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<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Cleveland Public Theatre presents
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/dontrell-who-kissed-the-sea/">DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">May 21<sup>st</sup> – June 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Written by Nathan Alan Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">A NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK ROLLING WORLD 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;background:white">It’s a month before his first day of college and Baltimore native Dontrell Jones III wakes from a dream that will change
his life. Haunted by visions of a great-great grandfather who lost his life on a slave ship during the Middle Passage, the young man’s unconventional journey begins with swimming lessons and ends in a boat drifting into the Atlantic. A magical, modern day
story about answering the call to connect with the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Monday at 7:00, CPT’s James Levin Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Featuring Kalim Hill as Dontrell, with Sheffia Randall Dooley*, Shayla Gordon, Johnathon Jackson, Laprise Johnson, Rachel Lee Kolis and
Joseph Primes. <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;background:white">*Actor appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">May 21-June 6<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Tickets $12 - $28 :: Students/Seniors get $3 off<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Mondays and Thursdays just $12!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="color:windowtext">www.cptonline.org</span></a> | 216-631-2727 x501<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">**EVERY FRIDAY</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is Free Beer Friday – mingle with artists after the show and enjoy your drinks
on us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Tickets available at
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="color:windowtext;background:white">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="background:white"> or (216) 631-2727 x501. (And no ticket fees, ever.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cathleen O’Malley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director of Audience Engagement & Media Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(216) 631-2727 x 212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Onstage at CPT…<b><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/dontrell-who-kissed-the-sea/"><span style="color:blue">Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea</span></a>
(May 21-June 6) </b>and <b><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/johanna-facing-forward/"><span style="color:blue">Johanna: Facing Forward</span></a> (May 28-June 13)<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
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