<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal"><div id="docs-internal-guid-074204b3-05bb-8970-29c8-dbe3ea7afb16" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">April 11, 2016</span></div><br><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font color="#ff0000" size="6">New Experimental, Contemporary Theatre Group </font></span></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font color="#ff0000" size="6">coming to Northeast Ohio</font></span></div><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">(TWINSBURG) With its first production targeted for later this year, EDGE THEATRE PROJECT is the beginning of a new dramatic arts venue that aims to bring audiences provocative, daring, and experimental performances. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">“We want audiences to walk away from our shows with a sense that they've just seen something different and utterly compelling,” says Edge Theatre Project’s President, Adrienne Cvetkovic. Cvetkovic has been active in theatre since childhood. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Indeed, many of EDGE THEATRE PROJECT’s board members are longtime veterans of the stage and share Cvetkovic’s vision of a new venue to develop and explore works that touch on politics, social justice, sexuality, identity, and other matters relevant to today’s headlines. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Whether darkly serious or comically irreverent, EDGE THEATRE PROJECT’s productions are intended to challenge people’s perceptions…both of the world and the performing arts. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">"We certainly intend to stand out as unique from other venues in the region," says Marc C. Howard, Vice President of Edge Theatre Project and a long-time producer, choreographer, and director.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">“One way we’re doing that is by exploring raw, untapped, and disarming material that isn’t your standard community theatre or even Broadway fare.  At the same time, we’ll aim for productions that are high-caliber and exceptional.” </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:18pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Please keep up with our fundraising and development efforts through our website, </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.edgetheatreproject.com/"><span style="color:rgb(59,89,152);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">http://www.edgetheatreproject.com/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> and our Facebook page.</span></p><div><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Media Contact: Brian Bull</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"></span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="mailto:bbull@edgetheatreproject.com"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">bbull@edgetheatreproject.com</span></a></div><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">(330)840-9224</span></p><br></b></div>