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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cleveland Public Theatre Announces<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellowship Reading Series<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Featuring plays by 2015-2016 Nord Playwright Fellows<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Stuart Hoffman, Gail Nyoka and Greg Vovos<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">JANUARY 6 – JANUARY 10<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">The Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellowship Reading Series
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">is a one-weekend-only series featuring full-length plays-in-process written by the Fellows and featuring local directors and performers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Wednesday, January 6 through Sunday, January 10</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Cleveland Public Theatre <br>
6415 Detroit Avenue<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Tickets are $10 (General Admission). Students/Seniors receive $3 off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Purchase tickets online at </span>
<a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> or by calling 216-631-2727 x501.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Show times vary, see below for details.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i>THE WATERS</i></b> – January 6 (Wednesday) and January 9 (Saturday) @ 7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Written by Gail Nyoka, 15/16 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow :: Directed by Melissa Crum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">New visitors to a lakeside retreat—where the lines between dream, imagination and reality blur—find their stay to be quite out of the ordinary. Some visitors cling to the world as they know it, while others
wade into unknown territory…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">CANON FODDER</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> – January 7 (Thursday) @ 7:00pm and January 9 (Saturday) @ 3:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Written by Stuart Hoffman, 15/16 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow :: Directed by Caitlin Lewins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">A tale of literary arousal, depicting an emotionally driven, but socially awkward, bibliophile recounting her literary love affair with her favorite author.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">WELL BEINGS</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> – January 8 (Friday) and January 10 (Sunday) @ 7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Written by Greg Vovos, 15/16 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow :: Directed by Dale Heinen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Well Beings traces the journey of three heroin addicts at various stages of recovery as they try to break free from the grip of this harmful narcotic. Blending moments of expressionism with moments that
are sometimes all too real, Well Beings is a modern-day Our Town… but with heroin.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Now in its third year, the <b>
Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellowship </b>is funded by a three year grant from the Nord Family Foundation. The fellowship is a year-long program for Northeast Ohio playwrights of extraordinary potential, offering opportunities to develop work through
readings, staged readings, and workshop productions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cathleen O’Malley<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Audience Engagement and Media Relations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ph: 216.631.2727 ext. 212 | <a href="http://www.cptonline.org/">
www.cptonline.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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