American Entertainment Works Inc.

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3400 Roundwood Forest Drive, Antioch, TN 37013, USA

EIN Number: 46-2353020

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Phone: 615-394-9330

Hours: No Set Business Hours - Call to Inquire

Website: https://www.aeworks.org/

Email: info@aeworks.org

NTEE Code: A31: Film & Video

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

It is the mission of AEWorks to create authentic entertainment arts that enrich, enlighten, educate and inspire, and make them accessible to everyone regardless of locale or socioeconomic status.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

The iShakespeare Collection The iShakespeare Collection (iSC) is very simply, audio recordings of Shakespeare's plays for students and fans to download. Most of us first encounter the works of William Shakespeare in a text book - the language is arcane and difficult to understand. When Shakespeare wrote these words however, they were intended to be spoken aloud by actors and experienced by an audience - not read from a book. We've become disconnected from the original idea. The iShakespeare Collection bridges that disconnect. Keeping the original language intact, but using modern inflection and tone iSC helps improve retention and understanding. Produced before a live audience, in a table read type setting - so no sets, or costumes - iSC uses professional actors in the lead/major roles, with student /volunteers in secondary roles. Our 2015-16 production schedule plans for the production of ""Hamlet"" and by 2016-17 we hope to produce two plays a year until the entire catalog is complete. Each production which includes a week of rehearsals and two performances costs @ $38,000. AEWorks Theater of the Web Theater of the Web (TOTW) is a series featuring classic and original one act plays - distributed on a dedicated YouTube channel. One act plays have been around since the ancient Greeks and they were wildly popular in Vaudeville. Then in the 1950s they became what we know today as the sit-com. There are thousands of these literary gems - mostly forgotten over time - because their style and language seems out of touch to today's audience. The themes and messages are however, still surprisingly relevant. The mission of Theater of the Web is to re-introduce classic works - along with some original plays -- by adapting the style and language to fit contemporary expectations - still keeping as much of the original humor, theme and plot as possible. TOTW is flipping the paradigm. We're not staging a play and bringing the audience to the theater - we take the theater to the audience. And, our show never closes. An episode of TOTW costs @ $28,000. Blues Alley Blues Alley is an online story-series about the places, people and the tales behind America's earliest original contribution to the arts - blues music. Blues Alley is NOT A DOCUMENTARY! Our goal is to tell the stories - official and apocryphal. While we're not out to mislead - the falsehoods we hold often reveal a greater truth. As Ken Kesey, says, ""It's the truth even if it didn't happen."" Blues Alley is on a storytelling quest to find the places, faces and tales that fostered blues music. Tutwiler MS, Memphis TN, Greenwood MS, are the American equivalent of Vienna, Liepsig and Mannheim and Handy, Ma Rainey, and Robert Johnson are the American corollaries to Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. We're now over a century removed from the beginnings of the blues - all of the founders are gone. But his is our story - and it's time for a retelling. Blues Alley costs between $1,200 and $7,500 and episode depending on artist, music and photo licensing. The Road Less Traveled Today's interstate highways and cost effective air travel have made it efficient to reach most any destination. Where we eat in the same chain restaurants, and shop the same stores we have at home. Before the completion of interstate highways, before the 28 thousand daily flights, people traveled on a series of roads we now consider secondary - roads that pass through the communities, by the businesses, and sights, that make up America. Once upon a time - we looked out the window at the landscape; not at our iPads. The Road Less Traveled rediscovers the vanishing heartland via these wandering pathways. Because, travel is about more than destination - It's about the journey. AEWorks mission is to inspire travelers to rediscover the people, places, sights, sounds and tastes along the Road Less Traveled. ""I - took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."" Robert Frost - 1916 The Road Less Traveled costs @ $5,000 an episode.

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