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One Week to Writing Madness!

Our Write-a-thon will be in exactly two weeks! Here are some ground rules for the event:

-I will write a new, full-length play, in 24 hours. The live stream will begin at 6 pm on Friday, March 24, 2023, and will end at 6 pm on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The live stream will be embedded in takeabite.ca , and donations must come via that website.

-Viewers will see a split-screen: on one side, me getting more tired and frantic: on the other side, the play as it’s being written!

-Here is the play’s basic plot:

“3 very different people meet online at the start of the pandemic. They connect, but as the pandemic wears on, their individual lives change, which alters their relationship.”

-At 6 pm on March 24, YOU will give me names for the 3 characters! The first 3 donors will get to provide one name each. Submissions will be via the website.

-Every 60 minutes, I will check prompts and donor amounts. Whoever has donated the most in that 60-minute period will get their prompt used next! I must use the prompt, and I must make it make sense.

-At the end of the 24 hours, whoever has donated the highest amount will pick the name for the villain of Reasons I Hate Being Single !

I will have until March 31, 2023 to fix typos, and then the resulting play will be entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition.

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WE get free hot dogs! (Just for the film)

We’d like to give a huge thank-you to Fat Franks for agreeing to be part of Reasons I Hate Being Single ! Audiences will see a Fat Franks hot dog cart in the film, and they’ll also provide on-set catering for the cast and crew.

Please visit one of their restaurants or outside in the spring and summer!

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2 weeks to pre-book the Easter Bunny!

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us, and the Easter Bunny so far.

Please note: the campaign email address is MINE: hmorrow@takeabite.ca . Contact screenwriter Heather with any questions or for information about the film!

You have 2 weeks left to get your Easter chocolate bought here, AND support our next film at the same time, as long as you live in Edmonton. Deadline to order is March 24.

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1 week to go to NYC!

The New York City Short Comedy Film Festival is ramping up publicity for the 7th annual event on November 20, 2022. They’re posting 3 of the participating films’ posters on their Instagram every day.

So if you’re on Insta, give nycscff a follow in support. And if you’re in or near NYC, tickets are here!

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Nowhere Normal in NYC!

Nowhere Normal‘s in-person world premiere will be at the New York City Short Comedy Film Festival !

To be selected by a festival focused on comedy, and in New York, NY, is a huge honour and assures us that, yes, the film is funny!

Should any fans be in New York, here is where to buy tickets. Nowhere Normal will be part of “Comedy Session 4”, starting at 6 pm on November 20, 2022.

This seems appropriate 😁

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Crew: meet Heather Morrow

Heather has been writing for theatre since 1995. Her plays have been seen at the Walterdale Theatre and Fringe in Edmonton, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. She is now in pre-production on a new short film, which Nowhere Normal‘s intimacy coordinator, Janine Waddell, will direct! Heather’s also adapting her full-length play Alex and Michael and Hannah into a full-length screenplay.