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<p class="MsoNormal">Mamai Theatre Company</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Co-Artistic Directors</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bernadette Clemens & Christine McBurney</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:mamaitheatrecocleveland@gmail.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">mamaitheatrecocleveland@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mamai Theatre Company opens Season 3 with </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">downtown venues, resident scenic designer, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">& new artistic associate!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cleveland, Ohio, October 15, 2014 — Following rapid
growth in its inaugural and second seasons, <a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai Theatre Company</span></a> proudly announces
Season 2015 which includes a partnered program on February 2, 2015 at Cuyahoga
County Library’s Beachwood branch on Women in Chekhov; and culminates with <a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai’s </span></a>subscription series which will
offer a global classic, an American classic, and a contemporary thriller that
provocatively addresses women’s and civil rights issues. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bernadette Clemens directs Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters 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’ A Streetcar Named Desire July 16-August
2, 2015. Come autumn, new Artistic Associate Katia Schwarz will direct
Co-Founding Artistic Associate Derdriu Ring in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the
Maiden September 17-October 4, 2015 -- when <a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai</span></a> steps to Playhouse Square to present
this intense thriller in the intimate Kennedy’s cabaret.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Three Sisters directed by Bernadette Clemens runs June 4-21,
2015 at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center - DeMolay Room located at 3615
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. One of Chekhov’s beloved masterpieces, Three
Sisters 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Mitchell Fields, runs July
16-August 2, 2015 at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center-the DeMolay Room located
at 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar
Named Desire 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Death and the Maiden directed by Artistic Associate Katia
Schwarz runs September 17 - October 4, 2015 at Kennedy’s at Playhouse Square, 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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai Theatre
Company</span></a> tickets will be on sale December 2014 at <a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.mamaitheatreco.org</span></a>. Unless otherwise
noted above, performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays
at 2:30pm. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Season Kickstarter!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai</span></a>
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"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525718926/mamai-kickstarts-its-2015-season-chekhov-williams</span></a>
October 15-November 5, to learn how you can be a part of our growth!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New Staff</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai</span></a>
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 Place with Pigs and assisted on Peter Weiss’s Marat Sade.
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 Heartbreak House and assisted as dialect coach for Mamái’s
benefit production of Ulysses in Nighttown. 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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai</span></a>
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 <a href="http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Mamai</span></a>’s 2015 season after completing the
scenic design for Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia in their 2014 season.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">History</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamai 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 <a href="http://landofcleve.net/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">LandofCleve.net</span></a> added, “In
only a few short years, Mamai Theatre Company has established themselves as a
major player in the Cleveland theatre community.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mamai Theatre Company was founded in 2010 by Bernadette
Clemens, Wendy Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring. Mamai
(pronounced Mah' may) 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. “Don’t
wait to create” became the inspiration for Mamai 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:9pt">*Actor appears courtesy of
Actors’ Equity</span> <span style="font-size:9pt">Association</span>.
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