Labour of love. Invoice of reality.
Here's the honest version.
We're a troupe of tech professionals, and we know what that implies. Stable salaries. Benefits. The ability to do almost everything we do entirely on a volunteer basis because our day jobs cover our rent. We are deeply aware of that privilege, and we don't take it for granted.
But here's what those day jobs don't cover: licensing fees for the plays we produce, venue rental costs even when the venue is a space on a corporate campus, set materials, costumes, props, sound equipment, lighting, and all the other unglamorous line items that turn a rehearsal into an actual show. We operate on a production budget that can charitably be described as "determined," and every dollar of it matters.
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We're currently in the process of becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In the meantime, donations currently go to Second Story Rep, our producing partner and nonprofit home while we complete our 501(c)(3) application. This is an intentional, mutual arrangement: Second Story Rep has invested in us as a company, and funds raised on our behalf support that partnership — including their costs in hosting our work and, over time, helping us build the capacity to keep making theatre season after season. Your contribution helps sustain a real, working theatre in the Pacific Northwest arts ecosystem, and it keeps shows like Kodachrome and That Was Shakespeare possible. We keep the lights on in our own lives. We just need help keeping the stage lights on.
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Thank you, genuinely.