We are in search of donors who are looking to sponsor our production and become a part of the presentation with gifts in return such as: tax-deductible receipt, producer credit, opening night/red-carpet tixs, private screening of Barefoot Studio Pictures' short films, Floating Sunflowers (starring Anna Chlumsky) and latest A Northern Star (starring Lynn Cohen), with Horovitz's short film, Security (originally developed and premiered on stage w/ Barefoot Theatre Co.) along with private dinner and drinks with Horovitz and the Barefoot Theatre Co. ensemble and more!
Three (3) easy ways to contribute & become a part of our Off Broadway production:
1) Click on button to make your tax-deductible donation:
2) Write a check and make it payable to:
Barefoot Theatre Company, Inc.
619 East 17th Street, #1S
Brooklyn, NY 11226
c/o Francisco Solorzano
3)
or contact us to make a secured CHASE Quickpay transaction. Email us
at barefoottheatre@aol.com, attn: Francisco Solorzano with the best way
to contact you via phone.
Here's a little more about the project in Israel Horovitz's own words:
Why are we fundraising online for MAN IN SNOW?
The
budget for the Gloucester Stage leg of the
journey is covered. The budget for
bringing the show to LaMama is very nearly covered. In total, our budget
for the NYC transfer is at $20,000 - we're looking to raise only half, with a matching donation already set at $10,000!
I hope that you will be able to help with a
contribution, large or small.
This project is hugely important to me. I
think that MAN IN SNOW is among my very best work.
The play tells the story of a man caught in an
avalanche, but centers on parents grieving for a dead child. The play is very
much a study of grief and its effects on marriages and families. I have done
exhaustive research on these important life-issues. I have seen audiences’ profoundly
emotional response to both the radio play and the stage version of MAN IN SNOW.
Grief is an important, but highly non-commercial
theme. Hardly obscure, grief touches every human life, yet is a subject rarely
touched by films or stage-plays.
MAN IN SNOW was originally written for BBC
Radio 4 in the year 2000. I had just returned from seeing a play of mine in
Fairbanks, Alaska, and was being interviewed by a local radio station... when a
report came in about a man who was killed in a cabin during an avalanche. He
spent his final minutes of his life talking on a cell-phone to his wife, saying
goodbye.
The phone was hot-wired into a 40’-high
antenna, allowing continued reception.
This story stayed with me, haunted me. When I
was asked by BBC Radio 4 to write an original radio play, I wrote MAN IN SNOW,
which is totally fiction except for the essential image of a husband and wife
saying their goodbyes in that terrible circumstance. My play won the 2001 Sony
Radio Academy Award.
Around 5 years ago, I had an invitation to travel
to Italy to see some short plays of mine in a theatre in Spoleto. I had been to
Spoleto in 1968 for the Festival of Two Worlds, where I showed The Indian Wants
the Bronx with Al Pacino and John Cazale, and It's Called The Sugar Plum with
Jill Clayburgh. Spoleto was a great memory for me, and so I accepted the
invitation to return there to see the stage-show composed of my short plays. In
Spoleto, I met the director Andrea Paciotto for the first time. His work directing
my plays was brilliant. Andrea’s speciality is physical – visual – theatre.
Mine is very much the art of storytelling. Our combined work was, I think,
unusual and compelling for audiences.
The eight Italian actors performing my plays asked
me if they could stay together as a troupe and continue to perform other plays
of mine. Of course I said 'yes' and Compagnia Horovitz-Pacciotto was born.
To date, Andrea has directed nearly a dozen of
my plays in Italy. A few years ago, he asked if he could put my radio play MAN
IN SNOW on stage in Italy. His stage-production of MAN IN SNOW was astonishing.
It inspired me to write a fully-realized stage-play based upon my radio script.
During the past year, I developed the stage
version of MAN IN SNOW at The Actors Studio in NYC, working closely with
Francisco Solorzano of Barefoot Theatre. Francisco is a close friend of
Pacciotto. I have worked with Barefoot Theatre on literally dozens of my plays.
