THANK YOU!2/9/2021 Dear friends, collaborators, supporters, and heroes, THANK YOU! Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our 2021 Season fundraiser. We are so humbled by the 115 people who donated. Together, we raised $11,985.94. Thank you, thank you, thank you: Jim Andrews Eve Appleton Jessie Atkinson Jake Beckhard Andrew Bedard Joyce Bedard Kelly & Mike Bedard Sharlene Bedard Kathleen Bemis Judith C Berger Sandra & Yoni Berkowitz Donna Blackmond Kathryn Bowman The Boxcutter Collective Fred Boyd Renee Carroll Inés del Castillo Emily Conley Katie Dagon Christopher DeSantis Connor Descheemaker Lawrence Dreyfuss Lionel Dripps Paul Feinberg Martha Ferguson Stephen Foglia Julia Foster Richard Fudge Kate Gazzaniga Amanda Ghosh Eric Grunin Sarah Habib Cody Hom Benjamin Inbar Ruth & Robert Keogh Samantha Keogh Esther Ko Martins Jukna-Parsons Marilyn Lawson Julia Levine Camden Louie Maggie Low Marisa Mackey Allen MacLeod Max Mondi Alyssa Montalvo-Rios Victor Milione Justin Nichols Julia Nickerson Torrie Ogilvie Alicia Outing Julie Pedtke Alice Pencavel Maxine Phillips Veronica Pickett Sue Ramsay Lauren Randall Austin Regan Chip Rice Jacob Rice Dana Rich Mandy Robbins Jonelle Robinson Jess & Bryan Rosenberg Dominique Salerno Alix Sobler Jamie Soltis Alyssa Stone Lucinda Stone Justin Taylor Kristina Tom Aria Umezawa Alison Walter Stephanie Warren Pandora & John Wohler Gennady Yusim Diana Zuluaga and 35 anonymous heroes. And thank you for a donation made in loving memory of Janet B. Milione. We hope you’ll join us in the coming year online and, hopefully soon, in person. To learn more about our 2021 Season, check out our announcement here.
Thank you so much, all of you, for making this work not just possible, but worth it. Peace, power, and love to you, Paul, Katie, Kathryn, and Hilarie
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Our 2021 Season2/9/2021 Dear friends, We hope your 2021 is off to a great start. Our is quite busy, planning and starting our 2021 Season:
* We are planning our two productions and one cabaret to have multiple presentation options. Outdoors? Online? We are keeping safety top-of-mind, with multiple contingency plans and flexibility as the health situation in NYC changes.  One of 2020's Cold Reading groups! Cold Readings Since 2015, Theater in Asylum has gathered friends to read and discuss great plays once a month. As the pandemic sent us into our homes, we moved these gatherings online and began holding them weekly. Wednesday nights have become a cherished place not only for play reading but for processing these wild times. We plan to continue weekly readings online until it’s safe to gather in person again, and invite more guest facilitators to bring new plays and new ideas to the group.  Amanda Ghosh in The Debates 2020 The Debates 2021 The Debates 2021 will be our fourth iteration of The Debates. This year we turn to New York City’s Democratic primaries and the conversation over what we want our city to be. New Yorkers will soon elect a new mayor, comptroller, and many city council members. We believe everyone should understand their electoral power, and we know theater is a potent tool to elucidate that power. As in past years, we’ll host a slew of events including watch parties, political analysis meetings, and finally, an original play about the election. We want not only to get out the vote, but also to empower the voter to engage in the electoral process with understanding and confidence. With our unique blend of mimicry, abstraction, and earnest curiosity, we seek to illuminate the candidates, the issues, and ourselves.  Global Democracy Now Occupy London Tents in front of St. Paul's, London Sunday 16th October 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement#/media/File:Occupy_London_Tent.jpg) Occupy Prescott Nearly ten years ago, activists gathered in lower Manhattan to peacefully occupy Zuccotti Park and to declare opposition to an economic system clearly inadequate for the majority of Americans, the 99%. Occupy Wall Street galvanized people around the world and inspired hundreds of activist occupations, big and small, united in a call to radically rethink the economic order. Playwright Andy Boyd hones in on Prescott, Arizona to follow five Occupiers in their efforts to change their town and the world. They broadly agree that the one percent is too powerful, but agreement breaks down as they search for specifics. Reaching consensus on what a better world looks like—and how to get there—is frequently frustrating and rarely glamorous. Never easy, but urgently necessary. On the 10th anniversary of the rallying cry heard round the world, we are thrilled to produce the prescient and hopeful play: Occupy Prescott. And more! We’re planning to host another cabaret, sharing our platform with artists in our community to workshop their new work. We will also continue to revise our mission statement and our company’s inner workings, as well as participating in anti-racism trainings through the League of Independent Theater.
We are so excited to see you again, in-person when it's safe, and online until then. Thank you all for making our work possible! Cheers, Paul, Katie, Kathryn, and Hilarie 12 days left!1/18/2021 Dear friends, We hope you are safe, healthy, and in good spirits during these tumultuous times. We hope you have been taking care of yourselves and each other. It’s awkward in every moment to ask for money, and it feels especially so in this moment, with… everything. Yet, with all we hope to do this year, we absolutely need your help. We have ambitions to continue our weekly Cold Readings; produce a cabaret where artists can share new work; create The Debates 2021; and produce Andy Boyd’s Occupy Prescott. We have some amazing friends who have offered “perks” for our fundraiser. We encourage you to check out some of the classes our friends are offering below for donations from $25 to $100. Choose from yoga, acting, playwriting, civics, and even bread baking classes. Help us reach our fundraising goal while learning something new! Don’t miss out on these one-of-a-kind opportunities!  Thank you so much.
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