As you may have heard, in December, a few days before Christmas, a fire broke out at our home at the Broadway United Methodist Church. While the majority of the church suffered smoke and and water damage, the Community Room where we hold our performances was completely destroyed. All of our production materials (wall pieces, tools, props, platforms, costumes, etc) were deemed a total loss. All was either burned, melted or infused with water and toxic soot.
While we have been promised a home to come back to by the building manager, renovations will take time. We have been told to scrap plans for all of 2018 and look to begin our second decade (our eleventh season) in 2019. That being said, a gofundme page has been set up to help us in our rebuilding efforts. We lost even the most basic of supplies and even though we keep our production costs as low as possible by recycling and creatively refurbishing, we are still in need of help to more or less "start again".
You can read the full play by play at the gofundme site ( https://www.gofundme.com/stageworthy-fire-recovery-fund ). If you are unable to help, we would ask if you could to please at least post this to your various social media accounts to help spread the word of our need. For anyone interested in learning more about SWP, you may direct them to our official website, www.stageworthy.org , for past productions, photos, etc. All donors will be thanked in a special section of all future StageWorthy programs.
Thank you so very much for an incredible first ten years of support. We hope to see you as we begin our second decade of fresh, thought-provoking theatre.
Sincerely,
John Kastner
StageWorthy Productions