Kickstarting

Look. Everyone and their mother is doing a Kickstarter event these days. (Hi mom!) We know that. And we (by "we" I mean the collective "Race McCloud" family, a.k.a. Team McCloud) are no exception. Pre-production has begun on our Kickstarter video, and...

Wait wait wait wait... you don't know what Kickstarter.com is? Okay, Cliff Notes version: it's a website through which artists can independently raise money for projects. They apply to Kickstarter for a space on the site, the Kickstarter people decide "yay" or "nay", and if the answer is in the affirmative than the Kickstarting begins, with the artist setting up project descriptions and a promo video and donation links and etc., etc., etc.

So we're doing one. Not to raise money for the next production of "Race McCloud", no. But to raise money to set up a backer's audition (essentially a showcase for those who may want to invest real money) as we try to raise the funds and find the people to help bring "Race McCloud" to a legitimate Off-Broadway run.

We shoot the video on October 15th. Expect our fundraising efforts to commence shortly thereafter. I've worked the script to a lean, mean, 94 pages, performed in one act. To compare: our original FringeNYC production of "Race McCloud" was 130 pages long with 4 fights. Now the play is 94 pages long with 10 fights. I have given the audience just what they seem to want... and happily enough, it turns out this is what I wanted, too, because I've never been more pleased with the script.

This is the last shot I'm taking with this iteration of "Race McCloud". Either we raise the money and generate the interest among those who matter... or we won't. And if "won't" is where we land, I'll begin submitting "Race" to publishing companies and regional theaters and what-not, and I'll no longer be the director/producer of "Race McCloud", and simply be the playwright. And nobody can say we didn't try like hell to make this thing work on our terms.

But. We're not tossing in the towel just yet.

See you soon.