<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Garamond;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Karamu <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_4">Performing Arts Theatre is looking for Stagemanagers for the 2009/10
Season</span> of</font><b style=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Accountability</font></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">MAINSTAGE</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UDINE (Satirical Comedy/Midwest
Premier)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">By <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_5">Lynn Nottage</span> </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_6">Caroline Jackson
Smith</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_7">September 18 – October 11, 2009</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">From the playwright of
the hot <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_8">Pulitzer Prize</span> winning <i style="">Ruined, </i>comes<i style=""> </i>her satirical hit about20an ambitious
and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband
suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the
brink of social and financial ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home in
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_9">Brooklyns Walt Whitman projects</span>, only to discover that she must cope with a
crude new reality. Undine faces the challenge of transforming her setbacks into
small victories in a battle to reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a
comeuppance tale with a comic twist.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">YELLOWMAN (Drama/Ohio
Premier)</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">By <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_10">Dael Orlandersmith</span> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir: Fred Sternfeld</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_11">October 30 – November
22, 2009</span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Mr. Sternfeld, former JCC
artistic director, comes to Karamu to direct this absorbing two character </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>Pulitzer Prize
nominated </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">drama- </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">runner up to
TopDog/UnderDog- and winner of the Susan Blackburn Award in 2002. It was first
workshopped at the Sundance Theatre Lab.<i style="">
Yellowman </i>is an edgy and provocative exploration of intra-racism within the
Black community and it’s</span> unflinching look at its ugly legacy. <span style="font-family: Garamond;">Orlandersmith is widely
regarded as one of the most important new poetic voices in America today and belongs to a
daring new generation of women writing for the stage.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">NUTCRACKER
RELOADED (Musical)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Adaptation
by Desiree Parkman</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir.
Desiree Parkman</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_12">December
4 – December 27, 2009</span></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Former Broadway dancer and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_13">Radio City Music Hall</span> Rockette,
Desiree Parkman brings her own riff of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_14">The Nutcracker</span> to Karamu’s stage titled <i style=""><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_15">Nutcracker</span> Reloaded. Nutcracker Reloaded </i><span style=""> </span>is an urban rete
lling of the classic tale with
a cast of over fifty teens and adults. Travel with Naima as she and the
Nutcracker journey to the Land
of Beats where break
dancers, krumpers, hip hop dancers, Spanish, Asian and African dancers
entertain. Great for the whole family and sure to be a holiday classic!<span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"></span></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">THE GREAT WHITE
HOPE by <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_16">Howard Sackler</span> (Historical Drama)</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir. Terrence
Spivey</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">February 12 –
March 17, 2010 (Karamu Jelliffe Theatre)</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">April 1 – April
18, 2010 (Weathervane Playhouse) </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Set in the early 1900s,<span style="">&nb
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</span><em><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_17">The Great White Hope</span> </em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></em> loosely based on the life of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_18">African
American boxer</span> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_19">Jack Johnson</span>, renamed Jack Jefferson in the story. After
becoming the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world in 1908, the play
follows his <span class="listauthor"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">tumultuous career and</span></span><em> </em>explores
the nature of racism and racial conflict in American society. I<span style="font-family: Garamond;">n collaboration
with Weathervane Playhouse and <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_20">Ensemble Theatre</span> comes one of the most dynamic
plays ever written for the American stage. <span class="listauthor"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_21">The Great
White Hope</span> won the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_22">Drama Desk Award</span> for Best Drama.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">ECLIPSE: THE
WAR AGAINST TUPAC SHAKUR </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">By Michael
Oatman</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir. Terrence Spivey</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">March 26 – April 18, 2010</span></b><b style=""><span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Local playwright Michael Oatman’s thought provoking piece
first read at Fusion Festival and work shopped on stage through Ghostlight
Series with great media attention last Spring, hits the stage once again in a
reworked, three character drama between Tupac and Biggie Smalls as it examines
the last two days of the rapster's life as he meets with his rival (aka the
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_23">Notorious B.I.G</span>.).</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">CLOSURE (Play
with Multimedia /World Premier)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">By Mary Weems, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Images By RA Washington </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Dir. Terrence
Spivey</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">May 13 – June 6, 2010</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style=""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">“Closure,” inspired by the images of20local,
poet/photographer, </span><span class="listauthor"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">RA Washington</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">., is a multi-media experience with an infusion of
blues and jazz, shared through a series of writings by Ms. Weems, local
playwright/poet, that explores the impact of the foreclosure crisis,
homelessness and tragic phenomenon resulting from the real estate melt down in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_24">Cleveland</span> , urban and suburban America . </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">18<sup>TH</sup> ANNUAL R. JOYCE WHITLEY ARENA
FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">April 23 – May 2, 2010 </span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Garamond;">YOUTH
THEATRE/YOUNG ADULT THEATRE SERIES</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_25">November
7 – November 22, 2009</span></span></b></span></div>
<div class="M soNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">THE
SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS (Revival)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="">By Linda Daugherty</b><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Back by popular<span style="">
</span>demand. <i style="">The The Secret Life of
Girls</i> is based on the interviews with girls on the giving and receiving end
of bullying. The play highlights the impact of "cyberbullying," the
facilitation of mean-spirited behaviors through the use of cell phones, text
and instant messaging, e-mail and chat rooms.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">January
9 – January 24, 2010</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="">A<span style=""> </span>SOLITARY VOICE: Incidents in the Life of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_26">Bass
Reeves</span> (Historical Drama/World Premier)</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="">By Michael Oatman<span style="">
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_27">Bass Reeves</span>, the first <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250525899_28">African
American</span> U.S. Deputy Marshal, that m</span>any scholars consider to be one of
the most outstanding frontier heroes in United States history and<span style=""> </span>the most feared,<span style="color: black;"> must
retrieve his own son who is wanted for murdering his wife. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">May
22- June 6, 2010</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="listauthor"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">LIAR!
LIAR! </span></b></span><b style="">A Moral Musical
For Children ( Midwest Premier)</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="text"><b style="">Book/lyrics
by James V. Hatch and music by Sam Rahpling<br><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="5"><br></font><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="5">For more info, please call 216.795.7070 ext 236 or send your resume to rmorrisjr@sbcglobal.net.</font><br><br><br></b></span></div><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="mailto:rmorris@karamu.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rmorris@karamu.com"><span id="lw_1250525497_5"><span class="yshortcuts"></span></span></a>
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