THE 4th ANNUAL
CLEVELAND PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Free | Tickets or Reservations Not Required | Recommended for Adults & Teens
Featured Guests
The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
The Dramatists Guild – Ohio Region
Upstairs Web-Series
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11:00 AM | Workshop
“The Sherlock Project”
With instructor Eric Schmiedl
Part crime scene. Part collaborative game. Part exploration of 21st Century storytelling techniques. “The Sherlock Project” is a creative exercise that seeks to find new ways of collaborating and innovating through the process of exploration and discovery. Inspired by the work of the Columbia University School of Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, this creative writing session seeks to ignite your imagination through game playing, investigation, and imagination. There will be a murder. There will be a discovery. There will be a whole new story…your story!
Presented with Literary Cleveland
1:00 PM | Craft Talk
“Writing Plays That Get Produced”
A panel discussion featuring playwrights Andrew Black, Amy Drake, and Faye Sholiton, moderated by Dramatist Guild Regional Representative Les Hunter
Presented with The Dramatists Guild – Ohio Region
2:30 PM | Staged Reading
Sexual Politics
(Adapted from William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure)
Written by JC Cifranic
Directed by Tyson Douglas Rand
Presented with The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival
4:45 PM | Performance & Talkback
The Events of the Warren County Fair as Observed by a Young Astronaut: A Tabletop Play
Written and performed by Amy Schwabauer and Mike Geither, with direction and dramaturgy by Karin Randoja
6:15 PM | Screening & Talkback
Upstairs Web-series
A screening of episodes from a new, locally produced web series followed by a Q&A with production contributors Robert Hunter and others TBA
Presented with Upstairs Web-Series
7:45 PM | Staged Reading
In Plain Sight
Written by Gail Nyoka
Directed by Terrence Spivey
Presented with Powerful Long Ladder Ensemble
10:00 PM | Staged Readings
6 Quick Cuts: Ten-Minute Plays from Playwrights Local’s 2018 Open Submissions
Threshold: Written by Erin E. Dolan and directed by Jessica R Swank
Nudity Required: Written by Agnes Herrmann and directed by Christina Courtenay
Moth to a Flame: Written by Reys Phillips and directed by Jocelyn Laracuente
Vanilla Fudge: Written by Cornell Hubert Calhoun III and directed by Crystle Paynther
Flirting Rights: Written by Amy Schwabauer and directed by James Kosmatka
Under a Watchful Eye: Written by John Busser and directed by Anne McEvoy