(Community Matters) Steven and I are producing two of our friend’s (Michael Mitchell’s) plays, Highway Home & Them. Austin & New York award-winning director, Katie Pearl will direct. The two short plays will be presented as Two Fountains and open Nov 29 at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre.
Katie directed a workship of Michael’s Highway Home at one of his last UT classes in the Spring. She loved it, we loved it and several weeks before any awareness that Michael had cancer we talked about producing the show. Given the situation today, we’ve timed the production to coincide with the end of Michael’s 6 months of chemo (kinda an exciting light at the end of the tunnel for him, his family and friends). We’re raising the $25,000 production costs from family, friends and sponsors of the arts, so that we can designate all box office proceeds to two nonprofits, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (for Austin patient navigation) and Fuse Box, an important Austin arts festival . Sponsorships qualify as charitable contributions through the ABPorter.org Fund at the Austin Community Foundation. More here
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