[NEohioPAL] Growth has Mamaí Theatre Company Poised for its Fourth Season of Classical Theatre in Cleveland in 2016

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For Immediate Release

Contact: Christine McBurney, C0-Artistic Director

mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com

www.mamaitheatreco.org

440.394.8353


Growth has Mamai Theatre Company Poised

for its Fourth Season of

Classical Theatre in Cleveland in 2016


Cleveland, Ohio,  December 9, 2015 — Now in its fourth season, Mamai
Theatre Company <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/> is pleased to announce
exciting growth: additional public and private funding, new General Manager
and Education Associate positions, new youth outreach programming, expanded
adult outreach programming, and a streamlined summer season, June 2 -
September 4, 2016.

Additional Public & Private Support

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture has awarded Mamai a 2016 Project Support grant to
help fund new youth outreach programming. As a second-time recipient of a
CAC grant, Mamai is grateful to the citizens of Cuyahoga County who
overwhelmingly passed Issue 8 which funds many artistic organizations and
artists in Cleveland. Additionally, increased private support from multiple
foundations has enabled Mamai to fund capacity-building initiatives,
including new staff positions. Lastly, Mamai gratefully acknowledges an
increased number of sponsors and donors who stepped up this past year to
support classical theatre in Cleveland.

Introducing New Staff & Youth Education Outreach

Mamai welcomes its first General Manager, Michael Parker, who will manage
operations as of January 1st. Michael is a former board member whose
support of Mamai and familiarity with its mission and programming dates
back to Mamai’s inaugural season. Co-Founder Wendy Kriss returns to staff
as Mamai’s first Education Associate. She will steer the new Mamai Matinee
program conceived by Co-Founder Derdriu Ring, which invites children ages
5-7 to an interactive workshop full of storytelling, movement, music and
visual artwork with new friends. Children will experience a collage of art
activities designed to promote self-expression, comfort and confidence in
the creative process, and the development of collaboration skills. Beginning
in the 2016 season, patrons can register children ages 5-7 for this drama
workshop in an adjacent location while enjoying Mamai’s Sunday 2:30pm
matinee performance. One (1) adult admission is included with child
registration fee. See Mamai’s website for details.

Expanded Adult Outreach

Mamai will expand its adult programming with community reading discussion
events beyond our popular eastside reading and discussion series at the
Beachwood branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library in 2015. Events will be
free and open to the public.

Mamai’s 2016 Benefit - March 7th - One Night Only!

Women on Fire

By Irene O'Garden

Directed by Juliette Regnier

Mamai's benefit features great food and wine at one of Cleveland's most
valued cultural venues, The Maltz Museum <http://www.maltzmuseum.org/>,
followed by a staged reading of Irene O'Garden <https://ireneogarden.com/>'s
WOMEN ON FIRE, featuring some of Northeast Ohio's premiere actresses!

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

2929 Richmond Rd, Beachwood, OH 44122

7:00 pm  ~ Wine and Hors d’oeuvres Reception

      ~ Admission to Museum Galleries

8:00 pm  ~ Staged Reading Performance

Limited Seating! Tickets here
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!women-on-fire---mamai-benefit/c1eh6>!

2016 Venue & Ticket Information

Mamai is thrilled to return downtown to The Cleveland Masonic Performing
Arts Center <http://www.paccleveland.com/>, 3615 Euclid Avenue at E. 36th
Street, with free and ample parking in an onsite gated lot,
air-conditioning, and ADA-accessibility. Mamai will mount all three of its
2016 productions on the beautiful 1920s proscenium stage inside the DeMolay
Room.

Top Girls

By Caryl Churchill

Directed by Jaime Bouvier

June 2-19, 2016

Top Girls transgresses ancient to modern femininity in two distinct acts.
Act One features an imagined restaurant table full of ladies who lunch...
in a time-traveling dialogue from various centuries and cultures in
womankind's history! Act Two is a springboard departure into family drama--
a personal examination of relationships between mother, daughter, sister,
aunt, and friend.


Lady Windermere's Fan

By Oscar Wilde

Directed Bernadette Clemens

July 14-31, 2016

Oscar Wilde fans the flames of Edwardian social change with his typical
adroitness. Comedy and manners offer a tongue-lashing, suspenseful assault
on Victorian values. An attractive stranger invades the domestic bliss of
Lady & Lord Windermere, and her past has the potential to drastically alter
their future. Lord Darlington plays a hand. All bets hinge on chance, fate,
accident... and a fan.


The Woman Hater - U.S. Premiere!

By Fanny Burney

Directed Christine McBurney

August 18-September 4, 2016

An absurdly satirical indictment of the excesses of both men and women,
this 1802 comedy remained unproduced until 2003. When Sir Roderick is
jilted by Lady Smatter, he proclaims himself a woman-hater and is
determined to keep his young heir away from the opposite sex. Identities
are mistaken, social pretensions are deliciously exposed, and the gender
constructs of wifely and daughterly duties are boldly upended — bringing
forth a new kind of heroine.

You can sponsor <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets/cvvh>, join our
mailing list <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets/cvvh> or purchase
tickets <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!three-sisters/cguq> online!

TICKETS:   <http://sic.brownpapertickets.com/>www.mamaitheatreco.org

or 440.394.8353

Adults: $22

Seniors (65 & older): $20

Students (25 & under): $15

Mamai Theatre Company was co-founded in 2010 by Bernadette Clemens, Wendy
Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring. Mamai (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 Mamai 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.

In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamai 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, Mamai Theatre Company
has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre
community."

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.



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