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Almost All About Eva - A True Story!

*** Thank you for your donation! Your donation helps keep live theater ACCESSIBLE for the audience and creators.

UNBOXED PRODUCTIONS is proud to announce our original play, Almost All About Eva, inspired by a picture and post that went viral! Set between 1875 and 1915, let UP take you back to a simpler time, filled with characters that inspire, infuriate and cause compassion. AAAE is a true story filled with history and seasoned with laughter and tears. Eva will inspire you to live your life fully!

Almost All About Eva is based on a real woman who fought valiantly to have her own voice and her own life. Eva will be played by her REAL life great great GRANDAUGHTER, Sabrina Johnson. Eva's other great great granddaughter, Kristine, will be playing Eva's real life sister, Carrie. A cast of 12 rounds out this production, with actors coming from all over the United States for four performances. Almost All About Eva is set in Adrian, Michigan, Chicago and Goshen, Indiana and is historically accurate and suitable for children ages 10 and up!

Our cast includes:
Sabrina Johnson as Eva Lewis
Kristine Handgen as Carrie Lewis and younger Carrie
Simone Armstrong as young Agatha
Camila Loeres as young Agatha Crosby
John Knowles as Halsey Lewis Eva's father x 2 performances
Brian Wayman as Halsey Lewis Eva's Father x 2 performances
Christopher Botcheos as John Handgen
Lee Tilson as Detective Russell and Professor Walker
Jan Thomas as Agatha Crosby Carmichael and Polly
April Aasheim as Mary Alice Berkett
Debra Mann -Understudy/Reader
Teri Schwartz as Jemima Shippey
Carita Gilmore as Vida and Mary Lewis

A portion of our donated proceeds will be going to Disarming Love, a ministry to the children of the incarcerated, founded by Denise Miller.

We encourage DINNER theater audiences, where you eat dinner together in groups and watch the live show. Some are even casting the show to their big screens!!

Our gofundme is an ongoing one and has been going since 2020. Thank you to you all. After you donate, we ask you to please register with our website, unboxedproductions.org. You will receive an email with instructions on how to connect to our show, 48 hrs prior to curtain.

The suggested donation is $15, but a donation of any amount, no matter how small is gratefully received and wisely used.
Reading below tells the story of UP, so enjoy the long read!! Also, go our youtube channel, Unboxed Productions to enjoy some of our work!

Summer 2025 Unboxed Productions steps it UP a notch with this classic Victorian comedy of errors, values, and mores set in society England at the turn of the century. Oscar Wilde does it best! We have an exceptional cast from all over the country. This show is directed by Jan Thomas, features Victorian costuming and propping.

Every penny goes to keeping theater alive and accessible for the mobility challenged and in times where travel to attend theater or participate is not feasible. Thank you for sUPporting UP since November of 2020! Onward and UPward!
Your donations help UP to keep producing FULLY ACCESSIBLE theater for ALL!
Love and gratitude,
Kim Sandstrom and Jan Thomas Co-founders of UP
Cast for The Importance of Being Earnest includes:
Bruce Seaman
Kiera Jacob
Jessicah Nichole
Britti Kather
Diana Grogg
Dave Schlenker
Carita Gilmore
Lee Tilson
Erin McGrew
Directed by Jan Thomas


Damselfly is now on our youtube channel, as well as Plato's Apology and Bill, Bob, Lois & Friends.

Past event -March 2025 - We have an incredible cast bringing this humorous and devastating true story to life. Yes, there is loads of humor and laughs and room for silence, anger, and tears too, because that is LIFE! Do not be afraid of this show! It's our great honor to bring this story to life on behalf of MAME: Mothers Against Medical Error, with a portion helping The Dandelion Project dedicated to helping others with child loss and sibling grief.
Just go to our webpage for more information and details on how to register and secure a link.
Our richly talented cast comes from all over the country and we will also be hosting a team of patient safety advocates and experts after the show.
Meet the cast!
Trisha Thompson Holm
Brittni Kather
Teri J. Polansky Schwartz
Jan Thomas
Inara Honorat
Sawyer Anderson
Bruce Seaman
Esperanza Zagal
Ronnie George
Connor Humphries
And me as myself.

Sunday, January 19th at 4pm EASTERN time. TEN amazing acts will entertain and inspire you! Award winning author and ACTRESS, Breeda Miller will be with us, ARTIST and author, Diane Bay will be LIVE painting our show for us and donating her picture for our live auction! Dee Collier will be performing, activist author and pastor Bruce Seaman will reprise a short scene as Socrates, Diana Grogg pianist Linda Smith and so many more!
Suggested donation is $20 and 50% of our net proceeds will go to benefit UP AND The Dandelion Project, a non profit founded by Lisa Bolton, that helps us all on our journey of recovery from great loss and grief. A donation of ANY amount will secure a link for you and you will be put into our drawing for some amazing door prizes and silent auction opportunities! Teri Schwartz is our amazing co director and Jan Thomas our fab co producer are at the helm too!
Look for Bill, Bob, Lois & Friends: First Steps First Voices will be announcing the filmed/edited version of our successful live online production dedicated to the work of recovery. Premiering LIVE in Feb. AND will also premiere LIVE our video of our live production of Plato's Apology With Apologies to Plato by Bruce Seaman.
January 2025 brings us to our annual variety show fundraiser,

In March, Brittni Kather takes the helm as the director of Damselfly: The Diana Brookins Story, a story about medical error in time for International Patient Safety Week. MAME: Mothers Against Medical Error is a sponsor and we have openings for sponsors for this very important and timely production.
We are always looking to expand and we'd love to have you join our team, advisory board and Friends of UP!
Take a look at our youtube channel too!
Our way of doing theater has been a life saver to many thru the hard years of covid and other life disruptions. We remain committed to the value of what we do and hope you see it that way too.
Kindest regards,
Kim Sandstrom and Jan Thomas co-founders of Unboxed Productions.











Help US help UP - Unboxed Productions - a mostly online, live theater company. Opened on November 20, 2020!

We are UP - Unboxed Productions! We are bringing live theater to the online audience.  What is UP? We are an inter-generational team of theater creatives. At present we have approximately 40 members of our creative and support team from LA to Portland, Oregon to Ohio, Dallas, Santa Rosa and Indiana to NYC and Florida. We have open auditions 3 times year. A portion of this gofundme will help our actors to be live and present and vibrant for our audience and give us the ability to have quality live, online theater so that we can GIVE BACK to others which we do with every production.


Your continued support helps us to upgrade to the speediest online platform, helped provide for home studio equipment for our actors, help with our publishing licensing fees. Donations big and small mean the world to us in theater and now your donations are going to help pay us pay stipends for directors and tech support.

 Our first show is the one that started it all: Unboxing in Biloxi and UIB opened on November 20 and 21 2020, with a gala opening featuring pre show live music. To follow our progress, please join our group page, Unboxed Productions on facebook.

We want to thank our ongoing sponsors; Manal Fakhoury, Fakhoury Leadership International, MAME: Mothers Against Medical Error/Helen Haskell, Empowered Beauty, Anna Beekley Cluxton, Diane Bay, Lea Tran, Kristi.tv.

Watch our groundbreaking original play about 3 pandemics in history! How We Faced the Horsemen is full of humor, history and heartbreak.
Love, light and laughter to all,
Kim and Jan, cast and crew and Advisory Board.
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