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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#00B0F0">The Director's Pitch: How to Design and Discuss your Big Idea
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<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E46C0A">Taught by New York Director, Craig George<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MARCH 7<sup>th</sup>, 1:00-5:00pm</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#E36C0A">APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 3<sup>rd</sup> 2015</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#E36C0A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0">The Director's Pitch: Concept Design and Persuasive Dialogue
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">You have a great idea, but how do you communicate that idea to designers, actors, artistic directors, or your supporters? The Director's Pitch will be an
<b><u>interactive discussion</u></b> about conceptualizing material and effectively expressing your vision. Topics will include dreaming up your initial concept, selling your vision to your producer, and collaborating with artists to fulfill your vision.
Participants will be given the opportunity to informally "pitch" a real or dream project and receive feedback on the presentation. Recommended reading: Advance copies of the short play On Facebook from Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will be available
and used as a reference point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#E36C0A">APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 3<sup>rd</sup> 2015</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#E36C0A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0">DATES/SPACE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MARCH 7<sup>th</sup>, 1:00-5:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Orthodox Church Space
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">is located at 6201 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 on the Cleveland Public Theatre Campus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0">PREPARATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Reading: Advance copies of the short play On Facebook from Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will be available and used as a reference point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Preparing your “Pitch”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0">FEE/REGISTRATION</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>$50 is workshop fee. </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0">APPLICATION</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Please send us your current directing resume and respond to the following prompts. Please limit responses to 250 words or less. Send application
materials to CPT Education Associate, Faye Hargate,<b> @ </b></span><a href="mailto:fhargate@cptonline.org"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">fhargate@cptonline.org</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">· Share one story of a successful or failed director’s pitch. This could be a personal story, one that you heard or one that you witnessed.
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">· What do you hope to learn in taking this course?<span style="color:#00B0F0"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#00B0F0;background:white">CRAIG GEORGE BIOGRAPHY</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Craig J. George is a New York City based director whose credits include, Off-Broadway: Taming of the Shrew: Extreme (The Duke on 42nd Street) and over a dozen world premieres, including: Titus: A Grand and
Gory Rock Musical (CPT), God's Country (New York Musical Theatre Festival, Signature Theatre), The Aperture (CPT & FringeNYC), Cursing Macbeth (Harold Clurman Theater), Kiss My Brutal Hands (United Solo Festival, NYC) and Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story (Michael
Weller Theater, NYC). Regional: M4M (CPT) Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew (Hamptons Shakespeare Festival). Other theaters worked at include South Coast Repertory, George Street Playhouse, The New Group, West Side Theatre, York
Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory and Penguin Repertory. MFA from UC Irvine and BA from Trinity University.
<a href="http://www.craigjgeorge.com">www.craigjgeorge.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Faye Hargate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Education Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">216.631.2727 x207 work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">216.470.2411 cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.cptonline.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Faye </span></i><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">is a 2014 Creative Workforce Fellow for theatre.
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