<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/soft-launch-2025/">Cleveland Public Theatre Soft Launch i</a>s a weekend-long performance festival/conference that seeks nothing less than a complete reinvention of what theatre can be. Installation art, immersive and participatory performances, improvised music composition, and solo shows disguised as multimedia breakdowns and yoga classes—all these types of projects and more have found a home in SoftLaunch. The rule is: If your project does not fit the normal theatre mode, it belongs in SoftLaunch. </span></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="www.radioonthelaketheatre.org">Radio on the Lake Theatre </a>is thrilled to have been chosen to be a part of it and says break a leg to all our fellow participants!</span></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6"> Look for us  on the Main Stage (behind the curtain)  and experience <i style="font-weight:bold">"audio arts for a new generation" </i><i style=""> <br></i><span style="text-align:start">Performances are 7:30 and 9:00 pm each night and involve audience interaction so come prepared to be part of the story.</span></p></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit"><i>The </i></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit"><b><font size="4">Birds: An Audio Deconstruction</font></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit">The Birds: An Audio Deconstruction </i></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">takes a classic script—the Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s <em style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit">The Birds</em>—and strips it down to the basic elements of audio design and audience immersion. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">A reexamination of the traditional radio play form. </span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit">Lead Artist:</span> Caroline Breder-Watts (with John Watts)</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit">Performers: </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Caroline Breder-Watts, </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Madeleine Watts, Ygal Kaufman</span><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit">Lead Artist Bio: </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Caroline Breder-Watts is the Managing and Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Radio on the Lake Theatre, Northeast Ohio’s only theater company exclusively dedicated to the audio arts. She has enjoyed a diverse career in the arts for the past 30 years, with projects in radio, theater, and film, as well as host, producer, arts reporter and fundraiser roles at public media stations in Miami and Cleveland. She is thrilled to be making her CPT debut with this project.</span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><table style="color:rgb(34,34,34);border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="129"><col width="19"><col width="327"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:80.264pt"><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255) rgb(240,60,75) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><br><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:92px;height:88px"></span></td><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(240,60,75);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><br></td><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(240,60,75);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Margaret Reardon | she/her</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(140,211,209);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Development Coordinator</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Radio on the Lake Theatre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">(216) 802 8595</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.radioonthelaketheatre.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);vertical-align:baseline">radioonthelaketheatre.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.radioonthelaketheatre.org/donate">Support us here</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>