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in their endeavors and successes outside CPI.
CONGRATS!!!
Congratulations to Tammy Brady and Angela Forbes
Tammy will play EDNA and Angela will play MONA in the upcoming production of Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean at Village Players in Fort Thomas, KY.
The director is Patrick Downey who also will direct CPI’s New Voices in March 2012.
Show dates are February 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25. For more information: http://www.villageplayers.biz/ or call (859)392-0500.
Congratulations to David Bezona
David, an opera singer, actor, music director, and the producer of the chamber concert series, "Music at Ascension," appeard [KING HAROD] in “Nativity the Pop Opera,” at the Carnegie, Covington, KY and at Beavercreek Church of the Nazarene Stage, in Dayton, OH www.nativitythepopopera.org. Proceeds from ticket sales were donated to Cincinnati Children’s
‘Njoy-it-all Camp.'
Congratulations to Jim Waldfogle & Dennis Blom
CPI members Jim and Dennis were on the cast of Judgment at Nuremberg by Abby Mann
Presented by the Wyoming Players at Monmouth Theater in November 2011. http://www.wyomingplayers.com/ A stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre-war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the forefront of this trial reverberate through history and challenge humanity to this day.
Congratulations to David Bezona
David, an opera singer and music director, provides Cincinnati with the FREE chamber concert series, "Music at Ascension," now in its 6th season. The last concert of the season was on Saturday, November 5, 2011 with The Adagio Trio. Location: Ascension Lutheran Church under the leadership of music director, David Bezona. 513-237-3636. Free parking.
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Play with Your Lunch PWYL returned to the Wyoming Civic Center - One Worthington Avenue; Wyoming 45215 in November 2011; staged readings performed by good actors, produced and directed by CPI's member Herb DuVal. Scenes and snippets from the pen of Noel Coward, whose prolific output includes Private Lives, Design for Living, Hayfever, Blithe Spirit and over four hundred songs. http://www.risingphoenixtheatre.org/
Congratulations to Dennis Blom
Dennis appeared in October 2011in Moon Over Buffalo with the Drama Workshop. For more info http://www.thedramaworkshop.org/season/2011_2012/moon_buffalo.html
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy’s short comedy Encounter at the Ink Spot premiered in August as part of the Ten-Tucky Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Bard's Town in Louisville, Kentucky. Her full-length romantic comedy The Snowflake Theory (CPI New Voices 2005) won 2nd place in McKinney Repertory Theatre's Play Contest, and will have a reading at McKinney Repertory Theatre in McKinney, Texas, in summer 2012. Her full-length Civil War drama General Orders No. 11 (CPI New Voices 2002) had a reading at the Jewish Community Center in San Diego, CA, in November 2011, as part of a sesquicentennial Civil War event. It also is tentatively scheduled for a reading in Louisville during Presidents Day Weekend in an event for Jewish high school students. For more infomation about Nancy's plays and activity www.nancygallclayton.net
Congratulations to Arnie Shayne
Arnie’s Blue Chip Players produced a performance of The Sunshine Boys at Cedar Village in Mason, OH on June 28, 2011, starring 2 CPI members, Arnie Shayne and Tom Mannin. The comedy by Neil Simon focuses on the bickering relationship of two actors.
Congratulations to Tatiana (Tajci) Cameron
Tajči remakes a Classic. 20 years after her first hit single, "Hajde da Ludujemo" (“Let's go Crazy") that made her a superstar and an idol in the former Yugoslavia in the early '90s, Tajči is ready for a reunion concert tour to her home country, and rereleasing one of her favorite songs of all time: "Dvije Zvjezdice" (“Two Stars”), the first of several singles to be released soon, with coproduction efforts led by the powerhouse duo of Chris Gero of Yamaha Entertainment Group and GRAMMY Award winning Bryan Lenox. Watch, read and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdKitaAalCU&feature=youtu.be
http://www.yamaha.com/artists/
http://www.yamaha.com/artists/newsdetail.html?CNTID=5799279&CTID=5071000
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy's newest short play Hat Check about an encounter at the Kentucky Derby, was performed at a Derby Eve party at the Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, KY, with Reggie Van Stockum and Cheryl Rankin, Friday, May 6, 2011. http://www.therudyardkipling.com/musicschedule.html.
