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Siren Call: The Web Series

Strong, diverse, 3-dimensional female characters grappling with the lure of the siren.

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Siren Call: The Web Series

Siren Call: The Web Series

Siren Call: The Web Series

Siren Call: The Web Series

Siren Call: The Web Series

Strong, diverse, 3-dimensional female characters grappling with the lure of the siren.

Strong, diverse, 3-dimensional female characters grappling with the lure of the siren.

Strong, diverse, 3-dimensional female characters grappling with the lure of the siren.

Strong, diverse, 3-dimensional female characters grappling with the lure of the siren.

Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy
Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy
Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy
Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy
1 Campaign |
New York, United States
$935 USD 10 backers
9% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
Five stories, filming this summer on a picturesque island, ensnare you in the watery world of the Siren. She’s an elusive and dangerous creature—a Nymph, a Mermaid, a Nereid, a Sylkie—and she beckons us in every seafaring country on Earth.

What is Siren Call?

Last Fall, the five show creators met in Rogelio Martinez's playwriting class at ESPA/Primary Stages where we fell in love with each other’s writing and became convinced that we had the capacity to get stuff done.  We were right!  

Our five stories, filming this summer on a picturesque, ensnare us in the watery world of the Siren.  She’s an elusive and dangerous creature—a Nymph, a Mermaid, a Nereid, a Sylkie—and she beckons us in every seafaring country on Earth. 

Our web series, Siren Call, has two great things going for us right now: a beautiful location in a house on Shelter Island which connects to a beach, and five stories that take a fresh, feminist approach to the classic construct of the Siren. The first season is a seed that we hope will foster more episodes shot around New York’s many waterfronts. We hope to showcase the many actors, writers and directors within our network and continue this poignant series showing three dimensional female characters dealing with supernatural elements that feel mighty yet reminiscent of real life.


Our goal?

To showcase as many female writers, actors and directors as possible (while not ignoring the talented men in our midst!)  To quote the Dramatists Guild report on The Count, an ongoing study to track and push for gender parity in theater: Only 22% of produced plays are written by women.  If life worked like the theater, four out of five things you’d ever heard would have been said by men.  That means you would have missed a lot, given the kinds of things you learn from women.”  Not to mention Sirens.


Who are we?

The five us are:

We're all co-producing and co-writing this together, and our additional hats are:

Catherine Castellani: Treasurer
Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy: Co-Head of Marketing
Erica Jensen: Head of Casting
Martha Pichey: Location Scout, & Set Designer
Piper Werle: Co-Head of Marketing

You can read our complete bios here! In short, we're five women who are passionate about excellence, vibrant storytelling, and diversity in the arts. 
We take our constraints as creative challenges, not limits. That said we do need money.

Where Your Money Will Go

Paying our talented CAST and CREW! The only thing we love more than working with great artists, is paying great artists.

FOOD for our lovely cast and crew. Creativity is hungry work! 

PERMITS and INSURANCE to keep everything above board

CASTING requires renting a space for Erica to work her casting magic.

WARDROBE & MAKEUP to add the finishing touches on the worlds we've created

TRANSPORTATION to get everyone safely to set.

ART/WEB HOSTING/Marketing

POST-PRODUCTION Editing, color-correction, and sound editing. 

INDIEGOGO'S FEE IndieGoGo takes a fee (4% of our budget if we make our goal, 9% if we don't!) 

Gratitude

Thank you so much for checking out our page! If you've made it this far, you're a kind soul. Have a look at our perks on the right and see how we plan to put our money where our mouth is!

We really appreciate your support, and will definitely keep everyone posted on our progress! Watch this space for casting updates!

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Many Thanks!

$5 USD
We'll thank with full hearts on Social Media. Thanks for helping us along!
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Message in a Bottle

$25 USD
We'll thank you in the credits of this season's episodes, we'll sing your praises on social media, along wth a personalized postcard full of our thanks and an update on the production!
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Siren Song

$50 USD
Thank you for your gift! To thank you, you get your name in the credits, a snail mailed post card, AND a personalized haiku by none other than Martha Pichey!
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Big Splash!

$100 USD
Thank you for helping us on our way! For your generosity, you get a your name in the credits of this season's episodes, a snail mailed SIREN'S CALL postcard with updates, AND we'll help you on your way to auditioning greatness with a 1-hour coaching session with Casting Director extraordinaire Erica Jenson of Calleri Casting to help you make a splash in audition rooms and beyond!
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Sweets for the Sweet!

$100 USD
Thanks so much! For this sweet sweetness we shall thank you in the credits of this season's episodes, snail mail you a SIREN'S CALL postcard, AND, you get your choice of cookie batch (25-30 cookies) from Brooklyn Cookie Co.! You'll be the belle or the beau of the ball if you walk in with these. Manhattan, BK, or Queens only.
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Ocean's Bounty

$500 USD
Thank you! For your generosity, you get all of the above, plus Associate Producer credit on each episode, dinner with the cast and crew on set.
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A Whale of a Tale

$1,000 USD
Thank you! For your extraordinary kindness, we'd like to offer you all of the above, Executive Producer credit on each episode this season, and a personal short story, written just for you, by one of our show writers! Thank you so much!
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