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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">REGIONAL PREMIERE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">presents<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">SEMINAR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">by Theresa Rebeck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Directed by Donald Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">May 30 – June 29, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Studio Theater<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets online with a credit card, click
<a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER">
<span style="color:blue">here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets from the Beck Center Box Office after 10:00 am, call: 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT THE SHOW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nominated as Best Play by the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama League,
<i>Seminar</i> is a new provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee <b>Theresa Rebeck</b>. This play tells the story of four aspiring novelists who sign up for private writing lessons with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant
and unorthodox instruction, some thrive while others flounder. Wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious in this biting comedy.
<i>The New York Times</i> praised <i>Seminar </i>for its<i> “</i>big laughs,” and described the play as “an authentic rush of pleasure!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Seminar</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is directed by
<b>Donald Carrier</b>, <span style="color:black">the Associate Director for the Case Western Reserve University/CPH MFA Acting Program.
</span>“<i><span style="color:black">Seminar</span></i><span style="color:black"> is ostensibly a play about writers, but it is applicable to the lives of any creative person,” remarked Carrier, whose career as an actor includes nine seasons at the Stratford
Festival and three seasons at the Old Globe. “It captures the competitive aspect of artists at work in a comedic and profound way, and provides the audience with a window into the rigor and discipline involved in the creative process.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The cast of five talented area actors includes
<b>Scott Plate </b>(Leonard)<b> </b>and<b> Lara Knox </b>(Kate)<b> </b>who appear courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association. Plate,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">an award-winning actor, has appeared at Beck Center in collaboration with Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre Program in the critically-acclaimed productions of
<i>Spring Awakening</i> and <i>Next to Normal</i>.<span style="color:black"> Knox,</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
</span><span style="color:black">a seven year company member with the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, holds numerous local and regional acting and teaching credits.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tickets for
<i>Seminar </i>are $29 for adults, $26 for seniors (65 and older), and $12 for students (with valid ID). An additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview Night on Thursday, May 29, is $10 with general admission seating. Group
discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">beckcenter.org</span></a> or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540 x10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s production of
<i>Seminar</i> is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Programming at Beck Center for the Arts is made possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council and the generous<span style="color:black"> funding provided by the citizens
of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Celebrating its 80th anniversary, Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions on two stages,
arts education programming for all ages and abilities, including Creative Arts Therapies for individuals with special needs, outreach education, and free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cast of Characters
<i>(In Order of Appearance)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Douglas – Brian Gale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Martin – Andrew Gombas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kate – Lara Knox*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Izzy – Aily Roper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Leonard – Scott Plate*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Actor appears courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association (AEA), the union of actors and stage managers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Production Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Artistic Director - Scott Spence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Director - Donald Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stage Manager – Becky Adams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assistant Stage Manager – Cameron Cerny<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scenic Designer – Cameron Caley Michalak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lighting Designer – Trad A Burns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sound Designer - Cyrus O. Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Director – Joseph Carmola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Assistant - Dan Folino<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wardrobe Mistress – Jenniver Sparano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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