Playwright Catherine Castellani
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The Bigsley Project Gets On Its Feet
A Play with Choreography.
New York, NY, US
- $4,042 raised of $5,000 goal
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Synopsis: Boutique firm Favorite Son will be closing its fancy doors if the team can’t land the Bigsley account. With the boss, Joe, holed up in his office weaving an epic paper clip chain, it falls to assistant Mary to crack the whip. Second-banana Bob takes his shot at glory, alternately aided and sabotaged by third-banana Sue and hapless associates Karen and Tom. Together they wow Mr. Bigsley with a desperate pitch that is anything but PowerPoint.
History: The earliest drafts were read at the Abingdon Theatre Playwrights Retreat and Shakespeare's Sister's The Woolf Series. Subsequent drafts had staged readings by One Year Lease Theatre Company's The Subletters series and at Centenary Stage's Women Playwrights Festival. A later draft hit the stage at Naked Angels' Tuesdays at 9:00. The very latest draft had a table read hosted by The Lortel Foundation and a self-produced 1-day workshop at TheaterLab.
What will it take to get The Bigsley Project on its feet?
Before we plunge into rehearsal/performance, we need another development week to build a movement vocabulary and the freedom to spike anything that isn't working without the clock ticking down to tech. And to do that, we need $5,000, which we'll spend on:
History: The earliest drafts were read at the Abingdon Theatre Playwrights Retreat and Shakespeare's Sister's The Woolf Series. Subsequent drafts had staged readings by One Year Lease Theatre Company's The Subletters series and at Centenary Stage's Women Playwrights Festival. A later draft hit the stage at Naked Angels' Tuesdays at 9:00. The very latest draft had a table read hosted by The Lortel Foundation and a self-produced 1-day workshop at TheaterLab.
What will it take to get The Bigsley Project on its feet?
Before we plunge into rehearsal/performance, we need another development week to build a movement vocabulary and the freedom to spike anything that isn't working without the clock ticking down to tech. And to do that, we need $5,000, which we'll spend on:
- 6 actors ($435 each)
- 7th actor for one day ($105)
- 1 director ($435)
- rehearsal space (up to $1,155 based on $35 an hour and you know I'm looking for cheaper)
- insurance, printing/copies, stationery supplies to throw--a Bigsley-specific need! ($695)
Can you contribute $20, $50, $100, $500? Any amount helps get an actor out of chair and on their feet. Can't contribute but hopelessly intrigued? Get in touch! I'd love to hear from potential collaborators, future audience members, and such. Thank you!
