Napoleon's Wh*re Sister
Los Angeles, California | Theatre
Comedy, History
In 1804, men told women what to do with their own bodies, how to spend their money, & how to behave. And men are still trying to do it today! Through the true experiences of Pauline Bonaparte, this comedy decries the double standards & judgment that women have been battling for far too long.
Napoleon's Wh*re Sister
Los Angeles, California | Theatre
Comedy, History
1 Campaigns | California, United States
60 supporters | followers
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$5,721
Goal: $5,211 for production
In 1804, men told women what to do with their own bodies, how to spend their money, & how to behave. And men are still trying to do it today! Through the true experiences of Pauline Bonaparte, this comedy decries the double standards & judgment that women have been battling for far too long.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The year is 1804. Napoleon Bonaparte has just been crowned Emperor of France and he would really like his younger sister to behave like a good girl. Her new husband, Prince Camillo Borghese of Italy, would appreciate the same. Pauline has other ideas. When Camillo commissions the renowned sculptor Antonio Canova to create a virginal and chaste statue of Pauline, she shocks the world by instead posing buck ass naked. (ALL OF THIS IS TRUE.)
This play takes place at the party where the statue is unveiled.
At its heart, this is the story of men in power telling a woman what to do with her own body — and that woman telling them to f*** right off.
NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER will come to the stage for the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Broadwater Second Stage in Hollywood, California.
JUNE 08 @ 7:00PM
JUNE 13 @ 5:00PM
JUNE 17 @ 6:30PM
JUNE 21 @ 8:30PM
JUNE 28 @ 11:00AM
And yes, we are offering pre-sale tickets — check out our incentives!!
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Hello, Shannon Corbeil here. My journey with Pauline first began when I read an article in National Geographic about "Venus Victorious" — the notorious statue of Pauline. I knew right away that she was a woman who deserves to have her story told — the feminine contrast to her conquering brother. She is the fulcrum around with this play rotates — she is the heroine, the scapegoat, the flawed icon, and the resilient survivor. She stands in for any woman who has felt shamed, demeaned, insecure, or trapped by misogyny.
"It is a terrible thing always to be the victim of men." Those are her words and still today, women around the world can relate all too well.
So I have taken real events from her life and from Napoleon's imperial legacy and depicted them at a party where no one is safe from facing some hard truths or coming up with euphemisms for "quim" — no, not even our belovéd audience members ::insert grinning devil emoji here::
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Good news: Fringe shows have to be fast on their feet. We won't need a real three-dimensional statue until we make it to Broadway! For now, we're getting creative with a tight budget and some paint. That "tight budget" is still a good little chunk of change for one person — that's where you come in.
Your contribution will help us afford some critical costs like:
- Paying our hardworking actors, director, & choreographer (and musicians? Pretty sure this is a musical now)
- Regency-era costumes, tiaras, and merkins (!!!)
- Set design and props — Venus Victorious will make her appearance one way or another!
- Marketing to fill those seats with audience members who will shriek and laugh and cry in all the right places and leave glowing reviews and greenlight the West End production and...
STRETCH GOALS
Our $5,210 goal is the absolute minimum we need to raise for production.
If we raise $6,000 we'll be able to cover the costs of running our campaign!
If we raise $7,500 we'll be able to pay our actors for their rehearsal time & for original composition and live musicians!
If we raise $8,500 we'll be able to host a closing party — and invite our contributors to come join us!
If we raise $10,000 we'll be able to cover professional filmography & hosting costs!
IF WE RAISE $10K, EVERY CONTRIBUTOR WILL RECEIVE A VIDEO LINK TO WATCH A PROFESSIONAL RECORDING OF THE PLAY!!!
MEET SHANNON
Shannon Corbeil is an Air Force veteran, writer, and actor most recently seen in SEAL TEAM, THE ROOKIE, and the Duplass Brothers’ feature film THE KNIFE, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. She has performed at The Geffen Playhouse and The Kennedy Center as a writer, actor, dancer, and singer. She also taught pole dance and fortunately/unfortunately will be allowing some of her exhibitionist past to re-emerge in NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER. Gird your loins!
WHAT CAN YOU DO RIGHT NOW?
- You can FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGN (scroll up and look for the heart icon) so you can stay updated with our fundraising and progress.
