Help Piper McKenzie Make Theater Magic!

Happy Summer from Piper McKenzie! As the Solstice kicks in, making the days simultaneously shorter and hotter, we are preparing to dive into an exciting series of projects for 2009. Would you like to take the plunge with us?

In 2008, your donations to PMcK helped bring three major projects to life: the environmentally-staged 30-actor historical comedy Babylon Babylon; PMcK's first-ever film, the short silent horror pastiche The Poison Kiss; and The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, a twisted alternate-reality holiday story. (For more information on all of these projects please amble over to pipermckenzie.com.)

Now, we're ready for more! We have several thrilling projects in the works for the upcoming year, and we'd love for you to be a part of them:

WILLY NILLY: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far-Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era

A selection of the New York International Fringe Festival, this rock musical spoof by indie playwright and vaudeville historian Trav S.D. (No Applause, Just Throw Money) will combine Charles Manson with Mad Magazine to create a kind of anti-Hair that turns the mythology of the late 1960s on its shaggy, unwashed head.

CRAVEN MONKEY AND THE MOUNTAIN OF FURY
PMcK's proposed entry for December 2009's Fight Fest - the Brick Theater's inaugural festival devoted to the art of stage combat - is a Darwinian martial-arts fairy tale told in the same movement-theater style as PMcK's 2007 hit Macbeth Without Words.

TWO-FISTED TWILIGHT

We're ready for our next close-up with the development of PMcK's first full-length feature film, a WWII ghost story that brings G.I.s, Nazis, dancing girls and avant-garde artists together in a haunted chalet in the French countryside soon after D-Day.

LADY CRYPTOZOOLOGIST, SEASON TWO

Finally, this fall PMcK will return to the Vampire Cowboys' Saturday Night Saloon with a sequel to our wildly popular sci-fi-romance serial Lady Cryptozoologist, a comedic adventure equal parts globe-trotting pseudoscience and interspecies romance.

We clearly can't maintain such a gleefully prolific output on our own. This is why we would like to humbly, gratefully, and very politely ask if you might be interested in giving us a hand. By making a tax-deductible donation to Piper McKenzie via our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, you'll be providing us with rehearsal space, costume materials, and every imaginable expense in between. A donation as small as $10 will ensure that our shows get the time and attention they need to entertain and enchant audiences to the fullest. Read on for our giving levels, and help us shine in 2009!

PIPER McKENZIE's CRYPTOZOOLOGY-INSPIRED GIVING LEVELS

JERSEY DEVIL: $10 AND UP

CHUPACABRA: $50 AND UP

SASQUATCH: $100 AND UP

YETI: $500 AND UP

THE LOCH NESS MONSTER (We will call you Nessie for short): $1000 AND UP

So how can you contribute? There are three easy methods:

TO DONATE ONLINE

Visit https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/1160 to reach our donation page on Fractured Atlas.

TO DONATE VIA MAIL

Make your check out to "Fractured Atlas" with "Piper McKenzie Productions" in the memo and just send it to

PIPER MCKENZIE PRODUCTIONS

c/o Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk

282 20th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11215

TO DONATE VIA TELEPHONE

Simply call (212) 277-8020

Please note: Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity; all donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Thank you in advance for your generous support. In the precarious world of independent theatre, companies like ours don't have a prayer without the assistance of patrons like you. Dedicated audiences and donors have long been the backbone of our success, and will continue to be so well into the future. We look forward to having you as a partner while we forge new artistic ground over the next ten years, and beyond!

Yours until such time as we have nothing left to give,

Hope Cartelli & Jeff Lewonczyk,

Proprietors