Thank Heaven!
April is Manhattan Project's birthday, and like every year, we're doing something special to celebrate.
This year The Manhattan Project is excited to host our first (and most likely last) Purity Ball! We're pleased to have some excellent Cleveland playwrights writing about fathers and daughters this April, including Claire Robinson May, Arwen Mitchell, Amy Schwabauer, Krysia Orlowski, Rachel Baird, and Catie O'Keefe!
We need some awesome actors to help bring this father-daughter dance...wedding...whatever to life.
Join us for our Meet & Greet at 8:00pm on Monday, April 3 at Mahall's 20 Lanes.Performance will be Monday, April 24, also at Mahall's.We hope to see you all there!What exactly is The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab?
The Manhattan Project is a low-stakes, nonthreatening place for actors and playwrights to meet and work together.
Based on the Theatre Lab model taught at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and inspired by The Brooklyn Generator in New York, The Manhattan Project wants to introduce Cleveland actors and playwrights to each other by organizing a bi-monthly production of brand new 10-minute plays.
Participating artists will meet early in the month and will be broken into teams, each with one playwright. The playwright will then be given a writing prompt to write a new 10-minute play based on the prompt and including all the team's actors. The rest of the evening the team members will get to know each other and get a feel for each other's skills and voices.
The teams will reconvene later in the month to perform these plays for each other.
These 10-minute plays are not an end in themselves. Through these small collaborations we hope to build relationships between the two most vulnerable artists in theatre; the actors who put themselves on stage and the playwrights who pour themselves onto the page. Perhaps these 10-minute plays will grow into longer works or maybe these collaborations will become partnerships on larger projects.
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