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  NICKEL AND DIMED
The Student Matinee Series
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| The cast of Nickel and Dimed applauds an appreciative student matinee audience during curtain call. |
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GLTF partnered with Cleveland Public Theatre in coordinating all aspects of production, including student matinees, and for the first time (but hopefully not the last) the sight of school busses parked in front of the theatre became commonplace. |
A series of community programs surrounding Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of Nickel and Dimed, and Great Lakes Theater Festival’s production of Julius Caesar. Held throughout Northern Ohio from March through October 2004, this programming is designed for audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
And Justice for All is a community collaboration between:
Great Lakes Theater Festival and…
Akron Summit County Public Library System
Akron Public Schools
Bay High School
Clague Playhouse
Cleveland Public Library System
Cleveland Municipal School District
Cleveland Sight Center
Cuyahoga County Public Library System
John Carroll University
Lorain County Community College
Lorain Catholic High School
Lorain Public Schools
Playhouse Square Center
St. Augustine Church
90.3 WCPN ideastream
And Justice for All is presented through the generous support of:
The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation
The GAR Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP
The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
The Nord Family FoundationThe Ohio Arts Council
The Stocker Foundation
BARDSTOCK FM
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Great Lakes Theater Festival, in partnership with 90.3 WCPN Ideastream, proudly presents Bardstock 3.0 – an innovative radio program that features original student music inspired by William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The Bard’s classic voice is given a unique new resonance and a contemporary spin through the rock, rap, jazz, folk, hip-hop, country, classical and other musical styles of student musicians and songwriters. Capturing the imagination and creative processes behind each original musical piece and hosted by Dee Perry of WCPN’s award-winning radio program Around Noon, Bardstock 3.0 features student music, interviews with the student composers and musicians, as well as unique scholarly insight. Bardstock FM will ride the airwaves on the wings of students’ imaginations in an extraordinary afternoon broadcast celebration of local artistry and youthful talent.
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| One of four grand prize winners, Cleveland School of the Arts sophomore Terrence Farmer poses with WCPN Around Noon host Dee Perry before recording his winning song in our Shakespearean Songwriting Contest, Bardstock 3.0. |
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For the first time, GLTF opened our Shakespearean Songwriting Contest to middle school students, and our youngest winner ever, Kimpton Middle School’s Janelle Myers, grade eight, submitted a beautiful piano composition. |
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| Members of Another Found Self, from Boardman High School, practice their winning song “Et tu?” at WCPN’s professional recording studio. |
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Tune into 90.3 WCPN and join us!
LEND ME YOUR EARS
Monday, May 6, 2004, Playhouse Square Center
Great Lakes Theater Festival and Playhouse Square Center join educational forces to present a free teacher workshop exploring William Shakespeare’s classic Julius Caesar. Utilizing theater-based techniques to bring this tragedy to life in your classroom, education specialists will lead area teachers through improvisation techniques, textual analysis exercises and interactive break-out sessions, while allowing time for you to network with your peers. Highlights include a session on fundraising for education programming and a free presentation of our Outreach Tour, followed immediately by Playhouse Square’s Fair on the Square.
This workshop is offered FREE of charge.
VENI, VIDI, VICI
Tuesday, May 4, 2004, Lorain County Community College
Stocker Center, Studio Theater, 1005 Abbe Road North, Elyria
Don’t miss this thrilling series of original short plays written and presented by the students of the Lorain College Community College theater department. Featuring new plays inspired by themes from both Nickel and Dimed and Julius Caesar, this program offers a talk-back with the student playwrights and a panel of distinguished professional Cleveland theater artists. Together, unique perspectives are shared, and the next generation of classic playwrights are encouraged and nurtured.
This program is FREE and open to audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
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| For the second consecutive year, Lorain County playwright Alex Berry won the top prize in GLTF’s playwriting contest at LCCC. Her play, “A Trip to Las Cuentas,” received a staged reading by GLTF professionals. |
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| Derek Koger plays an obsessive compulsive attorney and Daren Stahl is a judge’s assistant in Alex Berry’s “A Trip to Las Cuentas” at LCCC, staged by GLTF |
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Two of the contest’s judges, playwrights Eric Coble and Sarah Morton, mingle with LCCC students after the adjudication segment of the playwriting contest. |
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| Amy Seymore’s play “The Wounded,” directed by John Stransky, staged at LCCC. |
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Christine Castro plays a woman convicted of copyright fraud and Tom Cullinan plays a prison guard with chronic dandruff in Alex Berry’s “A Trip to Las Cuentas.” |
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
The Great Lakes Theater Festival education department offers a host of other programs throughout the year including: week long in-school residencies, a student matinee series, the Cleveland Municipal School District All-City Musical, The Summer Theater Institute for middle and high school students and much more. For more information about these and other education programs, contact the Great Lakes Theater Festival education department at 216.241.5490 ext. 307. |
