UPDATE: This post reflects the extended deadlines for both programs. The PILOT Project deadline is now October 7, 2024, and the SoftLaunch deadline is October 14, 2024.

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Cleveland Public Theatre announces two interconnected opportunities for performance creators: SoftLaunch and The PILOT Project.

SoftLaunch

SoftLaunch is a new performance festival that seeks bold experimentation, innovation, and complete reinvention of what theatre can be. (Think installation art, immersive performance, shows for one or two people, and way beyond all that—we don’t know what all this can be!) 

SoftLaunch is a weekend-long festival/conference, January 23-26, 2025. Audience members get a pass and can wander as they wish to see different performance experiments. This is a beta test, and we are seeking work that ranges from workshop to fully produced.  

We are only interested in projects that do not fit the normal theatre mode─not plays that are produced in a normal theatre setting even if that play is radical.  Read More ›

Cleveland Public Theatre is excited to welcome Marguerite Hannah to its management team as General Manager. She succeeds Denis Griesmer, who will be exclusively focusing on financial management and leadership as CPT’s Director of Finance.  

“Marguerite brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from years of work in the corporate and nonprofit theatre sectors, but the greatest asset she brings to CPT is her wisdom and experience. She understands the big picture from the technical (e.g. accounts payable) to the personal (e.g. working with artists). Plus, Marguerite is a great performer, director, and dramaturg!  We are thrilled not only for CPT but for the Cleveland theatre community.” 

─ Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan 

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Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Public Theatre’s (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to announce the 2024/2025 Season aptly named “Cultivate.”

The theme is a nod to the theatre’s ongoing dedication to the expansion of new work partly supported by a generous grant from Mellon Foundation as part of the Future of American Theatre Cohort that was announced earlier this year.

“This is an incredible time of reinvention and of planting new seeds and appreciating the fruition of some projects we have been working on for years! CPT is one of the few theatres in the country to produce seasons of virtually all brand new plays, and we are thrilled to continue this work, while also looking for reinvention across the field and nurturing great local and national talent.”

―Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan

Highlights this year include the World Premiere of the non-profit workplace comedy not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) by francisa da ilveira (can I touch it?)*, the return of Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi’s The Outstretched Hand, the world premiere of Jeanne Madison’s Showin’ Up Black, and three holidays shows!  Also, cultivating this season, is the launch of a brand-new play development program called Soft Launch.

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