Big WAFFly thanks

THANK YOU.

It’s been a wild ride, everybody. But we did it. One of 15 Chicago theater companies in the top 200, Will Act For Food finished in 164^th place. We are so excited to see what’s to come.

Of course we didn’t do it alone. We’re resourceful and scrappy, but there’s only 10 of us and we’re not magicians. We received such an outpouring of help and support that we wanted to give a little shout-out right here and now to a few people who made the difference.

Our fellow Chicago theater companies, who could have engaged in cutthroat competition chose instead to come together and support each other throughout this crazy race, sending help to others and rocking the vote for all of us: CIC, GreyZelda, WildClaw, Mortar Theater, Strawdog, Stage Left, Theatre Seven, Backstage, and the rest. You guys are total rock stars, and we are honored and humbled to be a part of your community.

Our friends, fans, and supporters who went above and beyond the call of everything to publicly encourage others to vote for us and help us stay in the running: F. Tyler Burnet, Rebecca Zellar, RESCU Foundation (congrats!), Move For Hunger (congrats!), Chicago Cares, Brian Amidei, Anton Heacock, Tom Schorsch, Team ADMA (esp. Sally, Azar, Nick, and Dan), Andrea Crews, Amanda Paules, TRAVIS BEDARD, Kim Maddox, Lakeview Pantry, Ben Housten, and many many more that we don’t even know about. Thank you all from our collective WAFFly heart-bottoms. We’re working on inventing words to express our gratitude, but we keep getting misty so it’s slow going. You understand.

And to all of the 1,567 voters who had to plaster a blue hand logo onto their profile to help us out, we say it again: THANK YOU. You have truly made a difference both for us and for Chicago’s hungry. You gave us a hand, which will help us give them a hand. Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for giving us your sweet sweet clicks.

THANK YOU.