[NEohioPAL] NEOMFA Playwrights Festival opens Feb 11 at convergence-continuum

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CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM PRESENTS
THE 2016 NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
AT THE LIMINIS THEATER FEBRUARY 11 - 20

convergence-continuum presents four world-premiere plays by local
graduate-student playwrights at the 2016 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The
Festival features two full-length (two-act) plays by final-year MFA
candidates Logan Smith and L. Langford, and two short one-act plays by
second-year grad students JC Cifranic and Samuel Amazing.

Thu-Sat, Feb 11-13 at 8 pm:  A double bill of the 10-minute play:  The
Last Word by JC Cifranic and the two-act The Panther Dancer by Logan Smith

Thu-Sat, Feb 18-20 at 8 pm:  The 20-minute play The Last Stand on Mango
Street by Samuel Amazing, with the two-act .The Split Show by L. Langford.

The Last Word by JC Cifranic is about two hitmen who are conducting
business as usual - until one comment sets off a discussion about an
unmentioned pet peeve. Directed by con-con director Cory Molner and
featuring Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Charles Hargrave and Ryan Mayer.

The Panther Dancer by Logan Smith is a playful synthesis of biographical
fact and tabloid journalism, tracing the arc of Michael Jackson's life by
staging the many mediated images of it.  Michael wanted, in his own
person, to be the greatest show on earth.  And perhaps he was.  And here
Michael's meteoric rise and tragic fall are rendered a sidelong glance in
fast-forward. Directed by con-con’s Clyde Simon and featuring Dave Flynt,
Zac Hudak, Miguel Osborne, Pamela Morton and Monica Zach.

The Last Stand on Mango Street by Samuel Amazing is a twenty-minute,
one-person play following a grocery shop owner as he lives through the
last day of Earth.  Or the first day of the Apocalypse, however you'd like
to look at it. Directed by con-con’s Geoffrey Hoffman and featuring Robert
Branch.

The Split Show by L. Langford explores what happens when compassion and
understanding help shrink the empathy gap. Momdukes is the sassy,
irascible neighbor of the Wilsons, a raucous African-American family
embroiled in domestic dysfunction. The Brusteins are a white, liberal,
NPR-listening, Whole-Foods-loving couple expecting their first child. The
Wilson's and the Brustein's worlds couldn't be further apart—until a
monumental mix-up and a fateful night bring the two families together.
Inspired by actual events in Northeast Ohio. Directed by guest director
Jimmie Woody and featuring Kelly Belle, Nikki Lewis, Leonard Goff, Tamicka
Scruggs, Eric Sever, Gregg White and Kim Woodward.

These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under
playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are
co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine
Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium.  This will be the fifth year
convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space,
the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont
neighborhood.

The 2016 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival opens Thursday, Feb. 11 and runs at 8
p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 20 at the Liminis, 2438
Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113.  Tickets are $10 general and $5 for
students.  Tickets and information at http://convergence-continuum.org or
216-687-0074.
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