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Help Bring But I’m Carrie Bradshaw to the Stage!Meet Obya, Kortney, and Tianna: three Black women navigating love, friendship, work, and the general nonsense of being alive in New York City. When a stranger in a Pink Hoodie at the farmers market offers them a bottle of white woman tears, the possibilities seem endless! Written by Thalia Sablon, But I’m Carrie Bradshaw is a comedy about race, privilege, pop culture, and the complicated ways we learn to navigate a world that doesn't always give us the benefit of the doubt. Through the lens of Sex and the City, the play asks what happens when we get access to the very power structures we critique and whether we can resist the temptation to use them for ourselves. Part friendship comedy, part afro-surrealist misadventure, and part cultural interrogation, this play invites audiences to laugh at the absurdity of the systems we live in while asking some uncomfortable questions about how we participate in them. Because honestly, who among us hasn't wanted to cry our way out of trouble? Why This Play, Why Now?We all know the feeling of watching someone get the benefit of the doubt when we wouldn't. We know what it's like to have to explain ourselves, prove our intentions, or work twice as hard to be taken seriously. And we know that sometimes, when the world feels unfair, the fantasy of finally having the upper hand is irresistible. But I’m Carrie Bradshaw takes that fantasy and runs with it. What begins as a ridiculous little scheme becomes an exploration of privilege, accountability, friendship, and the cost of getting what you want. At its heart, this is a play about three Black women trying to figure it all out together. They make mistakes. They get messy. They fall in love, fall apart, and occasionally consider committing crimes. They are funny, flawed, and deeply human. Their friendships are where they can be honest about the world and themselves, even when that honesty gets uncomfortable. I make room for stories that allow Black women to be all of these things at once. Not just symbols, lessons, or representations of struggle, but complicated people who deserve to take up space, make a mess, and be the funniest people in the room. Why Ugly Face Theatre?As a Brooklyn-based theatre collective celebrating the ugly, Ugly Face Theatre makes space for the messiness that makes us human. But I’m Carrie Bradshaw belongs in that conversation. It's a play about the things we don't always want to admit about ourselves, the systems we benefit from, and how we negotiate power in our everyday lives. This production is an opportunity to bring a sharp, irreverent story about Black women, friendship, and privilege to the stage while supporting the artists who make independent theatre possible. Help Us Raise Our estimated production budget is $20,465. We're raising $15,000 through individual donations to help make this production happen. Your contribution supports the people, materials, and spaces needed to bring this play to life. That includes:<ul><li>Artist compensation: Paying our five actors, playwright, director, designers, stage manager, and other production collaborators for their work.</li><li>Design and production: Building the play's world through costumes, scenery, props, wigs, lighting, and sound.</li><li>Rehearsal and performance logistics: Covering rehearsal space, stage management supplies, transportation, and load-in and load-out costs.</li><li>Documentation and outreach: Supporting photography and videography, printing, and marketing so we can share the work with our community.</li><li>The unexpected: Maintaining a contingency fund to help manage the surprises that inevitably come with making live theatre.</li></ul>Independent theatre takes a village, and we want to compensate the people who make this work possible while creating a process that values their time and labor.Whether you can give $10, $50, $100, or more, every contribution brings us closer to our goal. No donation is too small, and every dollar helps us build toward a production that can exist beyond the page. Be Part of the StoryWe believe theatre should be a place where we can laugh together, think together, and leave with something to talk about on the train ride home.Your support helps make that possible. You're investing in independent theatre, in Black women telling their own stories, and in art that makes us laugh before asking us to look a little closer at ourselves.Thank you for supporting But I’m Carrie Bradshaw and Ugly Face Theatre. Thank you for believing that our messiness is worth putting onstage, that our stories deserve to be told, and that a little absurdity can open the door to a much bigger conversation.And if you can't donate right now, sharing this page with your friends, your group chat, or that one person who will absolutely have opinions about Carrie Bradshaw means the world to us, too.Now, please donate. We have a bottle of white woman tears waiting for you and a fab With love and gratitude, Thalia Sablon Playwright, But I’m Carrie Bradshaw

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