When Igturned 70, Barefoot 4:38 PMheater and Francisco Solorzano organized the 70/70 Horovitz
Project… 70 of my plays were given readings and/or full productions by theatre
companies around the globe.
Francisco Solorzano and I worked closely developing
MAN IN SNOW for the stage, doing rehearsed readings of developing drafts of the
stage play through four separate performances of MAN IN SNOW, spaced throughout
a full year at The Actors Studio in NYC, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in
Florida.
The play is now scheduled to be performed at
Gloucester Stage during September and October 2016, followed immediately by
performances in NYC at LaMama in November.
Others theatres in the USA and France have
already scheduled performances of MAN IN SNOW for 2017.
Andrea Paciotto will come to America in
summer, 2016, to rehearse and direct MAN IN SNOW at Gloucester Stage, and then
re-stage the play at LaMama.
Israel HOROVITZ
NYC,
May-July 2016.
GIFTS:
Co-PRODUCER - $20,000 +
Two (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs & After party
Two (2) to any following performances
Signed Framed Poster of MAN IN SNOW
Signed Script - NYC Performance Script
Media DVD/CD with BBC Radio Original Recording, Rehearsal Clips, Interviews & More
Private Dinner w/ Barefoot Theatre Co & Israel Horovtiz
Private Screening of Barefoot Studio
Pictures' films including Security by Horovitz (originally premiered on
stage w/ Barefoot Theatre Co.)
Signed Collection of Israel Horovitz Playscripts, Poems and Memoir
Program acknowledgment
Social Media & Website acknowledgement
Program and Website Advertisement space
TWO (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs & After party to Barefoot GALA
TWO (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs to
NYC Premiere of A NOTHERN STAR, a film starring Lynn Cohen & the
Barefoot Theatre Ensemble.
Signed BluRay copy of Barefoot Studio
Pictures' debut film, FLOATING SUNFLOWERS starring Anna Chlumsky of VEEP
and My Girl fame.
Barefoot Theatre Company limited Logo Pin
Tax Deductible Donation Receipt
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - $10,000 +
Two (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs & After party
Two (2) to any following performances
Signed Framed Poster of MAN IN SNOW
Signed Script - NYC Performance Script
Private Dinner w/ Barefoot Theatre Co & Israel Horovtiz
Private
Screening of Barefoot Studio Pictures' films including Security by
Horovitz (originally premiered on stage w/ Barefoot Theatre Co.)
Signed Collection of Israel Horovitz Playscripts, Poems and Memoir
Program acknowledgment
Social Media & Website acknowledgment
TWO (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs & After party to Barefoot GALA
Barefoot Theatre Company limited Logo Pin
Tax Deductible Donation Receipt
SUPPORTER - $5,000 +
Two (2) Red-Carpet / Opening Night Tixs & After party
Signed Framed Poster of MAN IN SNOW
Signed Script - NYC Performance Script
Media DVD/CD with BBC Radio Original Recording, Rehearsal Clips, Interviews & More
Private
Screening of Barefoot Studio Pictures' films including Security by
Horovitz (originally premiered on stage w/ Barefoot Theatre Co.)
Signed Collection of Israel Horovitz Playscripts, Poems and Memoir
Program acknowledgment
Social Media & Website acknowledgment
Barefoot Theatre Company limited Logo Pin
Tax Deductible Donation Receipt
ANGEL - $500 +
Private
Screening of Barefoot Studio Pictures' films including Security by
Horovitz (originally premiered on stage w/ Barefoot Theatre Co.)
Signed Collection of Israel Horovitz Playscripts, Poems and Memoir
Program acknowledgment
Social Media & Website acknowledgment
Barefoot Theatre Company limited Logo Pin
Tax Deductible Donation Receipt
All
funds will go towards the NYC transfer: Actor's fees, health &
pension, marketing, advertising, designer fees, crew and more. For a
detailed breakdown, please contact us directly at
barefoottheatre@aol.com.
