<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)">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 <span>terrible</span>.  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="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:40px;line-height:50px;letter-spacing:-1px"><font color="#000000">It's Summertime and the Manhattan Project Summer Plays are Ready!</font></h1></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px">The Cavs are victorious.  So are the MP playwrights!  With summer activities and festivities galore (including, but not limited to, summer camp, a road trip in a Smart Car, and summer school with the worst subsititue EVER...), this is the MUST-SEE summer event of the summer season.  #summer #didIsaysummer</span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheManhattanProjectClevelandLab?fref=ts" style="word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"> wants to help by presenting four brand new plays by Cleveland playwrights, including Tim Collinwood, Monica Morgan, Jacob Wiker, and Yulia Gray!<br><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px">Please join us </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1157596770924227/" style="word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px" target="_blank">Wednesday, June 29th, 8PM </a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px">at </span><a href="http://mahalls20lanes.com/" style="word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px" target="_blank">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px"> 13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood OH 44107 for plays that are sure to make you feel SUMMERY if you don't feel that way already!</span></font></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 color="#000000" face="arial black, sans-serif"><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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" style="word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank"><span class="">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</span></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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Some additional notes on the project:</font></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ul style="font-family:Helvetica"><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 <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">meet</span> & <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greet</span>. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><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></b></li></ul></div></div></div>