[NEohioPAL] .“PlayActs” Performances: A Robert "Ruby" Fox Tribute, Fri. 5/21, Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House
sue holland johnson
suehollandjohnson at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 21:14:59 PDT 2010
Tickets Available, Now! Order Now! . . .
u WAKE UP And LIVE‘s u
Evening of Entertainment and Celebration
“PlayActs” Performances
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Robert ”Ruby” Fox
Tribute
Playwright – in- Residence
June 23, 1925 – October 26, 2009
New Plays! New Actors! New Directors! New Playwrights!
u Friday, May 21, 2010 u
7:30 P
Brooks Theatre . Cleveland Play House
8500 Euclid Avenue
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u Featuring u
. Celibacy Odyssey, by Ruby Fox.
A one-act comedy performed off-Broadway
. Wednesdays with Hilda, by Ruby Fox.
And
. Sailing,by Michael Laurenty . Two Words, by Michael Laurenty .
. If I Arrive Before I Leave, by Tom Raber
. TV Divas, by Gary Webster .
. Rate a Date, by Gary Webster
Poetry! Music! Dance!
Shaylawnda Davis Gina Kish Pilotti, Vocals Rainey Institute Dance Ensemble
Mariama Whyte, Vocals
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The Company
. Rob Alexander . Sapphire DeFranco . Samantha Fay . Chris Fortunato.
. Mary Lu Franks . Linda Gross . Jocelyn Harris . Rasool “Monty” Jackson
. Nora Kellogg . Beverly Kristy . Calvin Lane . Marvin L. Mallory.
. James McGilbray . Pam Morton . Gary Webster
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u Tickets: $19.00 ($17.00 Seniors/Students) . To order: wakeup4664 at aol.com . wakeupandlives.org
Make checks payable & mail to: WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio . P.O. Box 201524 . Shaker Hts . OH . 44120
Credit card orders via PayPal or wakeup4664 at aol.com to make arrangements to process.
u Donations to the “Ruby Fox PlayActs Playwrights’ Project” go to www.wakeupandlives.org
Sue Johnson
Executive Director
Wake Up And Live
P.O. Box 201524
Shaker Heights, OH 44120
wakeup4664 at aol.com
See Media Press Below for complete details.
Contact: Sue Johnson
Wakeup4664 at aol.com
(216) 561-8608
For Immediate Release
“PlayActs” Performances in Tribute to Robert “Ruby” Fox, Friday, May 21st.
WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio Presents “PlayActs” Performances an Evening of Entertainment and Celebration in tribute toRobert ”Ruby” Fox, Playwright – in- Residence, June 23,1925 – October 26,2009.
New plays, new actors, new directors, and new playwrights will be showcased, Friday, May 21, 2010,7:30 P, Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Avenue.
Highlights of the evening feature two original works by Fox:Celibacy Odyssey, A one-act comedy performed off-Broadway, and a pivotal Wednesdays with Hilda scene depicting the Jewish and black experience in 1965. Both works will be directed by Dahna Fox,Ruby’s widow, who previously directed the full-length Wednesdays with Hilda. Both plays, along with many others by Fox, initially received staged readings and performances by Wake Up And Live’s Actors’ Studio.
New Playwrights-in-Residence, Michael Laurenty and Tom Raber will see their one-acts directed by Sapphire DeFranco, actor, making her directorial debut, and by Gary Webster, Playwright-in-Residence. Sailing, and Two Words, both by Michael Laurenty will be directed by DeFranco, and If I Arrive Before I Leave, by Tom Raber will be directed by Webster who wrote TV Divas and Rate a Date. Webster will also direct and perform in Rate A Date, while Sue Johnson directs the TV Divas who are now in a Hollywood coffee shop awaiting news from Shonda Rhimes, mega-Producer, about a movie deal.
In addition to the theatrical pieces, “PlayActs” Performances will entertain the audience with poetry by Shaylawnda Davis, vocals by Gina Kish Pilotti and Mariama Whyte, and the Rainey Institute Dance Ensemble.
Tickets: $19.00 ($17.00 Seniors/Students) .
To order:wakeup4664 at aol.com . wakeupandlives.org
Make checks payable & mail to: WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio
P.O. Box 201524. Shaker Hts. OH . 44120
Credit card orders via PayPal , or wakeup4664 at aol.com to make
payment arrangements
Donations to the Ruby Fox “PlayActs Playwrights’ Project,” go to www.wakeupandlives.org.
The Company
Rob Alexander . Sapphire DeFranco . Samantha Fay. Chris Fortunato.
