<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy">For Immediate Release</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText3" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">For additional
information contact: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Neil
Thackaberry (330) 374-7568</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:Arial">Akron</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Arial">, Ohio
</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial">Actors’ Summit Announces</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#cc0000"><font size="6">BULLY</font><font size="5"></font></font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial"><font color="#cc0000">An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt</font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial">Cast & Creative
Team</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="DefaultText"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Actors’ Summit,
Akron’s Equity
professional theater, has announced the creative team for <b><i>BULLY, An Adventure with Teddy
Roosevelt</i></b> by Jerome Alden. The
play will have a three week run at Greystone Hall in downtown Akron from January 19 through February 5. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">The Director</font></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#3333ff">Peter Voinovich</font></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial">, a long time member of the
company will be directing his first full length play for Actors’ Summit. Peter was a member of the directing team
responsible for last year’s comic success, <b><i>Romantic Fools</i></b>. </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Previous
acting roles at Actors' Summit
include: <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>,
<i>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf</i>, <i>Glass Menagerie</i>, <i>She Stoops to Conquer, </i>and<i> Tuesdays with Morrie</i>. Peter graduated
from Ohio University with a B.F.A. He has
also performed at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland
and the Strawdog Theatre Company in Chicago.
</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">The Design Team</font></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Scene Design</font></span></u></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;background:white">Rory Wohl </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;background:white">joins the creative team at Actors’ Summit for the first
time.<b>
</b>Rory attended Ohio
University with Peter
Voinovich and has worked professionally as both a theater technician and scenic
designer.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="4"><u><span style="font-family:Arial;background:white">Costume
& Prop Design</span></u><u><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.4pt"></span></u></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">MaryJo
Alexander</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial">
has designed costumes for all 105 productions at Actors’ Summit.
In addition to her work at Actors’ Summit
where she is the Co-artistic Director, she has designed for Ensemble Theater,
Dobama Theater, Stan Hywet, and Weathervane. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Lighting Design </font></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Kevin
Rutan </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial">is a
member of IATSE Local 48. Kevin has
worked at a number of area theaters including TRI-C, Beck
Center and here at Actors’ Summit where he has
created lighting designs for <i>Romantic
Fools</i>, <i>A Grand Night for Singing</i>,
<i>Five Course Love,</i> and <i>Woody Guthrie’s American Song</i>.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Sound Design</font></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Daniel
Taylor</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial">
recently completed his degree in technical theater at Kent State University. Daniel has worked as a member of the Actors’ Summit company in a
number of capacities including as an actor, set technician, sound designer, and
lighting designer. In addition to his
theater activities, Daniel is a sound engineer with Woodsy’s Music.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">The Actor</font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Creating Teddy Roosevelt will be the founder and
artistic co-director of Actors’ Summit,
<font color="#3333ff">Neil Thackaberry</font>. This will be the
fourth one man show that Thackaberry has performed. His previous solo performances have included the
comedy <i>Fully Committed</i>, and three
plays based on the lives of John Brown, Richard Feynman, and Clarence Darrow.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">In addition to his work at Actors’ Summit, Neil has performed at the Cleveland
Play House, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Oberlin Summer Theater Festival, and
Ensemble Theatre. He is a member of
Actors’ Equity. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Ticket Prices</font></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Individual ticket
prices range from $19 at preview performances and the Saturday matinee on
Saturday, January 28th to $30 for Friday and Saturday evenings. All full time students with ID can attend any
performance for $9. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Remainder of the Season
subscriptions starting at $70 for five shows are still available. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Tickets</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Arial;background:white"><br>
Season Subscriptions <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">can be purchased by phone at
(330) 374-7568. </span></strong></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="4">Web site</font></span></u></b></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><font size="4">Actors’
Summit Theater can be found on the web at <u><a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a></u>. </font></span></strong></h2>