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Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) ended an exciting season of New Voices Staged Readings.
The 2009-2010 season will start September 15, 2009.
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/event_detail.jsp?event_id=876
  
CPI's NEW VOICES STAGED READINGS
CPI ended its 2008-2009 New Voices Series of staged readings.
The 2009-2010 season will start September 15, 2009.
Thank you Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) for making it possible.
Thank you all who work on our behalf.
Thank you all patrons and CPI supporters who came to see our shows.
New Voices Series takes its rest, but the CPI Playwriting Salon gets no breather.
Come and join us, it’s FREE.
CPI Playwriting Salon
Our Last Event on Sunday, June 28, 2009, was a true success. Don’t just take my word for it, ask others who attended. Acclaim winner Alison Vodnoy presented her script-in-progress and read it with her colleagues, Casey Leach and Richard Valitutto. It was a treat, followed by a productive Q&A.
That evening we celebrated the end of 2008-09 Season of New Voices Series. That, too, went extremely well. Calls for reservations were brisk, and the final attendance was wonderful. Guests brought appetizers, wine and beverages to share.THANK YOU!! Guests came early and stayed late to help with setup of tables and chairs.THANK YOU!
Upcoming Salons in 2009 & 2010:
Sunday, July 26, 2009 (Tentative)
Sunday, August 23, 2009 - Guest Speaker: Ed Stern
Topic:
What I am looking for when choosing a new play
September 2009 – No Salon due to Jewish High Holidays.
Sunday, October 25, 2009 – Guest Speaker: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Topic: How to Make A Play Producible (and Ideas on Getting It Produced)
Sunday, November 29, 2009 (Tentative)
Sunday, December 27, 2009 (Tentative)
Sunday, January 24, 2009 (Tentative)
Sunday, February 28, 2009 – Guest Speaker:
Joe McDonough
Topic: TBA
As the space is limited, CPI is taking reservations on a first-come first-served basis.
French Hall, University of Cincinnati, off Jefferson Ave, 4th Floor, Room 4614.
Please e-mail Kalman Kivkovich for reservations:
kivi1@cinci.rr.com, or call (513) 861-0004
Location:
French Hall, University of Cincinnati, off Jefferson Ave, 4th Floor, Room 4614.
Directions:
It is on the East side of UC campus. If you go north on Jefferson Ave, park your car on Jefferson Ave., near intersection with University Ave. Walk left toward the campus. Turn left at the rotunda and go 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.. Look for room 4614.

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