[NEohioPAL] Mamaí Theatre Company opens Season 3 with downtown venues, resident scenic designer, & new artistic associate!

Wed Oct 15 15:36:40 PDT 2014

Mamaí Theatre Company
CONTACT

Co-Artistic Directors

Bernadette Clemens & Christine McBurney

mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com

www.mamaitheatreco.org
216.382.5146
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mamaí Theatre Company opens Season 3 with downtown venues, resident scenic
designer, & new artistic associate!

Cleveland, Ohio,  October 15, 2014 — Following rapid growth in its
inaugural and second seasons, Mamaí Theatre Company
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> proudly announces Season 2015 which
includes a partnered program on February 2, 2015 at Cuyahoga County
Library’s Beachwood branch on Women in Chekhov; a spring benefit hosted at
Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights on March 29, 2015 featuring an evening
of Samuel Beckett and starring the one-and-only Dorothy Silver in Rockaby
directed by Laura Perrotta; and culminating with Mamaí’s
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org>subscription series which will offer a
global classic, an American classic, and a contemporary thriller that
provocatively addresses women’s and civil rights issues.

Bernadette Clemens directs Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Cleveland
Masonic Performing Arts Center, in the rarely-seen DeMolay Room -- a
beautiful 1920s proscenium theatre above the large, more commonly used
Masonic Auditorium -- June 4-21, 2015. Also in the DeMolay Room, Mitchell
Fields will direct Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire July
16-August 2, 2015. Come autumn, new Artistic Associate Katia Schwarz will
direct Co-Founding Artistic Associate Derdriu Ring in Ariel Dorfman’s Death
and the Maiden September 17-October 4, 2015 -- when Mamaí
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> steps to Playhouse Square to present this
intense thriller in the intimate Kennedy’s cabaret.

Three Sisters directed by Bernadette Clemens runs June 4-21, 2015 at
Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center - DeMolay Room located at 3615
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. One of Chekhov’s beloved masterpieces, Three
Sisters follows Olga, Masha, and Irina in the first few years after their
father’s death as they struggle to let go of their past and shape their
future. A domineering sister-in-law, romance, military, and money challenge
the Prozorov family’s happiness and unity. With artful depiction of three
very different women, Chekhov fascinates audiences with his ability to
articulate the chaos or peace of a single moment, the comedy of life’s
struggles, and the incredible courage we embrace when leaping forward from
a past to which we can never return.

A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Mitchell Fields, runs July 16-August
2, 2015 at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center-the DeMolay Room located
at 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar
Named Desire follows the haggard and fragile southern beauty, Blanche
DuBois, as her sudden arrival at her sister’s residence disrupts the
marital home of Stella & Stanley Kowalski. Against the shadows and heat of
its New Orleans backdrop where “you are practically always just around the
corner...from a tinny piano being played,” this major 20th-Century classic
erupts with legendary drama as Blanche reaches for a pathetic, last grasp
at happiness, while Stanley fights to defend his territory and Stella must
choose between sister and husband.

Death and the Maiden directed by Artistic Associate Katia Schwarz runs
September
17 - October 4, 2015 at Kennedy’s at Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Ave.,
Cleveland, Ohio. A democratic age is dawning in an unspecified Latin
American country. When her husband offers hospitality to a stranger,
Paulina, haunted by her past, believes she recognizes their guest’s voice
as that of the man who tortured her 15 years earlier. The 48 hours that
follow radically alter the lives of all three. This 1991 thriller gave a
new voice to women’s survivorship awareness, and is an unforgettable
three-handed acting triumph. More, it is a stark reminder of the human
rights violations we continue to witness in the world today.

Mamaí Theatre Company <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> tickets will be on
sale December 2014 at www.mamaitheatreco.org. Unless otherwise noted above,
performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at
2:30pm.

2015 Season Kickstarter!

Mamaí <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> is growing, moving downtown, and
adding staff.  We couldn’t have made it to this point without you and we
are grateful. Please help us continue to bring intelligent, relevant,
classical theatre to Northeast Ohio by donating to our 2015 Season
Kickstarter campaign.  Visit
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525718926/mamai-kickstarts-its-2015-season-chekhov-williams
October 15-November 15, to learn how you can be a part of our growth!

New Staff

Mamaí <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> welcomes Katia Schwarz as Artistic
Associate. Katia holds a BA Honors degree in French Language/Literature and
Education from Oxford Brookes University, UK. She also holds an MA in
Education with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from Chapman
University in Orange, California. In the UK she directed Athol Fugard’s Place
with Pigs and assisted on Peter Weiss’s Marat Sade. She also worked behind
the scenes on numerous productions and took full advantage of the rich
theatre offerings of London and Oxford. In 2014 she served as assistant
director on Cleveland’s 2014 AEA Members’ Project Code production of Heartbreak
House and assisted as dialect coach for Mamái’s benefit production of Ulysses
in Nighttown. Prior to making the decision to return to the world of
theatre, Katia taught Spanish and French for a decade, managed a small
non-profit, and worked as a grant-writer. She lives in Cleveland Heights
with her husband and two young daughters.

Mamaí <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> welcomes Resident Scenic Designer,
Don McBride. Don has been a theatre designer for many years in the
Cleveland area. He has designed for The Beck Center, Dobama Theatre, Lyric
Opera Cleveland, Cleveland State University, and others. After teaching in
Missouri for several years, Don is very happy to be back in Cleveland and
designing all three productions in Mamaí <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org>’s
2015 season after completing the scenic design for Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia in
their 2014 season.

History

In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamaí Theatre Company...has made a
howling entrance onto the city’s artistic scene” and named their inaugural
production Medea, a top-10 theatre event of the year.  In 2014
LandofCleve.net added, “In only a few short years, Mamaí Theatre Company
has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre
community.”

Mamaí Theatre Company was founded in 2010 by Bernadette Clemens, Wendy
Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring.  Mamaí (pronounced Mah' may)
is the Gaelic word for “mother.”  Four working mothers, theatre artists,
colleagues, and friends arrived at a place where it was time to create
opportunities for themselves and their community.  “Don’t wait to create”
became the inspiration for Mamaí Theatre Company.  Our mission is to create
intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for
Cleveland's theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the
professional theatre community.

Learn more about us at Mamaí Theatre Company
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/>

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