[NEohioPAL]Local Playwright Receives Honors

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

Local Playwright Receives Honors

V-E Day, the new play by Faye Sholiton premiering this fall at Dobama
Theatre, is now an “award-winning” play. The script took First Prize in the
annual Arlene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting Contest sponsored by the
Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Brigham Young University of Provo,
Utah.  The award, which honors women writers, was established in 1990 by BYU
alumna Susan Lewis, who named the competition for her parents.

Sholiton was a finalist for the same prize in 1998, when she submitted her
play The Interview.  Students and faculty will perform a staged reading of
V-E Day in October.

V-E Day is the story of a woman who made a choice nearly 60 years earlier
that changed the course of her life. One day, a man appears with a box of
World War II-era newsletters and transports her back to a time when she
believed that anything was possible.

The play will be done in staged reading at the Cleveland Play House on
November 1, as part of the Next Stage Festival of New Plays.

V-E Day will receive its world premiere production at Dobama Theatre
November 28-December 21, 2003.

Marjorie Preston
PR/Marketing Director
Dobama Theatre
(216) 932-6838
www.dobama.org

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Dobama Theatre is proud to present its 2003-2004 Season! Four OHIO premiere
productions, one U.S. premiere and one WORLD premiere!

COMING September 5-28:
Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Walter Grodzik – Ohio
Premiere!
In this wacky off-Broadway comedy, sixteen-year-old Kimberly is forced to
re-evaluate her life while juggling a hypochondriac mother, drunken father
and ex-convict aunt along with her own mortality and the possibility of
first love.
"The comedy of the year. A haunting and hilarious new play that is at once a
shrewd satire and a black comedy.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Shows: Thurs., Fri., Sat. at 8 p.m. and Sun. at 2:30 p.m. (First Sun. of run
at 7:30 p.m.)

October 17-November 9	The Domino Heart  by Matthew Edison, directed by Joyce
Casey  American Premiere!

November 28-December 21	V-E Day by local playwright Faye Sholiton, directed
by Jacqi Loewy  World Premiere!

January 16-February 8	Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver, directed Russ
Borski  Ohio Premiere!

March 5-28	In the Heart of America by MacArthur Grant winner Naomi Wallace,
directed by Sonya Robbins  Ohio Premiere!

April 23-May 16  The Last Five Years  by Tony Award winner Jason Robert
Brown, directed by Victoria Bussert and featuring Scott Plate and Carol
Dunne  Ohio Premiere!

Dobama Theatre is located at 1846 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights.

Single ticket prices: $11-20.
Subscriptions: (216) 932-6838.
Reservations: (216) 932-3396.