<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:864px"><div class="gmail-" style=""><div id="gmail-:15s" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:15r" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="6">Last Call<i style="">!</i></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="4"> </font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font style="" size="6"><b style=""> "Healing Arts" Plays</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font style="" size="6"><b style="">Due Fri. 6/2/23</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-align:start"><font size="4">(If you need an extension, email <font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:wualstudio@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none"><font color="#000000">wualstudio@gmail.com</font></span></a>)<br></font></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="4">Call for Playwrights to submit 15-minute Plays</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="4">for</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="4">"Wake Up to Healing Arts:  Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope, Health and Total Well-being, 2.0"</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",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