[NEohioPAL] Theater Ninjas Announces 2012-2013 Season

[Ray Caspio]

*Theater Ninjas Announces 2012-13 Season*
*The seventh season of Cleveland’s leading innovative performance company
features original work, regional premieres and expansive growth for
ambitious young company*

*CLEVELAND (August 30, 2012)* – Theater
Ninjas<http://www.theaterninjas.com>unveils their seventh season this
month, marking the start of big changes
for the critically acclaimed, innovative Cleveland-based theater troupe.
The new expansion features exciting partnerships, new locations and an
expanded staff and board. Theater Ninjas’ seventh season is set to kick off
in September and will run through June of 2013.

“Ever since our first show in 2006, Theater Ninjas has strived to provide
Cleveland with powerful, inventive performance that speaks to different
kinds of audiences,” said Artistic Director Jeremy
Paul<http://theaterninjas.com/about/>.
“This upcoming year not only showcases our strengths–visceral physical
styles, site-specific work, meshing humor and pathos–it also demonstrates
our commitment to providing Clevelanders with experiences that are
out-of-the-ordinary, unforgettable events. From secret societies to
dialogues with famous paintings to philosophical reimaginings of history,
we’re focused on making engaging theater that’s relevant and accessible.”

Theater Ninjas will commence its 2012-13 season with Marble Cities, a
devised work about power and imagination. Following in the spring, a
remount of 2011’s exploration of Pompeii, The
Excavation<http://vimeo.com/38796344>,
will be appearing in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum
of Art<http://www.clevelandart.org/visit/Exhibitions.aspx?pid={93A6A5C2-C6A7-4D79-B31C-AC853CF8782D}&ispopup=1>.
In March 2013, Theater Ninjas and Cleveland Public Theater will co-produce
NICK&JEREMY, a wild ride that reveals secrets of the universe by way of
conspiracy theories, group hypnosis, desperate hope and puppets. The
company closes the season with Telephone, a beautiful labyrinth of language
and humor by lauded poet Ariana Reines.

Theater Ninjas is also proud to announce the addition of Associate Artistic
Director Ray Caspio <http://theaterninjas.com/about/> whose hiring will
allow the company to better manage its increased production and presence in
the Cleveland arts scene. Caspio calls the newly expanded Theater Ninjas a
company “where audience and artists come together to create the most
exciting and extraordinary theatrical experiences. This season is full of
new perspectives, new productions, new venues–The Cleveland Museum of Art
and the Ohio City Masonic Temple–a new look, and a renewed presence that
all adds together to strengthen our belief that theater should speak to all
people, not just the initiated.”

Theater Ninjas’ commitment to creating the original and dynamic site
specific work is showcased this season with three different performance
locations all over the city of Cleveland. Tickets run from $15- $20. For
complete information, please visit www.theaterninjas.com.

Theater Ninjas’ 2012-13 season is generously funded by the citizens of
Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and through the Ohio Arts
Council. Artistic Director Jeremy Paul is a recipient of the 2012 Creative
Workforce Fellowship award, which has helped make this new season of work
possible.

*Marble Cities*
Directed and Devised by Jeremy Paul
Created and Performed by Theater Ninjas
November 1 – November 17, at the Ohio City Masonic Temple
Tickets www.theaterninjas.com
You are invited to a meeting both secret and arcane. Tell no one. Your
motives belong to you and you alone. No matter what you see, no matter what
you believe, you have been summoned for one purpose alone: to change the
world. This is the world of Marble Cities, a place of imagination and
power. Join us in exploring fate, desire and future of the universe.
Produced in association with Temple King Productions.

*The Excavation*
Directed by Jeremy Paul
Created and Performed by Theater Ninjas
February 27 – May 19 at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Tickets call 216-421-7350 or www.clevelandart.org
Theater Ninjas are on loan at the Cleveland Museum of Art! We’re reviving
our critically acclaimed 2011 production “The Excavation” to complement the
CMA exhibition “The Last Days of Pompeii”. This exciting partnership meshes
theater, art and history to create a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Produced in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art

*NICK&JEREMY*
Written and performed by Jeremy Paul & Nick Riley
March 21 – April 6 at Cleveland Public Theater, Storefront Studio
Tickets www.cptonline.org, 216-631-2727, $10 - $20
THIS IS NOT A FIRE & you are not a mailbox & we don't pretend to be
anything but pullers of string and dotters of eyes & crossers of tee's
deciphering a series of instructions designed & undermined to reveal
secrets of the universe by way of conspiracy theories, group hypnosis, coin
flips, narcotic cocktails, idealistic propaganda, cynical detachment,
desperate hope & puppets. Artistic Director Jeremy Paul & musician Nick
Riley host this comic, earnest & third eye-opening experiment.
Co-produced with Cleveland Public Theater

*Telephone*
Written by Ariana Reines
May 30 – June 15 Ohio City Masonic Temple
Tickets $10-$20 - www.theaterninjas.com
Two inventors change the world with a wire, a woman gets trapped in her own
mind and lost voices reach out for each other through a web of static. A
beautiful labyrinth of language and humor, Telephone is a rare play of
history and the poetry of what happens on the other end of the line.
Produced in association with Temple King Productions.

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Ray Caspio
Associate Artistic Director
Theater Ninjas <http://www.theaterninjas.com>
rcaspio at theaterninjas.com
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