LIVE Podcast recording Feb. 24 at CPT - Free Admission!
*Please join us for a LIVE Recording:* *The* *Mystery* *of* *Easter* *Island* *podcast* *FREE ADMISSION!* *Monday, February 24th * *7:00pm* *The Church at Cleveland Public Theatre* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 Join us for a live recording of Episode 2 (“Building Mana”) of *The Mystery of Easter Island, *a new audio fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. *The Mystery of Easter Island* follows Routledge as she travels from England, spends more than a year on Easter Island, and then travels back home — where, celebrated, she struggles with incipient mental illness and to recreate the sense of purpose she felt on the island. Routledge made significant progress in unraveling the enigmas of Easter Island’s forgotten culture, its un-deciphered language and its famous stone “giant heads.” *The Mystery of Easter Island *was a Fiction Podcast Finalist at the Austin Film Festival. *FEATURING:* Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Andrew Narten, John Busser, Amiee Collier and more, with live foley by Andy Tarr Written by Justin Glanville Directed by Mindy Childress Herman Sound Design and Original Music by Obediya Jones-Darrell *The Mystery of Easter Island* is produced by Footsteps Media in partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre. Listen to the pilot or learn more about the series at www.footstepsmediallc.com *ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM:* Justin Glanville is a public radio and television reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His pilot script for *The Mystery of Easter Island* was a finalist in the 2017 Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous fiction podcast, *Munchen, Minnesota*, followed a gay librarian, his daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper Midwest. You can check out more of his work at http://www.oursidewalk.com and http://www.justinglanville.com. Mindy Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast *Munchen, Minnesota*. Obediya Jones-Darrell, the recipient of Cleveland Public Theatre's 2019-20 Kulas Theatre Composer Initiative, is a music composer, sound design artist and playwright who has won two National Campus and Community Radio Association Awards for his Canadian radio plays. His short film *Energy* won Outstanding Music Video in Cleveland’s Short Sweet Film Festival (2019), and he was recently named one of Canada’s 20 Emerging Diverse filmmakers by the Toronto Reelworld Film Festival. Mindy Childress Herman *www.footstepsmediallc.com <http://www.footstepsmediallc.com>*
*Please join us for a LIVE Recording:* *The* *Mystery* *of* *Easter* *Island* *podcast* *FREE ADMISSION!* *Monday, February 24th * *7:00pm* *The Church at Cleveland Public Theatre* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 Join us for a live recording of Episode 2 (“Building Mana”) of *The Mystery of Easter Island, *a new audio fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. *The Mystery of Easter Island* follows Routledge as she travels from England, spends more than a year on Easter Island, and then travels back home — where, celebrated, she struggles with incipient mental illness and to recreate the sense of purpose she felt on the island. Routledge made significant progress in unraveling the enigmas of Easter Island’s forgotten culture, its un-deciphered language and its famous stone “giant heads.” *The Mystery of Easter Island *was a Fiction Podcast Finalist at the Austin Film Festival. *FEATURING:* Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Andrew Narten, John Busser, Josh Brown, Cat Kenney and Amiee Collier with live foley by Andy Tarr Written by Justin Glanville Directed by Mindy Childress Herman Sound Design and Original Music by Obediya Jones-Darrell *The Mystery of Easter Island* is produced by Footsteps Media in partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre. Listen to the pilot or learn more about the series at www.footstepsmediallc.com *ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM:* Justin Glanville is a public radio and television reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His pilot script for *The Mystery of Easter Island* was a finalist in the 2017 Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous fiction podcast, *Munchen, Minnesota*, followed a gay librarian, his daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper Midwest. You can check out more of his work at http://www.oursidewalk.com and http://www.justinglanville.com. Mindy Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast *Munchen, Minnesota*. Obediya Jones-Darrell, the recipient of Cleveland Public Theatre's 2019-20 Kulas Theatre Composer Initiative, is a music composer, sound design artist and playwright who has won two National Campus and Community Radio Association Awards for his Canadian radio plays. His short film *Energy* won Outstanding Music Video in Cleveland’s Short Sweet Film Festival (2019), and he was recently named one of Canada’s 20 Emerging Diverse filmmakers by the Toronto Reelworld Film Festival. Mindy Childress Herman *www.footstepsmediallc.com <http://www.footstepsmediallc.com>*
