Natalie Weiss is going to be the artist in residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery in New York in preparation for Camp Wanatchi’s off-Broadway run. Art by Bridget and others will be featured. Anyone attending, please send us a write up of the event! It takes place on August 19th, 25th, September 1st and September 5th-6th for closing ceremonies. Various events are scheduled for each date. Anyone who goes, have fun! And if you send us a write-up, you will have our undying love and gratitude!

The complete list of events and all that will be going on can be found at Camp Wanatchi’s website: here.

Here’s another link to a Bridget Skype session write-up. Thanks to Sparty for bringing it to our attention! The write-up can be found here: http://community.livejournal.com/legendofseeker/767289.html#cutid1

We got a surprise in our e-mail today. Someone had sent us a little write-up they did about a Skype session with Bridget. They wrote it up especially for us, so here it is:

I also had a Skype session with Bridget but I hadn’t posted about it because…well…I have a terrible memory, and I don’t think it would be fair to her to recite word-for-word what we talked about. I’d inevitably get it wrong.  Plus, I have a thing about respecting someone’s privacy; we didn’t talk about anything personal but still, it was a personal conversation.

That being said however, I don’t think it would be crossing the line to give a short recap.  She was definitely very appreciative of and humbled by the support that CW has gotten. We talked a lot about CW and about financing Broadway shows in general.  It’s something I knew very little about and it was an education having someone so close to it explain it to me. We talked about The Lovely Bones, NINE, Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans, Italy and Paris, and Is He Dead?  Legend of the Seeker did come up, of course, and the fact that Kahlan will be missed. But I did emphasize how much I’m looking forward to seeing whatever she does next.

And finally, I’m sure you’ve all read the reports by the other Skypers about how much fun it was. It was all that and more, tons more. It was an absolute treat; now, even a week later, I still have this goofy grin on my face that everyone keeps asking me about. If she ever volunteers her time again, I would highly recommend it (the line will be forming right behind me!)

Her Blue Eyes would like to send a big thank you to Pat for sending this along to us!

Thank you, wolfi, for drawing our attention to this. For those of you who haven’t been reading the comments, wolfi pointed out this link to us at Her Blue Eyes. It is another recount of a Skype session with Bridget! It’s hard not to love her even more after reading all these recaps! Thanks again and anyone else who finds one of these that we haven’t posted yet, please feel free to draw our attention to it! Here’s the link: http://bitchslapfans.com/?p=1248

Well, yet another recipient of a Skype session with Bridget has posted about the experience and it’s a really good read. Particularly interesting is the story of how she got the Skype session in the first place! Bridget sounds like a wonderful woman again, of course, and this fan is obviously over the moon happy. Enjoy! The post can be found here:  http://sandimist.livejournal.com/4140.html

One of the people who donated $500 to the Camp Wanatachi cause and had a Skype conversation with Bridget wrote about it on their LiveJournal. Apparently, Bridget even stayed a bit longer than the 30 minutes she had agreed to. She sounds like the genuinely lovely person we all had her figured to be anyway! Here is the link: http://community.livejournal.com/legendofseeker/741760.html

The Camp Wanatachi pledge drive met its goal and will be moving forward, thanks to the generous help of a number of people. Six people pledged enough for the half hour Skype conversation with Bridget. If any of you are out there, we’d love love love a write up of how it goes! You can read about their success getting the needed funding here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1757805840/camp-wanatachi-a-new-musical/posts

Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (June 18, 2010)
by AfterEllen.com staff June 18, 2010

THIS JUST IN: THE CREATOR OF CAMP WANATACHI WANTS YOUR LESBIAN CAMP STORIES
Over the past few months, a considerable buzz has surrounded the musical Camp Wanatachi, a quirky story about an all-girls Christian summer camp in which two of the campers fall in love.

When it debuted at New York’s Fringe Festival last year, Time Out New York called it “refreshing and uplifting and gave it four stars. New York Magazine dubbed it a hilariously subversive piece of theater.” Even we had something to say about it.

Produced by Bridget Regan of Legend of the Seeker and Ian Pai, co-founder of Blue Man Group and musical director of Fischerspooner, the zany musical is set to forward-sounding electro tracks with whimsical yet hormone-driven lyrics that evoke the frenetic and confusing but often exhilarating time called adolescence. It features beats by hip-hop producer Machinedrum and was arranged by up and coming composer Conrad Winslow.

The rest of the article/interview can be found at the following link, however, there is adult content, so view at your own discretion. Also, they are looking for stories about lesbian experiences at summer camp, whether as a camper or a counselor. So, well, if you’ve got any stories that you want to share, the details are after the interview. Here it is: http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/06-18-10?page=0,1

I Spent a Night at Camp Wanatachi

Bridget Regan has taken a hands-on approach to her involvement in the Camp Wanatachi project.  At the Camp Wanatachi Benefit Concert on June 3rd, Bridget was seen before the show lugging equipment bins in a stunning red dress, dealing with the box office and greeting people at the doors to the event.  She was classy and gracious and was busting her butt to make sure everything went without a hitch, as any good producer should.  I got a chance to speak with her after the concert and asked her what her motivation was for becoming involved in Camp Wanatachi.  She responded by saying that she has always had a passion for musical theater since she was young.  When a friend had her listen to a song written by Natalie Weiss, creator of Camp Wanatachi and a friend of Bridget’s from their time at acting school, she was immediately blown away by the distinctive sound and felt inspired to lend her support to the project.  She has done this by becoming a co-producer, adding her name to the project to increase interest and dedicating a tremendous amount of time and effort to its success since returning to the U.S. after wrapping up her role on Legend of the Seeker in New Zealand.
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Bridget Tweeted this but just so everyone knows, Camp Wanatachi has a Facebook page. You can check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Camp-Wanatachi/85296411450