[NEohioPAL]Drama director needed at Hawken Middle School

[John Krol]

Hawken Middle School, 5000 Clubside Road, Lyndhurst, is looking for a
director for its 7th and 8th grade drama class in the winter trimester. 
The director would be needed from the beginning of November to
mid-March, and the class would culminate in a public performance,
in-house performance, or both.  The class typically involves 24 to 30
students, takes place Monday through Friday from 3:00 to 3:45, and the
performance may be musical, non-musical, a single show, or selected
scenes as determined by the director.  The stipend has been $1500.00,
with additional money available if an accompanist is needed.  Interested
directors may contact Assistant Middle School Director Linda Wise at
lwise at hawken.edu or 440 423-4446.   

>From jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com" <jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com  Mon Oct  6 16:43:18 2003
From: jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com" <jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com (Julie Fogel)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:43:18 -0400
Subject: [NEohioPAL]Twelfth Night & Hay Fever Open This Week!
Message-ID: <01C38BFF.09EAA5C0.jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com>

MFA Spotlight Series Debuts This Week
Twelfth Night and Hay Fever to Run in Repertory
in The Brooks Theatre at The Cleveland Play House

Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Peter Hackett announces the debut of 
the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master's of Fine 
Arts Conservatory Ensemble Spotlight Series in the historic Brooks Theatre. 
Featuring the MFA candidates in the newly expanded Case/CPH joint 
professional actor training program, the Spotlight Series presents the 
third-year MFA students in two plays to run in repertory this fall, William 
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Noel Coward's Hay Fever. The Spotlight 
Series will feature first-year MFA students this spring in a production of 
William Inge's Bus Stop.

General admission tickets are $10.00; $5.00 for Case students, faculty and 
staff. Call The Cleveland Play House ticket office, 216-795-7000, or at 
www.clevelandplayhouse.com.

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Alan Gordon
The Cleveland Play House Brooks Theatre, 8500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, 
Ohio 44106
Performances: October 9, 11, 16, 18, 21, 23, & 25 at 8 p.m.
Matinee: October 18 at 4 p.m.

Shakespeare's last great romantic comedy is filled with song, wit and the 
fabulous folly of falling in love.

Hay Fever

By Noel Coward
Directed by Ron Wilson
The Cleveland Play House Brooks Theatre, 8500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, 
Ohio 44106
Performances: October 10, 15, 17, 22, & 24 at 8 p.m.
Matinees: October 12 & 26 at 2 p.m.; October 19 at 4 p.m.

When the theatrical and off-beat Bliss family invites four straight-laced 
guests to their English country home for a weekend, the chaos begins in 
this comedy of bad manners that premiered in London in 1924, but whose 
bubbly, champagne-like dialogue hasn't lost its wit nor its farcical "fizz" 
over the years.

Third-Year MFA Conservatory Ensemble

Virginia Donohoe (Twelfth Night's Viola; Sorel Bliss in Hay Fever) hails 
from Mankato, Minnesota and received her BA in Theatre Arts from Marquette 
University. Recent roles include: Silvia in The Game of Love and Chance at 
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Phoebe in As You Like It with Cleveland 
Shakespeare Festival, Mabel in An Ideal Husband at Case, and the female 
understudy for The Cleveland Play House's production of The Blue Room.

Mary Gen Fjelstad (Twelfth Night's Olivia; Judith Bliss in Hay Fever) has 
appeared at Case Western Reserve University in A Lie of the Mind, The 
Secret Rain and Picnic. She studied at the New World School of the Arts in 
Miami, Florida and the Atlantic Theater Company in NYC and LA.  She sends a 
special thanks to the Friends of Eldred Theater, who made it possible for 
her to study with the Michael Chekhov Association this past summer in 
Amsterdam.

Emily Klingensmith (Twelfth Night's Maria; Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever) has 
performed with such theatres as the Boarshead in Lansing, MI; Diamond 
Circle in Durango, Co; and locally at Dobama and Berea Summer Theater. She 
currently resides in Shaker Heights with her wonderful husband, Jon.

Patrick Jones (Twelfth Night's Antonio & Malvolio; Simon Bliss in Hay 
Fever) has appeared in The Cleveland Play House Next Stage Festival of New 
Plays and was understudy for Robert in last season's production of Proof. 
Most recently appeared in Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's Much Ado About 
Nothing and The Merchant of Venice. He has appeared locally in As You Like 
it for the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, and Arms and the Man for the 
Great Lakes Theater Festival. Mr. Jones hails from San Francisco, where he 
performed with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, The Exit Theater and 
the Angst Ensemble. He can be heard as the voice of Bruce Banner in an 
upcoming Marvel Comics DVD/CDROM called "The Ultimates."

Matthew Joslyn (Twelfth Night's Sebastian & Sea Captain, I,ii; Richard 
Greatham in Hay Fever), is a  native of Columbus, Ohio, whose most recent 
Cleveland Play House credit was understudying the role of Charlie in Dirty 
Blonde. Mr. Joslyn spent the past summer at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre 
in Holland, Michigan, where he appeared in Guys and Dolls, Caine Mutiny 
Court Martial, and as the Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. Other Cleveland 
credits include Oliver in As You Like It with the Cleveland Shakespeare 
Festival and Ianosh in Mad Forest at Eldred Theatre. Mr. Joslyn received 
his undergraduate training at Cornell University.

Simon Kendall (Twelfth Night's Orsino/Sir Aguecheek; Sandy Tyrell in Hay 
Fever) has performed the roles of Hal in Proof, Jeremy in Kaztman and the 
Mayor (Next Stage Festival of New Plays), and the Waiter in Betrayal at The 
Play House. This season, Mr. Kendall will perform the role of Vincent in 
Vincent in Brixton. Regional credits include: Jack in The Importance of 
Being Earnest (Porthouse Theatre); Jack in Charley's Aunt, Travis in 
Footloose (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre); and Nick in Who's Afraid of 
Virginia Woolf? (Fulton Opera House Studio Theatre). UK: Hamlet (Laertes) 
and Endgame (Clov) at the Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford.

Cat Maddox (Twelfth Night's Feste; Myra Arundel in Hay Fever) spent the 
past two summers at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Michigan performing 
such roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a 
Mattress and Kitty in Charley's Aunt. Ms. Maddox was in the second American 
cast of Honk! with director Julia McKenzie at North Shore Music Theatre. 
Other favorite roles include Anna in Burn This, Armande in Moliere Plays 
Paris and Mrs. Chevely in An Ideal Husband.

Rich Sommer (Twelfth Night's Sir Toby Belch; David Bliss in Hay Fever) 
received his BA in Theatre Arts from Concordia College in Moorhead, 
Minnesota. He spent this past summer studying Improvisation in New York 
City with The Upright Citizens Brigade.


Julie Fogel
Public Relations Manager
The Cleveland Play House
8500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
phone: (216) 795-7000, ext. 236
FAX: (216) 795-7005
email: jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com