an alleged Theatre Company: 2025 Season

A Short Note

Thank you for taking the time to view our fundraiser.

It would mean the world for us if you could just take a couple of minutes to read this page.

We love creating original and funny theatre, but we also value transparency and candor.

Making live theatre is hard and resource-intensive, so we rely on the support of our audience and community to make what we do possible. While ticket sales can help defray the costs of our production, they are never able to cover them completely.

If you’re in a place to do so, please consider donating. Every dollar helps us keep making original, engaging, and award-winning comedy theatre.

Note: an alleged Theatre Company is a fiscally sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts, which means all your donations are tax deductible.

What We Accomplished in 2024

Our Largest Production to Date: The Doctor Wee-Woo Show

We staged our original play The Doctor Wee-Woo Show at Open Eye Theatre in March in Minneapolis. This was our largest production to date (in terms of cast, crew, design, and funding), and it wouldn’t have been possible without your support during our last fundraiser.

Winning Awards at the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival

We performed an original show, A First-Class Comedic Revue…Featuring the Re-animated Corpse of a Wright Brother, in August at the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival, about a corpse coming to life and trying to do comedy. 

Our 2024 Fringe show won two awards: Audience Pick Award, and the coveted Spirit of the Fringe Award.

Three New Company Members

We were pleased to add three new company members to our organization: Steph Callaghan, Sarah Halverson, and Eric Wigham. We are thrilled to be able to invest in them as artists and help them develop their creativity and craft as best we can in the coming years. 

What’s Coming in 2025

A Re-Vamped Favorite

In March of 2025, we are re-staging our very first Fringe Festival production, Which Middle Name of Philip Seymour Hoffman are YOU?, in a new, extended version at the Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis.

The show follows two men driven to the brink of insanity by an internet personality quiz. 

We’re Going on Tour!

We plan on touring Which Middle Name of Philip Seymour Hoffman are YOU? to various Fringe Festivals around the country (and Canada!). 

Our current plan includes Hollywood, Orlando, Edmonton, Cincinnati, and Kansas City. 

2025 Minnesota Fringe Festival

We’ve already started work on our potential 2025 Minnesota Fringe Festival production, The Temporary Tattoo Trio. The story follows three friends all named Tyler whose job it is to go to events and put temporary tattoos on willing participants. After a dark secret is revealed, the foundation of their friendship comes into question. 

2025 Twin Cities Horror Fest

We plan on mounting our first-ever production at the Twin Cities Horror Fest this fall. The tentative plan is for the show to be called Bram Stoker’s J.C. Penny Job Fair, about Dracula trying to hold down a job in retail. 

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We hope to be able to bring all these fun projects to life for you, our audience, but we of course rely on your support during this fundraiser to help make them happen. 

Goals & Milestones

Investing in Artists

Artists are the lifeblood of our company. But that lifeblood runs dry if we’re unable to pay them enough to make doing our shows worth it for them. Unfortunately, we’re not even close to being able to provide a competitive or market rate for our artists (but we’re trying to get there), and so we rely on our fundraiser to invest in the people that make an alleged Theatre Company great.

Goal: $2,000
Status: 75% complete

Renting Space

Performance spaces are expensive. Our two-week run at the Phoenix Theater in March will cost us $2,700 alone, not including set, props, or artist stipends.

This goal is to help defray the cost of performance and rehearsal spaces, and make up for what ticket sales alone can’t cover. 

Goal: $2,000
Status: 0% complete

Festival and Touring Fees

This will be our first year touring one of our shows, and each Fringe Festival we go to has a production fee that’s anywhere between $300-$800 that must be paid months in advance. While we can expect to made most of that back with ticket sales, when accounting for our travel and labor and all the normal costs associated with a production, we’re looking to supplement that with this goal.   

Goal: $1,000
Status: 0% complete

Administrative Costs

We have certain fixed costs each year: website fees, email hosting fees, and a fee for being fiscally sponsored by Springboard For the Arts. We also want to eventually incorporate at a non-profit and begin applying for grants, which all takes resources and time. This goal is to help defray the costs of our annual administrative fees, as well as help up grow organizationally in the future.   

Goal: $500
Status: 0% complete

Thank You

Whether you've donated or not, we thank you for your support of our work.

We couldn't do it without you.