The Double Trouble Tour Launches Crowdfunding Campaign

The Double Trouble Tour Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Raise Capital for Grassroots Self-produced Theatre Tour.

Two Solo Shows Give the Unnoticed Dregs of Society the Spotlight.

WHAT: The Double Trouble Tour's IndieGoGo Crowdfunding Campaign to Raise Capital for their self-produced Mid-west and Northeast tour.

WHO: Seth Lepore and Collin Chace

WHERE: http://www.indiegogo.com/Double-Trouble-Tour

WHEN: Now-November 17th, 2011

HOW: Donations can be made at http://www.indiegogo.com/Double-Trouble-Tour

About The Double Trouble Tour Campaign

The Double Trouble Tour consists of two one-man shows in one night. Seth Lepore and Collin Chace will be touring the mid-west and northeast in March and April 2012. By choosing to self-produce their work they are taking on all the administrative, marketing, promotion and booking duties including fundraising.

As grants and foundation money are becoming both limited and more competitive, they decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign online to raise the $10,000 in capital they need to make the tour sustainable.

As a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas they are able to extend a tax deduction to their donors. They are using Fractured Atlas' crowdfunding partner Indiegogo.com as the platform for receiving donations. The two organizations split the 6% fee for using the service and the artists get the remainder.

As Lepore states, "We're really excited and scared to be doing this. We're trying to make the campaign as fun as possible, to make it a creative project in and of itself. We've come up with these ridiculous perks to give our donors which also show off the personality of the tour. The big issue is trying to reach people outside of our immediate circles. That's where Facebook and Twitter come in."

By using social media, the Double Trouble Tour hopes to create a ripple effect for their campaign reaching thousands of potential donors that are connected to friends and followers.

"We are constantly re-evaluating what seems to be working, what seems to be flopping and making daily changes to the campaign to keep it fresh and engaging." Lepore says. "It's a lot of work but it's completely worth the effort. We just launched 7x7 to celebrate the 7th day of the campaign asking people to donate in increments of $7. This way a lot more people can feel like it's do-able."

More information can be found at http://www.indiegogo.com/Double-Trouble-Tour

About The Double Trouble Tour

Seth Lepore and Collin Clay Chace first teamed up at the alternative high school they were sent to in Rhode Island. Reuniting almost 20 years later, the pair found that they'd been living parallel lives on different continents (Western Mass and London respectively), sharing similar solo performance trajectories and grappling with their own spiritual quests and emotional upheavals. Huge admirers of each other's work, these award-winning actors have come together again to expand the boundaries of where theater can take an audience. Living in the skin of their characters, Lepore and Chace use their superb acting skills to shine a light on the overlooked figures of society on The Double Trouble Tour. In it you'll find:

The Rock N' Wrestle Roadshow

In Chace's "one-man/multiple personality" Rock N Wrestle Roadshow, what we're wrestling with is mental health. Yet the "funny folks" involved - from a multi-racial porn stud to an heiress-turned-peace activist to an 8-year-old poet - all eschew chat about diagnosis.

Instead, they skip out of the hospital "crazy ward" to relay their unexpected conclusions about the curveballs life has thrown them. The show celebrates those folks who've been written off as deranged and affirms them as essential voices for social change.

SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious

Following on the coat tails of his award-winning monologue Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee, Lepore continues with the second part of his trilogy on the underbelly of the self-help movement.

Lepore explores the rise in popularity of the happiness industry across the American landscape through the trajectory of hysterical character-driven scenes, as well as autobiographical digests of his personal struggles. Lepore uses his fecund observations of our fascinating hang-ups with happiness to expose the true cost of this ongoing pursuit.