Cleveland Public Theatre is hiring a Teaching Artist and Site Coordinator for the Cleveland Act Now Academy (CAN Academy) program to continue to serve Cleveland Public Theatre’s mission to raise consciousness and nurture compassion through life-changing education programs.

Review of candidates will begin immediately. To apply for the position, send an email to Nicole Sumlin, Director of Education, at nsumlin@cptonline.org by end of day December 15, 2023. Subject line should read: YOUR LAST NAME, Teaching Artist and Site Coordinator, CAN Academy. Your email should include two attachments: a resume and a cover letter giving examples of work that illustrate the experience required in the description and explaining why you are interested in this position. No phone calls, please.

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Request for Proposals – Deadline: December 1st 

CPT seeks local dance companies for DanceWorks 2024! For consideration, please fill out this form by December 1, 2023 at 5pm. 

DanceWorks offers an opportunity for emerging and established Northeast Ohio dance companies and choreographers to present world premiere works in a series with other local dance companies as an important part of Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2023-2024 Season.  

DanceWorks aims to create a bold experimental playground for companies and choreographers. We seek to represent a diverse array of forms, genres, and aesthetic values. Performances should be comprised of at least 50% world premiere work. Pieces will be selected with special consideration to impact and quality. 

Through a submission process, CPT is looking to select 3-6 local dance companies for a slot between April 15 and May 12. Each group selected will perform for one weekend. Applicants may apply to be on a double bill and split the evening of entertainment with another company. 

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By Hanoch Levin
Translated by Leland Frankel and Lee Ishri
Directed by Raymond Bobgan
Starring Peter Lawson Jones as The Old Man

Seeking Jewish, Latiné, and MENA (Middle Eastern North African) performers for the following roles. 

• The Old Woman: Wife of The Old Man, resilient, tolerant, stubborn, sick, resolved to her fate.  

• The Prostitute with a Freckle & The Zuchini Shaped Drunk—Female identifying actor to play two roles in campy scenes as a female sex worker and a male drunk.  
• The Medic: Think “urgent care nurse” in a village. 
• Non-speaking ensemble roles that fill the play with movement and scenery.  

Much of the show has been pre-cast and we are only looking to fill these roles at this time. 

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Featuring staged readings of

Pilar and Paloma by Milta Ortiz
Directed by Tania Benites

Grandeza by Ernesto Luna Camargo
Directed by Obed Medina

This event is a bilingual reading series that features two new works from the Latine community: Grandeza by Ernesto Luna Camargo, a founding member of Teatro Público de Cleveland and Pilar and Paloma by Milta Ortiz of Borderlands Theatre.

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By Tania Benites 

Directed by Kari Barclay 

Looking to cast the following roles…  

• Narrator: (any race, female, any age); Narrator for the book “Hypnosis for Self-Confidence”.  
• Maria: (Latinx, female, 20s-30s); A customer service representative who struggles with her sense of self. A quiet person in a loud world who feels pressure as only a daughter-of-immigrants could. Devours self-help books as a hobby. 
• Trisha: (any race, female, any age); Maria’s co-worker and top seller at Kapow. The office “mean girl”. She is aggressive and knows how to make friends with the right people.  
• Craig: (non-Latinx, male, 30s+); Customer service supervisor at Kapow whose main concern is driving sales numbers and meeting quotas. 

• Figure: (Latinx, female, 20s-30s); Maria’s manifestation. She is the change that Maria thinks she needs. She is hungry for what she does not have and feels that she could do things better if given the opportunity. 
• Steve: (any race, male, 20s-30s); IT technician at Kapow. Grounded and kind, perhaps a little nerdy. A good friend. 
• Mom: (Latinx, female, 40s+); Maria’s mom. An immigrant. No stranger to sacrifice and hard work. While she expects a lot from her daughter, she loves just as fiercely. 

We are open to seeing both AEA and non-AEA actors for these auditions. 

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Artists need space—performing artists need more space. We have space. We want more art! Let’s talk about FREE SPACE.

CPT is beta testing a new program for dance, theatre and other performance art makers: The Open Door.

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Deadline for submissions is Friday, October 6th, 2023 

Forget everything you know about Test Flight! Okay, maybe not everything… but the process will look quite different this year. We’re piloting a new approach to this program based on feedback from playwrights in our community. We want to create an even more creative space that allows for supported risk from the artists involved. This version of Test Flight is perfect for those who want to learn how to self-produce their work; but don’t worry, the things you love about Test Flight will still be there! It will still be a great space to workshop new projects. The projects chosen will still get 1 week (split rehearsal time and performances) in the James Levin Theatre, and things will feel the same for our devoted audiences.  

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