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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">Ensemble Theatre is proud to host the 3rd
event of our 7th <b>Annual Colombi New
Plays Festival</b> with readings of new short plays by area playwrights.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"> <br>
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<u>March 28 will see new short plays by:</u><br>
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<b>Richard Asbury (DRUMS OF ZANZIBAR)<br>
Ann Cohen (OUT OF THE WOODS)<br>
Barbara Harkness (BUMBLEFUZZ AND CATERWAMP)<br>
Agnes Hermann (NUDITY REQUIRED)<br>
Michael Oatman (FRIENDS LIKE THESE)<br>
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The short play readings will be held at<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CLEurbanwinery/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">CLE Urban Winery</a><br>
2180B Lee Road<br>
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118<br>
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The Annual Colombi New Plays Festival is an opportunity for area playwrights to
showcase their work for Ensemble audiences. This year's Festival, our 7th, also
features a production of Cleveland Heights playwright Tom Frattare's new play
MAMA / MOON running March 9 - March 25 at Ensemble Theatre.<br>
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All Colombi Festival new play readings are FREE and open to the public.<br>
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For a complete list of events and to our upcoming production of <i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><i>Angels in America: Perestroika</i> running April 27-May 20</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"> please visit <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.EnsembleTheatreCLE.org%2F&h=ATPxwqfwzgeviKC2ZNjjL1D1cjz_rIrA-lZK483EQm6Yd6AmchJlHND7iCioVPADqlv8yl1ALbtPKQ6I1p5gGEnBbIyIEqMgjkqRSuO0K6M7L-XzB_50yNr4iUlHhZ_G51XEa7muH-8" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">www.EnsembleTheatreCLE.org</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">call 216-321-2930</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">or email <a href="mailto:info@ensemble-theatre.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">info@ensemble-theatre.org</a>.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">Playwright Bios:</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><br>
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<b>RICHARD ASBURY</b><br>
Richard S. Asbury is an African American writer born in Western PA as the <br>
son of a Postal Worker and a Beautician. He is married with two grown children
and three grandchildren.<br>
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Richard earned his BS Ed. from Ohio University and his MA Ed. from Pepperdine
University. He also earned his MS Ed. from Cleveland State University.<br>
Richard is a 20-year U.S. Navy Vet (Retired as a LCDR) and 20-year Training
Consultant.<br>
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He is a self-taught Playwright who hopes to bring forth stories of the Black
community, that deliver messages everyone can relate to and find enlightening,
and entertaining.<br>
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Richard would like to thank everyone for your attendance tonight.<br>
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<b>ANN COHEN</b><br>
Ann Cohen is a playwright, poet, songwriter, librettist, journalist, interior
designer and when the mood strikes, she sketches people. And she sings. Her
screenplays include Ancient History and Murder in B Flat. Her musical,
Openings, graced the stage at Ensemble Theatre as a concert reading, part of
Stagewrights New Works Festival. A reading of her short play, Prospect, was
also presented there. As a journalist, she was a film reviewer, specializing in
French cinema, and she has written about interior design. Currently, she
creates works for the theater. Out of the Woods is a monologue about a
particular kind of journey. Ann was born in Cleveland, and her higher education
took her to the University of Cincinnati, and then to University of
Connecticut.<br>
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<b>BARBARA HARKENSS<span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology from Kent State University, Barbara has taken up playwriting since
her retirement. When professionally active, she worked with
archaeological teams in Ohio, Illinois, France, and Mexico. Several of her
ten-minute and short plays have been produced in Cincinnati, Yellow Springs,
OH, Seattle, WA and Ensemble Theatre of Cleveland Heights. Full-length
plays given <i>New Voices</i> presentation by Cincinnati Playwrights
Initiative include <i>The Disappointed, Edge Walking,</i> and<i> Stairway
to the Crown.</i> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">AGNES HERMANN</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"><br>
Agnes Herrmann is an actor and has worked on stage, on film, and for many years
in NYC doing voice-overs. She is a member of Ensemble Theatre’s Stagewrights
Workshop in Cleveland. She’s written many 10-minute plays and a full-length
play, Makin’ Sawce, all of which had readings at Ensemble Theater. She is
working on a full-length musical, currently entitled The Curious Cabinet, a
story about illegal immigration, intended for both adults and children, as well
as a new piece entitled Limbo.<br>
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<b>MICHAEL OATMAN</b><br>
In 2011, Michael Oatman won the CPAC Workforce Fellowship and the Cleveland Art
Prize in 2010 for Best Emerging Artist and the 2010 Lantern Award for Best
Play. In 2017 he co-wrote Objectively/Reasonable which tackled the community’s
response to the shooting of Tamir Rice. In 2016 The Phoenix Theater produced
Starve the Devil. 2015 brought the production of Killing Black Superman at the
Kultivation Theater and a commissioned piece Crazy Man for Weathervane Theater.
Michael Oatman earned an English Degree from Cleveland State University in 2004
and completed his MFA in theater, from the Northeastern Ohio Master of Fine
arts Consortium in 2008. He currently teaches playwriting at Kent State
University and serves as a playwriting mentor the University of Nebraska at
Omaha.<span></span></span></p>
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