[NEohioPAL] NEOMFA Playwrights Festival opens this Thurs, Feb 9 at convergence-continuum

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THE 2017 NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL OPENS THIS THURS, FEBRUARY 9 AT
CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM.

TWO WEEKENDS / TWO WORLD-PREMIERE PLAYS BY AREA GRAD-STUDENT
PLAYWRIGHTS.

For the sixth year, convergence-continuum presents the NEOMFA
Playwrights Festival. This year there are two world-premiere plays by
local graduate-student playwrights.  
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.

FEB 9, 10, 11:  THE DARKNESS BY KATIE WALLACE, RENEE SCHILLING AND
ROB DANIELS.  Thu-Sat at 8 pm.  The Darkness is a darkly comic fable
following the travails of Duncan as he journeys through a circus,
suburbia and a sinister office building. Duncan is a believer in The
Light, an organization which may or may not be a cult. As he attempts
to convert human cannonballs and cookie-baking housewives alike, he
discovers the true light may rest in the restorative power of Phil
Collins' songs, pink lemonade and whoopee cushions - but not
necessarily in that order.

FEB 16, 17 18:    SEXUAL POLITICS BY JC CIFRANIC. Thu-Sat at 8
pm.  In Sexual Politics, the Deputy Mayor of Vienna is trying to
clean-up the morals of the city. When Isabella's gay brother is
arrested, she has to rely on unlikely friends to keep him out of jail
in this topical, modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Measure
for Measure.

The 2017 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival opens Thursday, Feb. 9 and runs
at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 18 at
con-con's  Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH
44113.    TICKETS ARE $10 GEN. ADMISSION AND $5 FOR STUDENTS.   
TICKETS AND INFO AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM.ORG OR 216-687-0074.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:  NEOMFA

The Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (NEOMFA) is
a consortium of Cleveland State University, Kent State University, The
University of Akron and Youngstown State University that allows
students to take classes on four different campuses and earn a degree
from a single unified writing program.  Emerging writers may study in
four genres – creative non-fiction, fiction, playwriting, and poetry
– and take advantage of the resources offered on all four
campuses.    Since its inception in 2005, the NEOMFA has offered
small-group workshops, open readings, summer travel fellowships, and
high-profile visiting writers, in addition to career-preparing
internships, competitive graduate funding, and a diverse Midwestern
landscape that tempts the creative eye.  The playwriting program is
centered at Cleveland State University and includes providing MFA
playwrights the opportunity to work with, and to have their works
given full productions by, a professional theatre c
ompany 
during the NEOMFA Playwrights Festival.


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