New Plays, New Voices, New Talents
2012 - 2012 - 2012
 
Always scroll down for updates . . .
SEE the latest NEWS about:
CPI New Voices Staged Readings
CPI Playwriting Salon
CPI Special Events
Newly Designed CPI Website
Announcing this makes me dance . . .
 
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 normally performed at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Fifth-Third Bank Theater (Black Box), corner of Main and Seventh Streets. Occasionally they are performed at the Jarson-Kaplan Theater, 650 Walnut Street.
Tickets are only $ 8. 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=1207
(Page address changes each season.)
To avoid surcharge, get your tickets at the box office at normal work hours.
  
CPI's NEW VOICES STAGED READINGS
2011-2012 season
September 13, 2011 - May 22, 2012
CPI New Voices Staged Readings 
at the Aronoff Center
  
 
   
  
 
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:30 PM –
Jarson-Kaplan Theater
The Fool
Written by Fred Rothzeid
Directed by Charlie Goetz
Stage Manager: Michelle Rothzeid
In 2001 Enron collapsed. Congress reacted by writing hundreds of pages detailing new rules and regulations to avoid something like that happening in the future. In 2008 Leman Brothers collapsed. Congress reacted by writing thousands of additional pages detailing rules and regulations to avoid something like that happening in the future. But perhaps what’s really needed is to take a page from the past. The King’s Fool was free to ridicule the folly, absurdity and corruption of those in power. Could a Corporate Fool save today’s masters of the universe from themselves? More importantly could the Fool actually criticize a CEO without losing his headcount?
Tickets are only $ 8
Reservations may be made in advance at Aronoff Center Box Office,
or by calling 513-621-2787, or online
http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/index.jsp?eventDetail=1&event_id=1207
CAST:
Ben Greenberg [JOHN LANDSMAN], Arnie Shayne THOMAS BIGGS], Lauren Showen [KATE], Ryan Fissel [GARY GOODMAN], Elaine Wilson [MRS. GREENE].
Stage Manager: Michelle Rothzeid
Sound: Mike Goetz
CPI Archive Photographer: J. Lee Rasmussen
About the Playwright – Fred Rothzeid
Fred is a New York transplant who developed a passion for writing poetry while in college. After receiving his MBA he discovered he had a knack for composing songs late one night while taking a break from analyzing financial statements. He wrote a cabaret, Occupational Hazards and Other Aggravations, which was performed at regional theater on Long Island, NY. More recently his musical New York in June for which he wrote book, lyrics and music was performed at Claremont McKenna College in California. His play Irene (based on the book “The Longing Pier” written by Rose A. Adkins) received a public staged reading in April 2010. Fred was elected Treasurer of CPI in May 2010. He currently writes liturgy and composes songs for Congregation Beth Adam in Loveland, Ohio. Fred maintains that any similarity between his previous corporate life and this play is purely intentional. He can be contacted by anyone wanting to share a critique of his play or business acumen at: frothzeid@precisiontemp.com.
About the Director – Charlie Goetz
Charlie, after performing in theater, films and on TV for a half century, finds his first effort as a playwright, The Best Intentions, a Cincinnati Playwrights' Initiative "Best of New Voices" winner. Charlie's acting credits range from roles in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick for Ruth (Tobacco Road) Hunter's New York summer stock company, to Shakespeare presentations in New York (his natal place) and in the Cincinnati region. Locally, he has worked with Cincinnati Playhouse, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (ETC), Dayton's Human Race, the Cincinnati Opera, Showboat Majestic, and Kincaid Regional Theatre. La Comedia audiences have seen him in 61 offerings there. His TV portrayals in Multimedia Specials have earned him two Emmys. For CPI, he directed Irene, another of Fred Rothzeid's plays, as well as A Play of Seeming Complexity, Beat the Bear, Brothers Keepers and Life Veil Find Veil.
3 performances, July 19-21, 2012 at 7:30 PM –
Fifth-Third Bank Theater
The best Intentions
Written by Charlie Goetz
Directed by Mary Jo Beresford
Stage Manager: R. Chris Lee
CPI Producer: Arnie Shayne
Winner of 2011 "The best of CPI New Voices"
Mom tries to keep peace between contrasting adult sisters. She suffers a stroke, however, and her care becomes an issue--and, for one sister, a redemptive opportunity. Conflicting needs complicate the lives of all three women, and muddy everyone's efforts to "do the right thing."
Tickets are only $ 15
Reservations may be made in advance at Aronoff Center Box Office,
or by calling 513-621-2787, or online
http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/index.jsp?eventDetail=1&event_id=1207
on sale soon
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.…”
CAST:
TBA
About the Playwright – Charlie Goetz
