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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/category/series/test-flight/"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">TEST FLIGHT 2025 (Part One)</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Featuring workshop productions by Northeast Ohio artists as part of CPT’s New Play Development Program<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">February 6 – February 22, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) announces the return of its quintessential play development series, Test Flight, back with ten up-and-coming
Northeast Ohio playwrights.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> This year’s event will be featured in two parts with part one running February 6 through February 22, and part two running May 22
through June 7, 2025. New this year, we decided to present workshop readings where actors will perform with scripts in hand for the productions being workshopped in week one (Feb. 6-8). This enabled us to extend the opportunity to a few other playwrights
whose work is in an even earlier stage of development. The other plays will be staged and might have minimal sets, lighting, costumes, etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Test Flight is generously sponsored by Mellon Foundation, The Nord Family Foundation and John P. Murphy Foundation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">The first cohort of playwrights/projects include the following:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WEEK 1: February 6-8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">**Curtain Call: No Exit</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
Producer, Playwright & Director, Producer: Day Ash</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">Curtain Call: No Exit</span></em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is a horror comedy that tells three different stories from very different
points of view. These are situations where characters find themselves without an exit. Whether it’s psychological, physical or metaphorical, finding their way out of things can be a scary journey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i>**Handlebar Brakes<br>
</i></b>Playwright: Cole Tarantowski<br>
Producer & Director: Yuval Tal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">When Private Paul Bailey rushes into a WWI medical camp with his injured friend in tow, three soldiers and a medic care for them overnight. While the four deduce that the
soldier is dead, Bailey remains oblivious. After all, they’ve been talking all day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Ascension of Jordan L. Wells During the Total Lunar Eclipse of 2017</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">Writer: Dylan Todd Brown<br>
Producer, Director: Kyra Cutsail </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Ascension of Jordan L. Wells </span></i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">is a psychological horror that explores the thin line between belief,
sacrifice, and the unknown. During a camping trip under the 2017 total lunar eclipse, unraveling secrets and rising tensions force friends to confront their deepest fears—and the consequences of their choices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">These plays will be performed as readings with actors performing with scripts in hand.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Experts in a Dying Field<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Written and directed by Jonathon Morgan<br>
Produced by Mindy Childress Herman </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:103%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">A play about being fungi and being fun guys. It’s interactive, a little
weird, and ends with a sing-along of Queen’s 1978 classic, "Fat Bottomed Girls." </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WEEK 3: February 20-22 (A Double Bill)
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">Poems of An Angry Feminist</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
Produced and conceived by Fatima Matar </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">Poems of an Angry Feminist</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is a thought-provoking, multimedia performance, bringing together
poetry, music, dance, and imagery. With a strong feminist voice running through her poems, award-winning poet </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://fatimaalmatar.com/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#777777">Fatima
Matar</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"> gives a moving performance on themes of sexism, misogyny, domestic violence, sexual harassment at work, and social justice. Interested in capturing the human
experience, Fatima’s poetry also touches on her experience of migration, belonging, motherhood, loss, and depression. “Fatima’s performance has been described as powerful, profound, moving, spellbinding, and poignant. “</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Stars Made Me Gay: Queer Anthology Vol. 1</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
By Lauren Lash<br>
Directed by Kate Smith<br>
Produced by Jeannine Gaskin </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Stars Made Me Gay: Queer Anthology Vol. 1 </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#222222">by Lauren Lash is the debut installment of the
<i>Queer Anthology Project</i>, a powerful collection of monologues and scenes crafted from interviews with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This first volume shines a spotlight on the voices and experiences of bisexual/pansexual, lesbian, and transmasculine
people, capturing their heartfelt stories of identity, resilience, and the search for belonging. Through these narratives, <i>The Stars Made Me Gay </i>offers a moving exploration of queer longing and the quest for community. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">May 22 – June 7, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;border:none;padding:0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Unhinged: Burlesque Play on Modern Dating Struggles
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">by
<span style="color:black">Issa Vybe Productions</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Grandeza </span>
</i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Presented by </span>
<a href="https://www.cptonline.org/education/teatro-publico-de-cleveland/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Teatro Público de Cleveland</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Written & directed
by <span style="color:black">Ernesto Luna Camargo</span> and produced by Alejandro Martinez
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;border:none;padding:0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Nanny Project: You Can't Over Love Anything</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">
by Rev. Dr. Felicia V. Black, presented by Sankofa Sol Arts Inquiry Collective, produced & directed by Courtney L. Black</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;border:none;padding:0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Future NeverLand</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">
by Josiah Brit. produced & directed by Jimmie Woody</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Tickets will be on sale by the end of February 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext">TICKET & SHOW INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Presented
</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7pm in CPT’s James Levin Theatre, located at 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102, in the heart of the Gordon Square Arts District.
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext">EVERY TICKET is “</span></b><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/box-office/"><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Choose What You Pay</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext">”
starting at $1 and can be purchased </span></b><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/category/series/test-flight/"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">, or through
the CPT Box Office at 216.631.2727 ext. 501<b>.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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