<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Dear Cleveland Theatre Professionals,</DIV>
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<DIV>Will you help mount my new play, "Moratorium", with me? <BR> <BR>When I was 14, I watched news reports in my hometown of Cleveland of a 10-year-old girl, Amy Mihaljevic, who had been kidnapped. This went on for four months before they found her body. She had been murdered. That was 20 years ago. <BR> <BR>Two years ago, I read an artice in the newspaper about this girl and her cold case, still unsolved. It frustrated me. That same summer, as I lay falling asleep, a full-grown spirit of this girl visited me, and whispered something in my ear. Was it a trick of my mind? I wasn't so sure. <BR> <BR>Weeks later, I flew for the first time to New York City, with a connecting flight in Philly. I rode the shuttle across the airport, and noticed a young kid sitting in front of me, wearing a black baseball cap. On his neck was a black tattoo of the word
"Amy", with wings sprawling out from each side of it. Gave me chills. <BR> <BR>When I got to New York, I wrote the first draft of my play, about her ghost. I have had a couple of readings since then, in both New York and Cleveland, and polished it to a point with which I am most comfortable getting it to a stage for a full production. It is conclusive, tributary, and about the relationships between those dealing with the loss. I have dedicated it to the memory of Amy Mihaljevic, although it does not by any means isolate itself to her case. Still, Cleveland, as a possible premiering venue for the play, may be too close to the actual case, which is why I write you for your help. <BR> <BR>Eight characters comprise the ensemble of the play, two of whom are Morgan, the ghost: one to be played in Acts 1 & 2 by a woman in her upper 20s, the other to be played in Acts 2 & 3 by a ten year old
actress. The production design is minimalist. <BR> <BR>Would you be interested in helping to mount this for me?<BR> <BR>Sincerely,<BR> <BR>Michael A. Norton<BR>Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.<BR>(216) 381-9565<BR></DIV></td></tr></table><br>