Mary Lu Franks . Linda Gross . Jocelyn Harris . Rasool “Monty” Jackson
Nora Kellogg . Beverly Kristy . Calvin Lane . Marvin L. Mallory.
James McGilbray . Pam Morton . Gary Webster.
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About Robert “Ruby” Fox,Playwright-in-Residence
In 2005, Ruby Fox, Playwright –in – Residence, had a big year. He celebrated his 80th birthday with a huge surprise birthday party given by his wife, Donna, and his family, where he saw his original one-act plays, Wednesdays with Hildaand Celibacy Odysseyperformed at the Cleveland Play House. He was featured in the Cleveland Jewish News as an “elder” person and playwright of distinction. The WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studiodedicated its 2005-06 season of “PlayActs”to Ruby. In September, 2005, Ruby and Celibacy Odyssey headed to the Big Apple, where Celibacy Odyssey, “a farcical fantasy romp,” was performed off-Broadway at the Studio Theatre.
Ruby, a resident of University Heights, was considered a late bloomer. He chose the field of writing for live theatre, because of his admiration for live performances and their writers. He was in his late sixties when he began and discovered a hidden talent that he didn’t realize he had. Since, he had written two movies, Shanghai Journey, and Murrow’s Children, which had consideration for production.
His plays have been read at the Cleveland Playhouse, Cuyahoga Community College and Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. Ruby always thanked his wife Donna, for the continuing encouragement that she always gave him.
The WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio has performed numerous plays by Ruby, at many staged readings from Borders Books to Cuyahoga Community College, to the Cleveland Play House, including the periennial audience favorite, Four Queens which had the senior citizens’ audience “rolling in the aisles” after its recent April performance at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Community Center. Over the years, Ruby had written such diverse pieces as Wednesdays with Hilda which addresses race relations and touches the heart with Jewish heritage and, Sophie’s Legacy, which takes an improbable look at “creative pregnancy.” In 1993, Ruby took his first playwriting course with Bob Noll, another prominent local playwright, at the Cleveland Play House. He was hooked! Eventually, Ruby responded to a “Call for Playwrights Submissions” for WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio and from there, a wonderful relationship was begun and continued to
grow until his unexpected, untimely passing, October 25, 2009.
In honor of Ruby’s contribution to Wake Up And Live’s Actors’ Studio and the entire artistic community, “PlayActs” Performances and PlayActs . . . To Go! (touring productions), 2010 has been dedicated to his memory and to establishing the “Ruby Fox Playwrights’ Project.”
About Wake Up And Live’s Actors’ Studio
WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studiois a non-profit 501©3 performing arts, entertainment and education organization. Established in 1997, we have provided aspiring and experienced performing artists with an opportunity to learn, improve and practice their crafts and skills through “PlayActs” Performances, which provides actors and other performing artists the opportunity to showcase their talents through plays, prose, poetry, performance pieces, dance and music.
We produce “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS,” a cable access TV show which celebrates and showcases the diversity of the performing arts. The show can be seen on Cox Cable, channel 45, and Cleveland Access, channel 197, as well as on YouTube.
Since 1998, Johnson has coached and counseled more than 700 performers and writers. Among the Wake Up and Live Actors Studio's success stories are Ruby Fox, whose plays have been performed off-Broadway as well as on the Brooks Theater stage
of the Cleveland Play House by Wake Up and Live's own actors; Rollin "Mac" Michael, who polished the skills that earned him acceptance by New York's prestigious Michael Chekhov school of performing and who has appeared in plays both locally and in New York; Cody Wood, one of whose band's first appearances was on Johnson's Wake Up and Live With the Arts local access cable TV show and who has since cut a CD and performs for appreciative audiences in Los Angeles; and Bernadette Lords, who has appeared in the major motion pictures You Don't Mess With the Zohan and Doubt.
. Sue Johnson Director of the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio, is an actor, director, producer and coach. Sue produces, directs and co-hosts WUAL TV’s WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS, which celebrates and showcases the diversity of performing and cultural artists. Sue’s professional acting credits include appearances in Cleveland area theatres, including co-starring with Leon Bibb in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, performed at the Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House and, more recently, at the Kent State Writers’ Conference. She has directed My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, a commissioned play, numerous "PlayActs" Performances, staged readings for Jim Spriggs' Terror on Biddle Street and Faye Sholiton’s All Things Being Equal for Karamu's Arenafest. TV credits include A & E's 100 Centre Street, and films, Antwone Fisher directed by Denzel Washington, and The Year That Trembled, Jay Craven, Director. Her talent resume lists
numerous TV commercials, industrials, and voiceovers
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