[NEohioPAL] National New Play Network selects Actors' Summit for World Premiere of MANNING UP

[Neil Thackaberry]

For additional information contact:

Neil Thackaberry at 330-374-7568**

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*ACTORS’ SUMMIT SELECTED*

*NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK ANNOUNCES*

*33rd ROLLING WORLD PREMIERE:*

*MANNING UP by Sean Christopher Lewis*

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The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country’s alliance of non-profit
theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of
new plays, announces its 33rd Rolling World Premiere: *Sean Christopher
Lewis’ Manning Up will receive three productions through the Network’s
Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2012/13 season*, the Network’s
15th. *Manning Up *will begin its Rolling World Premiere at Riverside
Theatre (Iowa City, IA, October 12 – 28, 2012), followed by performances at
Salt Lake Acting Company (Salt Lake City, UT, November 7 – December 9,
2012) and *Actors’ Summit (Akron, OH, May 16 – June 2, 2013)*. Lewis – a
former NNPN Playwright-in-Residence – kicks off the festivities by
directing the Riverside production.

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*ABOUT THE PLAY *

Somewhere in a man cave in middle America, two soon-to-be dads wrestle with
hopes, fears and each other as fatherhood creeps ever closer. Lewis’
warm-hearted comedy introduces us to long-time friends Donnie and Raymond,
trying to balance competing needs as 21st century husbands, dads, friends,
and men.

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*ABOUT SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS *

Sean Christopher Lewis is the Artistic Director of Working Group Theatre.
He is a contributor to NPR'S This American Life and his plays have been
awarded the National New Play Network Annual Commission, the Kennedy
Center's Rosa Parks Award, the National New Play Network Smith Prize, NEA
Voices of Community Award, the William Inge Fellowship, a National
Performance Network Creation Fun Grant, a Barrymore Award, two Central Ohio
Critic Circle Citations and a National New Play Network Emerging Playwright
Residency. His plays and solo pieces include KILLADELPHIA (Available Light
Theatre, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Drilling Company NYC, Gerald W. Lynch
Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Hartbeat Ensemble, Touchstone Theatre, Riverside
Theatre, Legion Arts, Empty Boat Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival and
more); JUST KIDS (Pontine Theatre, Sandglass Theatre, Working Group
Theatre); I WILL MAKE YOU ORPHANS (Galapagos Art Space, Riverside Theatre,
Uno Festival of Solo Performance, Hyde Park Theatre); MILITANT LANGUAGE
(Know Theatre; Halcyon Theatre); THE APERTURE (Cleveland Public Theatre)
and MAYBERRY (Hancher Auditorium; Bucksbaum Performing Arts Center and Iowa
Arts Center).

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*ABOUT THE CONTINUED LIFE OF NEW PLAYS FUND *NNPN's flagship program, the
Continued Life of New Plays Fund supports three or more theaters which
choose to mount the same new play within a twelve-month period. The result
is a Rolling World Premiere through which the playwright develops a new
work with multiple creative teams, for multiple communities of patrons,
ensuring the resulting play is of the highest possible quality. And with a
minimum of three productions in a single year, the play attains the
momentum it needs to join the repertoire of frequently-produced new
American works. NNPN provides grants of $7,000 to the first three
participating theaters in each Rolling World Premiere; to date, NNPN has
championed the continued life of 29 new plays in nearly 100 productions,
with over a quarter-million dollars in grants.



Actors’ Summit current season features 6 regional premiers plus* Manning Up*,
a world premiere.

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Information on group discounts and individual ticket sales is available at
330-374-7568 or at actorssummit.org.
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