<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><br><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>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></span><br><br><br><h1 style="text-align:center;display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal">Fresh New Faces in the Bunker</h1>
<br>Cleveland's showcase for never before seen plays has three new
playwrights writing for us. We're thrilled to introduce Jaclyn Czifranics, Tim Collingwood,
Monica Morgan, and Jacob Wiker. We're also happy to be joined by one of
our favorite playwrights, Yulia Gray.<br>
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We need brave actors to perform in these brave playwrights' awesome and terrible new plays!<br>
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Join us at our <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=3202123747&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Meet & Greet</a> at <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=6a61d26f1e&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Mahall's</a> (<a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=3f8983f536&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">13200 Madison Ave.</a>) on <span><span>Wednesday, June 1 at 8:00pm</span></span>.<br>
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<a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=a28aa20954&e=c3ea71f0f7" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Performance</a> will be <span><span>Wednesday, June 29</span></span>!<br>
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We hope to see you there.
<br><br><br><h1 style="text-align:center;display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:15px">The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.<br>
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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. <br>
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Participating artists will meet 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. <br>
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The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.<br><br></span><span style="font-size:15px">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.<br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or introduce yourself at out next event.<br><br><br></span></div><br><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><u>Some additional notes on the play lab:</u></font></span></div>
<ul><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></span></li><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></span></li><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">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></span></li><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Playwrights are invited in advance of the Meet & Greet. </font></span></li><li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">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></span></li></ul></div></div>
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