<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Playwrights Local & Literary Cleveland Present</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#ff0000">Act Out!</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#ff0000">A Playwriting Workshop</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><font size="4">With Dr. Mary E. Weems</font></b><b></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">September 10, 17, and 24, and October 1 (Thursdays)</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">6:00 pm - 8:00 pm</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Conducted online/remotely via Zoom</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">$120 ($80 for Literary Cleveland members)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">In this virtual, interactive 4-session, 2-hour workshop, Dr. Mary Weems will share her technique for writing monologues and short plays as political acts. Participants are asked to bring one to three social issues (racism, the Pandemic, transphobia, religious intolerance, sexism, the environment, poverty, etc) they would like to address in writings for the stage.<font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Registration at Literary Cleveland</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/act-out-playwriting-workshop" target="_blank">https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/act-out-playwriting-workshop</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>About Playwrights Local</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Playwrights Local is a theater company in Cleveland. As a playwrights’ center, our goal is to provide a home for dramatic writing in Northeast Ohio. We offer classes and workshops, produce original plays, provide networking opportunities, and engage the community through outreach projects. Learn more about programs such as our </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/young-playwrights-collective-ypc/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Young Playwrights Collective</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and our annual </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/submissions/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Call for Submissions</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at </span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Make your tax-deductible contributions to our 501(c)(3) group at </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/donate/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.playwrightslocal.org/donate/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">About the Instructor</font></b><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dr. Mary E. Weems' is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist, and social/cultural foundations scholar. Weems is the author of thirteen books including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (2015), five chapbooks, most notably “white” (Wick Award), and numerous poems, articles and book chapters. In 2015 Weems was awarded a Cleveland Arts Prize for her full-length drama MEAT.</font></p></div>