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This fall, Red Umbrella Project has a lot going on -...
This fall, Red Umbrella Project has a lot going on - we’re doing our biggest event ever, a night at Joe’s Pub in NYC (seating 200!) with seven storytellers plus the debut performance by our trans women’s theatre troupe. And because this is all such a big deal, we’re making a documentary. Since 2009, we’ve been producing a monthly storytelling series in NYC, where over 100 sex workers have told true stories about their lives.
About the documentary - we’re raising funds for it this month on Kickstarter, and you can check out the trailer and back it here. Really seriously, any amount helps - and there are great rewards, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Picture above are two of the ladies who will be in the doc:
Page, left, is the only performer you didn’t get to meet in our trailer. She’s a second generation stripper who grew up in San Diego and made her way to NYC to do theater. I met her about four years ago when she was performing in a play written by a sex worker friend of mine, called “The Hooker and The Girl,” a tale of lesbian sex worker romance. Page first performed at the Red Umbrella Diaries in July 2010 under the moniker Busty Kitten - you can hear a podcast of her story here.
Ceyenne, right, has become a familiar face at Red Umbrella Diaries events over the past three years. I met her as she was trying to get her life together after a stint in prison for a prostitution conviction. Ceyenne is an amazing cook, and while serving time, she started writing down her recipes - these recipes became her book Cooking in Heels: A MemoirCookbook, which Red Umbrella Project published last October after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
During the Kickstarter for Ceyenne’s book, a lot of folks said they would love to see more of her on camera, since she’s so charismatic - and you’ll get to see a lot more of her when we meet our goal for this campaign! Our camera crew is planning to hang out with her at home while she cooks, plus we’ll hang out with her as she coordinates a Saturday food pantry in Queens.
Please help us spread the word about this Kickstarter so we can bring these stories to screens large and small!
