Cleveland Public Theatre Soft Launch i <https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/soft-launch-2025/>s a weekend-long performance festival/conference that seeks nothing less than a complete reinvention of what theatre can be. Installation art, immersive and participatory performances, improvised music composition, and solo shows disguised as multimedia breakdowns and yoga classes—all these types of projects and more have found a home in SoftLaunch. The rule is: If your project does not fit the normal theatre mode, it belongs in SoftLaunch. Radio on the Lake Theatre <www.radioonthelaketheatre.org>is thrilled to have been chosen to be a part of it and says break a leg to all our fellow participants! Look for us on the Main Stage (behind the curtain) and experience *"audio arts for a new generation" * Performances are 7:30 and 9:00 pm each night and involve audience interaction so come prepared to be part of the story. *The **Birds: An Audio Deconstruction* *The Birds: An Audio Deconstruction *takes a classic script—the Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s *The Birds*—and strips it down to the basic elements of audio design and audience immersion. A reexamination of the traditional radio play form. Lead Artist: Caroline Breder-Watts (with John Watts) Performers: Caroline Breder-Watts, Madeleine Watts, Ygal Kaufman Lead Artist Bio: Caroline Breder-Watts is the Managing and Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Radio on the Lake Theatre, Northeast Ohio’s only theater company exclusively dedicated to the audio arts. She has enjoyed a diverse career in the arts for the past 30 years, with projects in radio, theater, and film, as well as host, producer, arts reporter and fundraiser roles at public media stations in Miami and Cleveland. She is thrilled to be making her CPT debut with this project. Margaret Reardon | she/her Development Coordinator Radio on the Lake Theatre (216) 802 8595 radioonthelaketheatre.org <https://www.radioonthelaketheatre.org/> Support us here <https://www.radioonthelaketheatre.org/donate>