Kickstarter: $5 million for Theater and Dance in 2011

Kickstarter just posted their stats for 2011 and they were pretty darn impressive – 11,836 projects were funded totaling almost $100 million dollars! For those of you who don’t know, Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects for artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, and performers. Although Film & Video ($32.5 million pledged) and Music ($20 million pledged) were the most popular types of projects funded, Theater ($4 million pledged) and Dance ($1 million pledged) were fairly successful as well. Pledges helped launch new theatre companies, find venues for existing theatres and produce many new works. Here’s a look at the most funded Theater projects to date.