CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY/CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE MFA ACTING PROGRAM PRESENTS THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Posted October 24, 2024 in Press Releases
(Cleveland, OH) The Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program presents Anton Chekhov’s thought-provoking play, The Cherry Orchard, November 6 through 16 in The Helen Theatre, located in Playhouse Square. The production is directed by Eleanor Holdridge, and features the program’s class of 2026, including Madalyn Baker, Byron Johnson, Brendan Lowry, Christina McSheffrey, Calder Meis, Brianna Miller, Meredith Nelson, and Adam Ortega, with additional support from actors Emily Kuntz and Nathan Nelson. Tickets can be purchased at clevelandplayhouse.com, or by calling the box office at 216-241-6000.
The Cherry Orchard follows a family of down-on-their-luck aristocrats as they grapple with the prospect of selling their beloved estate. As the cherry trees blossom, so do the complexities of love, loss, and the relentless passage of time. This theatrical masterpiece explores what happens when echoes of the past meet the inevitability of change. The Cherry Orchard reveals complex and colorful characters that blend humor and heartache as they encounter the absurdities that abound in simply leading one’s life.
At the helm of the production is guest director Eleanor Holdridge, who holds a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, and currently stands as the Chair of the Drama Department at The Catholic University of America. Holdridge, who has worked with the CWRU/CPH MFA Program previously in 2021, says, “I look forward to the opportunity of bringing Chekhov's brilliant comedy to life. This play shows us a society at a crossroads where one world will die as a new one is born. The Cherry Orchard is not a dark journey but one filled with the longing and beauty, the comedy and thrills of a world in flux.”
Director of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program Donald Carrier states, “This work by Anton Chekhov invites our actors-in-training to explore the complexities and contradictions of being human with the highs and the lows, the tragedies and the absurdities. I am thrilled that they will have such a brilliant guide in Eleanor Holdridge, who directed such a dynamic The Tempest in 2023!”
The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s final play written during his lifetime, first performed and published in 1904. Detailing the life of the Ranevskaya family, the story follows their unfortunate fall into debt, which forces them to consider selling their family estate. Though Chekhov considers the play comedic, and at times farcical, The Cherry Orchard includes the right amount of drama and tragedy to examine the socio-economic class shift in early 20th century Russia, as the termination of serfism in the mid-19th century changed the status and wealth of the artistocratic class. Anton Chekhov is considered a pillar of late 19th Century Russian realism, and is hailed a master of the short story.
Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Barakiva remarks, “The Cherry Orchard is one of the greatest plays ever written, and introduces that comedy/heartbreak combination that has become a staple of the most successful movies and TV shows of our time. It is a real treat for us to be able to witness this rarely-staged gem.”
The design team for The Cherry Orchard includes scenic design by Larry Heyman, costume design by Michelle Hunt Souza, lighting design by Colleen Albrecht, sound design by Angie Hayes, and dramaturgy by Jeffrey Ullom. Additional creative team members include Beth McGee (vocal coach), Eliza Ladd Schwarz (movement coach/choreographer) Dusten A. Welch (fight choreographer), and Tyree Franklin (stage manager).
Tickets for The Cherry Orchard are $16 with $8 tickets for currently enrolled students (valid student ID required). Ohio Direction/EBT cardholders receive $5 admission to any performance (up to 8 tickets). Single tickets can be purchased by calling 216.241.6000 or by visiting clevelandplayhouse.com. Groups of 10 or more can save $5 off by contacting CPH Groups Sales at 216.400.7053.
For more information, please visit www.clevelandplayhouse.com.
BIOGRAPHIES
THE CAST
MADALYN BAKER (Lyubov) Madalyn is an actor, illustrator, and musician from Northern California. She earned her BA in Theatre from Fordham University, and is now in her second year of the CWRU/CPH MFA program. Her recent credits include Mechanic/Aunt in Middletown (CPH/CWRU, Sally Bowles in Cabaret (CWRU), and Cathy in The Last Five Years (Soft Belly Theatre). She recently made her Cleveland Play House debut in the ensemble of Pride and Prejudice, and went on for one performance as Lizzie. In addition to being an actor, she writes music, and has her own illustrative art brand called Maddle Baddle. She sends much love to her family, and to her wonderful cohort. To learn more about Madalyn, you can check out her work at Madalynbaker.com, @madmaddybaker, and @maddlebaddle.