- You can shower us with golden francs and CONTRIBUTE! We've got some unhinged incentives for you to check out, including one-on-one meetings with Shannon, the chance to be IN THE PLAY, and chalices sculpted from Shannon's own left breast for some reason.
- You can SHARE THIS WITH THE WORLD. Call your parents. Tell your friends (especially the wealthy ones). Share this campaign on all your socials (find the share icon above, right next to the heart icon) and tell your followers to drop whatever they're doing and donate to NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER. Something like:
"AI can take our lives but it'll never take our live theater! Donate to this great campaign to support a new female-driven play!"
"A play about women rebelling against power-hungry men? Take my money!"
"I hear someone gets naked in this — who's coming with me?"
Oh, and don't forget to link to our crowdfunding page: https://seedandspark.com/fund/napoleons-whre-sister#story
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
CASH PLEDGE
Costs $1
Don't need an incentive to support the project? BLESS YOU. Donate any amount of your choosing. No amount is too small...or too great!
Filmography
Costs $600
NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER will play live at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival but we'd love to have it recorded so we can share it with you!
The Venue
Costs $1,685
We will be performing at The Broadwater - Second Stage in Hollywood, CA. The rental fee covers five performances and tech rehearsals!
The Talent
Costs $1,350
Rehearsing and performing at the speed to which Fringe requires will require some stellar and committed actors whom I would love to pay!
Marketing
Costs $770
Hear ye! Hear ye! From registration to an ad in the Fringe guide to postcards, we will be getting peeps in seats!
Costumes & Set Design
Costs $555
It's a period play. We need period costumes. We're scrappy but we intend to visually dazzle you when you come to our show!
Contingency
Costs $250
Let's be real — our estimates have been *very* conservative. We want to be ready when unexpected costs pop up.
Share this update!
About This Team
Shannon Corbeil is an Air Force veteran, screenwriter, and actor most recently seen on SEAL TEAM, THE ROOKIE, and the Duplass Brothers’ feature film THE KNIFE, directed by Nnamdi Asomugha, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. She was a 2023 Disney TV Writing Fellowship Finalist and her screenplays have placed in the Top 10% at Slamdance. In April 2025, Shannon was invited to read her poetry onstage during Maria Shriver's book tour.
Shannon served as an Intelligence Officer after 9/11, providing intel support to A-10 pilots in South Korea and analyzing cyber threats at the National Security Agency. Serving in the shadow of war contributed to her fascination with how our stories influence the values and temperaments we uphold in our society.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The year is 1804. Napoleon Bonaparte has just been crowned Emperor of France and he would really like his younger sister to behave like a good girl. Her new husband, Prince Camillo Borghese of Italy, would appreciate the same. Pauline has other ideas. When Camillo commissions the renowned sculptor Antonio Canova to create a virginal and chaste statue of Pauline, she shocks the world by instead posing buck ass naked. (ALL OF THIS IS TRUE.)
This play takes place at the party where the statue is unveiled.
At its heart, this is the story of men in power telling a woman what to do with her own body — and that woman telling them to f*** right off.
NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER will come to the stage for the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Broadwater Second Stage in Hollywood, California.
JUNE 08 @ 7:00PM
JUNE 13 @ 5:00PM
JUNE 17 @ 6:30PM
JUNE 21 @ 8:30PM
JUNE 28 @ 11:00AM
And yes, we are offering pre-sale tickets — check out our incentives!!
Hello, Shannon Corbeil here. My journey with Pauline first began when I read an article in National Geographic about "Venus Victorious" — the notorious statue of Pauline. I knew right away that she was a woman who deserves to have her story told — the feminine contrast to her conquering brother. She is the fulcrum around with this play rotates — she is the heroine, the scapegoat, the flawed icon, and the resilient survivor. She stands in for any woman who has felt shamed, demeaned, insecure, or trapped by misogyny.
"It is a terrible thing always to be the victim of men." Those are her words and still today, women around the world can relate all too well.
So I have taken real events from her life and from Napoleon's imperial legacy and depicted them at a party where no one is safe from facing some hard truths or coming up with euphemisms for "quim" — no, not even our belovéd audience members ::insert grinning devil emoji here::
Good news: Fringe shows have to be fast on their feet. We won't need a real three-dimensional statue until we make it to Broadway! For now, we're getting creative with a tight budget and some paint. That "tight budget" is still a good little chunk of change for one person — that's where you come in.
