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Artistic Stamp - Electra's Diary

From sci-fi mysteries to history lessons, theatremakers are putting their own stamp on snail mail exchanges.

Turn Off Your Phone, Check Your Mailbox

‎Show TA(L)KING DIRECTION, Ep Artistic Stamp: Theater In Your Mailbox - Feb 17, 2021

‎TA(L)KING DIRECTION: Artistic Stamp: Theater In Your Mailbox on Apple Podcasts

Are you looking for a unique way to participate in theatre at home? Theatrely recently chatted with West Hyler and Shelley Butler, the artistic directors behind Artistic Stamp, an experience that uses handwritten letters to tell stories over the course of four months. 

Mail In Your Theatre with ARTISTIC STAMP

If you’re Zoomed out and desperately missing an organic connection to the theater, Shelley Butler and West Hyler – a husband-and-wife duo of Broadway directors, each with more than 20 years of experience on such smash hits as Jersey Boys and Beautiful – have devised a new time-honored solution to keeping you personally involved. As […]

Broadway directors West Hyler and Shelley Butler deliver their ‘Artistic Stamp’ via the USPS - DC Metro Theater Arts

On the Artistic Stamp website, you can select a story, and once you’ve purchased your $99 ticket, begin correspondence with an actor playing a character from the story.

Artistic Stamp lets you become a playwright and actor through the art of letter-writing - GREENVILLE JOURNAL

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Letter-driven Electra's Diary centers around a Greek king's imprisoned teen daughter. Plot twist: it's happening in contemporary times. And Electra is pissed.