“Six Months for Six Weeks” Episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QquPAFnd25Q
Seattle-based songwriter John Coons and filmmaker Alex Berry have launched the first episode of their original six-part musical web miniseries, “Six Months for Six Weeks.” An adaptation of Coons’ one-man show of the same name, “Six Months” is the product of a successful Kickstarter campaign, which wrapped earlier this year.
“Six Months for Six Weeks” is the brainchild of singer-songwriter John Coons. A semi-autobiographical one-man show built around original songs, it is an honest, funny, and heart-breaking new piece of queer theater. “Six Months” tells the story of two twenty-something men in Portland, Maine, their six-week “relationship with an expiration date” and its aftermath, set against 2009’s “Question 1” same-sex marriage debate. Alternatively tender and satirical, it looks at the definitions and value we place on relationships in our changing world.
John Coons premiered “Six Months” as a live one-man show in Seattle in June 2012 and has since performed it in venues on both coasts including Boston’s Cloud Club, the PortFringe 2012 festival in Portland, Maine, as a fundraiser for Washington United for Marriage, and at “Don’t Tell Mama” in NYC’s theater district. In May of 2013, Coons ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund a webseries adaptation with fellow Seattleite, Alex Berry (creator of the Jinkx Monsoon documentary series, “Drag Becomes Him”). The first episode was made available first to backers and then to the general public in September, with the following five episodes to be released in the same fashion.
A native of Maine, Seattle-based songwriter John Coons is forging a genre-defying career that has included singing as a soloist with the Seattle Opera, popular recording artist Ben Folds, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and performing the national anthem for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Coons has performed in venues from Mobile, Alabama to Skagway, Alaska, and has shared the stage with Amanda Palmer, Foreigner, and the award-winning cabaret duo, The Jane Austen Argument. For more information, visit www.johncoonsmusic.com.
Alex Berry is a freelance video maker who lives in Seattle. He has worked with many local companies and artists to create videos that emanate a unique style and feeling. Some of his most well known work has been the “Drag Becomes Him” series starring Jinkx Monsoon, as well as his continual work with Rudy’s Barbershop. He’s planning on making his first feature film.
“Six Months for Six Weeks” on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sixmonthsforsixweeks
The Completed Kickstarter Campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sixmonths/turn-six-months-for-six-weeks-into-a-web-miniserie
John Coons:
https://twitter.com/JohnMCoons
https://www.facebook.com/JohnCoonsMusic
Alex Berry:
https://www.facebook.com/alexberryfilms