*Please join us for a LIVE Recording:* *The* *Mystery* *of* *Easter* *Island* *podcast* *FREE ADMISSION!* *Tuesday, March 3rd * *7:30pm* *The Church at Cleveland Public Theatre* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 Join us for a live recording of Episode 4 ("The Avenida Palace") of *The Mystery of Easter Island, *a new audio fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. *The Mystery of Easter Island* follows Routledge as she travels from England, spends more than a year on Easter Island, and then travels back home — where, celebrated, she struggles with incipient mental illness and to recreate the sense of purpose she felt on the island. Routledge made significant progress in unraveling the enigmas of Easter Island’s forgotten culture, its un-deciphered language and its famous stone “giant heads.” *The Mystery of Easter Island *was a Fiction Podcast Finalist at the Austin Film Festival. The first season will be recorded live in front of an audience at Cleveland Public Theatre. Look for the podcast to launch in early April 2020. *FEATURING:* Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Joshua Brown, Tom Horton and Felicita Sanchez, with live foley by Andy Tarr Written by Justin Glanville Directed by Mindy Childress Herman Sound Design and Original Music by Obediya Jones-Darrell *The Mystery of Easter Island* is produced by Footsteps Media in partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre. Listen to the pilot or learn more about the series at www.footstepsmediallc.com *ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM:* Justin Glanville is a public radio and television reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His pilot script for *The Mystery of Easter Island* was a finalist in the 2017 Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous fiction podcast, *Munchen, Minnesota*, followed a gay librarian, his daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper Midwest. You can check out more of his work at http://www.oursidewalk.com and http://www.justinglanville.com. Mindy Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast *Munchen, Minnesota*. Obediya Jones-Darrell, the recipient of Cleveland Public Theatre's 2019-20 Kulas Theatre Composer Initiative, is a music composer, sound design artist and playwright who has won two National Campus and Community Radio Association Awards for his Canadian radio plays. His short film *Energy* won Outstanding Music Video in Cleveland’s Short Sweet Film Festival (2019), and he was recently named one of Canada’s 20 Emerging Diverse filmmakers by the Toronto Reelworld Film Festival. Mindy Childress Herman *www.footstepsmediallc.com <http://www.footstepsmediallc.com>*
*Please join us for a LIVE Recording:* *The* *Mystery* *of* *Easter* *Island* *podcast* *FREE ADMISSION!* *Tuesday, March 3rd * *7:30pm* *The Church at Cleveland Public Theatre* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6407 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 Join us for a live recording of Episode 4 ("The Avenida Palace") of *The Mystery of Easter Island, *a new audio fiction podcast based on the extraordinary life of ethnographer Katherine Routledge. *The Mystery of Easter Island* follows Routledge as she travels from England, spends more than a year on Easter Island, and then travels back home — where, celebrated, she struggles with incipient mental illness and to recreate the sense of purpose she felt on the island. Routledge made significant progress in unraveling the enigmas of Easter Island’s forgotten culture, its un-deciphered language and its famous stone “giant heads.” *The Mystery of Easter Island *was a Fiction Podcast Finalist at the Austin Film Festival. The first season will be recorded live in front of an audience at Cleveland Public Theatre. Look for the podcast to launch in early April 2020. *FEATURING:* Christine McBurney, Brian Pedaci, Joshua Brown, Tom Horton, Santino Vincent, Felicita Sanchez and Eva Brettrager with live foley by Andy Tarr Written by Justin Glanville Directed by Mindy Childress Herman Sound Design and Original Music by Obediya Jones-Darrell *The Mystery of Easter Island* is produced by Footsteps Media in partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre. Listen to the pilot or learn more about the series at www.footstepsmediallc.com *ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM:* Justin Glanville is a public radio and television reporter/producer for ideastream, the PBS and NPR affiliate in Cleveland, and has previously worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, as an urban planner, and an independent producer for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. His pilot script for *The Mystery of Easter Island* was a finalist in the 2017 Austin International Film Festival fiction podcast competition. His previous fiction podcast, *Munchen, Minnesota*, followed a gay librarian, his daughter, and an urban planner battling a supernatural invasion in the Upper Midwest. You can check out more of his work at http://www.oursidewalk.com and http://www.justinglanville.com. Mindy Childress Herman is a director and producer who specializes in collaborating with writers to develop new work in theatre, television and audio drama. Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally as a theatre director, producer, performer, stage manager, staff member and board member. She directed and produced several critically-acclaimed site specific tours for Charenton Theatre Company, where she served as Producing Director for three seasons. Since 2007, she has been the Director of The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theatre, a monthly series that supports new work by playwrights, poets and screenwriters. She previously collaborated with Glanville on the serialized fiction podcast *Munchen, Minnesota*. Obediya Jones-Darrell, the recipient of Cleveland Public Theatre's 2019-20 Kulas Theatre Composer Initiative, is a music composer, sound design artist and playwright who has won two National Campus and Community Radio Association Awards for his Canadian radio plays. His short film *Energy* won Outstanding Music Video in Cleveland’s Short Sweet Film Festival (2019), and he was recently named one of Canada’s 20 Emerging Diverse filmmakers by the Toronto Reelworld Film Festival. Mindy Childress Herman *www.footstepsmediallc.com <http://www.footstepsmediallc.com>*
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