<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div 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; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">The Grateful Deadheads, Part 2</span></font></font></font></p></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; ">A </span></font></font><b 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; ">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; "> article by Managing Artistic Director, Benjamin Rexroad, about his experience staying with a couple of "Deadheads" while on the road. <b> Part 2 of 3!</b></span></font></font></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-weight: normal;">Here's a taste:</span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i>“The parking lot was as good as the show,” Matt told us while explaining why the couple sometimes chose not to see the Dead play, instead hanging with friends and strangers outside the venue. Matt told us a story about partying in one of their motor homes. “On the table was a map of the united states. Everyone would sit at the table, point out where they were from and we would have huge conversations about it…We got, like, 18 people in there one time.”</i></span></h6><blockquote type="cite"><div 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; "><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 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></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote>________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">African American Actress Needed for </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Heads Up Productions' "1,000 Hills" as part of CPT's Big [Box] Series</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big [Box] series is hosting Heads Up Productions’ “gripping” <i>1,000 Hills.<span> </span><span>1,000 Hills </span></i>follows three tourists who find themselves in Rwanda just as genocidal violence breaks out.<span> </span>As tensions mount, the tourists have their emotions and morals put to the test.<span> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><span style="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></span><div><div><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> </span>However, all actors are working through Heads Up, not CPT.<span> Rehearsals are Sunday-Wednesday from 7-11 and are held in Akron. </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> </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"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">If you are interested or for questions, please contact Benjamin at 330.990.5138 or at via email at </font><a href="mailto:%20benjamin@headsupproductions.net">benjamin@headsupproductions.net </a> </i></b></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> </span><b>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> </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></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>