[NEohioPAL] Fwd: The Dark Room at CPT tonight! Featured Reading, Open Mic and Free Beer!

[Mindy Herman]

*The Dark Room at CPT tonight!*
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This month: Featured Reading of Alexandra by David Zinman and an Open Mic
session!
*

The Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work has
a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second
Tuesday of each month. The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran
playwrights the space and resources to develop new works. It offers a venue
to workshop plays, novels, poems, or any other written work in a
supportive, yet critical environment.

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**Tuesday, May 14th*

The Church at CPT
(Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office)
Cleveland Public Theatre
6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102

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*7:15pm: *Sign-up begins for writers and actors (space is limited). Writers
can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors will be cast on the
spot!
*7:30pm:* Featured Reading of *Alexandra* by David Zinman
*8:30pm:* Open Mic Session readings begin

*About the Featured Reading:*  Bedridden after an accident, Eddie
Mitropoulos sinks into a deep depression. But a friend in New York tries to
raise his spirits via long distance. He phones him and tells him about a
beautiful woman he has met named Alexandra to whom Eddie becomes attracted
-- sight unseen.
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About the Playwright: *David Zinman is a former reporter for the Associated
Press and Long Island *Newsday*. His plays have been produced at Louisiana
State University, the University of South Carolina and Chautauqua. Zinman’s
drama, *Strom in Limbo*, about the legendary Senator Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina, was nominated for the Weissberger Award for excellence in
playwriting. His play *Who Killed the Kingfish?*—based on the stormy career
of  Huey Long, the demagogic Louisiana senator and governor in the 1930s,
was performed at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge on the 75th
anniversary of Long’s assassination. Zinman’s short plays include *Mr.
Smart Ass*, a finalist in the 2009 Tennessee Williams One-Act Play
competition.  Zinman graduated from Columbia and the Columbia Graduate
School of Journalism. For its centennial this year, the school picked 100
Great Stories by its students. It included Zinman’s stories on the New
Orleans school integration crisis (1960), the first public school
desegregation in the Deep South.


*And don't forget - FREE Magic Hat Beer!*

*Writers - bring your work! Actors - come out and read!*

Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required.

If you are interested in being a featured writer at a future Dark Room,
please send a 20-30 page script along with a short bio, cast requirements,
descriptions of the characters and a synopsis of the piece. Writers wishing
to present during the open session portion of Dark Room may submit shorter
works, up to ten pages, in advance of the event or bring them on the night
of the event.Open session readings are first come, first serve until all
slots have been allotted. All submissions should be made to Mindy Herman at
herman.mindy at gmail.com<https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd98f4&URL=mailto%3aherman.mindy%40gmail.com>
or
to John Busser at
jpbusser at gmail.com<https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd98f4&URL=mailto%3ajpbusser%40gmail.com>
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See you in the Dark Room!


-Mindy

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Mindy Childress Herman
www.mindychildress.com
herman.mindy at gmail.com
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