Twinhead Theatre

When we launched our IndieGoGo campaign, we made several promises. One of them was, if you donated $500 to our campaign, we would choreograph and film a modern dance interpretation of our gratitude. We got TWO whopping $500 donations and have been working ever since to create, choreograph, costume, rehearse, film, and edit our two thank-you videos. And now, our first dance of gratitude is ready for your viewing pleasure!! Watch it and love it!! It’s impossible not to!

Now to tell you what we NEEDED all that money for!

We’ve been giving ourselves carpal tunnel from all the typing we’re doing getting our two web series written. No, it’s not server’s carpal tunnel; we already had that. This is the much more creatively fulfilling carpal tunnel we’re experiencing now. It’s a fine line, but a noticeable distinction. Trust us.

So! The first series we’re going to launch is our 90′s nighttime soap opera, Bad Manor. The pilot is wrapped and edited and just awaiting a completely original score from Twinhead favorite OZLO! It should be up on our YouTube channel soon for your enjoyment!

We’re still working on the Choose Your Adventure web series but are proud that we have THREE episodes, complete with choices, written and ready to go! Now we’re just in preproduction hell of finding perfect costumes for our main characters and the best possible John Wayne Gacy crawlspace we can feasibly film in. It’s gonna blow your mind….

Well, it’s been a good minute since we last spoke! So much has happened, I’m going to break it down into individual posts rather than making you read a whole long thing. YOU’RE WELCOME!

So, first things first! Our fundraising campaign with IndieGoGo was amazingly successful! Not only did we meet our $2,600 goal, we EXCEEDED IT! That’s right, we raised $3,015 in 54 days, paying out 51 ridiculous compliments! We’re especially excited because we had TWO people give us a whopping $500! This means our favorite campaign perk needs to be fulfilled: we have to choreograph and film a modern dance interpretation of our gratitude to each donor. Our first video has wrapped shooting and is in the editing process; the other we began shooting yesterday in downtown Atlanta. We even got a honk of approval from a passing car!

We can’t wait to share these videos with you; we’ve had a real blast making them! Here’s some pictures to tide you over until they’re done!

What an amazing couple of weeks!

The feedback from Loaded Guns: the Movie has been incredible. It’s been officially reviewed by Eddie Ray and Barbara Tushbant, AND it’s available for rent at Videodrome! Plus, PeopleTV will be showing it after 1 a.m. Also, we set up shop on our website, where you can buy DVDs AND tshirts!

The photo shoot and interview we did with the GSU Alumni Magazine is out, too! Check out this amazing picture of us in mustaches. We look like a sexy totem pole.

AND we launched our first IndieGoGo fundraising campaign four days ago and have already raised $355! You should donate, too! You could receive a compliment like this:
Anonymous, the sun rises and sets on you. This is why your face is obscured, because you are also illuminated from your inner, divine light. SHINE ON ANONYMOUS!

Now we’re starting preproduction for our Choose Your Adventure AND our Bed n Breakfast soap opera web series in preparation for screening them at the Drive-By Theater Project!

And here are some pictures from the very first Atlanta Fringe Festival event that we had this past weekend. Did you miss it? It’s cool–we’ve got more parties in the pipeline, and you should make them a priority!

WHEW!! What an awesome couple of weeks!!

First off, we had a blast at our DVD release screening for Loaded Guns: the Movie! Here are a couple of reviews from that, full of love and tenderness, and HERE is where you can buy the DVD and our amazing T-shirt for your very own! If you’re not sure you want to own the incredible Loaded Guns: the Movie, then you can rent that bitch at Videodrome!! DO IT!

Today we launched our very first fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo. This is a big deal because we really need a new computer. Eli’s computer, on which we have edited ALL our videos (and Loaded Guns: the Movie), finally had it one day and passed quietly in its Sleep mode. So, after burying it in the backyard, we turned to IndieGoGo to set up a fundraising campaign to buy another one. We need to raise $2600 for a new iMac by July 13th, 2011. What’s the rush? Well, before the computer died, we signed on to screen the pilot episode of our first web series, Choose Your Adventure, at the Drive-By Theater Festival on July 17th. So…if we’re to have that pilot edited and ready by then, we really need this computer a few days before, and Eli’s going to need several Red Bulls because he’ll be up all night. If we don’t raise the money we need, we’ll be forced to show Drive-By’s audience a loop of hamsters eating tiny, artfully crafted salads because WE WILL HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO OFFER. Check out our IndieGoGo page, watch our awesome video, consider donating and definitely share our campaign with your friends and family and help us reach our goal!!

In other news, THIS SATURDAY is our very first Atlanta Fringe Festival fundraising event! Get Your Buzz On! will be at Sutra Lounge in Midtown from 7-10 p.m. and features Tim Monteith, an incredible performer who dresses in drag and dances with puppets as his backup, or he dresses like Wilma Flintstone and sings a duet with a dinosaur. It’s wonderful! Plus we’ll have Molotov (and friends!) from Thimblerig Circus breathing fire and walking on glass (his idea!), our favorite DJ Bamboozle on the 1′s and 2′s, and Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Atlanta doing live drawings RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES! There is absolutely nothing to miss about this evening. Plus, it’s the Rapture, so why not spend it with friends who won’t fly away to heaven in the middle of a conversation?

HERE IT IS!! This is our design for our T-shirt!! After 8 years, we finally have a cool shirt to wear. Laura Krueger designed this joint, and we’ll be selling a limited run of them at the Balls Out! Loaded Guns: the Movie DVD Release and Screening! We’ll see you there bitches!

