Crowdsourcing AAPEX productions: Will DC Copeland's Harlem "dancical" be the first of many?

Thanks to the Internet, "crowdsourcing" for funding artistic ventures has become the rage. Or not. AAPEX is about to find out with our first attempt at raising money for a reading of DC Copeland's "Once Upon A Time In Harlem: A Jitterbug Romance" which you can learn more about by clicking the post's title. The 60-day campaign through IndieGoGo is down to 42-days as of this post and we still haven't raised a dime. Something tells us we must be doing something wrong although we're trying to do everything right via the suggestions IndieGoGo urges us to use if we want a successful campaign. If you have any ideas or would care to share your experiences with IndieGoGo or others like it such as Kickstarter and RocketHub, please do so through our comments section below or directly to me by clicking here.

There never is enough money to go around for playwrights to mount their works.These newfangled crowdsourcing options afford artists of all stripes for the first time an easy, simple-to-use opportunity to be proactive with their careers. Only time will tell if it works for us. 42-days left and counting.

Jaz Dorsey

AAPEX Dramaturg