University of Missouri - Kansas City | MFA

Our names are Ash Bowen, Craig Lindsey, Solomon Langley, Nico Holguin, Kushi Beauchamp, Dri Hernaez, and Will Porter, and we are the UMKC MFA Acting Cohort of 2024! With your donations, we have been able to produce and film our virtual showcase!

Because of your generous donations over the past 6 months, we wrapped our Showcase filming with outstanding success. Chris Gerson, actor and filmmaker, spent 10 days coaching us for camera, and shooting our scenes like an Indi film. The product, or as much as we have seen, is astounding!

Your contributions helped pay for COUNTLESS necessities, including but not limited to:

• - Sound Designer and Engineer for the entirety of our shoot
• - Equipment Rentals for our shoot
• - Hotel stay for Chris Gerson in KC
• - Snacks, Sundries, and Supplies for long shoot days
• - Coaching and Direction from Nathan Darrow (House Of Cards)
• - A meeting with casting director Zachary Spiegel CSA for feedback (NYC/LA)
• - Professional unified headshots for our showcase website with local photographer Brian Paulette
• - AND MORE!

We cannot wait to share this product with you... with Chris' help, we feel like we are innovating the virtual MFA showcase model -- which is fairly new -- by adding a professional film/tv polish to our work and its presentation. We could not be more thrilled, and we are so grateful to each and every one of you and the dollars you selflessly donated to this project. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! We did it!!!

Yours Truly, Will Porter, Dri Hernaez, Solomon Langley, Craig Lindsay, Ash Bowen, Kushi Beauchamp, and Nico Holguin.

UMKC Conservatory