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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right">April 18, 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Weathervane Playhouse presents Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
<i>The Flick</i> <br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Beautiful, moving, keen, and insightful, “The Flick” explores the humor and significance of the mundane.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AKRON, OH – Join Weathervane Playhouse as we turn the stage of the Founders Theater into a run-down movie house for our upcoming production
of Annie Baker’s humorous and moving <i>The Flick </i>May 4 through 14. Show times are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 - $22 and can be purchased by calling 330-836-2626 or going to
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.
Due to mature themes and language, <i>The Flick</i> is recommended for adult audiences only.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks
play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on the screen. With a keen insight and finely-tuned comic eye,
<i>The Flick</i> is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Flick</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> was commissioned by Playwrights Horizon in New York City, where it received its world premiere on March 12, 2013. Following its limited engagement there, the production transferred
to the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre, where it played from May 7, 2015, to Jan. 10, 2016. Among its many honors,
<i>The Flick</i> won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2013 OBIE Award for Playwriting and the 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
<i>The Flick</i> was also a 2013 Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play, a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Play and was a finalist for the 2013 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Director Craig Joseph says “<i>The Flick</i> is not so much plot-driven as it is a character study of folks who both desire to connect with one another authentically, and also fear being entirely known. What
makes for good drama in <i>The Flick</i> </span>is watching how they each navigate both the joys and pains of becoming oneself.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Annie Baker is a playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play
<i>The Flick</i>. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont<i> </i>plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley:
<i>Circle Mirror Transformation</i>, <i>Body Awareness</i>, and <i>The Aliens. </i>
Baker graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cast and Creative Team:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:black">CAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">STEPHEN BERG
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Sam<br>
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BRYON TOBIN JR. <br>
Avery<br>
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CARI MEIXNER <br>
Rose<br>
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STUART PFLAUM<br>
Sykylar / Dreaming Man<br>
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<b>CREATIVE TEAM</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">CRAIG JOSEPH<br>
Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">ANDREW MCCONAHAY<br>
Stage Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">JOHN GRAFTON/APRIL DEMING<br>
Properties Designers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">JOSEPH CARMOLA<br>
Lighting Designer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">HAZEN TOBAR<br>
Sound Designer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">INDA BLATCH-GEIB<br>
Costume Designer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">KATHY KOHL<br>
Scenic Designer and Assistant Technical Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">RICHARD MORRIS<br>
Technical Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">KELLIE ROSSINI<br>
Master Electrician<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">For interviews, media members should contact Fred Gloor at 330-836-2626 ext. 16 or
<a href="mailto:fgloor@weathervaneplayhouse.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">fgloor@weathervaneplayhouse.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Weathervane Playhouse provides high-quality live theater with volunteer artists, designers, and technicians under professional direction, delivers education
and training in theater arts and appreciation, and engages and entertains its audience to enrich the quality of life in Northeast Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u>Weathervane Playhouse’s 2016-2017 Season Support Provided by:</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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AARP<o:p></o:p></p>
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Akron Community Foundation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust<br>
Margaret Dietz <o:p></o:p></p>
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GAR Foundation <o:p></o:p></p>
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Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust (KeyBank, Trustee)<o:p></o:p></p>
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The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation<o:p></o:p></p>
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Kohmann Bosshard Financial Services, LLC<o:p></o:p></p>
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The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation<o:p></o:p></p>
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Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
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Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
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Ohio Arts Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">OMNOVA Solutions Foundation
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WKSU 89.7 FM<o:p></o:p></p>
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