Tag Archives: Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative

Additional Auditions for THE BEST INTENTIONS

THE BEST INTENTIONS, by Charlie Goetz winner of Cincinnati Playwrights’ Initiative’s first Best of CPI, will be given a full production at the Aronoff Fifth-Third Theatre, July 19, 20, and 21, Mary Jo Beresford directing, Arnie Shayne producing.

Auditions will be held in Northern Kentucky University’s Fine Arts Building, Room 307, on Wednesday May 23 at 7 p. m.

Seeking:

  • Ruth Kinnley, mother, retired school teacher, age 70-80. Piano-playing skills helpful.
  • Rita Kinnley, elder daughter, brainy, age 45 (more or less).
  • Rose Kinnley, younger daughter, alcoholic “wrecked beauty,” age 35+.
  • David Stevens, black gay nurse/therapist 30s.
  • Boy, seventh or eighth grader.

Leave a comment

Filed under Casting Call

THE FOOL on May 22

THE FOOL
Presented by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
May 22
Over-the-Rhine

In 2001 Enron collapsed. Congress reacted by writing hundreds of pages detailing new rules and regulations to avoid something like that happening in the future. In 2008 Leman Brothers collapsed. Congress reacted by writing thousands of additional pages detailing rules and regulations to avoid something like that happening in the future. But perhaps what’s really needed is to take a page from the past. The King’s Fool was free to ridicule the folly, absurdity and corruption of those in power. Could a Corporate Fool save today’s masters of the universe from themselves? More importantly could the Fool actually criticize a CEO without losing his headcount?

Written by Fred Rothzeid
Directed by Charlie Goetz

Cast:  Ben Greenberg as John Lansman, Arnie Shayne as Thomas Biggs, Lauren Showen as Kate, Ryan Fissel as Gary Goodman & Elaine Wilson as Mrs. Greene

  • Tue, May 22 at 7:30pm

Official page | Online ticketing | FaceBook event |

Leave a comment

Filed under On Stage

Free CPI Public Cold Readings of New Plays on April 29

FREE CPI Public Cold Readings of short new plays by Angela Forbes & Roger Brookfield

Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 7:00 PM (CPI SALON)
Sponsored by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI).

“Collateral Damage and Other Cosmic Consequences” by Angela Forbes
In an alternative reality in the present, a man and a woman are summoned to a mysterious waiting room where they confront their very different responses to life’s curve balls.

“Just a Housewife from Minnesota” by Roger Brookfield
An architect from Cincinnati who craves fame meets in an airport lounge a housewife from Minnesota who looks like a movie star, but craves anonymity for good reason. She embezzled a million dollars from a pension fund when she was a he.

“Mister” by Roger Brookfield
An actress named Grace Abbott leaves a movie set to call home and talk to her five-year old son, Rett, who was sent home from day care because he and a girl in his class showed each other how they’re different from each other during a Share Day.

Q&A segment will follow the reading.

We have a good group of actors who will read the script. General seating: RSVP is required. Please contact Sandi.

The venue is FREE, but we ask guests to bring appetizers or beverages to share.

Location: 2815 commons Way, (45219) – French Hall on UC Campus. Room 2225 (ground floor).

Please contact Chair Sandi Kivkovich at Sandikivi2@cinci.rr.com or 513-861-0004

Leave a comment

Filed under In Other News

Free CPI Readings of Short New Plays on April 29

FREE CPI Public Cold Readings of short new plays by Angela Forbes & Roger Brookfield.

Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 7:00 PM (CPI SALON)

Sponsored by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI).

“Collateral Damage and Other Cosmic Consequences” by Angela Forbes

In an alternative reality in the present, a man and a woman are summoned to a mysterious waiting room where they confront their very different responses to life’s curve balls.

“Just a Housewife from Minnesota” by Roger Brookfield

An architect from Cincinnati who craves fame meets in an airport lounge a housewife from Minnesota who looks like a movie star, but craves anonymity for good reason. She embezzled a million dollars from a pension fund when she was a he.

“Mister” by Roger Brookfield

An actress named Grace Abbott leaves a movie set to call home and talk to her five-year old son, Rett, who was sent home from day care because he and a girl in his class showed each other how they’re different from each other during a Share Day.

Q&A segment will follow the reading.

We have a good group of actors who will read the script.

General seating: RSVP is required. Please contact Sandi.

The venue is FREE, but we ask guests to bring appetizers or beverages to share.

Location: 2815 commons Way, (45219) – French Hall on UC Campus. Room 2225 (ground floor).

Please contact Chair Sandi Kivkovich at Sandikivi2@cinci.rr.com or 513-861-0004.

Leave a comment

Filed under In Other News

AL DURA: TRUTH OR DECEPTION? on April 24

al Dura: Truth or Deception?
Presented by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
April 24
Downtown

Loosely based on a tragic incident in the Middle East, as well as a follow-up notorious round of court battle in Paris, France. On September 30, 2000, France 2 TV broadcast footage of a shootout in Gaza, zooming in on a Palestinian father and his 12-year-old son taking cover behind a concrete drum. According to the report, filmed by a Palestinian reporter for the state-run French network, the boy, Mohammed al Dura, was gunned down by the Israeli forces . . . but was he really . . . ? What you hear from the media is not always the truth, and too often the media become the NEWS. . . .

Written and directed by Kalman Kivkovich

Cast: Ed Barzee as Philippe Karsenty, David Bezona as Marc Levy, Clint Bramkamp as Professor Richard Landes, Angela Forbes as Radio Reporter, Dennis Blom as TV Reporter, Chessie Vigran, Dee Dunn, Tim Bessler, Jay A. Goldfarb & J. Lee Rasmussen

  • Tue, April 24 at 7:30pm

Official page | Online ticketing | FaceBook event |

Local media coveage: Cincinnati Examiner article |

Leave a comment

Filed under On Stage