<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span id="internal-source-marker_0.437792279291898" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: January 14</span><span style="font-size: 9px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2013<br>From: Muhammad Daud<br class="kix-line-break">M: 330-347-0999</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: right; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: bold;">Embargo: For immediate release</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovative solo-play ‘FOR PROFIT’ takes on Student Loan Debt Crisis</span><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cleveland, OH</span><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:
pre-wrap;">The multi-city tour of Aaron Calafato’s new play </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘For Profit’</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will be presented at select colleges, universities and conferences beginning January 21, 2013. His performances will be followed by a special post-show panel discussion to provide a platform where issues regarding the student debt crisis can be discussed in detail.</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;
background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tour begins with a performance at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with an MLK Observance, titled “Debt and Inequality: The Relevance of King’s Forgotten Economics Message.” Subsequent performances are scheduled for The College of Wooster, St. John Fisher College, Association of Practical and Professional Ethics and Jumpstart State Wide Financial Literacy Conference to name a few. </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Months into his job moonlighting as an admissions
counselor at a for-profit college, solo-actor Aaron Calafato began to go increasingly conflicted. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Caught between his personal values and the corporate values of his employer, Mr. Calafato wrote the first sketches of the play ‘For Profit’ in his lunch hours. Today, he is performing the play across the country on college campuses and in major city theaters.” </span></span><br><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘For Profit’</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has been called </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“a vibrant solo-portrayal of the exploitation of the American college student”</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and is told through the lens of an unwilling admissions adviser at a for-profit institution in an extremely innovation fashion. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chronicle of Education </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">said, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The
play blends theatrical techniques of storytelling and acting, in tradition of the late monologist Spalding Gray” </span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Calafato also wants to put emphasis on staging numerous shows in his home state of Ohio, which ranks 7th in the nation with student loan debt, with graduates owing an average of about $27,700.00</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px;
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Calafato says the mission of the tour “is to educate, inform, and create social dialogue about the national student debt crisis.”</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aaron is a recipient of 2012 Emerging Artist Grant from The Puffin Foundation. His work has been profiled in </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Huffington Post, The Chronicle, The Fiscal TImes, TheHill, Washington Monthly</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Campus Progress</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and on NPR and WEWS-TV in Cleveland.</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';
font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, or booking please visit </span><a href="http://www.aaroncalafato.com/"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.aaroncalafato.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or call 330-347-0999.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>