Limbs is a young puppeteer working on Mayor Bobby, a Sesame Street-esque TV show for adults. She loves her job. She doesn't have a single line on the show but mouths along with every lyric of every song. Her crew is "her family"... except they routinely forget that she exists while she's crammed in the armpit of some other puppeteer, waving around a hand on a metal rod. The closest she gets to meaningful conversation is with an exterminator that comes to lay traps for the mice infesting her tiny apartment. 

As she's rehearsing for the series finale, she finds out mid musical number that she hasn't been invited to work on the spinoff show next season. Her chosen family has chosen to move on without her. Limbs' pit in the stomach feeling of loneliness becomes an emotional and explosive tour de force of answer seeking.

Using the identity of a group in place of your own feels safe and validating, especially for a young queer woman. When her world casts her aside, Limbs makes the lonesome, gutsy choice to begin defining herself as an individual. As her god Jim Henson once said, "life is basically a process of growth -- that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn though".

This is the final piece of our degree at Ryerson University's film school and we are paying for it entirely out of pocket. As in, as-if-tuition-weren't-expensive-enough out of pocket.

Our full budget is $7,000 so any money that we raise past that goal will help us pay back our talented cast and crew! All our crew are volunteers and the rest of our budget is entirely from crew donations.

AND THAT'S JUST THE START!

Aside from merch, copies of the film, felt bouquets, puppet making workshops, and a handmade custom puppet of you await you with your donation!Plus, the first two donations over $100 can opt in to receive a free set of four tickets to a puppet show at Tarragon Theatre any day between Dec. 26th - 30th.

We mean it.  Each donation (Elmo sized or Big Bird sized!) means the world to our crew. You'll be a real part of the Limbs family and we keep our backers very near and dear to our hearts.

Can't donate as much as you'd like? Share the campaign! Tweet it, shout it, print out the page and stick it with a carrier pigeon to the nearest town. 

Thanks for lending a limb. We love you very much.