[NEohioPAL] MEDEA opens at Actors' Summit - Preview Tickets $15

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For Immediate  Release 
For  additional information contact: 
Neil Thackaberry  (330) 342-0800
Hudson, Ohio  
Actors’  Summit Opens   
MEDEA 
Actors’ Summit Theater  announced the opening of the classic tragedy MEDEA. 
The play, written by Euripides,  is being performed in the version adapted by 
the American poet, Robinson  Jeffers. The  play will have a preview performance 
on Thursday October 18, and will play  through November 4 at Actors’ Summit 
Theater in downtown Hudson. The play is performed Thursdays, Fridays,  & 
Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.   
The Play  
First produced in 431 B.C.E., this remarkable work of art has held the  stage 
for nearly two and a half millennia. Euripides, the author, is one member  of 
the trio of great Greek classical playwrights (the others being Aeschylus and 
 Sophocles.)  
The play is based on the myth of Jason and Medea. Jason, with his  Argonauts, 
sought Medea’s help in his quest for the golden fleece. Having  succeeded in 
his great adventure, Jason and Medea have settled in Corinth. Jason abandons  
Medea to marry the daughter of Creon, the ruler of Corinth. Enraged, Medea  
takes a terrible revenge on Jason and Creon.   
The  Cast 
Making their Actors’ Summit debut in Medea will be Rose M. Darling, Bud 
Graske, David McNees,  Lawrence Seman,  and Kai Takahashi.  
Rose  Darling is the co-director of the  Sacred Arts Academy  at Westminster 
in Canton. In 2005 she was a music director in  New  Zealand where she 
presented several original  stage productions.   Bud  Graske is the Creative Director 
for video  production at Suarez Corporation Industries and has thirty years 
of experience  producing and directing national TV spots and other video 
projects.   David McNees recently moved with his  family to Hudson from Vermont. 
Prior to that he  spent many years in New York City, and also  San Francisco  
where he co-founded Pour Boys Productions, a theater district mainstay.   
Lawrence Seman has been previously seen  in a variety of roles at most of the area 
theaters. He is a graduate of  Baldwin-Wallace College and also holds an MA from 
the Institute of Humanities at John Carroll  University.   Kai Takahashi is 5 
years old  and a student at Hudson Montessori School.  This will be both his 
Actors’ Summit and stage  debut. 
Joining the newcomers is a core  of returning professionals. Paula  Duesing 
has lived and worked in the Cleveland area for the last thirty years as a  
freelance voice-over talent and actress.  She’s performed as a proud member of 
Actor’s Equity Association at  Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama 
Theater, Ensemble Theater,  Beck  Center for the Arts and  Cain Park of 
Cleveland Heights.  Sally Groth, in addition to having played  eighteen major roles 
at Actors’ Summit, has also performed at Ensemble  Theatre and Porthouse 
Theatre. Elsewhere she has acted with the Shakespeare  Theatre in Washington D.C., 
the Denver  Center, the Wayside Theatre in  Virginia, Trustus Theater in South 
Carolina, and a  national tour of The Little Prince.  Alicia Kahn returns for 
her sixth show at Actors’  Summit. She has also worked at the Cleveland 
Playhouse, the Beck Center and Great Lakes Theatre  Festival.  Alicia has performed  
extensively in Boston, New  York and Los  Angeles in a variety of roles.    
Marcia Mandell has appeared for many  years in a variety of roles at several 
area theaters in Northeast Ohio including  Dobama, Karamu, Beck Center, Clague, 
CPT, Lakeland, JCC, Cassidy, Willoughby Fine Arts  and others.   Mika 
Takahashi is 9 years old  and a student at Miller South  School for Visual and  
Performing Arts.   Daniel H.  Taylor first appeared in Actors’ Summit’s opening 
production of Rounding  Third.  Other recent credits  include two seasons as a 
company member of the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Our  Town and Sleep Deprivation 
Chamber with Cleveland Public Theatre, and  The Narrator of Peer Gynt with 
the Oregon Symphony Orchestra.     Scott Thomas is returning  to the Actors’ 
Summit Stage after finishing his behind-the-scenes work as stage  manager for 
Actors’ Summit’s last show, Rounding Third.   
Performance Schedule
Medea will  have a preview performance on Oct. 18.  The official opening on 
Friday, Oct. 19  will be followed by a reception with the cast.  Regular 
performances continue through  Nov. 4, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. 
and Sundays at 2:00  p.m.   
Tickets
Tickets  are $25 on Fridays & Saturdays, $22 on Thursdays & Sundays. College  
students and seniors receive a $2 discount at all regular Thursday and Sunday 
 performances.  Students under age 18  are admitted for half price.  Season  
subscriptions and Discount Coupons are now available.  Group discounts are 
available for parties  of 10 or more.  
Tickets  can be purchased by phone by calling (330) 342-0800 or on line at  
actorssummit.org.   
Web  site
Actors’  Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org. 
Actors'  Summit is a  professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts 
organization.  We are seeking volunteers and board  members.  For more details 
please  call MaryJo or Neil at (330) 342-0800.  
Actors' Summit is working under a  developmental agreement with Actors' 
Equity Association (the Union of professional Actors and Stage  Managers.)



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