<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:pk" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao" style="display:block"><div id="gmail-:pf" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf" style="direction:ltr;min-height:244px" tabindex="1"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><table style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-color:-moz-use-text-color;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);max-width:600px" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:0px none;border-bottom:0px none;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse" align="left" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 18px"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="18" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(242,242,242);font-size:14px;text-align:center;line-height:21px" valign="top"><div style="text-align:left">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.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border-top:0px none;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(234,234,234);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:9px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px" valign="top"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"></span><br><h1 class="gmail-m_-3496070191383528449null" 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">Hack into a Night of Theatre!</h1>
<span style="font-size:14px">Next week the Biggest Loser to ever win office will become #POTUS and not all the parades and balls will be in Washington! <br>
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The <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=891c23f37a&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Manhattan Project</a> is pleased to present an <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=cdda1d35f8&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Inaugural Ball</a> at <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=38fc8bde51&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a> in <a href="http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=fcbc780c46&e=137ba2e111" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Lakewood</a> on <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Tuesday, January 17</span></span>!</span>
<span style="font-size:14px">We're welcoming our new president with several performances by Cleveland artists including:</span>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>Congratulations </em>by Peter J Roth</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>White House Burning</em> by Kevin Latimer</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>Quo Vadis </em>by Craig A Webb</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>Wolf vs. Mouse: A Political Discourse</em> by Rob and Erica Anton</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>Low-Rent Minotaur </em>by Rachel Baird</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px">The antics of Matthew Hric</span></li><li><span style="font-size:14px"><em>If They Believe the Wig is Real, Then the Wig is Real, Damnit, Probably</em> by Angelo Maneage</span></li></ul>
<span style="font-size:14px">We hope to see you for a night of "unpresidented" entertainment!</span><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><br><br></span><h1 style="font-family:helvetica;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span style="color:rgb(240,248,255)">What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?</span></h1><div style="color:rgb(242,242,242);font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)"> <br>The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.<br> <br>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> <br>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> <br>The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.<br><br>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> </div><div style="color:rgb(242,242,242);font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or introduce yourself at out next event.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><u>Some additional notes on the play lab:</u></font></div><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><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></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">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 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></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Playwrights are invited in advance of the Meet & Greet. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><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></b></li></ul></div></div></div>