May is the best month of the year. You know why? Because May is full of really exciting stuff for us! And probably someone’s birthday, I’m sure.
Here’s the highlights:
Friday, May 13th at 9:30 p.m., we’re having our Loaded Guns the Movie DVD Release and Screening at the Plaza Theater!! This is so exciting, because now we have DVDs to sell. Also rad–PeopleTV is running our trailer on their channel fo’ FREE! It’s our first TV ad!!
Also, we’re getting an awesome T-shirt designed by our own Laura Krueger! We’re going to have them available to buy at the DVD release. It’s super cute, and you’re probably going to want one, so bring some extra cash or be prepared to shell out online once you see it!
Saturday, May 21st from 7-10 p.m., the Atlanta Fringe Festival is hosting their very first event, Get Your Buzz On! at Sutra Lounge, featuring awesome performances, signature Fringe cocktails at happy hour prices, and even a special Fringe cupcake! All the performers are rad and we’re getting very excited about partying with them and YOU!
PLUS, the interview and photo shoot we did with the GSU Magazine will be sent out in May! We can’t wait to read it. Hopefully they didn’t edit out the curse words…otherwise, how would people know it was us??
We should find out any day now whether or not our proposal for Art on the Beltline has been accepted or not: fingers crossed!
And we’re getting started on filming our Choose Your Adventure web series! Which brings me to a less exciting thing…
Eli’s computer is dead.
Eli, in case you don’t know, is the guy who films and edits all of our video work. All the segments you’ve enjoyed in our shows in years past, anything funny we’ve put on YouTube, that was him. (With the exception of Jimmy Carter, which was all Julian Modugno; but even that was edited on Eli’s computer.) Without a computer, we have no way of editing and making these incredible series! (Serieses? Seriesi? Anyway, more than one series.)
So, for the first time ever, we’re going to be begging you for money, guys. We’ve always suggested it, but never really asked; we don’t like to spam people with desperate pleas for money, we know you’re all broke, and you know what we can do with limited resources anyway. But in order to provide this free programming for you, we really need your help to get this new computer! Eli has already picked it out–a good, solid iMac–and we’re putting together a Kickstarter page for it. Be looking for that and I hope you’re willing to help us out!! If you want to donate now, just click here for our donation page! You can write it off on your taxes AND, whenever a new video or episode of our web series comes out, you can say to yourself, “I totally helped them do that.” It’s a win-win!
But mostly, everything’s coming up roses in May.
In the pipeline for summer:
-Choose Your Adventure web series
-Soap opera web series
-the Drive-By Theater Project
-finally, a Cakesit album!
-more Fringe events
Look at that list! That’s HOT. That’s hot and you know it.

Loaded Guns: the Movie Balls-Out DVD Release and Screening is FRIDAY MAY 13TH AT 9:30 P.M.! Yeah!!

Our rapid-fire John Waters-meets-Kentucky-Fried-Movie movie was made in 2008, and if you’re wondering why the DVD release is just now happening, read this. We played it to sold-out crowds in ’08 and then sent a copy to Baghdad to entertain the troops. It also won Best Local Feature in the 2008 Atlanta Underground Film Festival!

So now you can see it for yourself or see it AGAIN for yourself, and then buy a copy that you can then watch religiously until you have the entire thing memorized. HOORAY!

Here’s the trailer:

Here’s the poster:

Our bestie Rob Craig designed this poster, and he is even now working on a new poster for the DVD Release party so get ready for that sexxxxiness too!

I know what you’re thinking: What’s the deal, Twinhead? No Cakesit? How could you!! No show on the horizon? BUT WHYYYY???
Darling, darling, calm down! Trust us. It’s not like we’ve been sitting around having a circle jerk these past few months. We’ve been working on a lot of different projects and all that hard work is paying off: we have completed scripts and scripts nearing completion that should keep you tits-deep in Twinhead goodness! For example:

Choose Your Adventure was a play we did in 2009 wherein we paid tribute to our childhoods’ favorite books and simultaneously wrote, produced and performed the most complicated play in the world. The audience got to choose what happened next, and not being a bunch of half-asses, there were of course choices within the choices that led to different choices. Essentially it was eight different full-length plays and we never knew what order we’d be doing them until it was happening. Needless to say, this project was totally exhilarating and can’t be doomed to the fogs of the past. So, when we started bandying about ideas for a Twinhead web series, Choose Your Adventure seemed a natural choice. We can do a lot more with the video format than we could manage onstage, and no choice will be sacrificed because people can watch any and all videos they want! (True story: During the entire run of the play, the Holocaust didn’t happen.)
So we set to adapting that idea and its long, complicated stage script into a video format and we have our pilot episode completed! Look for some of that hottness to hit computer screens everywhere!

We’re also putting together a proposal for a performance for Art on the Beltline, which is this cool project that gets all kinds of artists’ work along the 22-mile loop of proposed parks and transit and highlights how it can bring Atlanta together. We’re really excited about the idea we came up with and we really hope to be accepted, so keep your fingers crossed!

And of course we’re hard at work planning and organizing the first Atlanta Fringe Festival! Cherry is working up some really amazing stuff for our graphic design, and Diana and Molly are planning the first official Fringe event at Sutra Lounge. Plus we’re getting more and more venues signed on and generally just getting the ball rolling.

Then there’s the full-length play about songs that incessantly get stuck in your head and the previously unknown consequences and another web series based on much-loved soap operas like Dallas and Dynasty, and our Loaded Guns: the Movie Balls-Out DVD Release and Screening at the Plaza. SO! You see? You had no reason to fear. We are still here for you! And we’re never gonna leave you. NEVER. Even if you ask us to.

We just won’t do it.