The premiere of Nancy's short An Illusion at Rock City took place at Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, May 27 through June 12. For more information, visit http://www.ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com/. Those of a certain age likely met two of the characters during their elementary school days: Jane of Dick and Jane fame and Peter, a neighbor of the picture perfect family. For more infomation about Nancy's plays and activity www.nancygallclayton.net
Congratulations to Renee Alper
Renee performed
her one-woman musical, Non-Vertical Girl, on April 23, as part of the ArtsWave Sampler Weekends at the Know Theatre of Cincinnati.
A powerful, quirky, and upbeat musical about the world of physical disability. It's a story about rolling with the punches and thinking on your wheels. Come see what having four on the floor is really all about! www.nonverticalgirl.com
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb was back with his new theater venue, PLAY With Your LUNCH, at the Wyoming Civic Center, in Wyoming, Ohio, on April 13, 2011. Herb produces and directs staged readings of new and old short plays, featuring professional actors. For more info and tickets go to www.RisingPhoenixTheatre.org.
Congratulations to Kalman Kivkovich
Kalman’s book “In the Vise of Evils” was just published, and is available for sale in paperback and hardcover. The 360-page book tells the harrowing and nearly miraculous survival story of his parents caught between two evils: Hitler and Stalin. The manuscript had served as a base to his first play with the same title, which was awarded an unprecedented two performances (2007) and set CPI’s highest attendance record. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=kalman+kivkovich&x=18&y=24 or http://www.holocaust-author.com more about the book http://www.kalmankivkovich.com/
Congratulations to Kevin Del Principe
Playwright Kevin Del Principe and Pandora's Artistic Director Michael Drury have created a compelling and unique staged reading entitled the GLBTQ Youth Project through writing workshops, conversations, and interviews with students from The Louisville Youth Group and the University of Louisville's commonGround LGBTQQIA organization. The GLBTQ Youth Project opened at Walden Theatre in Louisville on January 6th, 2011, and ran through the 9th. For more info www.pandoraprods.org.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Looking Glass Theatre in New York City produced Juice, Nancy's short play about capital punishment, as part of its Winter Forum December, 2010. The Forum is a festival of new works featuring emerging women playwrights and directors. Nancy is also enjoying her duties as chair of a playwriting contest sponsored by the Southeastern Theatre Conference for high school students living in one of the 10 states in the SETC region. The winning playwright will have his or her play presented at SETC's 2011 conference in Atlanta in March. For more infomation about Nancy's play and activity nancygallclayton@earthlink.net
www.nancygallclayton.net
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela directed "The Lunacy of Love (as told in 2 locations and 5 short comedies)" -- a production of five one-act comedies, two of which she authored, for Village Players of Fort Thomas. February 2011. The first "act" takes place in a cafe and comprises Sure Thing by David Ives, Are You Ready? by David Auburn, and Angela's own It's All Fun and Games Until the Iguana Bites. The second "act" takes place in a living room and comprises I Think You Think I Love You by Kelly Younger and Angela's Learning to Take Turns, an earlier draft of which was the subject of a cold reading for CPI as well as a reading for Herb Duval's inaugural Play With Your Lunch event. for more: http://www.villageplayers.biz/
Congratulations to Tatiana (Tajci) Cameron
Tatiana (Tajci) appeared at the Carnegie (Cov. KY) with Pianist/Conductor, Stanley Yerlow, in tribute to the golden age of American Music, in November, 2010. Click on the link for a short video. http://tajci.net/?page_id=772
Congratulations to Jim Waldfogle
Two of Jim's one-act plays -- Ladies and Gentlemen… and Do You Want to Tell Me What’s Wrong? -- were presented (November 2010) at The Clermont Inn as part of an evening of comedic vignettes accompanied by a four-course meal. Jim also directed and appeared in his plays.
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb was back with his new theater venue, PLAY With Your LUNCH, at the Wyoming Civic Center, in Wyoming, Ohio, on November 10, 2010. Herb produces and directs staged readings of new and old short plays, featuring professional actors. For more info and tickets go to www.RisingPhoenixTheatre.org.
