Mac Wellman's Coming to Town!
Let's Put on a Play!
The Manhattan Project is pleased to join forces once again with our friends at Playwrights Local. We will be taking part in the Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival!
We will have four phenomenal Cleveland playwrights writing brand new ten-minute plays to be performed at the festival:
Kevin Latimer, Nakanaela Bell, Amanda VanAllen, and Angelo Maneage!
We need brilliant local actors to help them create these awesome and terrible plays!
Join us for our Meet & Greet at 8:00pm Monday, February 20 at Mahall's 20 Lanes!
Performance will be at 9:30pm Friday, March 24 outside Drinko Hall at Cleveland State University.
We hope to see you 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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