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Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI)
Please continue to visit this website for comprehensive updates of all CPI’s activities. This HOME PAGE will always feature the upcoming New Voices Staged Readings.
For a complete program, including CPI Board Monthly Business Meeting, Informal Cold Reading / Playwriting Salon, and any other relevant CPI venues, visit the CALENDAR PAGE.
For Informal Cold Reading / Playwriting Salon, visit PLAYWRITING SALON PAGE
If you are a playwright, send us your new work; we are looking for good manuscripts!
CPI’s New Voices Staged Readings are performed at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Fifth Third Bank Theater (Black Box). Corner of Main and Seventh Streets.
Tickets are only $7 ($4 students). Reservations may be made in advance at Aronoff Center Box Office, or by calling 513-621-2787, or online at:
http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/index.jsp?eventDetail=1&event_id=1086
To avoid surcharge, get your tickets at the box office at normal work hours.
  
CPI's NEW VOICES STAGED READINGS
CPI concluded its 2009-2010 season of New Voices Series of staged readings.
The next season to begin September 14, 2010
http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/index.jsp?eventDetail=1&event_id=1086
CPI New Voices Staged Readings 
Tuesday, September 14, 2010, at 7:30 PM
Freud on the Couch
Written by Bob L. Lippman
Directed by Jim Waldfogle
On a Passover evening, as a Rabbi and his wife pore over Freud's fainting spells, the Rabbi is taken through his own tortured soul.
CAST:
Dennis Blom [RABBI] & Adrianne Underhill [WIFE]
About the Playwright – Bob Lippman
A psychologist in private practice in Kentucky, Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D., has had several essays on Sigmund Freud published, two in The Psychoanalytic Review. His monologue, Freud at the Crossroads in Rome, was staged at NYC’s Emerging Artists Theatre in May 2008; a related two-act play, And So You Thought You Knew Freud, was given a staged reading at the Back Stage Café in Elizabethtown, KY, in May 2006. His monologue, Homer, is in Play it Again! More one-act plays for students (Meriwether, 1993). Bob is an associate member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
About the Director – Jim Waldfogle
Jim is an award-winning actor and director, with an affinity for the classics, ranging from Shakespeare to Shaw to Samuel Beckett. Jim has directed a number of staged readings for Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative over the years, including A Stop in Paris, In the Rooms Where the Gods Repose, A Clear View of Heaven, Pure, What is Your Emergency?, and his own Spider Baby: The Musical. Jim has also directed shows with the Know Theatre, Milford Theatre Guilde, Tri-County Players, and Pegasus Players. His next project will be directing Twelve Angry Men for Wyoming Players.
The Garden
Written by David Loy
Directed by Partick Downey
The true scoop on the Adam and Eve story! Why were they really kicked out of the Garden?
Art by Kalman Kivkovich
CAST:
Casey Campbell [ADAM], Merritt Beischel [EVE], Steve Myers [SERPENT/GOD] & Patrick Downey [Narrator]
About the Playwright – David Loy
David is a professor of Buddhist and comparative philosophy, and also a Zen student and teacher. For four years he was the Besl Family Professor of ethics/religion and society at Xavier University. He has published many books and academic papers, and some children's stories, but The Garden is his first work for the theater.
About the Director – Patrick Downey
A graduate of Cincinnati’s School for Creative and Performing Arts, Patrick has been Directing, producing, performing and Designing for theaters in and around the Greater Cincinnati area for over 30 years. Some of his favorite Directing projects have been City of Angels for Cincinnati Music Theatre, The Diary of Anne Frank (revised edition) for Ovation Theatre Company, and his recent two-and-half-year project, producing and directing a trilogy of plays for The Village Players of Fort Thomas. Previous CPI association: One Freaky Afternoon in the Office Lunchroom.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010, at 7:30 PM
Beat the Bear
Written by Kevin Del Principe
Directed by Charlie Goetz
Jade returns home to care for her dying father who claims to be changed by religion. Jade must choose between her father’s life or that of her boyfriend’s. Can she forgive herself?
