<div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:32px;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CONTACT</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.75pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-Artistic Directors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.75pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bernadette Clemens & Christine McBurney</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.75pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:mamaitheatrecocleveland@gmail.com" target="_blank">mamaitheatrecocleveland@gmail.com</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.75pt"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.mamaitheatreco.org</span></a></p><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="tel:216.382.5146" value="+12163825146" target="_blank">216.382.5146</a></span></span><span><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(106,168,79);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<div><span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="49"><col width="729"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:60px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br></td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company opens Season 3 with </span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">downtown venues, resident scenic designer, </span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">& new artistic associate!</span></h1></td></tr><tr style="height:60px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br></td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="79"><col width="657"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br></td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cleveland, Ohio,  October 15, 2014 — Following rapid growth in its inaugural and second seasons, </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> proudly announces Season 2015 which includes a partnered program on February 2, 2015 at Cuyahoga County Library’s Beachwood branch on </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Women in Chekhov</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; a spring benefit hosted at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights on March 29, 2015 featuring an evening of Samuel Beckett and starring the one-and-only Dorothy Silver in </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rockaby</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> directed by Laura Perrotta;</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and culminating with </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí’s </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">subscription series which will offer a global classic, an American classic, and a contemporary thriller that provocatively addresses women’s and civil rights issues. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bernadette Clemens directs Anton Chekhov’s</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Three Sisters</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center, in the rarely-seen DeMolay Room -- a beautiful 1920s proscenium theatre above the large, more commonly used Masonic Auditorium -- June 4-21, 2015. Also in the DeMolay Room, Mitchell Fields will direct Tennessee Williams’ </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Streetcar Named Desire </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July 16-August 2, 2015. Come autumn, new Artistic Associate Katia Schwarz will direct Co-Founding Artistic Associate Derdriu Ring in Ariel Dorfman’s</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Death and the Maiden</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> September 17-October 4, 2015 -- when </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> steps to Playhouse Square to present this intense thriller in the intimate Kennedy’s cabaret.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Three Sisters</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> directed by Bernadette Clemens runs </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 4-21, 2015 </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center - DeMolay Room </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">located at 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> One of Chekhov’s beloved masterpieces, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Three Sisters</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> follows Olga, Masha, and Irina in the first few years after their father’s death as they struggle to let go of their past and shape their future. A domineering sister-in-law, romance, military, and money challenge the Prozorov family’s happiness and unity. With artful depiction of three very different women, Chekhov fascinates audiences with his ability to articulate the chaos or peace of a single moment, the comedy of life’s struggles, and the incredible courage we embrace when leaping forward from a past to which we can never return.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Streetcar Named Desire </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">directed by Mitchell Fields</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, runs </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July 16-August 2, 2015 at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center-the DeMolay Room </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">located at 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pulitzer Prize-winning </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Streetcar Named Desire</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> follows the haggard and fragile southern beauty, Blanche DuBois, as her sudden arrival at her sister’s residence disrupts the marital home of Stella & Stanley Kowalski. Against the shadows and heat of its New Orleans backdrop where “you are practically always just around the corner...from a tinny piano being played,” this major 20th-Century classic erupts with legendary drama as Blanche reaches for a pathetic, last grasp at happiness, while Stanley fights to defend his territory and Stella must choose between sister and husband.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Death and the Maiden </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">directed by Artistic Associate Katia Schwarz runs </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">September 17 - October 4, 2015 at Kennedy’s at Playhouse Square, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. A democratic age is dawning in an unspecified Latin American country. When her husband offers hospitality to a stranger, Paulina, haunted by her past, believes she recognizes their guest’s voice as that of the man who tortured her 15 years earlier. The 48 hours that follow radically alter the lives of all three. This 1991 thriller gave a new voice to women’s survivorship awareness, and is an unforgettable three-handed acting triumph. More, it is a stark reminder of the human rights violations we continue to witness in the world today. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> tickets will be on sale December 2014 at </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.mamaitheatreco.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Unless otherwise noted above, performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:30pm.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2015 Season Kickstarter!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is growing, moving downtown, and adding staff.  We couldn’t have made it to this point without you and we are grateful. Please help us continue to bring intelligent, relevant, classical theatre to Northeast Ohio by donating to our 2015 Season Kickstarter campaign.  Visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525718926/mamai-kickstarts-its-2015-season-chekhov-williams" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;line-height:24px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,160,255);text-decoration:none;white-space:normal" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525718926/mamai-kickstarts-its-2015-season-chekhov-williams</a> October 15-November 15, to learn how you can be a part of our growth!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Staff</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> welcomes Katia Schwarz as Artistic Associate. Katia holds a BA Honors degree in French Language/Literature and Education from Oxford Brookes University, UK. She also holds an MA in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from Chapman University in Orange, California. In the UK she directed Athol Fugard’s </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Place with Pigs</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and assisted on Peter Weiss’s </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marat Sade</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. She also worked behind the scenes on numerous productions and took full advantage of the rich theatre offerings of London and Oxford. In 2014 she served as assistant director on Cleveland’s 2014 AEA Members’ Project Code production of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heartbreak House</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and assisted as dialect coach for Mamái’s benefit production of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ulysses in Nighttown</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Prior to making the decision to return to the world of theatre, Katia taught Spanish and French for a decade, managed a small non-profit, and worked as a grant-writer. She lives in Cleveland Heights with her husband and two young daughters. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> welcomes Resident Scenic Designer, Don McBride. Don has been a theatre designer for many years in the Cleveland area. He has designed for The Beck Center, Dobama Theatre, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Cleveland State University, and others. After teaching in Missouri for several years, Don is very happy to be back in Cleveland and designing all three productions in </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">’s 2015 season after completing the scenic design for Tom Stoppard’s </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arcadia </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in their 2014 season.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">History</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In 2013 </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Plain Dealer </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">announced, “Mamaí Theatre Company...has made a howling entrance onto the city’s artistic scene” and named their inaugural production Medea, a top-10 theatre event of the year.  In 2014 LandofCleve.net added, “In only a few short years, Mamaí Theatre Company has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre community.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company was founded in 2010 by Bernadette Clemens, Wendy Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring.  Mamaí (pronounced </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mah' may</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) is the Gaelic word for “mother.”  Four working mothers, theatre artists, colleagues, and friends arrived at a place where it was time to create opportunities for themselves and their community.  “</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Don’t wait to create</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">” became the inspiration for Mamaí Theatre Company.  Our mission is to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland's theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">                                                                         </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Learn more about us at </span><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mamaí Theatre Company</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Like us on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mamaitheatreco" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">     </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Follow us on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mamaitheatreco" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">###</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br></td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></div>
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