Congratulations to Kalman Kivkovich
Kalman's official website was launched early September 2010, spearheading the publishing of his new book: “In the Vise of Evils.” The manuscript had served as a base to his first play with the same title, which was awarded an unprecedented two performances (2007) and set CPI’s highest attendance record. http://www.kalmankivkovich.com/
Congratulations to Darryl Dick
Darryl's play God Comes to Cincinnati that CPI premiered in 2009-2010 New Voices Series was read/performed at Rockdale Temple during Yom Kippur services, September 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela will play Daisy in Sunset Players production of Driving Miss Daisy. Oct. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2010. Dunham Recreation Center Gym, 4356 Dunham Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45238. Tickets at the door or reserved by calling 513-588-4988. http://www.sunsetplayers.org/
Congratulations to Roger Collins
Roger’s Play, Pomp and Circumstances, was produced by Pipeline productions in August, 2010. Graduation day is a week away when the proud Black parents of the soon-to-be graduate pay their son a surprise visit. But who in this family will get the biggest surprise? And who will find this week before commencement truly a beginning? This is a play about hidden conflicts within a family and the unforeseen results of bringing secrets to light. The was performed in the FATH Auditorium of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Congratulations to Barbara Harkness
Barbara’s I Am a Ten-Minute Play that CPI premiered in 2009-2010 New Voices Series led off a group of ten-minute plays at Yellow Springs Corner Cone theatre in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The date was August 14, 2010.
Congratulations to Kevin Del Principe
Kevin’s new poems, "Ugly Organ Crows ," "The Innocence of Dreams ," "God's Finger ," and "True Ghosts ," were published in "Forge Journal," July 2010 issue. For more visit
http://forgejournal.com/forge/category/current-issue/poetry/
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela
Angela received 2 Orchird Awards at the 2009-2010 Ohio Community Theatre Association (OCTA) conference. Her Awards were for Excellence in Programs and Original Program design.
Congratulations to Alan Jozwiak
Alan's one-minute play, T-Rex Blues, has been accepted at the Gi60: Live US Edition 2010 - The International One Minute Play Festival. The play was produced at the New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, on June 11 & 12. www.gi60.com.
Congratulations to Roger Brookfield
Roger's one-minute play, Colonoscopy, has been accepted by Spare Change Theater in NY, to be part of an "In a New York Minute" festival in April 2010. Colonoscopy, has also been accepted at the Gi60: Live US Edition 2010 - The International One Minute Play Festival. The play was produced at the New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, on June 11 & 12. www.gi60.com.
Congratulations to Bridget Ossmann
Virginia Budge is a fictional character created by Bridget in her musical comedy Teacher Left Behind. Virginai is a retired teacher who believes state tests and grade point averages do not show the full talents and potential of any individual. Virginia Budge feels, as many educators feel, that students are "more than a test score." Bridget, as well as her sister Bekka Eaton are both committee members of the Virginia Budge Award for the Creative and Performing Arts. Teacher Left Behind received a New Voices staged reading in June 2008. Visit:
http://web.me.com/bridgetossmann/Budgeaward/Welcome.html
Congratulations to Kevin Del Principe
Kevin's 1-minute play, Super Ball and Chain, has been excepted by Spare Change Theater in NYC to participate in June 2010 in a 1-minute play competition showdown of 30 original plays. Part of
'In a NY Minute Play Festival' in New York, NY.
Congratulations to Roger Collins
Roger’s one act play, The Long Way Home, was part of 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The play had its debut reading with CPI New Voices in March 2009. Starred in the production were: Darryl Hilton, Reggie Willis and Khrys Styles; Directed by Kevin Crowley. All Performances were at Media Bridges, in Cincinnati, OH. A homeless veteran of the Iraq war journeys back to the home he lost, carrying sorrows and resentments - and a loaded Colt .380. The people he meets along the way stir memories and fantasies, and prepare him, unknowingly, for his climactic confrontation with the occupants of his former home.
Congratulations to Rhonda Pettit
Rhonda's play The Global Lovers was part of the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. CPI sponsored the staged reading of her play at the Aronoff in February 2009. Directed by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo.
All Performances were at A Lucky Step, in Cincinnati, OH. A privileged woman living in Kentucky. A sex slave known as Girl on the other side of the world. What could possibly bring them together by the end of The Global Lovers? Inspired in part by the story of Aisha Parveen, a former sex slave in Pakistan, this poetic drama explores sex slavery and its relationship to American consumer culture.
Congratulations to Duncan Forbes
Duncan’s new children’s play, Shennypoons of Lorrace Isle, will be aired on Cincinnati’s Radio Reading Services for the Blind. Local actors will read - airtime to be announced soon.
Congratulations to Roger Collins
Roger’s ten-minute play Testing Val, Au Natural won second place among six participants in Dayton’s March 2010 Short and Sweet Playfest. A high school student coping with Attention Deficit Disorder shares her thoughts while taking an exam on human sexuality.
