With our Degenerate Art Project ending this weekend, Jasper is excited to jump into our 2025 Play Right Series project with both feet! And there’s still time for you to join us and other community producers for an exciting and enlightening experience.
As a Play Right Series Community Producer you will be a part of an elite team of art supporters who invest a modest amount of money ($250) in the production of the staged reading of the 2024-2025 Play Right Series winning play, Busted Open by Greenville, SC native Ryan Stevens.
How does this work?
On select Sunday afternoons this summer (schedule is below!) you are invited to join with the cast, crew, and fellow Community Producers of Busted Open, by Ryan Stevens for an enlightening and entertaining session that pulls back the curtains of theatre development and illuminates how a stageplay goes from page to stage. Your first session (July 20th) will offer you a private viewing of the first step in a play production, the Table Reading – the first time the cast of Busted Open will read their parts together.
Subsequent sessions will focus on essential ingredients in the production of a successful staged reading, such as the stage manager’s job; props, lighting, blocking, and sound; unique insights from the director; how the actors prepare for their parts; playwright perceptions from this year and past projects; and an invitation to the dress rehearsal. In addition to your invitation to gather with the cast and crew every Sunday in July, each session will also feature exciting snacks and beverages. And many more surprises each week!
Finally, you’ll take your reserved, best-in-the-house seats to a ticketed staged reading of Ryan Stevens’ Busted Open on Sunday September 14th at Columbia Music Festival Association.
Your name will be included as a Community Producer on programs, posters, press releases, and other promotional materials as well as in the perfect bound book, Busted Open by Ryan Stevens, published by Muddy Ford Press and registered with the Library of Congress, and you will take home your own copies of Busted Open as a souvenir of your experience.
Become a Play Right Series Community Producer Now!
What is expected of Community Producers?
We hope you can make it to every exciting Sunday afternoon meeting, but we understand if you have to miss some. Each session will last from 90 – 120 minutes.
The financial commitment for a Community Producer is a minimum of $250 per person, but other sponsorships are also available and appreciated.
Our hope is that you will be so enlightened and inspired by this experience that you will become a diplomat of live theatre, fresh playwrights, and the Jasper Project and encourage your friends and colleagues to participate in live theatre themselves!
Play Right Series Levels of Engagement
Community Producer $250
Invitation to attend all four PRS CP sessions on Sunday afternoons, July 20, August 3, August 17, August 31 and September 14 2025; reserved seats for you and up to 2 additional guests to attend the premier staged reading of Busted Open on September 14th at Harbison Theatre; your name in the book Busted Open by Ryan Stevens, as well as in the program and all promotional materials; a copy of the book, and a Jasper Project gift bag valued at more than $100
Other Sponsorship Levels
Actor Sponsor $500
This level sponsors one actor and supports the Play Right Series. Your generosity will be recorded with distinction above that of Community Producers in the published play as well as in all other promotional materials and you will receive all the benefits of 2025’s roster of Community Producers, two copies of Busted Open by Ryan Stevens, and an invitation for you and up to 4 additional guests to attend the premier staged reading of Busted Open on September 14, 2025
Playwright Sponsor $1000
This level sponsors the funding of the playwright and supports the Play Right Series. Your generosity will be recorded with distinction above that of Actor Sponsors in the published play as well as in all other promotional materials and you will receive all the benefits of 2025’s roster of Community Producers, six copies of Busted Open by Ryan Stevens, and an invitation for you and up to six additional guests to attend the premier staged reading of Busted Open on September 14, 2025
Director Sponsor $2500
This level sponsors the director and supports the Play Right Series. Your generosity will be recorded with distinction above that of the Playwright Sponsor in the published play as well as in all other promotional materials and you will receive all the benefits of 2025’s roster of Community Producers, eight copies of Busted Open by Ryan Stevens, and an invitation for you and up to eight additional guests to attend the premier staged reading of Busted Open on September 14, 2025
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Play Right Series 2025 Community Producer Schedule
SUNDAY, JULY 20 – 7 pm: Introducing Ryan Stevens and Busted Open
One Columbia Co-op, 1013 Duke Avenue
Meet the 2025 Play Right Series Winning Playwright Ryan Stevens and witness the Inaugural Table Reading of Busted Open
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 – 3 pm: The Art of Stagecraft
One Columbia Co-op, 1013 Duke Avenue
The cast & crew of Busted Open explain the process of preparing for a role and tricks of the trade to demystify some of the magic of the theatrical arts
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 – 3 pm: The Playwright's Craft
One Columbia Co-op, 1013 Duke Avenue
Learn about the processes of 4 award-winning playwrights including Ryan Stevens, Chad Henderson, Lonetta Thompson, and Colby Quick with your host Jon Tuttle, author of South Carolina Onstage, The Trustus Collection, and more
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 - 3 pm: Sneak Peek Week!
One Columbia Co-op, 1013 Duke Avenue
Be a fly on the proverbial stage wall among an intimate group of guests to watch a working rehearsal of Busted Open – see how far the cast has come since the first ever Table Reading just six weeks earlier
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SUNDAY: SEPT 14: The Big Event – Staged Reading of Busted Open
Columbia Music Festival Association – 914 Pulaski Street
Take your reserved seat for the Premiere Stage Reading of Busted Open by Ryan Stevens at Columbia Music Festival Association and enjoy a post-show champagne toast to the cast, crew, and creator of Busted Open!