<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Head Up Productions Announces Auditions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Calibri">for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">1,000 Hills</i> by India Burton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">As part of Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big [Box] Series</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big [Box] series is hosting Heads Up Productions’ “gripping” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">1,000 Hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">1,000 Hills </span></i>follows three tourists who find themselves in Rwanda just as genocidal violence breaks out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As tensions mount, the tourists have their emotions and morals put to the test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">With genocide as a backdrop, the show asks the question: What are our responsibilities to each other in a time of crisis? </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Auditions for the play will take place in the Balch Street Theatre (home of CATAC and New World Performance Laboratory) located at 220 S. Balch St. in Akron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The auditions will be held on Wednesday, November 2 beginning promptly at 8 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Come prepared with an open mind and ready to move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you’re planning to attend the auditions email </span><a href="mailto:info@headsupproductions.net"><span style="font-family:Calibri">info@headsupproductions.net</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri"> with your name, resume and a favorite photo of yourself. No other preparation is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Actors of ALL ethnicities are encouraged to audition.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you would like to be considered for a role, but are unable to attend please email at the above address to set up an individual meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The company is also seeking a stage manager who can play the djembe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Performances will be held January 19-21 in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Levin Theatre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, all actors are working through Heads Up, not CPT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Benjamin Rexroad, Heads Up Productions’ Managing Artistic Director, is directing the production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benjamin trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company during their 2010 summer intensive and won the 2011 Akron Arts Alive Award in the Rising Young Star/Leadership category.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The centerpiece of CPT's season, Big Box provides local artists with the opportunity to create and produce new work. Over seven weeks, Big Box includes eleven world premiere workshop showings of theatre, dance, music and genre-defying performances.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Heads Up Productions is a theatre company based out of Akron, Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Heads Up Productions is an ensemble of young professionals who are seeking other artists who share our vision for creating theatre that stimulates and challenges both the audience and ourselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b>For more information visit the company’s website: </span><a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net"><span style="font-family:Calibri">www.headsupproductions.net</span></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>