<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Baldwin Wallace University and The Mill Reading Series Presents</span></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">An Online Reading by </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:28pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>E. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Kelley</span></span></strong></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Mar 30, 2021 04:30 PM EST</span></p></div><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(35,35,51)">The Mill Reading Series </span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(35,35,51)">presents playwright and actress<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>E. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Kelley</span>. This hour-long event will begin with an introduction by Mill Editor-in-Chief Mary Simmons, followed by Ms. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Kelley</span>'s reading, and end with an audience Q-and-A moderated by BW Senior Lillian McAfee. </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center;margin:0px"><strong style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>E. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Kelley</span>: </span></strong><span style="color:inherit;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Award-winning playwright/actress<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>E. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Kelley</span> is currently in residence at New Victory Theatre through the LabWorks Program for BIPOC artists in New York City. She was chosen by Toni Morrison to adapt her novel <em>Jazz</em>. Her adaptation of Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> has been seen across the country and premiered off-Broadway in 2019 at The Duke on 42nd Street (The Acting Company; AUDELCO Award for “Best Play”).<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>is a former playwright-in-residence at the National Black Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, and a former Dramatists Guild Fellow.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nambi</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>served as a writer on Showtime’s <em>The Chi</em>, a new show on Fox (TBA), and is in development with several other film and TV projects.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nambikelley.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Clhunter%40bw.edu%7C8ac64b4fc0894eaeae4f08d8dde407de%7C3a9a104352cb404ebc8dcb2b5a92d3bc%7C1%7C0%7C637503318746036682%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=8pM34wZXpODz0ThHaIeUwyiWV8Lsg%2FzjwsTsLcZ75f8%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">www.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;ve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