[CANCELED] Week 4: Bedroom Culture
April 23, 2020 - April 25, 2020
7:00pm, Thu/Fri/Sat, James Levin Theatre.
Test Flight is a multi-week series that showcases new work on its way to full production. Test Flight provides both local and national artists with the keys to the theatre and the opportunity to co-produce original works-in-progress. The series encourages risk-taking and an entrepreneurial spirit towards creating new work while offering artists a structured support system. New Play Development.
The James Levin Theatre is fully ADA compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.
Standard Price (Thursday): $12
Standard Price (Friday, Saturday): $18
Content Warning: CPT supports new play development, as well as social justice oriented-theatre. Sensitive material may be explored, and content continues to change as the art is developed (and Test Flight performances can continue to change throughout their run!). Because of the nature of new play development, we can’t provide additional content warnings for Test Flight performances.
The Test Flight 2020 series is canceled. Click here for up-to-date information about CPT programming.
Bedroom Culture
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY HANNAH RAE LEACH
MUSIC BY THE PROM QUEENS (AYANA CHESTON, HANNAH RAE LEACH, JOSH PERELMAN-HALL)
The summer before freshman year of college, Lavender is determined to have her First Experience with a boy. Her best friend Mia finds her feelings for Lavender run deeper than friendship. Caught in a queer love triangle, Bedroom Culture is a sun-drenched coming-of-age story about the power of pop culture, fantasy, and first love.
Stage Manager: Jesse Reagan Hernon
Performers: Alexa Fatheringham, Nicole Coury, Corey East, Samantha Cocco, Katherine Nash
Technical Director: Paulina Martz
Intimacy Director: Julia Fisher
Hannah Rae Leach is a Cleveland-based writer, audio producer, and musician. She graduated from NYU Tisch’s BFA Dramatic Writing Program in May 2017 with an emphasis in playwriting and is the founding member of Cleveland’s Young Playwrights Collective. She is one half of Too Pink Pictures, a film production company founded by Hannah and her sister, Audrey. In the audio world, she is the creator, host, and show runner of Wholehearted, her podcast series of personal essays and profiles. She is also an audio producer at Evergreen Podcasts based in Lakewood. In her musical life, she’s one-third of the glam-pop-folk trio The Prom Queens and a vocal instructor/show director at School of Rock Cleveland. She also loves giving makeovers. @hannahraeleach www.hannahraeleach.com
The goal of Test Flight is to support new work and local/national artists.
CPT provides:
– The James Levin Theatre
– Basic production staff, stage management, box office support
– Marketing and advertising support
The artists provide the rest!
The writers, directors, actors, and designers selected for Test Flight dedicate themselves to creating new and original work, or stretching their artistic powers by working in new disciplines.
