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[Heads Up Productions]

First Grace United Church of Christ Presents 
Heads Up Productions’
1,000 Hills

    (September 22nd, 2010….For Immediate Release) First Grace United Church of 
Christ is hosting Heads Up Productions’ staged reading of 1,000 Hills, a new 
work written by Akron native India Burton. 1,000 Hills is directed by Heads Up 
Productions’ Artistic Director, Benjamin Rexroad. Performances will be held at 
First Grace, located at 350 S. Portage Path in Akron.  Performance dates are 
Wednesday, October 20th, Thursday, October 21st, and Friday, October 22nd.  All 
performances are at 8 pm.  Tickets are $5 and available at the door or by 
calling 330.990.5138.  (If you bring in a canned food item Heads Up will take $1 
off of your ticket price.  Canned food items will be donated to the First Grace 
Food Pantry).
  
 1,000 Hills was written by India Burton, who recently directed Heads Up 
Productions’ The Laramie Project and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered 
Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, which was touted as “absolutely, by far, the 
best thing I have ever seen in my 10 years at UA,” by Dr. Boisseau of the 
University’s History Department.

Formulated around the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, 1,000 Hills follows three 
tourists who, while visiting Rwanda, become entangled in the midst of the 
ensuing chaos and mayhem. As tensions begin to rise, the tourists, who bond with 
the locals, have their morals and emotions put to the test

The ensemble includes: 
TJ Jozsa from Stow, Ohio
Kim Woodworth from Aurora, Ohio
Nici Romo from Stow, Ohio
Caorl Eutsey from Akron, Ohio
Sarah Taylor from Cleveland, Ohio
Avery McCullough from Akron, Ohio
Rosilyn Jentner from Akron, Ohio

Director: Benjamin Rexroad from Coventry, Ohio
Assistant Director: Heather Beyer from Tallmadge, Ohio
Assistant Director: Greg Grimes from Tallmadge, Ohio
Stage Manager: Nick Kannel from Akron, Ohio
Writer: India Burton from Akron, Ohio

Heads Up Productions is Akron’s newest and boldest theatre company, originating 
from the minds of university students. Our mission is to engage the Akron 
community in dialogues about diversity and social issues through dynamic live 
performances.

This is our fifth production.   
                                             
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