Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings
Cincinnati— July 28, 2023 — At its July board meeting, the CPI Board of Directors selected scripts for its New Voices 2023/2024 season which will showcase a more diverse group of local playwrights including a college student and three female playwrights.
The following members of the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) will have their plays performed as staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati.
September 19, 2023
- HOWDY NEIGHBOR by Mary Beringer
October 10, 2023
- JASON’S FOOTAGE, BUFFALO GIRL 1973 and MONUMENTAL ART By Clint Bramkamp
- THE HOUND by Michael Defrancesco
November 14, 2023
- LOVESTRUCK (4 ten-minute plays: Forever Soulmates, Naked Neighbors, The Big Bad Wolves and Tiny Dancer) by Susan and Doug Decatur
- BOY MEETS GIRL (a ten-minute play) by Bertha Davis
- CAN’T STOP WHAT’S COMING (a ten-minute play) by Barry Cobb
February 20, 2024
- THE MAGIC OPRY by Leo Bradley
March 12, 2024
- JANITOR’S CLOSET by Reece Neiderhausen
April 16 or 17, 2024 (date and venue dependent on number of tickets sold by December 31, 2023)
- EARTHFEST 2024: CPI’s ten-minute play festival celebrating Earth Day. Ticket sales will support the Miami Group Sierra Club.
Earthfest 2024 playwright selections will be announced in the fall of 2023.
CPI staged readings include an audience talkback session after each performance to help the playwright(s) develop their script for future productions and/or publication.
Season tickets go on sale August 1 through September 19, 2023 for $50 which includes all 6 shows for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2023-2024-series in person or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787.
CPI is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is to support new and veteran playwrights in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to receive valuable feedback so they can further develop their scripts to become fully produced or published. For more information about joining CPI, visit our website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow us on social media on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cincyplaywright
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