<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Playwrights Local & Literary Cleveland Present</span><br></div><div>A free playwriting workshop</div><div><br></div><div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><font size="4" color="#ff0000">“The Sherlock Project”</font></b></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">With instructor Eric Schmiedl</font></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Saturday, September 29 @ </span>11:00 am</div><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creative Space at Waterloo Arts (</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12.8px">397 East 156th Street, Cleveland)</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Free | Tickets or Reservations Not Required</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recommended for Adults & Teens</span></p></div><div><br></div><div><b>Synopsis: </b></div><div>Part crime scene. Part collaborative game. Part exploration of 21st Century storytelling techniques.<b><font color="#ff0000"> “The Sherlock Project” </font></b>is a creative exercise that seeks to find new ways of collaborating and innovating through the process of exploration and discovery. Inspired by the work of the Columbia University School of Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, this creative writing session seeks to ignite your imagination through game playing, investigation, and imagination. There will be a murder. There will be a discovery. There will be a whole new story...your story!</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Instructor:</b></div><div><div>Eric Schmiedl is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Kent State University and the University of Hawai’i. His plays have been produced by theaters including Denver Center Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre, Lantern Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, New Stages Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Karamu House, Adventure Stage Chicago, Signal Ensemble Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Company and BackStage Theatre in Chicago. Eric is the recipient of a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellowship, an Aurand Harris Fellowship, two Edgerton Awards and a Sloan Foundation Commission. Eric is on the faculty of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.</div><div><br></div><div>=========================</div></div><div><br></div><div>Presented as part of </div><div><font color="#9900ff">THE 4TH ANNUAL CLEVELAND PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL</font></div><div><br></div><div>Saturday, September 29</div><div>11:00 am - 10:30 pm<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/4th-annual-cleveland-playwrights-festival/">http://www.playwrightslocal.org/4th-annual-cleveland-playwrights-festival/</a> </div><div><br></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