<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border:0px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);max-width:600px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border:0px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);max-width:600px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="18" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(242,242,242);font-size:14px;text-align:center;line-height:21px"><div style="text-align:left">Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something awesome and terrible.  The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:0px;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(234,234,234);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:9px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:9px"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><font color="#000000">Poets and Playwrights Unite!</font></h1><h2 style="font-family:helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=fa0df590b8&e=137ba2e111" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px">The Manhattan Project</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"> is thrilled to join forces with </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=aacabc6a05&e=137ba2e111" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px">Barnhouse </a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400">literary journal! The new year starts with an awesome and terrible mashup in which Barnhouse poets will write plays and Manhattan Project playwrights will write poetry. </span></font></h2><h2 style="font-family:helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><br>Manhattan Project writers will be <strong>Rachel Baird</strong>, <strong>Amy Schwabauer</strong>, and <strong>Peter J Roth</strong>.<br>Our Barnhouse writers will be <strong>Charlie Plue</strong>, <strong>Jason Harris</strong>, and <strong>Billy Lennon</strong>. <br><br>We need awesome actors to perform in the wonderful new 10-minute plays that our Barnhouse partners will be writing.  Please join us for our Meet & Greet to participate.<br><br></span><strong style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px">Meet & Greet</strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"> will be Monday, January 7 at 8:00pm at </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=124c9d562e&e=137ba2e111" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px">Mahall's 20 Lanes</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"> in </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=9e0c2bb18b&e=137ba2e111" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px">Lakewood</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400">.</span><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><br><strong>Performance </strong>will be Monday, January 28 at 8:00pm.</span>  </font><br></h2><div><br></div><h1 style="font-family:helvetica;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span style="color:rgb(240,248,255)">What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?</span></h1><div style="color:rgb(242,242,242);font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)"> <br>The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.<br> <br>Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights to each other by organizing a bi-monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays.  <br> <br>Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into teams, each with one playwright.  The playwright will then be given a writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and including all the team's actors.  The rest of the evening the team members will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and voices.  <br> <br>The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.<br><br>These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves.  Through these small collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page.  Perhaps these 10-minute plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become partnerships on larger projects.<br> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:0px;border-bottom:2px solid rgb(234,234,234);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:9px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:9px"><div style="color:rgb(242,242,242);font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(64,64,64)">If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at <a href="mailto:TrinityCrater@gmail.com" target="_blank">TrinityCrater@gmail.com</a> or introduce yourself at out next event.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><u>Some additional notes on the play lab:</u></font></div><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together.  Based on experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get these plays on their feet.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited in advance of the Meet & Greet. </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Playwrights are invited based on participation in past Manhattan Project events, so please come to our events so we can get to know you!</font></strong></li></ul></div></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border:0px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);max-width:600px"><tbody><tr style="font-size:12.8px"><td valign="top" style="border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 18px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:12.8px"></tr></tbody></table></div>