[NEohioPAL] CALLING ACTORS - The Manhattan Project Meet & Greet is TONIGHT

[Manhattan Project via NEohioPAL]

Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant
minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something awesome and
terrible.  The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for
the Cleveland stage.


This November The Manhattan Project
<https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab?ref=hl> is
cooking up something special with our favorite Cleveland playwrights Les
Hunter, Arwen Mitchell, Mike Geither, Val Kozlenko, Krysia Orlowski, and
Yulia Gray!

We need a cornucopia of hungry actors who want to help serve up six brand
new 10-minute plays for an explosive Thanksgiving feast!

Please join us for our Meet & Greet
<https://www.facebook.com/events/282391201957324/> at *8:00pm TONIGHT,
October 27* at Mahall's 20 Lanes
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mahall%27s/@41.477089,-81.781113,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x4fb705bb49743825>
13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 on the Main Stage.

Performance <https://www.facebook.com/events/1388985338028724/> will
be *November
17*, also on Mahall's Main Stage.

Subscribe to Our Newsletter
<http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=6827d1d815>
for
more information.

What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?

The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and
playwrights to meet and work together.

Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of
Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York,
The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights
to each other by organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute
plays.

Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into
teams, each with one playwright.  The playwright will then be given a
writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and
including all the team's actors.  The rest of the evening the team members
will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and
voices.

The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each
other.

These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves.  Through these small
collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most
vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and
the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page.  Perhaps these 10-minute
plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become
partnerships on larger projects.


If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at TrinityCrater at gmail.com or
just show up at the Meet & Greet on October 27.

For more info and updates like us on facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab> and Subscribe to
Our Newsletter
<http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=6827d1d815>


Some additional notes on the project:

   - In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should
   have a budget of $0.00.
   - Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can
   volunteer to do so.
   - It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together.  Based on
   experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get
   these plays on their feet.
   - Playwrights are invited in advance of the meet & Greet.
   - *Playwrights are invited based on participation in past Manhattan
   Project events, so please come to our events so we can get to know you!*
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