Art by Kalman Kivkovich
Brothers Keepers
Written by Kevin Del Principe
Directed by Charlie Goetz
Danny joins a fundamentalist Christian sect because he wants to grow in his faith. Instead of Christianity he finds control, and a conversion experience he never anticipated.
Lift Veil Find Veil
Written by Kevin Del Principe
Directed by Charlie Goetz
Beth believes her husband John is cheating, but she doesn’t suspect that he’s cheating with her best friend, Sunny. Their infidelity boils to the surface at a dinner party where three certainly is a crowd.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at 7:30 PM
Twisted Legacy
Written by Virginia Williams
Directed by Jim Stump
A young woman overcomes feelings of abandonment and self-mutilation when she develops a friendship with her elderly landlord who is a Holocaust survivor.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at 7:30 PM
Stairway to the Crown
Written by Barbara Harkness
Directed by Arnie Shayne
In early May 2009, a company embarked on the construction of stair railings and platforms from the top of the pedestal at the base of the Statue of Liberty to her crown. The work was completed for the Fourth of July, 2009, the first time the Lady was completely open to the public since 9/ll.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 7:30 PM
Court of Priests
Written by Irvon E. Clear
Directed by Francis Boyle
A poet gathers groups for judgment to heaven: complicates the process by including an abortionist and an apparent suicide bomber, explores the origin of the universe and demonstrates an evolving characteristic…a fascination with games.
Art by Kalman Kivkovich
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 7:30 PM
From Auschwitz to Cincinnati:
The Surviving Tunes
Written by Kalman Kivkovich
The play is based on the life of a phenomenal violinist and Holocaust survivor, Henry Meyer. We get a glimpse into one of the deepest and darkest pits of human history—recent history. We seize the enormous desire to survive against all odds. We witness a success story of one very lucky man. “I am a winner,” he often said, “with me, all their effort failed.”
Meet CPI's New Elected Officers
Elected to a 2-year term (May 2010-May 2012)
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Kalman Kivkovich . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandi Kivkovich . . . . . . . . . .Fred Rothzeid . . . . . . .Kevin Del Principe
President . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . Vice President. . . . . . . . . . . .Treasurer . . . . . . . . . .Secretary
Please visit the President's Corner to learn more about the team
 Please visit our PRESIDENT’S CORNER
CPI Playwriting Salon
NEXT at the SALON:
FREE EVENT!
Sunday, September 26, 2010, at 7:00 PM –
Cold Reading of a scripts-in-progress by Renee Alper & Duncan Forbes ; read by actors
FREE!!! Call for Reservations.
As the space is limited, CPI is taking reservations on a first-come first-served basis.
Please e-mail Chair, Sandi Kivkovich for reservations:
sandikivi2@cinci.rr.com, or call (513) 861-0004
We ask those who come, to bring an appetizer or beverage to share.
Location:
French Hall, University of Cincinnati, 2815 Commons Way (formerly 2824 Scioto Street), corner of W. University Ave. off Jefferson Ave, 4th Floor, Room 4614.
Directions:
It is on the East side of West UC campus. If you go on Jefferson Ave, park your car near intersection with University Ave. (Free parking on Jefferson Ave. / fee at the Garage). Walk toward the campus. Turn left at the rotunda (circle) and go on Commons Way to the 1st building on the right French Hall. Go in and take the elevator to the 4th floor. As you get out of the elevator, turn left to end of hall and then left again to end of hall and then right. Follow the signs. Look for room 4614.
Important Note: At times, Campus Security might lock the doors on Commons Way. If you find it to be the case, just go around the building,
counterclockwise
180°, and use the other door.
For MapQuest or Google:
French Hall’s actual address is 2815 Commons Way, but for MapQuest or Google enter the former address,
2824 Scioto Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219.
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