<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">A Thought for the Summer Serians</span></font></b></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; "><b></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">A </span></font></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">NEW</span></font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "> essay by Managing Artistic Director, Benjamin Rexroad, about our experience devising new work. </span></font></font></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">It wasn't always easy. :-)</span></font></font></span></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><b><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><i>"July’s Summer Series was met with disdain by some of our company
members. They felt we were talking down to the crowd. They felt we
were badgering the audience for donations. They felt we were plugging
our own stuff too often. They felt the actors worked on characters they
didn’t like. They felt it didn’t fully represent “our” art."</i></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></b></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; "><b><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Continue reading about the artistic journey at </span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">www.headsupproductions.net</span></font></a></font></p></b></blockquote></body></html>