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The Road to Huntsville

Help get The Road to Huntsville on the road to Summerhall Edinburgh Festival 2016

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The Road to Huntsville

The Road to Huntsville

The Road to Huntsville

The Road to Huntsville

The Road to Huntsville

Help get The Road to Huntsville on the road to Summerhall Edinburgh Festival 2016

Help get The Road to Huntsville on the road to Summerhall Edinburgh Festival 2016

Help get The Road to Huntsville on the road to Summerhall Edinburgh Festival 2016

Help get The Road to Huntsville on the road to Summerhall Edinburgh Festival 2016

Stephanie Ridings
Stephanie Ridings
Stephanie Ridings
Stephanie Ridings
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
$667 USD $667 USD 17 backers
51% of $1,294 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

The Road to Huntsville - a new play by Stephanie Ridings.

I'm Stephanie Ridings, and I'm a writer, performer, theatre maker. I'm working with Independent Producer Pippa Frith, and a team of other brilliant creatives to make this project happen. Last time Pippa and I worked together we won an award (ooo get us), so I like to think this makes us a pretty good team. 

The Road to Huntsville is an exploration into unconventional love, state homicide and challenging our predetermined perceptions. 

Through a period of research including a trip to Huntsville, Texas, meetings with the old prison warden and more I have been exploring and examining the issues surrounding women who fall in love with men on death row. I have been writing, planning and developing this research over the past 18 months into a full length theatre show. Here's the blurb:  

“The first time I kiss him, his lips are still warm. I hold him. Take in his smell for the first and last time. This is how it ends.”

I’m researching women who marry men on death row. I’m fascinated how and why this happens. I’m corresponding with Jonny, incarcerated on death row in Texas. I’m trying to understand the man, not the crime and what makes a killer so attractive. I’m trying to understand the death penalty and how that fits into our 21st Century world. I’m trying not to be judgemental.

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We want to take The Road to Huntsville to Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This is one of the very best places in the world to platform new theatre. It's a brilliant opportunity to get great audiences, promoters and presenters (who can help secure future touring) and press reviews and coverage. 

It is also however, notoriously impossible to fund. Which is where you come in. We have secured one of the very best venues (Summerhall), but we need a bit of help to get there. We've managed to secure some funds, and we're also contributing cash ourselves, but a little further help - to be precise £1000 of help - would really plug the gap. This money will help us cover the costs of travelling to Edinburgh, having a simple place to lay our heads of an evening, and promoting the show while we're in there. 

By helping us now, you are helping the work not only reach audiences in Edinburgh, but also hopefully helping to secure future tour dates - taking the work to audiences more widely nationally and maybe even internationally. 

We'd love it if your were able to help, and donate whatever you can afford, but if you can't help us with donations, then please do help us by sharing this campaign instead - that would also be brilliant useful. 

We've created some perks, which we hope you think are a bit exciting, or at the very least some way to showing our gratitude. 

A little bit more about our team

Stephanie Ridings – Writer / Performer:

Stephanie was born and rasied in Blackpool, she gained a First Class degree in Contemporary Arts. Her recent major project, Unknown Male, opened at Birmingham REP, Door in January 2015, as a co-production between the REP and Independent Producer, Pippa Frith. The project won the Peter Brook/Mark Marvin Rent subsidy award. Her first major script Me, Mum & Dusty Springfield enjoyed a sellout Edinburgh Festival and went on to be supported by The Lowry (Salford) and tour nationally. She has been Artist in Residence at Contact Theatre (Manchester) during which time she wrote The National Express, which went on to be selected for Re:Play at The Library Theatre (Manchester). In the past she has been commissioned to write for Women & Theatre, Birmingham REP’s Learning and Participation and for Corby Young Actors at the Core at Corby. More recently she has been commissioned to write a short radio play for Cotesbach Education Trust. She has also developed text for devised performances including, Obstacles to Coming Home, 360 Degrees (and Falling), I’ve never been to the moon (Royal Exchange, Studio). In 2012 she was part of Writing West Midlands Room 204 scheme, which supports the development of writers in the West Midlands and in 2013 was a writer on Birmingham Rep’s inaugural Foundry Programme. She was selected for Creative England’s inaugural iWrite programme in 2015 and is currently working on a script for Live Lunch hosted by the Royal Court.

www.stephanieridings.com

Jonathan V McGrath – Director:

Jonathan V McGrath trained in acting at the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and has held associate and resident artist status in venues across the UK, he is a Director, Dramaturge and Lecturer and has made and toured new theatre productions for venues and festivals across the world. Jonathan is currently living in the North of England.

Jonathan is an accomplished director and has a long list of successful performances to his name that have been diverse in scale, style and staging. His work has been most heavily influenced by the work of directors Jerzy Grotowski, Louise Lowe and Simon McBurney.

Jonathan's work is made with a strong visual style and the audience is complicit with what goes on, largely site specific in nature Jonathan has fed, blindfolded, boozed and flirted audiences through his productions. Jonathan's first company Ikebana Performance took it's ethos from the ancient art of ikebana flower arrangement, the flowers are held with the same importance as the vase and the shelf and the light. All components are equal in the composition. This is an ethos that Jonathan has carried with him throughout his career in theatre.

