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Molly Andrews-Hinders
Molly Andrews-Hinders is a performer, composer, educator, and activist. She has been performing and teaching as an independent artist at CPT since 2011. She has taught in CPT’s Brick City Theatre Program, Global Teen Performance Project, and the Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP). Molly has also taught with the Musical Theater Project, Near West Theatre, and Talespinner Children’s Theatre. In addition to her work as a theatre educator, Molly is a certified Pilates instructor and has worked at several studios in Cleveland. Molly has created many original works for CPT shows. Her original compositions were featured in Test Flight (2019), Entry Point (2018), Station Hope (2019, 2017); Light the Lights, Ol’ Moses CLE! (A Wild Holiday Romp); Air Waves (Part Three of the Elements Cycle); Earth Plays (Part Two of the Elements Cycle); When the Moon Was Green Cheese, The Cracker Maker Was King (Big Box 2013); and Soliciting for Change (Big Box 2011), as well as numerous STEP shows. As an actor, Molly has been featured in 44 Plays For 44 Presidents, Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, Rusted Heart Broadcast, and Akarui. She is a proud graduate from Wright State University where she earned a BFA.
John Dayo-Aliya
John Dayo-Aliya is a multidisciplinary artist from Akron, OH. He is also Artistic Director of Ma’Sue Productions, a theatre production company that produces plays exploring the existential crisis of being born black and human.
Chistopher Johnston
Christopher Johnston is a playwright, director, and freelance journalist/author. His plays have appeared as part of new play development programs, events, and festivals at Cleveland Public Theatre (Sexually Explicit Material, The Mind Field, Theories of Relativity, The Mad Mask Maker of Maigh Eo, Elitsa the Inside Talker, Flights of Fancy, Elitsa Revisited: The Bearded Angel, The Great Firefly Expedition), Dobama Theatre (Murder in Mind, Loud Americans: A Punk Saga, Ghosts of War, My Body is Blue or 20 Cantos from My Stupid Life), convergence-continuum theatre (APORKALYPSE!, Spawn of the Petrosexuals, Selfies at the Clown Motel, The Chaste Genius and His Death Ray Gun, Black Mongoose and His Lil Purple Butterfly, My Body is Blue), Notre Dame College (Peace at Home: Veterans of South Euclid) and Talespinner Children’s Theatre (Finn McCool, The Rainbow Serpent). His documentary play about human trafficking, Live Bodies for Sale, directed by Terrence Spivey, will premiere at Playwrights Local Theatre in November. He completed his playwriting internship at the Cleveland Play House, and occasionally teaches playwriting and creative nonfiction workshops at CSU, for Lit Cleveland, and The William Skirball Writers Center at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library. His book, Shattering Silences: Strategies to Prevent Sexual Assault, Heal Survivors, and Bring Assailants to Justice (Skyhorse) was published last May.
Jaclyn Renee Vogel
Jaclyn was a writer, performer, and artist cohort member for the ENDependence Project in January 2018. Since moving to Cleveland in 2014 from Indianapolis, CPT has been her creative home away from home, where she has acted as both a theatre artist and administrator. As a theatre creator, Jaclyn’s pieces have been performed at Pandemonium, Ohio City Street Festival, Station Hope, Entry Point, and Test Flight. She was a Joan Yellen Horvitz Assistant Directing Fellow in CPT’s 2014/2015 Season, and her assistant directing credits include: Fire on the Water (Part Four of the Elements Cycle) and Lines in the Dust. This season she costume designed Everything is Okay (and other helpful lies) and workshopped her play, To Be Healthy, as part of Test Flight. Jaclyn holds a Bachelor’s degree with high honors in Theatre from Butler University and is currently CPT’s Director of Patron Services.