On behalf of the Staff and Board of Directors of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company (US), a non-profit 501c3 organization, we invite you to support our mission to mentor, educate and enrich youth in under-resourced communities through the creation of collaborative, original theatre. We would be honored if you considered donating a unique auction experience for our 2022 Virtually UnUSual Create-A-Thon, live from June 1 to June 30.

Similar in structure to a walk-a-thon, our unique Create-A-Thon fundraiser encourages “Create-A-Raisers” to work on projects such as short films, songs, visual art, and poetry while raising funds from friends and family for our cause. This year, we hope to raise $165,000 to enable US to continue providing theatre arts education to the creative, talented, and diverse youth and families we serve across Los Angeles. 

US was founded in 1993 as a way to provide a platform for self-expression and healing through the arts. In our nearly 30-year history, we have served tens of thousands of youth and families across Los Angeles through trauma-informed theatre-arts programs. These last few years have truly shown the strength and resiliency of our staff, teaching artists, and especially participants. Despite the difficulties, our participants created theatrical pieces, visual art, animated shorts, and more with their wide range of talents, strong work ethic, and passion. Our Create-A-Thon Fundraiser will help US continue to offer all seven of our award-winning program models free-of-charge both in person and online, ultimately guiding participants to collectively write and perform their stories.

Supporters like Tiffany Haddish, Kristin Chenoweth, Reba McEntire, high-profile corporate executives, and more have donated unique auction experiences such as consultations, meet n greets, set visits and more to US in support of our vital mission, and we hope that you will consider joining them. Our online auction will be live as part of this fundraiser from June 1 to June 30, 2022.

We hope to have the privilege of your support allowing us to continue providing high-quality, transformative, theatre-arts education to the talented youth, families, and communities we serve. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out