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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoBodyText3">Weathervane Playhouse Presents</p><p class="MsoBodyText3">World Premiere of New Play “Crazy Man”</p><p class="MsoBodyText2" align="center" style="text-align:center">Frank, Gritty Drama
Examining American Racial and Class Divisions</p><p class="MsoBodyText2" align="center" style="text-align:center">Is Staged in Weathervane’s
Intimate Dietz Theater</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Weathervane Playhouse’s 80<sup>th</sup> season continues
with the world-premiere production of a gritty and uncompromisingly frank new
play entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crazy Man </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> which takes the form of “an urban fable” to examine the
tenuous racial bonds that both bind and divide the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Set in a so-called “post-racial” America, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crazy Man</i> depicts the incredible journey
of John, an upper-middle-class black professional accused of beating a white
bicycle messenger to death.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Into this stew of race and class is added a neighborhood
pest in the form of a mentally ill homeless man, who is despised by John for
his mere existence. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crazy Man</i>,
audiences will witness what makes one man erupt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Weathervane Playhouse’s world-premiere production of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crazy Man</i> is directed by Jennifer Kay
Jeter and is presented with the generous sponsorship support of Margaret J.
Dietz.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext">Crazy Man
</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext">Performance and Ticket
Information</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Crazy Man
</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; ">plays for 10 performances in Weathervane Playhouse’s John L. Dietz
Theater between Jan. 14 and 24, 2015. (The Dietz Theater is Weathervane
Playhouse’s intimate, 48-seat “second stage” within its Weathervane Lane
facility.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Performance days and times are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 p.m. Additionally,
there will be one Saturday matinee on Jan. 24 at 2:30 p.m.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Tickets for all performances
of the play are $21 each. Tickets for college students are $5 each. The 48-seat
Dietz Theater features general-admission seating only. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Due to its strong, adult
language and mature themes, the play is not suitable for children.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">For tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office at 330-836-2626 or connect
online at <a href="http://www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com">www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Crazy Man</i> Cast</font></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">TYSON
SEBREE -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">DANEA
RHODES -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JASEN J.
SMITH -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">NICOLAS
WALKER -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Crazy Man / Elam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">NICHOLE
STRONG -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Ms. Lewis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">AIMEE LAMBES -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Sara<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JERMAINE
HARRIS -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Akil / Skills<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">DEANDRE
HAIRSTON-KARIM -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Twon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">EULA
"BILL" ROBERTS -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Frederick / Black Business Man / Cowlings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JIM HAGAN -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Guard / White Business Man<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">TYLER
PERREN -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Spencer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">The<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> Crazy Man </i>Creative Team</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JENNIFER
KAY JETER -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Director, Sound Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">ALEX BRISKI -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Stage Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">ARMANI
WHITING -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Assistant Stage Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">ERIN KATZ
FORD -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Lighting Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">HANNAH
VINOGRAD -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Properties Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JENNIFER
KAY JETER -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Sound Co-Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">JASEN J.
SMITH -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Costume Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">ALAN
SCOTT FERRALL -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Scenic Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">KATHY
KOHL -- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Assistant Technical Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">JONATHON HUNTER -- Assistant Technical Director</font></p>
<h3><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">About the Show’s Director</span><span style="color: windowtext; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">: </font></span></b></em></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Trained
as a performance artist, <b>JENNIFER KAY JETER</b> will often collaborate with
traditional artists or with non-traditional partners including social-service
organizations to create curriculum, programming, and theatrical works in order
to spotlight societal concerns such as homelessness, addiction and sexual
abuse. This Ohio native is an advocate of the arts. Jeter works in educational,
community and professional theater. Her thesis, entitled "The Rites of
Being: An Analytical Review of Performance Art," was an attempt to
legitimize the abstract art form of performance art. As a Social Artist, she
continues to develop art constructions that address the changing needs of the
community. Jeter creates commentary through her photography, writing,
directing, painting and/or a combination of select media. Concentrating
primarily on African American theatre, Jeter’s past directing credits include <i>Black
Girl</i>, <i>The Amen Corner</i>, <i>for colored girls who have considered
suicide / when the rainbow is enuf</i>, <i>On Striver’s Row</i>, <i>Crowns</i>
and <i>The Piano Lesson</i>. At Weathervane Playhouse, she directed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Race</i> in 2014, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Flyin’ West</i> in 2013 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Yellowman</i>
in 2012. She serves on the Playhouse staff as its Community Engagement
Coordinator.</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">About the Playwright: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">MICHAEL OATMAN</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; "> — a Cleveland-born
playwright, actor and director — held the honor of being only the second
playwright in residence in Karamu House’s storied, nearly 100-year history
in Cleveland. (The first was Langston Hughes.) In 2011, The Cleveland Arts
Prize awarded Oatman the Emerging Artist Award in Literature. Oatman’s short
play <i>Warpaint</i> was the 2009 Finalist for the Kennedy Center Best Short
Play, and his play <i>The Chittlin’ Thief</i> was named Best Comedy of 2008 by
The African American Playwrights Exchange. Northeast Ohio audiences have seen
Oatman's work at Cleveland Play House FusionFest, Cleveland Public Theatre,
Karamu House, Cleveland State University and the Ingenuity Festival. Profiles
of Oatman and his work — which includes <i>Eclipse: The War Between Pac
and B.I.G., My Africa, A Solitary Voice</i> and <i>Drowning the Flame </i>—
have been featured in both <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>American Theatre</i>.
He holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Cleveland State University.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Weathervane Playhouse and its dedicated volunteers offer vital
performing arts resources for the people of Northeastern Ohio. We create
exciting and thought-provoking shows with impressive production values. Through
educational programs and volunteer opportunities for people of all ages and
backgrounds, Weathervane serves the theater community, our patrons and our
volunteers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">The Ohio
Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage
economic growth, education excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Weathervane
Playhouse’s 2014-2015 Season Support Provided by:</span></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Akron
Community Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Margaret
Clark Morgan Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Kenneth
L. Calhoun Charitable Trust (KeyBank, Trustee)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">OMNOVA
Solutions Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Mary S.
and David C. Corbin Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Sisler
McFawn Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Ohio Arts
Council</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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