[NEohioPAL]CTC announces Danny Morris Equity Contract Award

Mon Jan 16 00:18:37 PST 2006

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Danny Morris Equity Contract Award and Non-Equity Stipend Announced

Cleveland, Ohio.  The Cleveland Theater Collective announced today that its 
fifth annual Danny Morris Equity Contract Award has been granted to The Beck 
Center for the Arts for use in its June 2006  production of A Man of No 
Importance.  The Collective also granted a stipend to bolster the acting ensemble for 
Charenton Theater Company's spring project, which is to be announced.  

The Danny Morris Equity Contract, an award of $2,500, covers the cost of a 
contract for a member of Actors Equity Association, the union for professional 
stage actors and stage managers.  The award enables The Beck Center for the 
Arts to employ an Equity member in its production of A Man of No Importance, a 
chamber musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (the duo responsible for 
Ragtime and Once on this Island). Based on a movie by Albert Finney, the musical 
focuses on a bus driver and amateur actor who discovers that the theater is 
not a place to hide.  The production will be directed by Beck's artistic 
director Scott Spence.  

Charenton Theater Company's stipend is a matching grant of $400 that enables 
the company to augment compensation for experienced non-equity actors in its 
upcoming spring project, which has been designated as a production that will 
focus on the talents of women performers.  

The Danny Morris Equity Contract and the Non-Equity Stipend are awards 
created by the Cleveland Theater Collective in order to promote the use of local 
professional talent in productions at mid- to smaller sized Cleveland theaters.  
Member theaters of the Cleveland Theater Collective were invited to apply for 
the awards, and a committee consisting of representatives of the Actors Equity 
Association, non-competing theaters, and the Cleveland Theater Collective 
made the selection.  

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 that its fifth annual Danny Morris Equity Contract Award has been granted t=
o The Beck Center for the Arts for use in its June 2006  production of=20=
A Man of No Importance.  The Collective also granted a stipend to bolst=
er the acting ensemble for Charenton Theater Company's spring project, which=
 is to be announced.  <BR></DIV>
<DIV>The Danny Morris Equity Contract, an award of $2,500, covers the cost o=
f a contract for a member of Actors Equity Association, the union for profes=
sional stage actors and stage managers.  The award enables The Beck Cen=
ter for the Arts to employ an Equity member in its production of A Man of No=
 Importance, a chamber musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (the duo=20=
responsible for Ragtime and Once on this Island). Based on a movie by Albert=
 Finney, the musical focuses on a bus driver and amateur actor who discovers=
 that the theater is not a place to hide.  The production will be direc=
ted by Beck's artistic director Scott Spence.  <BR></DIV>
<DIV>Charenton Theater Company's stipend is a matching grant of $400 that en=
ables the company to augment compensation for experienced non-equity actors=20=
in its upcoming spring project, which has been designated as a production th=
at will focus on the talents of women performers.  <BR></DIV>
<DIV>The Danny Morris Equity Contract and the Non-Equity Stipend are awards=20=
created by the Cleveland Theater Collective in order to promote the use of l=
ocal professional talent in productions at mid- to smaller sized Cleveland t=
heaters.  Member theaters of the Cleveland Theater Collective were invi=
ted to apply for the awards, and a committee consisting of representatives o=
f the Actors Equity Association, non-competing theaters, and the Cleveland T=
heater Collective made the selection.  </DIV></BODY></HTML>

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