Congratulations to Kevin Del Principe
Kevin’s poems, "Dandelion Light," "Lover's Gate," and "I Dare Not Say More," were published in March 2010 issue of Foliate Oak Literary Journal. For more visit http://www.foliateoak.uamont.edu:80/March%202010/poetry/three-poems-by-kevin-del-principe
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela appeared in Left Bank Productions "Beckett and Bock" March 2010 as Dolly in Adam Bock's short play The Shaker Chair, at Monmouth Theater, Newport. The production also included Beckett's short plays Come and Go and Play.
Congratulations to Barbara Harkness
Barbara’s I Am a Ten-Minute Play has been accepted for the May 2010 Stone Soups' Playwrights Festival in Seattle Washington. The staged reading of the play
launched
2009-2010 CPI New Voices Series.
Congratulations to Kevin Del Principe
Kevin’s poem, "Winged Man with Odd Light Source," was one of 9 selected and published in the latest issue of Paradigm Journal. For more visit http://www.paradigmjournal.com/weiss/index.html
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy's play, Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday, was awarded second place in the 2009 Kentucky Theatre Association Playwriting Award competition. Also one of Nancy's full-lenght play has been published in World Premiers from Horse Cave Theatre. For more visit www.nancygallclayton.net.
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela's one act One Freaky Afternoon in the Office Lunchroom, CPI's New Voices 2008, was produced and performed by Village Players in November, 2009, at Morehead State University as part of the Kentucky Theatre Association conference. www.villageplayers.biz. Angela was also the Directed.
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb was back with his new theater venue, PLAY with your LUNCH, at the Wyoming Civic Center, in Wyoming, Ohio, in November, 2009. Herb produced and directed staged readings of new and old short plays, featuring professional actors. Comedies by Thornton Wilder, James Thurber, Frank Gilroy and Fred Stroppel. www.RisingPhoenixTheatre.org.
Congratulations to Kalman Kivkovich
2 of Kalman's new short plays, Hell on I-71 and Cicadas on Us, were staged read on September 3, 2009, at Eden Park's Seasongood Pavilion (5:30 PM), as part of Pre-Show series under the banner "From CPI to Shakespeare." The staged readings were followed by Cincinnati Outdoor Shakespeare's performance of As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb's new short play, Henry Bieler, was staged read on September 3, 2009, at Eden Park's Seasongood Pavilion (5:30 PM), as part of Pre-Show series under the banner "From CPI to Shakespeare." The staged reading was followed by Cincinnati Outdoor Shakespeare's performance of As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
Congratulations to Angela K. Forbes
Angela performed in the Village Players' production of Southern Hospitality by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. August 2009. www.villageplayers.biz
Congratulations to Sandi Kivkovich
Sandi’s poem, "Cicadas and Other Fantasies Kept in Glass Jars," was one of 20 selected and published in The Best of Poet's Ink, 2009.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy's Sweet Potato Pie(s) was included in Boca Raton (FL) Theatre Guild's "Grab Our Shorts #7," with 4 performances July 2009. Visit www.nancygallclayton.net
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb's new theater venue, PLAY with your LUNCH, was launched May 13, 2009 at the Wyoming Civic Center, Wyoming, Oh 45215. Herb produced staged readings of new and old short plays, featuring professional actors. Scripts were written by Robert Anderson, Fred Stroppel and by our own Angela Forbes. http://www.risingphoenixtheatre.org/. Also, 3 short comedies by Herb DuVal, Sponge, Pickle, and Rain, were produced in Spring Briefs Festival at Permafringe, 1451 Main St., Cincinnati, OH.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy's short play Fluffy was included in April's 2009 Finnigan's Festival of Funky Fresh Fun, at the Rud, Louisville, KY. Nancy play is about a couple who have very different views about their pet's afterlife. For more infomation about Nancy's play and the festival, check the following websites: www.nancygallclayton.net and www.finniganbeginagain.com
Congratulations to Renee Alper
Renee’s musical Non-Vertical Girl (starring, Renee) was staged at the Monmouth Theater ( 636 Monmouth Street Newport, KY 41071) in September 2009. The musical has been selected as a part ofthe 2009/10 Artists on Tour program of the Cincinnati Arts Association. The musical was also staged April 17, 2009 at The Clubhouse at Harrod's Landing Yacht Club and Marina 8804 US Highway 42 Prospect, KY 40059. A powerful, quirky, and upbeat musical about the world of physical disability. It's a story about rolling with the punches and thinking on your wheels. For more infomation check the website: www.nonverticalgirl.com
Congratulations to Herb DuVal
Herb won the second place at 2009 Cincinnati Directors’ Competition for directing his own play Summer Cabin. The Cincinnati Directors Competition was presented by New Edgecliff Theatre.