BAREFOOT THEATRE COMPANY (Co-Producer)
In 1999, Barefoot Theatre Company was founded by a multicultural group of artists determined to produce vital, thought-provoking plays, both new and lesser-known existing works. Led by Actor, Francisco Solorzano, the BAREFOOT THEATRE COMPANY is now in its 17th season, developing theater and film (via sister co. Barefoot Studio Pictures) in New York and LA. Recent collaborations with award winning writers include, Jose Rivera, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristoffer Diaz, Ben Snyder, Mike Reiss, Joe Pintuaro, Israel Horovitz, Lyle Kessler, Jan Rosenberg, Amina Henry, Adam Szymkowicz, Mark Borkowski, Micheline Auger, Mel Nieves and actors Gina Gershon, Bobby Cannavale, Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Michael Stuhlbarg, Annabella Sciorra, John Doman, Austin Pendleton, Richard Kind, Mickey Sumner, Anna Chlumksy, Lynn Cohen, Tala Ashe, Caitlin FitzGerald, Alfredo Narciso, to name a few. Recent productions Off-Broadway include the premieres of TEETH OF THE SONS, a stage adaptation of the film DOG DAY AFTERNOON, NYC Revival of Joe Pintauro’s RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, the workshop of Israel Horovitz's GLOUCESTER BLUE, as well as the 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a yearlong worldwide festival that featured 70 of Horovitz's plays on the occasion of his 70th birthday. First film project via Barefoot Studio Pictures, FLOATING SUNFLOWERS starring Anna Chlumsky, Lynn Cohen, Christopher Whalen; directed by Francisco Solorzano was the recipient of several awards including Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Chlumsky), and many others at some of the top Film Festivals. Currently in post production: A short film written and directed by Caitlin FitzGerald; A Northern Star written and directed by Francisco Solorzano starring Lynn Cohen and the Barefoot Theatre Co. Ensemble completed and scheduled for release around the globe this Fall. Fore more info visit: barefoottheatrecompany.org.
In 1999, Barefoot Theatre Company was founded by a multicultural group of artists determined to produce vital, thought-provoking plays, both new and lesser-known existing works. Led by Actor, Francisco Solorzano, the BAREFOOT THEATRE COMPANY is now in its 17th season, developing theater and film (via sister co. Barefoot Studio Pictures) in New York and LA. Recent collaborations with award winning writers include, Jose Rivera, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristoffer Diaz, Ben Snyder, Mike Reiss, Joe Pintuaro, Israel Horovitz, Lyle Kessler, Jan Rosenberg, Amina Henry, Adam Szymkowicz, Mark Borkowski, Micheline Auger, Mel Nieves and actors Gina Gershon, Bobby Cannavale, Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Chris Cooper, Michael Stuhlbarg, Annabella Sciorra, John Doman, Austin Pendleton, Richard Kind, Mickey Sumner, Anna Chlumksy, Lynn Cohen, Tala Ashe, Caitlin FitzGerald, Alfredo Narciso, to name a few. Recent productions Off-Broadway include the premieres of TEETH OF THE SONS, a stage adaptation of the film DOG DAY AFTERNOON, NYC Revival of Joe Pintauro’s RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, the workshop of Israel Horovitz's GLOUCESTER BLUE, as well as the 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a yearlong worldwide festival that featured 70 of Horovitz's plays on the occasion of his 70th birthday. First film project via Barefoot Studio Pictures, FLOATING SUNFLOWERS starring Anna Chlumsky, Lynn Cohen, Christopher Whalen; directed by Francisco Solorzano was the recipient of several awards including Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Chlumsky), and many others at some of the top Film Festivals. Currently in post production: A short film written and directed by Caitlin FitzGerald; A Northern Star written and directed by Francisco Solorzano starring Lynn Cohen and the Barefoot Theatre Co. Ensemble completed and scheduled for release around the globe this Fall. Fore more info visit: barefoottheatrecompany.org.
