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<![endif]--><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
JUNE 24, 2012<br>
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Press Contacts:<br>
Sergio Iriarte<br>
(330) 701-0814<br>
siriarte@neo.rr.com<br>
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</font></font><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
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minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span>
<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><strong> </strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">THEATRE 8:15 ANNOUNCES READING OF DUSTIN LANCE
BLACK’S NEW PLAY “8”</span></strong><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
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</span><em><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Theatre 8:15 Joins Nationwide Productions
of Landmark Marriage Equality Play by Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter of Milk
& J. Edgar</span></em></div>
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Ohio </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">–<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> Theatre 8:15, </b>with
license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway
Impact, is proud to announce a one-night-only reading of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">“8,”</i> a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal
constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, written by Academy
Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black. </span></div>
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">” is an
unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial in <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Perry v. Schwarzenegger</span></em> (now<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin"> Perry v. Brown</span></em>), the case filed by AFER to overturn
Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom
to marry.<br>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Black, who penned the Academy
Award-winning feature film <i>Milk </i>and the film <i>J. Edgar</i>,
based <i>“8”</i> on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand
observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and
their families. </span></span></div>
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">The
performance will be held on Saturday, July 14<sup>th</sup> at Theatre 8:15,
4740 Massillon Road in Green. Curtain time is<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>8:15 pm. The performance will be followed by a talk-back with the cast
and community members. Tickets are $5.00</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8”</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"> had its much-heralded Broadway world premiere on September 19, 2011,
at the sold-out Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City. The production brought
in over $1 million to support AFER’s efforts to achieve full federal marriage
equality.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8”</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"> had its West Coast premiere reading at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on
Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Los Angeles. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The West Coast premiere reading of <i>“8”</i>
featured an all-star cast led by Golden Globe Award-winner and Academy and Emmy
Award-nominee Brad Pitt as United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker;
and Academy and Golden Globe Award-winner and Emmy Award-nominee George Clooney
and Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner Martin Sheen as Plaintiffs’ lead
co-counsel David Boies and Theodore B. Olson. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The benefit reading was directed by AFER
Founding Board Member Rob Reiner, and raised more than $2 million for the fight
to secure full federal marriage equality.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"> </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">“People
need to witness what happened in the Proposition 8 trial, if for no other
reason than to see inequality and discrimination unequivocally rejected in a
court of law where truth and facts matter,” said AFER Founding Board Member
Dustin Lance Black. “The goal of <i>‘8’</i> is to show the world that
marriage equality is a basic constitutional right. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The facts are on our side and truth always
finds the light. AFER and Broadway Impact are doing all we can to help
speed that process along.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <br>
<br>
Throughout 2012, AFER and Broadway Impact are licensing <i>“8”</i> for free to
colleges and community theatres nationwide in order to spur action, dialogue
and understanding. Most productions will be followed by a talkback where
cast and audience members can discuss the issues presented in the <i>Perry v.
Schwarzenegger</i> trial.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The story for </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8”</span></em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> is framed
by the trial’s historic closing arguments in June 2010, and features the best
arguments and testimony from both sides. Scenes include flashbacks to
some of the more jaw-dropping moments of trial, such as the admission by the
Proposition 8 supporters’ star witness, David Blankenhorn, that “we would be
more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day
before.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">On February 7, 2012, the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a landmark decision upholding the
historic August 2010 ruling of the Federal District Court that found
Proposition 8 <u>unconstitutional</u>. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
Ninth Circuit concluded:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to
lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to
officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of
opposite-sex couples. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Constitution
simply does not allow for laws of this sort.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">For ticket information, call Theatre
8:15 at </span>330-896-0339 or go to <a href="http://www.theatre815.com">www.theatre815.com</a>.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="color:
#FFCC99"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">For information on how your local
theater can produce <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8</span></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">,</span></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">”</span></strong> visit: </span><a href="http://www.8theplay.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">www.8theplay.com</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></div>
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Follow <strong><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">“8”</span></strong>on
Twitter: </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=866141&destination=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%23%21%2F8theplay"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">@8theplay</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> or on </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=&msgid=0&act=11111&c=866141&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2F8-the-Play%2F139474492802776%23%21%2Fpages%2F8-the-Play%2F139474492802776%3Fsk%3Dwall"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Facebook</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">.</span></div>
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;line-height:
normal" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">###</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;line-height:
normal" align="center"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;line-height:
normal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">ABOUT THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR EQUAL RIGHTS</span></strong><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align:center;line-height:
normal" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The American Foundation for Equal
Rights is the sole sponsor of </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Perry v. Brown<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">, the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8.
After bringing together Theodore B. Olson and David Boies to lead its legal
team, AFER successfully advanced the </i>Perry<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> case through Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals. The Foundation is committed to achieving full federal marriage
equality for all Americans.<span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><br>
</span></i></span><a href="http://www.AFER.org"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">www.AFER.org</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">ABOUT
BROADWAY IMPACT</span></strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Broadway Impact is a grassroots organization of the theatre
community and its fans mobilized in support of marriage equality. In direct
response to the passage of California’s Proposition 8 in November 2008, Tony
Award-nominees Rory O'Malley (The Book of Mormon) and Gavin Creel (HAIR) and
Production Coordinator Jenny Kanelos founded Broadway Impact to engage the
theatre community in the fight for marriage equality. Recent initiatives
include: contributing to phone bank efforts to win marriage equality in New
York State; creating an awareness program that led to a 3,000 piece letter
writing campaign; facilitating the attendance of 1,400 supporters to the
National Equality March in Washington, D.C.; and producing a rally for over
5,000 attendees in Midtown Manhattan. Broadway Impact is now committed to
bringing “8,” a play about Proposition 8 written by Academy Award-winner Dustin
Lance Black, to university and community theatres across the country in order
to inspire dialogue, understanding and action concerning marriage equality.
Broadway Impact was the recipient of the 2009 Human Rights Campaign Community
Award and proudly operates under the entity of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS.</span></em><br>
</span></i><a href="http://www.BROADWAYIMPACT.com"><i><span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">www.BROADWAYIMPACT.com</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin"> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></div>
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