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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(180,95,6)"><b>This month: LIVE recording of <i>The Mystery of Easter Island</i> by Justin Glanville and Open Mic!</b></span></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">
<span style="color:rgb(204,102,0)"></span></span></b></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>The
Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work
has a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second
Tuesday of each month. </span>The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran playwrights the space and resources
to develop new works. It offers a venue to workshop plays, novels, poems, or
any other written work in a supportive, yet critical environment.<b style="color:rgb(0,0,153);background-color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span></span></b></span></font><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,153);background-color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span></span></b></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,153);background-color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span></span></span><br>
</span></b><font><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Tuesday, November 12th</span><br></b></font></span></font></p>
</div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The Church at CPT<br>
(Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office)</span></font></div><div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> Cleveland Public Theatre<br></span>6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102</span></font></div>
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</div><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>7:00pm: </b>Sign-up begins for writers and actors (space is
limited). Writers can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors
will be cast on the spot!<br><br><b>7:30pm: </b>Featured live recording of Episode 3 of
<span style="text-align:justify">“The Mystery of Easter Island”</span> by Justin Glanville.<b><br><br>8:15pm:</b> Open Mic Session readings begin <br></span></font></div>
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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"></span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)"><b>And don't forget - FREE Great Lakes Brewing Company beer!</b></span><br></span></font><div>
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</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></span>Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required.<br><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><b><br></b></span><font color="#45818e"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b>ABOUT THE FEATURED WORK:</b></span> </font><span style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Join us for a live recording of Episode 3 ("The Other Half of the Sky") of a new audio fiction podcast written by Justin Glanville, directed and produced by Mindy Childress Herman.</span></span><span style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span><i><span style="color:black"> The Mystery of Easter Island </span></i><span style="color:black">is a serialized historical fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. In 1914, Routledge built a ship and traveled to Easter Island in an attempt to decipher the culture and language of the island. </span><span style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#e0bf5c"><font color="#2a2a2a">In Episode 3, Katherine, her husband Scoresby, and
their crew must contend with wild storms, damage to their ship, and
rising interpersonal tensions, while Katherine fights for respect from her
all-male crew.</font></font> <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><br>FEATURING:</span></b> Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Cat Kenney, Josh Brown and Robert Hawkes.<br></span></span><font color="#45818e"><span style="text-align:justify"><br></span><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM:</span> </b></span></span></font><span style="text-align:justify">
</span></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Justin Glanville is a public radio and television
reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and
has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban
planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His
pilot script for <i>The Mystery of Easter Island</i> was a finalist in the 2017
Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous
fiction podcast, <i>Munchen, Minnesota</i>, followed a gay librarian, his
daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper
Midwest. You can check out more of his work at<span></span> <a href="http://www.oursidewalk.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);text-decoration:none">http://www.oursidewalk.com</span></a>
and <a href="http://www.justinglanville.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);text-decoration:none">http://www.justinglanville.com</span></a></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Mindy
Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating
with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over
the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer,
performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and
produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre
Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007,
she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a
monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters.
She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast <em>Munchen,
Minnesota</em>.<span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-right:63pt;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br>Open session readings are
first come, first serve until all slots have been allotted. All
submissions should
be made to Mindy Herman at
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd98f4&URL=mailto%3aherman.mindy%40gmail.com" target="_blank">herman.mindy@gmail.com</a>
</span>or to John Busser at<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd98f4&URL=mailto%3ajpbusser%40gmail.com" target="_blank">
jpbusser@gmail.com</a> </span>. </span></span></font></div>
<p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>See you in the Dark Room!</span><span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-- <br></span></font><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <br>Mindy Childress Herman<br></span></font>
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