Calling for Submissions! Between 1942 and 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer gathered the most brilliant minds of the age at Los Alamos, New Mexico to create something awesome and terrible. The Manhattan Project - Cleveland Lab seeks to do the same for the Cleveland stage. Well, America voted, and loser gets to be president anyway. On January 20 the United States will inaugurate our 45th president and first Manchurian candidate. We at Manhattan Project <http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=093bd6d90a&e=c3ea71f0f7> would like to welcome him in our own fashion, with rude, unapologetic theatre. The Manhattan Project is pleased to announce that we are hosting an Inaugural Ball <http://facebook.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=ea7caba971&e=c3ea71f0f7> at Mahall's 20 Lanes <http://facebook.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=9bfb7db031&e=c3ea71f0f7> in Lakewood <http://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=24718b1d6d5f7c398165fdc7b&id=5ddaef9e87&e=c3ea71f0f7> on Tuesday, January 17. We're doing things differently for this event. Rather than our typical Meet & Greet with random actor/playwright match-ups, we want to hear how YOU want to welcome our new Comrade President! Are you a poet or a storyteller? Do you have an angry rant you want to get off your chest? Do you want to scream? Did you write an angry song about the election? Have you written a play already and have a team of actors? For the first time ever--God help us!--The Manhattan Project is seeking submissions! We want to hear from playwrights, actors, monologists, musicians, dancers, teachers, mothers, scientists, baristas, ANYONE who needs to express their rage, or look for hope, or show their defiance in the face of the most disastrous election in US history. If you have a proposal please email The Manhattan Project at TrinityCrater@gmail.com with the following: - Title - Participating artists and contact info. - Genre (play, monologue, poem, song, etc) - Length of the piece in minutes (10 min max) - A *no more then 300 word* description of the piece Be creative! Be crazy! Please be brief! Keep in mind the Manhattan Project's minimalist philosophy; we will have a stage and a microphone and not much more. *Submission deadline is December 23.* 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. If you'd like to participate, please RSVP at TrinityCrater@gmail.com or introduce yourself at out next event. *Some additional notes on the play lab:* - In the spirit of shoe-string theatre, these 10-minute plays should have a budget of $0.00. - Playwrights will be directing the plays, or an actor from the team can volunteer to do so. - It's up to each team to schedule rehearsals together. Based on experience, it shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours of rehearsal time to get these plays on their feet. - Playwrights are invited in advance of the Meet & Greet. - *Playwrights are invited based on participation in past Manhattan Project events, so please come to our events so we can get to know you!*