Your contribution will help us afford some critical costs like:
- Paying our hardworking actors, director, & choreographer (and musicians? Pretty sure this is a musical now)
- Regency-era costumes, tiaras, and merkins (!!!)
- Set design and props — Venus Victorious will make her appearance one way or another!
- Marketing to fill those seats with audience members who will shriek and laugh and cry in all the right places and leave glowing reviews and greenlight the West End production and...
STRETCH GOALS
Our $5,210 goal is the absolute minimum we need to raise for production.
If we raise $6,000 we'll be able to cover the costs of running our campaign!
If we raise $7,500 we'll be able to pay our actors for their rehearsal time & for original composition and live musicians!
If we raise $8,500 we'll be able to host a closing party — and invite our contributors to come join us!
If we raise $10,000 we'll be able to cover professional filmography & hosting costs!
IF WE RAISE $10K, EVERY CONTRIBUTOR WILL RECEIVE A VIDEO LINK TO WATCH A PROFESSIONAL RECORDING OF THE PLAY!!!
MEET SHANNON
Shannon Corbeil is an Air Force veteran, writer, and actor most recently seen in SEAL TEAM, THE ROOKIE, and the Duplass Brothers’ feature film THE KNIFE, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. She has performed at The Geffen Playhouse and The Kennedy Center as a writer, actor, dancer, and singer. She also taught pole dance and fortunately/unfortunately will be allowing some of her exhibitionist past to re-emerge in NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER. Gird your loins!
WHAT CAN YOU DO RIGHT NOW?
- You can FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGN (scroll up and look for the heart icon) so you can stay updated with our fundraising and progress.
- You can shower us with golden francs and CONTRIBUTE! We've got some unhinged incentives for you to check out, including one-on-one meetings with Shannon, the chance to be IN THE PLAY, and chalices sculpted from Shannon's own left breast for some reason.
- You can SHARE THIS WITH THE WORLD. Call your parents. Tell your friends (especially the wealthy ones). Share this campaign on all your socials (find the share icon above, right next to the heart icon) and tell your followers to drop whatever they're doing and donate to NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER. Something like:
"AI can take our lives but it'll never take our live theater! Donate to this great campaign to support a new female-driven play!"
"A play about women rebelling against power-hungry men? Take my money!"
"I hear someone gets naked in this — who's coming with me?"
Oh, and don't forget to link to our crowdfunding page: https://seedandspark.com/fund/napoleons-whre-sister#story
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
CASH PLEDGE
Costs $1
Don't need an incentive to support the project? BLESS YOU. Donate any amount of your choosing. No amount is too small...or too great!
Filmography
Costs $600
NAPOLEON'S WH*RE SISTER will play live at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival but we'd love to have it recorded so we can share it with you!
The Venue
Costs $1,685
We will be performing at The Broadwater - Second Stage in Hollywood, CA. The rental fee covers five performances and tech rehearsals!
The Talent
Costs $1,350
Rehearsing and performing at the speed to which Fringe requires will require some stellar and committed actors whom I would love to pay!
Marketing
Costs $770
Hear ye! Hear ye! From registration to an ad in the Fringe guide to postcards, we will be getting peeps in seats!
Costumes & Set Design
Costs $555
It's a period play. We need period costumes. We're scrappy but we intend to visually dazzle you when you come to our show!
Contingency
Costs $250
Let's be real — our estimates have been *very* conservative. We want to be ready when unexpected costs pop up.
Share this update!
About This Team
Shannon Corbeil is an Air Force veteran, screenwriter, and actor most recently seen on SEAL TEAM, THE ROOKIE, and the Duplass Brothers’ feature film THE KNIFE, directed by Nnamdi Asomugha, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. She was a 2023 Disney TV Writing Fellowship Finalist and her screenplays have placed in the Top 10% at Slamdance. In April 2025, Shannon was invited to read her poetry onstage during Maria Shriver's book tour.
Shannon served as an Intelligence Officer after 9/11, providing intel support to A-10 pilots in South Korea and analyzing cyber threats at the National Security Agency. Serving in the shadow of war contributed to her fascination with how our stories influence the values and temperaments we uphold in our society.