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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">cleveland PUBLIC theatre</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Presents
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/showin-up-black-2/"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Showin’
Up Black</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">By Jeanne Madison</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Directed by Jimmie Woody<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk100678609"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Through March 8, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">After a sold-out run in the theatre’s popular annual new play development series Test Flight in 2023, performances are selling out
for the show’s full run! Advance ticket purchases are highly recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Description:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
On the eve of their daughter's cotillion, the Hopegoodes, an affluent African American family in Cleveland, see their plans for the perfect debutante ball collide with a Black Lives Matter protest. As the protest gets nearer, secrets and competing desires
get shaken loose, tearing at the fabric of the family, challenging what, exactly, it is to be Black. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ENSEMBLE:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Ashley Aquilla, Drew Pope,
Tamicka Scruggs, Makayla Smith, Darryl Tatum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CREATIVE PRODUCTION TEAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">Director:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">
Jimmie Woody<br>
<b>Producer:</b> Raymond Bobgan<br>
<b>Line Producer:</b> Kadijah Wingo<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scenic Designer</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">: Richard Morris
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Costume Designer & Props Designer:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
Mia Jones </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sound Designer:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vince Tyree</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lighting Designer:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> TL Codella</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">Free Bev Friday – </span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">Every Friday night at CPT is Free Bev Friday when a selection of free
beverages is served after the performance. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ticket And Show Information</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tickets for
<i>Showin’ Up Black</i></span><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">can be purchased</span><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">at
</span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> through the theater’s Choose-What-You-Pay
option which allows patrons to pay what they’d like with no handling fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Check out a preview of the show from Channel 5
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzvoF5pXLXw&t=2s">here</a>. For more information and interviews with the playwright click
<a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/showin-up-black-2/">
here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Description automatically generated"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk93062300"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">The
Gordon Square Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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