[NEohioPAL] Groth, Stevens, Thackaberry, Seman, Walker & Zanoni in FOR BETTER at Actors' Summit

[Neil Thackaberry]

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*FOR BETTER*

*A New Comedy about Love in the Age of Email, Cell Phones and Twitter *

*Actors’ Summit Announces the Cast *



Actors’ Summit, Hudson’s professional theater, continues its 11th season
with *For Better*, a new comedy about love and romance in the world of
non-stop electronic communication. The show will have a preview performance
on Thursday, November 5, 2009, followed by the official opening on Friday,
November 6. The play will run Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM and
Sunday afternoons at 2:00 PM through November 22, at the theater in downtown
Hudson.



*About the Play*

*For Better* is a romantic comedy for the digital age. In our wireless world
of twitter, email, text-messaging and camera phones, do a bride and groom
really need to be in the same country to get married? If their jobs will
ever let them be in the same city at the same time, Karen and Max are going
to get married. Overlapping calls, three-party conferencing, and
simultaneous instant messages and emails create moments of sublime
confusion. Six characters cross-talking never sounded so funny and made so
much sense. A genuine 21st century farce.



"Eric Coble's hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits hit home
with rib-tickling acuity." - *New York Times*



*About the Playwright*

*Eric Coble* is a playwright and screenwriter. He is a member of the
Playwrights' Unit of the Cleveland Play
House<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Play_House>
.

Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh>,
Scotland and grew up on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New
Mexico<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico>and
Colorado <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado>. Before turning to
playwriting, Eric received his BA in English from Fort Lewis College in
Colorado, and his MFA in acting from Ohio
University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_University>
.

 His play *Bright Ideas* opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Class Company
and has since had dozens of productions across the U.S. Other scripts
include *Natural Selection* (2006 Humana Festival), *The Dead Guy*, *Virtual
Devotion*, *Cinderella Confidential*, and *Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede
*. His plays have been produced throughout the U.S, and on four continents
including productions at The Kennedy Center, Actors Studio, Playwrights
Horizons, The Edinburgh and New York Fringe Festivals, South Coast
Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, Curious Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dobama
Theatre, Stages Repertory, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the
Contemporary American Theatre Festival.

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*The Cast*

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*Keith E. Stevens, Sally Groth, Constance Thackaberry* and *Lawrence
Seman*return to the Actors’ Summit stage. Joining them are newcomers
*Jen Walker* and *Tony Zanoni*.



*Keith E. Stevens** is an Equity actor and a lifetime member of the Actors’
Studio in New York. A graduate of Cleveland State University, Keith holds an
MFA from New School/Actors Studio Drama School. Recently, at Actors’ Summit,
Keith has appeared in Don’t Hug Me, Sanders Family Christmas, Russians in
Love, Macbeth, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales.*



*Sally Groth* is an Equity actor and has performed in more than 20 shows at
Actors' Summit. 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*.



*Constance Thackaberry* is an Equity actor who has been seen at Actors’
Summit in: *Proof*, *Russians in Love*, *Sanders Family Christmas, Picnic*,
*She Stoops to Conquer *and *The Gingerbread Lady*. Her work has been seen
in New York at Ensemble Studio Theater, Circle in the Square Downtown,
Bowery Poetry Club, and locally with Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cain
Park, Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland Signstage Theatre, Ensemble
Theater, and Porthouse among others.



*Larry Seman *was last seen at Actors’ Summit in *Medea*. Earlier this year
he appeared at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival in *Comedy of Errors* and *The
Seagull.* Other credits include works at The Beck Center and The Cleveland
Shakespeare Festival.

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*Jen Walker* received her BFA in performance from Ohio University. She spent
2007-2008 completing an acting internship with the Ensemble Theatre of
Cincinnati.  Most recently, Jen was seen in *Fiddler on the Roof* at the
Beck Center.

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*Tony Zanoni* attended Kent State University from 1989-1992. He co-founded
improvisational group *Spontaneous Combustion* and toured throughout the
Midwest.  Recently he appeared in *The Odd Couple* at Porthouse Theatre, and
in *Fabulation *at Karamu House.



In keeping with Actors’ Summit’s mission, all six performers make their
homes here in Ohio: Stevens & Thackaberry in Sagamore Hills, Groth in
Richfield, Seman in Broadview Heights, Walker in Lakewood, and Zanoni in
Cleveland.



*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.



*Ticket Prices*

Preview tickets (November 5) are $16. Regular performance tickets are $29 on
Fridays & Saturdays, $26 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.



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



Season subscriptions and Good-Time-Any-Time Coupons are still available.



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.
Actors' Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts
organization.**
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