Ohio City Theatre Project and Cleveland Public Library present an abridged FREE performance of Incendiaries on Feb 4 at 11:00 am at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch, 1962 Stokes Blvd. The performance will introduce the first of 4 FREE theater workshops for actors and non-actors, which will continue on consecutive Saturdays at the MLK branch.

Basic info:

Performance/Talk Back: 2/4, 2017 @ 11 am

Workshop: Saturdays 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 (11 am - 1 pm)

Location: Cleveland Public Library Martin Luther King, Jr Branch 1962 Stokes Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106

Workshops open to teens and adults age 14+

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FREE ADMISSION

Workshop Description:

The workshop introduces theater creation techniques for actors and non-actors, with the goal of creating space for participants to explore and share their own response to the historic record of the 1966 Hough Uprising.

Instructor Team:

Ashley Aquilla, India Burton (both from the cast of OBJECTIVELY/REASONABLE: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice, 11/22/14) and activist Mario Pollard join OCTP Co-Director Pandora Robertson as workshop leaders.

About Incendiaries: The world premiere of Incendiaries was co-produced by Raymond Bobgan for Cleveland Public Theatre with Ohio City Theatre Project. Incendiaries was conceived and directed by Pandora Robertson.

Incendiaries Cast: Wesley Allen, Ashley Aquilla, Max Glenn, Laprise Johnson, Taylor Tucker and Stephanie Wilbert.

Talk back facilitator: Carmen Lane.

Creative production: Pandora Robertson (Director), Rob Peck (Lighting Designer), Ian Petroni (Set Design), Inda Blatch-Geib (Costume Designer), JamekaTerri Dent (Stage Manager) and Lauren Garson (Line Producer).

About Workshop Leaders:

Ashley Aquilla’s recent acting credits include OCTP's Incendiaries, and Playwright's Local's OBJECTIVELY/REASONABLE: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice, 11/22/14. Upcoming projects include Cleveland Public Theatre's Barbecue by Robert O'Hara. Ashley says, "I care about my people and my goal is to pour every drop of my resources into my community."

India Burton's recent acting credits include Playwright's Local's OBJECTIVELY/REASONABLE: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice, 11/22/14 and Dobama Theatre's An Octaroon. India's goal is to inspire workshop participants to shape their own story. "I want to be the muse to inspire change; injustice is my deplorable stimulant."

Mario Pollard is a community activist raised in Hough with deep family ties to the neighborhood. He is an advocate of the self-determination inherent in claiming and telling one's own story and is invested in helping others do the same.

About Creator/Director/Workshop Leader Pandora Robertson: Pandora is Co- Director at Ohio City Theatre Project (OCTP) where she co-produced Code Breakers for Broken Codes with Theater Ninjas and produced, directed and created Free Radical and The Night Sketchbook. Other recent credits include Mamai Theatre’s production of Woman and Scarecrow (director) (Cleveland Critic Circle Award “Superior Achievement” for direction and play), and Theater Ninjas’ [sic] (director). She was a Joan Yellen Horvitz 2011–2012 Director Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre. CPT credits include Incendiaries (director, creator) and 13 Most American Dreams (director, creator). Pandora was a 2016 Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellow. She says, "I am inspired by theater's potential to convene citizens and empower them to confront challenging contemporary issues within the parameters of an artistic arena."