<div dir="ltr"><span style><br></span><div><span style><br></span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style face="arial black, sans-serif">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-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font style face="arial black, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style>The Manhattan Project gets scary this October with longer plays by fewer playwrights. Katie Walker, Tom Hayes, Mike Geither return to write haunting plays of terror.<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br></span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Now we need some great Cleveland Actors to join us! </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Please join us to meet and work with some amazing writers on brand new <b>15</b>-minute plays!</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Meet & Greet </b> will be </font><b>8:00pm October 7</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>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Performance </b>will be </font> <b>8:00pm October 28</b><font face="georgia, serif">, on Mahall's Main Stage.</font></span></div>
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<span style><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font style face="arial black, sans-serif"><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-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style><br></span></div><div><font style face="georgia, serif">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.</font></div>
<div><font style face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font style face="georgia, serif">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 actors and playwrights to each other by organizing a monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays. </font></div>
<div><font style face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font style face="georgia, serif">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 actors. 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 style face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font style face="georgia, serif">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div>
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<div><font style face="georgia, serif">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 actors 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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</span></div><div><font style color="#222222" face="georgia, serif">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 October 7.</font></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><div><font style face="georgia, serif">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div>
<div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font style face="georgia, serif">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 style face="georgia, serif">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font style face="georgia, serif">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 style face="georgia, serif">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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