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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Join Cleveland Public Theatre and Cleveland Public Library
for a special event in conjunction with CPT's World Premiere presentation of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Aperture</span></i>. This Saturday, March 7th at
2:00pm, Cleveland Public Library will host a conversation with playwright Sean
Christopher Lewis and director Craig J. George. Actors Heather Anderson Boll
and Isaiah Isaac will also present a scene from the play. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Saturday, March 7th, 2:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cleveland</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Public
Library<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Literature Department (2nd floor of the Main Library)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cleveland</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">OH</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>The Aperture</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> takes
audiences on a wild journey that explores <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s fetishizing of global
turbulence, violence and race. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Aperture</span></i>
follows the story of a beautiful American photographer and her unlikely
subject, a former boy soldier from <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. In this
world premiere production, two actors play six parts in an energetic and
insightful expose. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Aperture</span></i>
is onstage in the James Levin Theatre from March 13 - March 28 (Paid Preview
March 13, Opening Night March 14). For more information or to purchase tickets
to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Aperture</span></i>, please visit <a
href="http://www.cptonline.org/">www.cptonline.org</a> or call 216.631.2727.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>About
the Playwright: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS is the inaugural recipient of the
Rosa Parks Award for Social Justice in Playwriting from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Kennedy</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
A former NNPN Emerging Playwright in Residence at InterAct Theatre in
Philadelphia, he has toured his critically lauded solo shows I WILL MAKE YOU
ORPHANS (Uno Festival of Solo Performance, Available Light 01 Festival, Equinox
Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Center for Independent Artists, Galapagos Art
Space, Hyde Park Theatre, TIXE Arts Center, Bowery Poetry Club) and THE GONE
CHAIR (Penn State University’s Cultural Conversations Festival, Openstage
Harrisburg’s Flying Solo Festival, Riverside Theatre).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>His other plays include MILITANT LANGUAGE (National Premiere
at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Halcyon Theatre of Chicago, Bang and Clatter in <st1:City
w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:City> and Theater for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">New City</st1:City></st1:place> in NY) and THE APERTURE (Cleveland
Public Theatre). He has been a playwriting fellow at the O’Neill
Playwrights Conference and has had his work developed at the PlayPenn New Play
Conference, Lark New Play Development Center, Orlando Shakespeare
Festival’s Harriet Lake Festival of New Work and at the National Center
for New Plays at Stanford University.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>About
the Director:<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CRAIG J. GEORGE:</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Directing credits include: Off-Broadway:
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Taming of the Shrew</span></i> (The Duke on <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">42<sup>nd</sup> Street</st1:address></st1:Street>).
Regional: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>M4M </span></i>(Cleveland
Public Theatre); <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story</span></i>
(Michael Weller Theater, NYC); <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Twelfth Night</span></i>;
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Much <st1:City w:st="on">Ado</st1:City>
About Nothing </span></i>(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City>
Shakespeare Festival<i><span style='font-style:italic'>); Macbeth </span></i>(Harold
Clurman Theater, NYC<i><span style='font-style:italic'>), The Higher Education
of Khalid Amir</span></i> (Midtown International Theater Festival, NYC)<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. </span></i>Currently in development<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>: American Pastime </span></i>(the Curt Flood
story)<i><span style='font-style:italic'>, Lighter </span></i>(a new Broadway
musical-satire about the diet industry)<i><span style='font-style:italic'>,
Tower Five </span></i>(by Iraqi war veteran Michael Reyes)<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. </span></i>Other theaters worked at include
South Coast Repertory, George Street Playhouse and Penguin Repertory<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. </span></i>MFA from UC Irvine<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> </span></i>and member of AEA and SSDC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mindy Herman</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Communications Director</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cleveland Public Theatre</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>6415 Detroit Ave.</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:mherman@cptonline.org">mherman@cptonline.org</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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