[NEohioPAL] World Premiere of TREMONT at Actors' Summit with the Coleriders, Sally Groth, Peter Voinovich, Bob Keefe & Geoffrey Darling

[Neil Thackaberry]

For Immediate Release

For more information, contact:

Neil Thackaberry 

330-342-0800

 

Actors' Summit 

Presents The 

World Premiere

of

TREMONT

                                    

 

Actors' Summit, Hudson's Equity Professional Theater, announces the
World Premier production of TREMONT, a new comedy set in Cleveland. The
play was written by the husband and wife team of Robert Thomas Noll and
Pamela V. Noll. TREMONT is set in the early 60's when the closing of the
steel mills disrupted the life of Cleveland's eastern European
neighborhoods. TREMONT will have a preview performance on April 16 with
the official opening night on Friday, April 17, 2009. The play will have
twelve performances through May 3, 2009. The play is performed
Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM at the
Actors' Summit Theater in downtown Hudson. 

 

The Play

TREMONT is set in "The Silver Bush" a neighborhood tavern with a small
but loyal clientele. Eva is waiting tables and living above the bar,
having fled to its safety when her home was broken into. Zoltan, the
owner has fallen in love with her. An elderly couple, the Popovich's,
are regular customers, although Marijka is trying to get her husband,
Roman, to move to Parma. "Tree" has just lost his job and thinks he can
start a new career as a gambler betting on the Cleveland Indians. Eva's
brother, Andre (the Polish Milton Berle) has reappeared after a long
absence and is demanding his share of his parent's savings.  

 

The characters, like the city and its neighborhoods, are in the midst of
change. The world in which immigrants could get good jobs, buy homes,
cars, and raise their families in comfortably isolated ethnic
neighborhoods is falling apart. Some flee to the suburbs while others
fight a rear guard action trying to hold onto the old ways.

 

The Playwrights

 

TREMONT is ROBERT THOMAS NOLL's 26th produced play. His works have been
performed in every U.S. state, including six off-off Broadway
productions, and in many countries. Six are published. His plays have
also been produced in Northeast Ohio at The Cleveland Play House,
Playhouse Square Center, The Beck Center, Dobama, Cassidy Theatre,
Willoughby Fine Arts, Berea Summer Theatre, Youngstown Playhouse, Kent
State University Theatre, and at John Carroll University, where he
teaches in the Communications & Theatre Department. At John Carroll he
is also adviser to The Carroll News, an award-winning newspaper. As a TV
producer/writer, he has won nine Emmys and a Silver Medal from the
International Film and TV Festival of New York. For NBC, he served as
producer/writer for their syndicated children's TV series, "Hickory
Hideout." He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

 

PAMELA V. NOLL is a writer who has won awards for her dramas and
comedies. She has had plays produced off-off Broadway, at the Cleveland
Play House, at the Cleveland Public Theatre and at the Roxbury Center
for Arts in Boston. One of her screen plays has been produced. She was
also a finalist at the British Filmmaking Institute competition in
London and won the first place award from the Gloria Film Festival in
Utah. Her love of writing grew out of her research and writing her
dissertation in psychology. As a psychologist, her specialty is
happiness. She has also written book reviews for professional journals.
Her portfolio includes six films and ten plays. 

 

The Cast

The cast is made up of six members of the Actors' Summit company.

 

Glenn Colerider was in the first production ever mounted by Actors'
Summit - The Price in 1999. Since then he has also appeared in Over the
River and Through the Woods, and Tuesdays with Morrie. He has a long
list of professional credits at other theaters including: On Golden
Pond, Gin Game, Foxfire, Painting Churches, Da, Twelfth Night, Laughter
in the Shadow of the Trees, Mornings' at Seven, and Young Man from
Atlanta. 

 

Jean Colerider is returning for her second production at Actors' Summit,
having appeared with both Glenn and Peter in Over the River and Through
the Woods. Her extensive credits include The Bad Seed, The Glass
Menagerie, On Golden Pond, Plaza Suite, The Dark at the Top of the
Stairs, Foxfire, The Gin Game, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Foreigner, and
The Road to Mecca.

 

Geoffrey Darling is a relatively recent addition to Ohio having
emigrated from New Zealand. He's also a recent addition to the Actors'
Summit family having appeared in Macbeth and A Child's Christmas in
Wales. He's also been seen at the Beck Center and Magical Theater. 

Sally Groth has performed in more than 20 shows at Actors' Summit,
including Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Candida, Turn of the Screw, The
Herbal Bed, and All in the Timing).  Locally, she has performed at the
Porthouse Theater and Ensemble Theatre.  Regional theater credits
include: The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., the Denver Center
Theater, The Wayside Theater, Trustus Theater in S.C., the U.S.C. Summer
Rep. and a national tour of The Little Prince.

 

Bob Keefe has been seen at Actors' Summit in Spoon River Anthology,
Polish Joke, Picnic, Cotton Patch Gospel, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and
Arms and the Man.  He recently completed a long run at the 14th Street
Theatre in We Gotta Bingo.

 

Peter Voinovich received his B.F.A. in acting from Ohio University. He
has played a number of roles at Actors' Summit including Tuesdays with
Morrie, Uh, Oh, Here Comes Christmas, She Stoops to Conquer, Over The
River And Through The Woods, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe,  A Child's
Christmas in Wales, and The Glass Menagerie.  

 

Performance Schedule
TREMONT will have its preview performance on April 16.  The opening
night performance is Friday, April 17, and it will be followed by a
dessert reception with the cast.  Regular performances continue through
Sunday, May 3.

 

Performance times:

Performances are given Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM and
Sundays at 2:00 PM at the theater, located at 86 Owen Brown Street,
Hudson, Ohio. 

 

Tickets
Preview tickets are $15. Regular performance tickets are $28 on Fridays
& Saturdays, $25 on Thursdays & Sundays, with seniors receiving a $3
discount at regular Thursday and Sunday performances.  Additional
discounts are available to groups of ten or more.

 

New this year: ALL full time student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all
performances. 

 

Tickets can be purchased by phone at (330) 342-0800 or from the website
at www.actorssummit.org.  

 

Web site
Actors' Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org
<http://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.)

 

Actors' Summit:  Professional Theater -- Ohio Artists.

 

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