<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><br><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)">Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something awesome and terrible.  The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><h1 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px">A Leap Day Extravaganza!</h1><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Cleveland's source for new plays by local playwrights is back with three plays so awesome and terrible, they have to be performed on a day that only comes once every four years. </span><br style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><br style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">This Leap Day </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=95618c38cb&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> is please to present:</span><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Ripcord</i> by Tom Hayes</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Al, Why Haven't I Leaped?</i> by Rachel Baird Rudisill</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>X Marks the Spot</i> by Arwen Mitchell</li></ul><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Please join us </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=464d35a3a7&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank"><span><span>Monday, February 29 at 8:00pm</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> at </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=12136ac7df&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=cf7a7cdf77&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> for this quadrennial spectacle!</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><h2 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><b>Save the Date!</b></h2><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:24px;font-size:14px">The Manhattan Project's next <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=f4437e49ae&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223)" target="_blank">Meet & Greet</a> will be on <b><span style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(100,100,100)"><span>April 6</span></span></b>.<br>The following <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=c13f508c35&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223)" target="_blank">Performance</a> will be held <b><span><span>April 25</span></span></b>.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:large">What exactly is The </span><span style="font-size:large">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">Project - Cleveland Lab</span><span style="font-size:large">?</span></font></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> and work together.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights to each other by organizing a bi-monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays.  </font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Participating artists will <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> early in the month and will be broken into teams, each with one playwright.  The playwright will then be given a writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and including all the team's actors.  The rest of the evening the team members will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and voices.  </font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves.  Through these small collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page.  Perhaps these 10-minute plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become partnerships on larger projects.</font></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" style="word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or just show up at the next <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Meet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span> in July.</font></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" size="4"><b>For more info and updates:</b></font></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </font><font style="font-size:13px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab" target="_blank">like us on facebook</a></font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/RGboj" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">Subscribe to Our Newsletter</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and follow us on twitter @MPCleveLab .</span><font style="font-size:15px" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;background-color:rgb(235,235,235)"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="georgia, s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