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FOOLSFEST: An Evening of Eight 10-Minute Plays On April 12

CPI_logoFOOLSFEST: An Evening of Eight 10-Minute Plays
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
April 12
Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]

New Voices Series presents its Spring festival of ten-minute play readings.

  • APRIL IS NOT FOOL by Eric Thomas
    Four suspects. Three weapons. Two languages. One corpse… but who is it?
  • HUMANOID TRAFFIC STOP by Roger Collins
    A routine traffic stop turns into anything but routine as two passengers, two police officers and their humanoid-assistant find themselves on a fantastical road to one foreseeable future.
  • I AM NOT A SHOE by David Hughes
    You clean your toenails with a salad fork.
  • INTERVIEW WITH A FOOL by Teri Foltz
    When a Shakespearean Fool shows up at an employment agency, the Office Manager has trouble finding him a job until he learns of his skill set.
  • MISFIT MANSION by Traci Taylor
    Where it Pays to Be Weird
  • SELF RESPECT: A BURIAL by Roger Brookfield
    Two gravediggers have the unusual but well-paid assignment of burying individual self-respects before they can cause environmental harm.
  • THE FOOL by Sanjay Puligadda
    An absurd comedy examines the travails of human existence through the eyes of the audience
  • THE TASTE TEST by Liz Coley
    For a single winery owner, finding the perfect man is a matter of taste.

3/11/22 – Health and Safety Guidelines

  • Tue, April 12 at 7:30pm

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Actress Fluent in Spanish Sought for FOOLSFEST at Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative

MISC_Casting call2Director Jessie Faye is seeking a female actress who is fluent in Spanish for a staged reading as part of CPI’s FOOLSFEST.

As this is a staged reading, the role will not need to be memorized. Rehearsal time is minimal and scheduled with the actors involved.

The performance is on Tuesday April 12th in Cincinnati. If interested please email makethedarksmall.faye@gmail.com.

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Auditions for HERE’S TO LIVING at Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative

CPI_logoCincinnati Playwright Institute (CPI) announces auditions for a new play, “Here’s to Living”. Please email the director, Richard Zenk at richardjoseph@gmail.com, with your resume and headshot by February 5.

There will be 2-3 Zoom rehearsals in February and a live performance at the Aronoff on February 22 at 7pm. As the event is a reading, there is no memorization or blocking for the performance.

You can read the play online: https://tinyurl.com/2p9fcp7p

Available Roles:

  1. Clyde Butts: Juliana’s husband, who considers himself an entrepreneur, but has not yet found success
  2. Edgar Montgomery: the Dean of the former college where Jesse was a full professor
  3. Julieanna Kincaid: Jesse’s daughter, caught between the love of her father and her husband
  4. Narrator: Reads stage directions
  5. Stormy Cooper (Jesse’s estate attorney) and the Pharmacy Clerk

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HERE’S TO LIVING On Feb. 22

CPI_logoHERE’S TO LIVING
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Feb. 22
Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]

CPI New Voices Series presents a reading of Here’s to Living by local playwright Dr. Leo Bradley.

Living and enjoying a full and satisfying life while growing old is proving to be a challenge to Jesse Kincaid as he grapples with the challenges of retirement.  Everyone around him, both family and friends, seems to feel he is “losing it” and is in dire need of advice as to how to live out his life.

His daughter is worried about both his health and how to preserve his life-long accumulated wealth. The fact that Jesse thinks love can still happen at any age only increases the family tensions.

Jesse’s friends, ranging from former professional colleagues to financial, legal, real estate advisors, and golf partners, all have different perspectives on needed changes in Jesse’s life.

Helping Jesse to navigate this labyrinth is Glenn, his life-long friend and soul mate. Together they attempt to convince themselves and others to not stand on the shoreline and watch the river flow by, but to sail their vessels until the river runs dry.

1/20/22 – Health and Safety Guidelines

  • Tue, Feb. 22 at 7:30pm

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THE CIRCLE On Jan. 11

CPI_logoTHE CIRCLE
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Jan. 11
Aronoff Center Fifth-Third Bank Theatre [Downtown]

CPI New Voices Series presents a reading of THE CIRCLE by local playwright Michael Defrancesco.

A new inmate is assigned a prison cell. He is dominated by his cellmate who controls everything about their habitation, and who learns information dangerous to the newcomer–who has lived with his increasingly concerned mother as she observes his personality change from that of a passionately committed young man to a furtive alcoholic. The Circle reveals details of his downward spiral and desperate grasping at some sort of salvation.

12/10/21 – COVID-19 Policy

  • Tue, Jan. 11 at 7:30pm

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