<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Playwrights Local Presents</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Free Reading of a New Play</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">THE MIRROR EFFECT</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Written by Oana Leuca</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Directed by Christine McBurney</font></span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 pm</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Presented Online via Zoom</b></span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">INFO & ZOOM ACCESS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/fall-roundtable-series-2020/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.playwrightslocal.org/fall-roundtable-series-2020/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FEATURING</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tammy Shanley</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lana Sugarman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sheena D. Robertson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heidi Hackney</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nadia Tarnawsky</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Samantha Cocco</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Molly McFadden</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SYNOPSIS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Mirror Effect </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">presents Amanda Reis, a self-searching female writer who explores her inner life through language and disguise. Her story is inspired by the lives and work of other female artists (Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, Marylin Monroe, etc.). Her poetic monologue is an astronaut’s shout in space, a place where sound waves can’t travel. She is a clown afraid of clowns, an actress trying to free herself from her persona.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oana Leuca is a Romanian-born poet and playwright. She immigrated to the USA in 2018 and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting through the NEOMFA. At the 2020 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival, convergence-continuum produced one of her plays, Autopoiesis. In April 2020, she won the Leonard Trawick Scholarship in creative writing.</span></p><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE COMPANY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></a><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/fall-roundtable-series-2020/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fall Roundtable Series</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and our annual</span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/submissions/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:tr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