Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings
Cincinnati, Ohio—July 10, 2024—At its June board meeting, Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) Board of Directors announced the selected scripts for its New Voices 2024/2025 season which will showcase both new and emerging local playwrights.
The following CPI members will have their Full-length, One Act and Short plays performed as staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati on the following six Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
September 17, 2024
HeARTLAND by Paul Shortt
October 15, 2024
Thump by Michael DeFrancesco
November 12, 2024
Please Hold for the Pandemic . . . . by Liz Coley
The Beginning of Forever by Bertha Lynn Davis
February 11, 2025
Lovefest 3
CPI’s original ten-minute play festival fundraiser returns for a third time to support the American Heart Association with 8 short plays about love and romance! Lovefest 3 Playwrights will be announced in the Fall of 2024.
March 11, 2025
Finding Mickey Mantle by Wendy Vogel
April 15, 2025
Natchez Trace by Jeremy Simmons
Burnt Toast of Broadway by Greg Hatfield
Guardian Angel Blues by Dave Doster
This Ain’t Like You, Adrienne and An Old Person at the Bank by Roger Brookfield
Twenty-minute audience talkback sessions are conducted for staged readings with 2 or fewer playwrights at the end of each performance. Written feedback is obtained from the audience for staged readings with 3 or more playwrights.
Season tickets go on sale Friday, July 12 through Tuesday, September 17, 2024 for $50 which includes all 6 dates for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2024-2025-series or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787. Online and phone orders will incur additional service fees. Single event tickets go on sale on July 30, 2024 for $10 per person plus service fees. Lovefest 3 tickets will be $15 each plus service fees. In person ticket purchases at the Aronoff box office will not incur service fees.
CPI is a non-profit theater arts organization whose mission is to support playwrights in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to provide valuable feedback so that scripts can be further developed to potentially become fully produced or published.
To join CPI, visit the website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow on social media both on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights and X https://x.com/cincyplaywright.
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