<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM, IN COLLABORATION WITH</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">THE NORTHEAST OHIO MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING,</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">PRESENTS</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">THE 2018 NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 8 - 17</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Convergence-continuum presents four world-premiere plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the <b><i>2018</i> <i>NEOMFA Playwrights Festival</i></b><i>. </i>The Festival features two full-length plays and two ten-minute world-premiere plays. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the seventh year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Feb 8, 9, 10, Thurs-Sat at 8 pm:</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in .0001pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">SEXLESS IN SEATTLE,</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><i> </i>a </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">ten-minute comedy by Jonathan Wlodarski, is a lonely, lovelorn romp in a Seattle apartment. Directed by Clyde Simon.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">MURDER AT THE PALACE</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> <i>THEATER</i></span></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">, </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">a two-act play by Robert M.K. Daniels, a comic, vaudeville murder mystery, is a satiric look at what people will go through for their art, and the cost of being famous. There are two sides to every coin; good and bad, light and dark, art and fame. And sometimes the price of fame can be murder. Directed by David Munnell.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Feb 15, 16, 17, Thurs-Sat at 8 pm:</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in .0001pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">RENDEZVOUS POINT</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">,</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> by Adam Rounick, is a ten-minute play about three professional criminals carrying out an elaborate heist. The only hitch is that two of them don’t know the plan. Through playful back-and-forth banter and tangential diatribes, the clueless crooks race against the clock to salvage the scheme. Directed by Scott Zolkowski.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">CONTRADICTIONARY LIES</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">, by Katie Wallace, is part dark comedy, part docudrama two-act play, and follows failed rocker Jimbo and his estranged wife Kelly as they sort through the remnants of their failed marriage. As nostalgia kicks up old emotions, Jimbo is visited by his guardian angel in the form of his idol, Kurt Cobain. Directed by Beau Reinker.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The 2018 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">opens Thursday, Feb. 8 and runs Thurs, Fri and Sat at 8 p.m. through Feb. 17 at the <b>Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113</b> in the historic Tremont neighborhood.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students. </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Tickets and information are available at <a href="http://convergence-continuum.org">convergence-continuum.org</a> or 216-687-0074.</span></p><p></p><br><br><br></body></html>