Jonathan has several new productions opening throughout 2015 and early 2016 and is currently being mentored in directing for opera by Stefan Janski; Head of Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music.

www.jonathanmcgrath.com

Rachel Bunce – Film Maker:

Rachel, Director of RB Films, shoots, produces & edits films for theatre folk. She's worked extensively with China Plate Theatre to produce high quality trailers for artists such as Chris Thorpe, Action Hero, Caroline Horton and Inspector Sands. Her films have strongly supported theatre companies' marketing and promotion campaigns and helped venues reach new audiences. 

Rachel's passions take her into the education and charity sectors too; she runs filmmaking workshops for young people and has worked as a photographer in Uganda, Kenya & Burundi for charity Send a Cow. Her first self-directed work was made in Albania, filming music therapy in situations like orphanages, street children centres and prisons. She is currently working in The Midlands on a variety of projects; 'Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood' for Contender Charlie, 'The Boy Who Never Grew Up' for Amelia Bird and 'Holy Presents' for Humanish.

www.rachelbunce.co.uk

Pippa Frith – Producer

Pippa Frith is an Independent Producer based in Birmingham. She works with artists to create art that aims to surprise and delight audiences nationally and internationally. She is passionate about working in the regions to create new work of high quality, showcase new voices and grow new audiences. Her primary background is theatre, although she also has experience of Spoken Word Outdoor Circus work), Visual Arts / Performance Crossover and cross-media projects.

She is the long-term producer for celebrated solo artist Francesca Millican-Slater (Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs, supported by mac birmingham; The Forensics of a Flat, in association with Birmingham REP; My Dearest Girls, commissioned by Shropshire Archives and Arts Alive), GOLD (commissioned by the New Vic Theatre). She co-produced Unknown Male, by Stephanie Ridings with Birmingham REP in January 2015, winning the Peter Brook / Mark Marvin Award for the project.

She was Co-Producer of Our Fathers (Babakas, commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre, mac birmingham and China Plate), supporting the work through two national tours, a number of international dates and a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe run (2013). She is also Co-Director of well-loved work-in-progress platform PILOT Nights. As a member of The Holding Space consortium

She has been a visiting lecturer at The University of Birmingham and Birmingham School of Acting and regularly mentors emerging producers and young artists and companies. Before developing her producing portfolio Pippa worked as Project Manager for Women & Theatre (Birmingham), as a Programmer at the Drum Arts Centre; was Project Manager of The Decibel Performing Arts Showcase 2007 and for Fierce Earth, working on a range of projects included Fierce! Festival. She studied Contemporary Arts, majoring in Theatre and Live Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.

www.pippafrith.co.uk

Duncan Grimley - Sound Designer 

Duncan Grimley is a sound design artist who creates sound and music for outdoor and site-specific performances, nationally touring theatre shows, installations, podcasts and other digital media.

Sound and composition for live performances includes Wings of Desire and B-Town for International Dance Festival Birmingham. Silent Planet for Upstart Theatre, Ride and Safe for ZoieLogicandKapa Haka Tale and Headphones for Corey Baker Dance. Other music production credits include Rosie Kay Dance Company, Bare Bones, Protein Dance, Morning of Owl, Pro Dance, Hearth Theatre, Women & Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

www.duncangrimley.com  

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Eternal Gratitude

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If you can donate £5 our team will rightly be grateful to you forevermore.
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Eternal gratitude, publicly

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We will be so grateful to you that we will tell you and the world via our social media channels
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Contributor status & more love

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name in lights&exclusive pics

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You will be listed on the website and in the programme as a contributor, receive our public gratitude through social media, and your name as a creditor will be listed on screen at the end of each shows as part of our credits. We will also give you access to an exclusive online scrapbook of unseen images from Stephanie's Huntsville trip.
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All of that, and a badge!

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You will be listed on the website and in the programme as a contributor, receiving our public gratitude through social media,and your name as a creditor will be listed on screen at the end of each shows as part of our credits. You will be given access to an exclusive online scrapbook of unseen images from Stephanie's Huntsville trip and you will also receive a limited edition The Road to Huntsville badge.
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All of that + exclusive film

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You will be listed on the website and in the programme as a contributor, receive our public gratitude through social media, and your name as a creditor will be listed on screen at the end of each shows as part of our credits. You will be given access to an exclusive online scrapbook of unseen images from Stephanie's Huntsville trip, a limited edition The Road to Huntsville badge and a film of some unseen footage of Stephanie's trip to Huntsville.
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All of that + show tickets

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You will be listed on the website and in the programme as a contributor, receive our public gratitude through social media, and your name as a creditor will be listed on screen at the end of each shows as part of our credits. You'll receive the limited edition badge, access to the exclusive online scrapbook and video from Stephanie's trip to Huntsville, and 2 tickets to a performance of your choice.
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A 121 with Stephanie

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You will be listed on the website and in the programme as a contributor, receive our public gratitude through social media, your name as a creditor will be listed on screen, the badge, access to the exclusive online scrapbook and video from Stephanie's trip to Huntsville. On top of that; a chance to talk to Stephanie over tea and cake, about the project, ask her all the questions she doesn't answer in the show, see exclusive images and more. (Geographical restrictions apply).
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