CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NORTHEAST OHIO MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING, PRESENTS THE 2018 NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 8 - 17 Convergence-continuum presents four world-premiere plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the _2018_ _NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL__. _The Festival features two full-length plays and two ten-minute world-premiere plays. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the seventh year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival. FEB 8, 9, 10, THURS-SAT AT 8 PM: _SEXLESS IN SEATTLE,__ _a ten-minute comedy by Jonathan Wlodarski, is a lonely, lovelorn romp in a Seattle apartment. Directed by Clyde Simon. _MURDER AT THE PALACE_ _THEATER__, _a two-act play by Robert M.K. Daniels, a comic, vaudeville murder mystery, is a satiric look at what people will go through for their art, and the cost of being famous. There are two sides to every coin; good and bad, light and dark, art and fame. And sometimes the price of fame can be murder. Directed by David Munnell. FEB 15, 16, 17, THURS-SAT AT 8 PM: _RENDEZVOUS POINT__, _ by Adam Rounick, is a ten-minute play about three professional criminals carrying out an elaborate heist. The only hitch is that two of them don’t know the plan. Through playful back-and-forth banter and tangential diatribes, the clueless crooks race against the clock to salvage the scheme. Directed by Scott Zolkowski. _CONTRADICTIONARY LIES_, by Katie Wallace, is part dark comedy, part docudrama two-act play, and follows failed rocker Jimbo and his estranged wife Kelly as they sort through the remnants of their failed marriage. As nostalgia kicks up old emotions, Jimbo is visited by his guardian angel in the form of his idol, Kurt Cobain. Directed by Beau Reinker. _The 2018 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival _opens Thursday, Feb. 8 and runs Thurs, Fri and Sat at 8 p.m. through Feb. 17 at the LIMINIS THEATER, 2438 SCRANTON RD., CLEVELAND, OH 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students. Tickets and information are available at convergence-continuum.org [1] or 216-687-0074. Links: ------ [1] http://convergence-continuum.org