<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#000000">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.</font></span><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><h1 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px">The Manhattan Project Meets the NEOMFA!</h1><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">The Jetsons had to meet the Flintstones!  The Simpsons had to meet the Critic!</span><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">Of course Cleveland's showcase for new plays would have to meet Cleveland's training ground for new playwrights!</span></div><div><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 month </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=58306f397b&e=c3ea71f0f7" 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 pleased to be joined by four MFA candidates from the </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=9d15cf77e8&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> creative writing program;  Rob Daniels, Katie Walker, and Logan Smith.</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">We need brilliant actors to help create brand new plays with these playwrights.</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">Please join us for our </span><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=bdcc485508&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">Meet & Greet</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> at </span><strong style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><span><span>8:00pm</span></span>, <span><span>Monday, April 11</span></span></strong><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=0f7e058b34&e=c3ea71f0f7" 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><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=f5a4a956e8&e=c3ea71f0f7" 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"> on the Main Stage.</span></div><div><br style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=cd6d9ea67d&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px" target="_blank">Performance</a><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> will be at </span><strong style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><span><span>8:00pm</span></span>, <span><span>Tuesday, May 3</span></span></strong><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">, also on Mahall's Main Stage.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><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 style="font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">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 style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">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 style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">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 style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">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"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">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 introduce yourself at out next event.</font></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><u>Some additional notes on the play lab:</u></font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together.  Based on experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get these plays on their feet.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited in advance of the M<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">eet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span>. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited based on participation in past Manhattan Project events, so please come to our events so we can get to know you!</font></strong></li></ul></div></div></div>
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