*Ensemble Theatre’s Stagewright’s Unit is thrilled to continue with our sixth Monday night*, of we hope many, as part of our *10 minute Play Reading Series via Zoom*, streamed LIVE on Ensemble Theatre’s Facebook page! During these uncertain times, practicing social distancing and mitigating the spread of Covid-19, we are finding creative ways to stay connected! Join us EVERY OTHER MONDAY @7PM and enjoy original works of local playwrights sharing their voices with our community and the world around us! Join us for a Q&A afterward. You can submit questions/comments via the ZOOM chat function or via the comments on our Facebook Livestream! *HERE IS THE LINE UP FOR OUR FIRST ZOOM OF OUR SERIES :: MONDAY NOVEMBER 30th @7pm :: * *Please Note: **We will be taking a break for December. We will resume the second Monday in January (11th) 2021. * *BLACK BOUGIE :: By Jeanne Madison ::* On the eve of their daughter’s cotillion, Claire and Louis Hopegoode, an upper middle class African American family, see their plans for the perfect debutante ball collide with a Black Lives Matter protest over the murder of another young Black man by police. The stakes are high when the Hopegoodes come face-to-face with a reality they thought they had escaped by moving to the suburbs. With sharp, and witty dialog this story will captivate from the first line to the surprise ending. *Peter Lawson Jones** *as Louis Hopegoode* :: *Treva Offutt **as Claire Hopegoode* :: *Rochelle Jackson-Days **as Marie Deadwyler *:: *Emily Terry* *as Evvie Hopegoode* :: *Robert Branch* as Sarge :: *Peter Ribar** as Officer Smith *:: *Taya Offutt Decker* *as Louis Hopegoode, Jr*. :: *Jeanne Madison* is an actress and writer. She is the recipient of the 2018 Cleveland Scene Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work in *Sassy Mamas* at Karamu House. Included in her favorite roles are: *The Velocity of Autumn *at Karamu House; *Picnic* at Oberlin Theater Festival; *The Oldest Profession* at convergence continuum, *Talking With* at Weathervane Playhouse, *Left In Ink* at Cleveland Public Theater, and roles with the 2017 & 2018 Cleveland Shakespeare Festival; as well as* Prelude to a Kiss* at Ensemble Theater. She holds a BA and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, and recently completed Scene Study and Playwriting Master Classes at The Cleveland Play House. She is thrilled to have her work produced in Ensemble Theater’s 10 Minute Play Reading Series. *KEEPERS OF THE FLAME :: By Cynthia Dettelbach ::* In a nursing home, on the eve of their respective holidays, a nurse and her patient break the rules as they become,for one moment in time, each other’s cherished family. *Marcia Mandell* *as Ruth Gold* :: *Mary Werntz **as Mary O’Shawnessy* :: *Agnes Herrmann* *will read Stage Directions :: *Cindy Dettelbach* has been a member of Stagewrights since its inception some ten years ago. Several of her plays, including *“For the Love of a Leica” *and *“Choices"* were produced as part of the Colombi New Plays Festival held at Ensemble each March. Her play, “Invisible,” slated for opening in late March 2020, was sidelined by Covid19. Cindy has had her scripts “No Good Deed” & “Rodeo in the Dialysis Room” read as part of this series! *A BLAST FROM THE PAST :: By Joey Bauer ::* This dark comedy, a two-hander, focuses on a Cleveland author and a former lover, now in their 70's, whom haven't connected for some forty years. Fate brings them back together, and their reunion is loaded with laughs and tears, as they let their respective skeletons out of the closet to dance up a storm. *Agnes Herrmann* **as Chantal* ::* Paul Slimak** *as Joey *:: *Joey Bauer* is a native son of Lower East Side Cleveland’s Kinsman Road, our nation’s highest civilian honor, he studied undergrad at Ohio State and grad at Kent State, had a stint in the Marines and passed the latter ‘70’s on faculty at the University of Akron and his hometown’s Cuyahoga Community College, hosting a popular talk show on which he interviewed visiting entertainers, Marvin Gaye among them. Determined to cash a ticket for the Hollywood Trifecta: *“Money for Nothing,” “Forever Young” *and *“Starlet Sleepovers,” *he relocated to Los Angeles in 1980, where he imparted academics to teen stars, including Drew Barrymore, the day job, and wrote for film and stage, the passion. His play, *“On the Wall,” *presented by L.A.’s Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, was a hit. Also,* “Hotel California,”* his drama, and *“Hollywood Cowboy,”* his bedroom farce, among others, were both read at Cleveland’s Ensemble Theatre. Yours truly’s movie-set adventures at the Tinseltown Dream Factory were defined by such extremes of thrill and spill that he recorded them in a risqué memoir, * “Hollywood Raw,” *published by S.P.I. Books, landing him on several national television and radio programs. *(*Denotes Member of Actors' Equity Association)* *CLICK HERE TO NAVIGATE TO ENSEMBLE THEATRE'S FACEBOOK PAGE TO WATCH OUR LIVE STREAM @7PM, Monday <https://www.facebook.com/EnsembleTheatreCleveland/>*. Email us at* plays@ensemble-theatre.org <plays@ensemble-theatre.org>* for a ZOOM link if that is the only platform via which you can attend the reading or if you have any questions. No phone calls please. We recommend it if you are able to watch via Ensemble’s FACEBOOK LIVE. Tune in @7pm. ALL OF THE PLAYS READING AS PART OF OUR MONDAY SERIES ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC. NO DONATION IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE! DONATIONS TO ENSEMBLE THEATRE ARE ALWAYS WELCOME, ESPECIALLY DURING THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES. *CLICK HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TO ENSEMBLE THEATRE!* <http://www.ensembletheatrecle.org/donations> WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT! *CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR 10 MINUTE PLAY SERIES <http://www.ensembletheatrecle.org/10-minute-readings-zoom>*, OUR PLAYWRIGHTS, AND UPDATES TO OUR LINE UP FOR EACH MONDAY. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ENSEMBLE THEATRE, OUR NEW SERIES, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN OUR VIRTUAL AUDIENCE. Stay Safe! Stay Healthy! We look forward to when we can meet again in person!