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New Voices Stage Readings continue...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Embers from the Ashes: A Girl's Holocaust Diary written by Kalman Kivkovich, directed by Tom Manning. One Night Only. New Voices stage reading. Embers from the Ashes: loosely based on a recently found journal. A 14-year-old Israeli
girl discovers having a sister who had perished in the Holocaust. Decades
later, in 2006, she learns that a Polish woman had found her sister's notebook,
but kept it a secret for 61 years. Cast includes: Stephanie Brait, Michael G. Bath, Alana Ghent, Emily Matlack, David Speer, Kate Wilford and
Herb DuVal. Violin: Alberta Schneider (KSO). Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theatre, corner of Main St. and 7th St., downtown, Cincinnati, OH. 7:30 pm. Tickets only $7 adults, $4 students at door night of performance. Reservations in advance at Aronoff Center Box Office, or by calling 513-621-2787, or online at www.CincinnatiArts.org
Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Teachers Left Behind --Book, Music and Lyrics by Bridget Ossmann,
Directed by Bekka Eaton. One Night Only. New Voices stage reading. Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theatre, 7:30 pm. Teachers Left Behind is a comedy with music, dealing with state testing, No
Child Left Behind, funding, curriculum, parents, administrators and of course, students, through the eyes of Virginia Budge, an aging, meddlesome, retired
teacher. Cast:
Joan M. Kirsch, Michael Potter, Jordan Eaton, Judy Carrier, Amber Samblanet &
John Vanderplough. Shadows: Jordan Eaton, Anna Endsley, Beth Endsley, Clare
Sunderman & Alex Rouse.
Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theatre, corner of Main St. and 7th St., downtown, Cincinnati, OH. 7:30 pm. Tickets only $7 adults, $4 students at door night of performance. Reservations in advance at Aronoff Center Box Office, or by calling 513-621-2787, or online at www.CincinnatiArts.org
Manuscripts Wanted! We are accepting manuscripts now for our New Voices Series stage readings series--see the New Voices Series page of this site.
CPI Member News...
***Congrats to Arnie Shayne...his Blue Chip Players will produce the Cincinnati area premiere of Address Unknown, a riveting holocaust drama set in Munich and San Francisco, from the the best-selling novel by the late Katherine Kressman Taylor at the Monmouth Theatre, Newport, KY June 4-7, 2008. Arny Stoller and Arnie Shayne star.
***Congrats to Phil Paradise...his drama Footprints of the Polar Bear will receive its Kentucky premiere June 4-7, 2008 at the Monmouth Theatre in Newport, KY produced by the Blue Chip Players. Arnie Shayne, winner of the 2008 Cincinnati Directors Competition, will direct. Burt McCollom, Jeffrey K. Miller, Christen Mathern, and Stepehn Cox star.
***Congrats to John Howland...two of his poems were recently accepted for publication in the journal Poetry East for Autumn of 2009.
***Congrats to Alan Jozwiak...his ten-minute play set on the Staten
Island Ferry was recently part of the Scenes from Staten Island ’08, at Sundog Theatre in Staten Island, New York.
***Congrats to Arnie Shayne...he is acting in a stage reading of the new play FLUTTERBIES by Frank Christopher, at the Producers Club in the Big Apple. Arnie plays a 110 year old grandfather
with a sharp mind, and a foul mouth.
***Congratulations to Arnie Shayne, Director, and Phil Paradise, playwright--their Footprints of the Polar Bear won the Grand Prize at this year's Cincinnati Directors Competition, March 16th. Footprints of the Polar Bear, written by Paradise, CPI President, was produced by Blue Chip Players. The Cincinnati Directors Competition was presented by New Edgecliff Theatre.
***Congratulations to Denise Stoner-Barone...she recently sold her young adult novel, entitled House
of Wacks, to the Climbing Rose line of Wild Rose Press. Publication date TBA. Her penname is Denise Gwen.
***Congratulations to Cisco Montgomery's...His one-act Kin Under the Skin, a comedy about reparations for slavery, was performed recently at The Rudyard Kipling in Louisville.
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