%) goes toward artist salaries. Our budget as a Equity Showcase Code production is high because we want to pay artists higher than usual amounts on this kind of AEA contract. One of the most important parts of producing this piece was to model a more sustainable theatre-making-structure – to that end, we’re aiming to pay all artists a $20/hr rate. 

 

Bloom Bloom Pow will be presented at The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at ART/New York Theaters September 16th through October 2nd.  Are you in the area?  You can also support the production by purchasing a ticket here: www.bloombloompowtheplay.com

 

 

Grant Funding

Bloom Bloom Pow has received grant funding from NYSCA/A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund, The City Corps Artist Grant, etc.  

This funding along with several generous donations have covered all production costs, venue rental fees, and most artist stipends. Your donation will allow us to pay all artists $20/hr for their work bringing this joyful, magical world to life. 

Budget Pie Chart

Who Are the People?

 

Rehearsal Space 

As a New Georges Supported Production, we were able to secure free and subsidized rehearsal and audition space. Rehearsal rooms were generously supplied to our production by New Georges, A.R.T./New York, The Brick, and WP Theatre.

 

As a play about the climate crisis, our producing goal is for designs to be as close to zero-waste as possible. We intentionally created a small materials budget to limit waste, and have sourced nearly all design elements in the play from Materials For The Arts, New York City’s premiere creative reuse center.