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<font face="arial black, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something magnificent and terrifying. The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Manhattan Project is showing no mercy this September. We're bringing back Michael Laurenty and introducing Keith Marcum, Christopher Johnston and three more writers to the fight.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div><span style="white-space:nowrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Now they need some great Cleveland <span class="">Actors</span> to join us! </span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:nowrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:nowrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please join us to meet and work with some amazing writers on brand new 10-minute plays!</span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:nowrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Meet & Greet </b> will be </font><b>8:00pm September 3</b><font face="georgia,
serif"> in <a href="http://mahalls20lanes.com/" target="_blank">Mahall's</a> Locker Room performance space at <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=strict&q=13224+Madison+Avenue,+Lakewood,+OH&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8830f21d2d65b28f:0x42052cc6bb5456d7,13224+Madison+Ave,+Lakewood,+OH+44107&gl=us&ei=Y7RRUefdNLOC0QHG8YDwBA&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA" target="_blank">13224 Madison Ave in Lakewood</a>.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Performance </b>will be </font> <b><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">8:00pm</span></span> September 30</b><font face="georgia, serif">, also in Mahall's Locker Room.</font></span></div>
</div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:large">What exactly is The </span><span style="font-size:large">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">Project - Cleveland Lab</span><span style="font-size:large">?</span></font></div>
</div><div style="font-size:13px"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for <span class="">actors</span> and playwrights to meet and work together.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland <span class="">actors</span> and playwrights to each other by organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into teams, each with one playwright. The playwright will then be given a writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and including all the team's <span class="">actors</span>. The rest of the evening the team members will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and voices. </font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves. Through these small collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most vulnerable artists in theatre; the <span class="">actors</span> who put themselves on stage and the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page. Perhaps these 10-minute plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become partnerships on larger projects.</font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or just show up at the Meet & Greet on September 3.</font></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div>
<div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an <span class="">actor</span> from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together. Based on experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get these plays on their feet.</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Playwrights are invited in advance of the meet & Greet. If you are interested in writing for a future Manhattan Project please e-mail <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> with the subject line "Playwright Query".</font></li>
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