Charlie, after performing in theater, films and on TV for a half century, finds his first effort as a playwright, The Best Intentions, a Cincinnati Playwrights' Initiative "Best of New Voices" winner. Charlie's acting credits range from roles in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick for Ruth (Tobacco Road) Hunter's New York summer stock company, to Shakespeare presentations in New York (his natal place) and in the Cincinnati region. Locally, he has worked with Cincinnati Playhouse, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (ETC), Dayton's Human Race, the Cincinnati Opera, Showboat Majestic, and Kincaid Regional Theatre. La Comedia audiences have seen him in 61 offerings there. His TV portrayals in Multimedia Specials have earned him two Emmys. For CPI, he directed Fred Rothzeid's Irene, Alan Jozwiak's A Play of Seeming Complexity and three short plays by Kevin Del Principe, who is now studying screenwriting in California. Despite all this, Charlie styles himself as being (in radio personality Bob Jones' words) "in the twilight of a mediocre career." But he is thankful, because it's better than having had no career at all. Charlie thanks CPI, Arnie and Kalman for brightening twilight time.
About the Director – Mary Jo Beresford
Mary Jo received a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Edgecliff College and an M.F.A. in Acting/Directing from the University of Cincinnati/College Conservatory of Music. She has performed and stage managed in several regional theatres and directed shows for many different Greater-Cincinnati companies. Mary Jo is beginning her 30th year as a faculty member of the NKU Department of Theatre and Dance, and while serving in the classroom, she has also directed many productions for NKU. Previous CPI Associations: Generations Passing, Southern Exposures and Bedside Manners.
Meet CPI's New Elected Officers
Elected to a 2-year term (May 2010-May 2012)
 . . . .  . . . .  . . . .
Kalman Kivkovich . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandi Kivkovich . . . . . . . . . .Fred Rothzeid . . . . . . .Dennis Blom
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
I acknowledge
Dan Cohen and the folks at Cinstages.com
for the great job they do for the locale theater community and of course for CPI.
Kalman Kivkovich, CPI President
NEXT at the SALON:
TBA
CPI Members' News Highlights
Congratulations to David bezona
David, an actor, opera singer and music director, provides Cincinnati with the FREE chamber concert series, "Music at Ascension," now in its 7th season. Location: Ascension Lutheran Church under the leadership of music director, David Bezona. 513-237-3636. Free parking. Next Concert May 26, 2012, at 7 PM - 7333 Pfeiffer Road, Montgomery, Ohio 45242.
Congratulations to Angela Forbes
Angela's 10-minute play, "Flight Path," was one of eight selected by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) for inclusion in its New Play Development Workshop, part of the annual ATHE conference in Washington, DC, Aug. 1-5. Angela has been assigned a director, a dramaturg and actors who will help workshop the play and then present it as a script-in-hand production with the other seven plays on the last day of the conference.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy’s full-length romantic comedy about a quirky Jewish family The Snowflake Theory (CPI New Voices 2005) will be produced May 10, 2012 at the Bard's Town Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.
Shows: May 10-13 & 17-20. All performances at 7:30 PM. Tickets $15-16. www.thebardstowntheatre.org. For more information about Nancy's plays and activity www.nancygallclayton.net
Nancy's "Mama's Laundry Soap" will have a reading in New York as part of the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays, on May 17, 2012 at noon, at Workshop Theater's Jewel Theatre. Tickets are $5. For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit http://juneteenthlegacytheatre.com/blog/.
Aaaaaaaaand Nancy's futuristic short comedy "Aphrodite at the ER" will be produced in New York during the Looking Glass Theater Spring Forum, June 7-10, 2012, at 422 W. 57th Street. Tickets are $15. For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit http://thelookingglasstheatre.homestead.com/ForS12.html.
Congratulations to Jim Waldfogle
Jim will soon appear in “Arsenic and Old Lace” on the Showboat Majestic.
Dates: June 13-16, 20-23, 27-30 – 8:00 pm / June 17 / July 1 – 2:00 pm / June 24 – 2:00 and 7:00 pm. More information can be found at: http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com/sbm/CurrentSeason.aspx.
Congratulations to Tatiana (Tajči) Cameron
Tajci is celebrating her 900th Concert in her “I do Believe” Series.
Recently back from Croatia, CPI Member, Tatiana Cameron, known internationally as Tajči, is again on another concert tour on the east coast, Midwest and North Dakota. One of her concert shows is being broadcast regularly now on the biggest international catholic TV channel. Tajči is in the process of finishing a pop album in both English and Croatian. Some of the songs are from her play, "My Perfectly beautiful life."
For more info visit Tajci.net, Ludujemo.com & IdoBelieve.com
 Please visit ABOUT US
 Please visit our CALENDAR for upcoming events
 Manuscripts Wanted. Please visit SUBMISSIONS
Please visit our PRESIDENT’S CORNER
 Please visit our MEMBERS’ NEWS
Please visit our NEW VOICES ARCHIVE
Please visit our PLAYWRITING SALON
 For more theater news go to:  
Also, http://www.kalmankivkovich.com/
|
