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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Cleveland Public Theatre
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">2017-2018 TEST FLIGHT</span></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red">TEST FLIGHT proposal DEADLINE EXTENDED to Sunday, June 18<sup>th</sup>!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">CPT's New Play Development</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">CPT's mission is to raise consciousness and nurture compassion through groundbreaking performances and life-changing educational programs. CPT's programming agenda is to produce work that is <b>outside
the mainstream</b>, offering a much broader range of work available to the Cleveland public and expanding the impact and originality of theatre across the country. CPT strives to make work that is <b>excellent, extraordinary and nationally competitive.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Our new play development programs are based on our years of experience, community input and key principles of: <b>focusing on artists; valuing diversity of approach, aesthetics and perspective;
and balancing impact with investment.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">We envision CPT as a nationally recognized hub for the development of new theatre that is extraordinary, edgy and relevant. We hope to be a model for nurturing local talent in similar sized markets,
the most regarded cultivator of new theatre for Cleveland audiences, a laboratory for promising research and investigation and a launcher of nationally significant new plays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Test Flight </span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Based on CPT's success with our <b>Big Box</b> series, <b>Test Flight</b> offers opportunities to artists who are interested in co-producing works with us. <b>Test Flight</b> is a multi-week series
where artists are given the keys to the theatre to <b>develop their projects to a workshop level.</b> In addition to serving local artists, <b>Test Flight</b> will also be <b>open to national and international artists</b> who wish to come to Cleveland to develop
their pieces. Feedback for this series will be specific to each project, developed by the artist and vetted/approved by CPT. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">TO APPLY: Test Flight Local Request for Proposals </span></b><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/test-flight-local-request-for-proposals-2017/"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">here</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">TO APPLY: Test Flight Non-local Request for Proposals </span></b><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/test-flight-non-local-request-for-proposals-2017/"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">here</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red">DEADLINE to apply for TEST FLIGHT has been EXTENDED to Sunday, June 18<sup>th</sup>!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F3864">Beth Wood<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864">Associate Artistic Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864"><a href="mailto:bwood@cptonline.org">bwood@cptonline.org</a>
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