James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
Tax-Deductible Project from:
Share this widget on your site or blog by copying and pasting the code above. Need a little help?
Reach out to us.
Support Status
Time Remaining
Any contribution of $10 receives: A Digital Copy of "The Amorous Orlando" (Warning! Very, very X-Rated, you may opt out if you don't want to see the film)
Fully tax-deductible.
8 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $20 receives: Hand screen-printed poster from "Murder Ballads" (Non-Chicago Residents, Please add $5 for tube and shipping)
Amount over $5.00 is tax-deductible.
5 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $25 receives: Out-of-towner rate for the Poster so we can ship it to you in the fancy tube
Amount over $10.00 is tax-deductible.
2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $50 receives: A custom song written by Max about any subject you please (a great gift), plus the poster, plus the movie
Amount over $5.00 is tax-deductible.
5 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $75 receives: All of the above and a custom Shadow Puppet of a person or animal of your choice
Amount over $10.00 is tax-deductible.
2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $100 receives: All of the above and a custom moving and jointed Shadow Puppet of a person or animal of your choice
Amount over $10.00 is tax-deductible.
3 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $250 receives: A Handmade, Performance-Grade Punch and Judy-style hand-puppet of any person of your choosing made by Mike, and the poster, and the movie, and the custom song
Amount over $30.00 is tax-deductible.
1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $400 receives: Same as the $250 But with TWO puppets so you can actually put on a puppet show
Amount over $55.00 is tax-deductible.
Any contribution of $1,000 receives: A Private Performance of "Murder Ballads" anywhere in the Chicagoland Area, plus the custom song, plus the poster
Amount over $100.00 is tax-deductible.
Any contribution of $5,000 receives: All of the above, and a plaque that will forever name our studio space after you. You Saint.
Amount over $100.00 is tax-deductible.
Started by Mike Oleon January 24th, 2012
A compelling video by Mike with music by Max to beseech your support of innovative contemporary puppet theater.
Tweet
We're the Rough House Puppet Theater. We make spectacular musical puppet theater for adults and we need your help! By help of course, we mean money. We're raising $3500 to support two innovative and thrilling puppet projects.
We need gas money, actor money, designer money, space money, paint money, publicity money, and whatever kind of other money you've got. We are also offering wonderful and unique gifts like screenprinted art, personalized songs, and performance-grade custom puppets of you and your loved ones!
You're support is TAX DEDUCTIBLE. And every dollar past our goal will go helping us rent a permanent space to build and rehearse.
We need gas money, actor money, designer money, space money, paint money, publicity money, and whatever kind of other money you've got. We are also offering wonderful and unique gifts like screenprinted art, personalized songs, and performance-grade custom puppets of you and your loved ones!
The Projects:
Premiering in March 2012 at Orchestra Hall in Logan Square, our newest production, Murder Ballads, is an intensely intimate penny arcade of five musical tales of murder. Through peepshow-like detail, Murder Ballads provides a harrowing, humorous and heartbreaking close-up of our most basic fears, and our basest urges. Murder Ballads will be touring in Spring and the Summer. Our first venture out is as a selection of Open Eye Theater's Toy Theater After Dark Festival in Minneapolis
We're also making a film! The Amorous Orlando (loosely based on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography) is an experimental erotic film incorporating live and puppet actors. It's pretty far out there, and we're quite confident no film of this kind has ever been attempted before. Freaky!