<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="text-align:center;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';color:#FF0000;">FEB 16 & 17 ARE NOW SOLD
OUT!</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';">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-top:6pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">SEXLESS
IN SEATTLE,</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';"> </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">a 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-top:6pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;"><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 comedy 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 a 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></body></html>