<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PLAYWRIGHTS LOCAL</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presents by popular demand</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The return of the critically acclaimed documentary play</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OBJECTIVELY/REASONABLE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTING OF TAMIR RICE, 11/22/14</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Written by Playwrights Local</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Directed by Terrence Spivey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conceived and edited by David Todd</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,0,255);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 17 - March 11, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,0,255);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creative Space at Waterloo Arts</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,0,255);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,0,255);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">397 E. 156th Street, Cleveland, OH 44110</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><font color="#0000ff"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/objectively-reasonable-return/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/<wbr>objectively-reasonable-return/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Press for the Premiere Production</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Electric, probing and uncomfortably raw…deeply moving. This is a play that needs to be seen.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-bre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e.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cast</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Samone Cummings</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kali Hatten </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christina Johnson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LaShawn Little</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joshua McElroy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mary-Francis Renee Miller</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Phillia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Corin B. Self</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nathan Tolliver </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creative Team</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stage Manager: Geraldine Harris</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Assistant Director: Nathan Tolliver</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lighting Designer: Margaret Peebles</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Set Designer: Terrence Spivey</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sound Designer: David Todd</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Board Operator: Ludie Cummings</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carpenter: Tom Hayes</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Group Sales: Cosandra Wheeler</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-m_7624774817936776694gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Engagement Coordinator: Nathan Tolliver</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">$18 Adults & Seniors | $15 Groups | $12 Students</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More Information</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visit </span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or call <a href="tel:(216)%20302-8856" value="+12163028856" target="_blank">(216) 302-8856</a></span><br></div>