Congratulations to Alan Jozwiak
Alan received a City of Cincinnati Individual Artist Grant to write and produce Only When I Bleed. He chronicles the experiences of members of a support group as they struggle to come to terms with their desire to inflict self-harm by cutting themselves. The play was staged at the Madisonville Arts Center (MAC) in February 2009.
Congratulations to Roger Brookfield
Roger’s short play Mister was selected for a staged reading at FirstStage (Hollywood, CA); part of A Stage Odyssey, September 2008.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy's short play Images of Lincoln was included in February 2009 in The Honest Abe 23-Minute Play Festival at Bunbury Theater in Louisville, KY ( www.bunburytheatre.org ). Nancy recently had two readings of The Snowflake Theory in ScriptFest Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Mars Hill, NC, ( www.sartheatre.com/events.htm ) and in Beyond the Borscht Belt: A Jewish Theatre Festival, Columbus, Ohio, ( www.beyondborschtbelt.blogspot.com ). www.nancygallclayton.net.
Congratulations to Arnie Shayne
Arnie’s Blue Chip Players (
http://www.bluechipplayers.net presented Arthur Miller's The Price.
Performances were in November 2008 at the new theater, Madisonville Arts Center (MAC). Arnie also played the role of Gregory Solomon.
Congratulations to Renee Alper
Renee’s musical Non-Vertical Girl (starring, Renee) and was part of 2008 Enjoy the Arts 20/20 Festival. A reading of the musical was part of the New Light Festival, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Rehearsal Hall. This is the story of one woman¹s triumph despite, and often because of her physical differences.
Congratulations to Alan Jozwiak
Alan’s play Staten Island Passing, winner of Scenes from Staten Island ’08 contest, was selected to be part of 2008 Enjoy the Arts 20/20 Festival. The play was also part of the New Light Festival, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Rehearsal Hall.Congratulations to Roger Collins
Roger’s Play Pomp and Circumstances was selected for a staged reading at the 2008 Cincinnati New ight Festival at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Rehearsal Hall. The play was also selected in Indiana as a finalist for the Bloomington Playwrights Project 2007/2008 Reva Playwriting Contest. It was also selected for a staged reading at the 9th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays (June 2008, Louisville, KY). Produced by Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, and hosted by Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY.
Congratulations to Nancy Gall-Clayton
Nancy’s play Bernice Sizemore's 70th Birthday was included in the 2008 Cincinnati New Light Festival at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Rehearsal Hall. Earlier, this play was selected for a staged reading, April 26, during Kentucky Repertory Theatre's annual showcase of new plays by or about Kentuckians.Congratulations to Sandi Kivkovich
Sandi’s poetry was published The Storyteller (July/August/September 2008 issue). The Storyteller is an international riters magazine that goes to all 50 states, as well as 17 foreign countries.
Congratulations to Arnie Shayne
Arnie’s Blue Chip Players ( http://www.bluechipplayers.net ) produced the Cincinnati area premiere of Address Unknown, a riveting holocaust drama set in Munich and San Francisco, from the best-selling novel by the late Katherine Kressman Taylor at the Monmouth Theatre, Newport, KY (June 2008). Arnie Shayne co-starred. At the same time Arnie also produced Phil Paradise's drama Footprints of the Polar Bear.
Congratulations to Alan Jozwiak
Alan’s 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.
Congratulations to Arnie Shayne
Arnie won the Grand Prize at 2008 Cincinnati Directors’ Competition for directing Footprints of the Polar Bear (written by Phil Paradise, past CPI President). Blue Chip Players produced the play. The Cincinnati Directors Competition was presented by New Edgecliff Theatre.
Soon after, Arnie acted in a staged reading of a new play Flutterbies by Frank Christopher, at the Producers Club in the Big Apple. Arnie played a 110-year-old grandfather with a sharp mind, and a foul mouth.
Congratulations to Cisco Montgomery
Cisco's 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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