BYRON JOHNSON (Lopahkin) is a Louisiana native originally from New Orleans. As a former collegiate student-athlete, he made a bold shift to acting in 2018. His notable credits include roles in Young Rock on NBC, Walker on CW, and a recurring guest star in SHOWTIME's American Rust. Seeking to enhance his craft, Byron enrolled in CWRU/CPH to explore the stage. Born to the late Byron Johnson and Trudy Johnson, with a sister named Destiny, he remains deeply connected to his roots. Byron made his CPH Stage debut in Pride and Predjudice as part of the Ensemble. He continues his relentless pursuit to develop his craft and his desire to become one of the most impactful people in the world. Instagram: @bjohnsonofficial
EMILY KUNTZ (Firs, Train Conductor) is currently attending Case Western Reserve University as an undergraduate theater major. This is Emily's first show at the Cleveland Play House and she is very excited to share it with the wonderful cast and crew. Other credits include Electra in Case Western’s production of Electra, Rose in Case Western’s production Dancing at Lughnasa, and Ophelia in Player’s Theatre Group’s production of Hamlet.
BRENDAN LOWRY (Petya Trofimov) is a proud CWRU/CPH MFA Acting student in his second year of study. You may have recently seen him in the ensemble of Pride and Prejudice or the CWRU/CPH production of Middletown (Tour Guide/Astronaut/Landscaper). Other favorite credits include Floyd Collins (Floyd Collins), Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson), and Godspell (John/Judas). Originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado, he received his BFA in Musical Theatre from Colorado Mesa University. Brendan looks forward to two more years exploring and living in Cleveland. Check out and follow Brendan's other works and interests: @bkylowry / bkylowry.com
CHRISTINA MCSHEFFREY (Varya) is from Phoenix, Arizona, where she got her BA in Theatre at Grand Canyon University, and has since worked as an actor and teaching artist. Some favorite acting credits include: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Maria in Twelfth Night (Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival); Miranda in The Tempest (Southwest Shakespeare Company). She taught theatre and voice at The Phoenix Theatre Company, Childsplay Theatre, and Phoenix Conservatory of Music before making the move to the midwest. Christina also enjoys running, singing, and spending time with her friends and family. @chefboyartina
CALDER MEIS (Yepikhodov) is overjoyed to explore The Cherry Orchard with his cohort. He most recently appeared in CPH's Pride & Prejudice (Ensemble, Fight Captain, U/S Miss Bingley/Mr. Wickham/Mr. Collins), as well as the CWRU/CPH MFA production of Middletown (John Dodge). Other favorite credits include: The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Peachy Weil), Abigail/1702 (John Brown), and Footloose (Ren). Last summer, he had the privilege of assistant directing and music supervising Uma Incrocci's To Keep and Bear as a part of Cleveland Play House's New Ground Theatre Festival. BFA, Baylor University. “Cleveland, this is for you!” -LeBron James
BRIANNA MILLER (Anya) (She/Her) is so excited to return to The Helen in this production. Her most recent credits include Gwendolyn Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Player Queen in Hamlet (Santa Cruz Shakespeare). Some of her favorite professional roles include Camae in The Mountaintop (Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center), The Naif in Sleeping Giant (Know Theatre), and Millie Davis in Trouble in Mind (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company). She also worked with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company on The Living Dead, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She would like to thank her friends and family for their support, especially Nathan Sullivan, who is the sole reason she is off-book for most shows.
MEREDITH NELSON (Dunyasha) is an actor, director, and educator originally from Denver, Colorado. She received her undergraduate degree from The University of Evansville and is thrilled to be pursuing her master's with CWRU/Cleveland Playhouse. Some favorite roles she's played include the Librarian in Middletown, Prospera in The Tempest, and Julie in Miss Julie. She is also the co-founder and co-artistic director of Soft Belly Theatre: a local Cleveland theatre company dedicated to producing accessible, courageous work with an open mind and a soft belly. You can find more information about her work at softbellytheatre.com.
NATHAN NELSON (Yasha) is so thrilled to join the CPH MFA acting program for this production. His regional credits include Theatre as Lt. Buzz Adams in South Pacific, Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, and swing in Peter and The Starcatcher (all at CDA Summer Theatre), Alan in Equus (Stage Left Theatre), and Jon in tick…tick…BOOM! (Gonzaga). His New York credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Bank Street Theatre at The New School), Jackie Theoharis’ Quarter Life Crisis (music direction and arrangements). Nathan serves as co-founder and co-artistic director of Soft Belly Theatre with his wife Meredith. You can find more about their work at SoftBellyTheatre.com. BA: Gonzaga University, MFA: The New School. AMDG.
ADAM ORTEGA (Gayev) is a second-year graduate student in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program. Hailing from South Florida, Adam earned his BFA in Acting at The University of Michigan. His other theatre credits include, Cop in Middletown (CWRU/CPH), The Very Lonely Dinosaur (CPH), Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost (Great River Shakespeare Festival), and Drunk Shakespeare (Off-Broadway). He would like to thank family, friends, and loved ones for all their constant support. Instagram: @adamaortega adamalexisortega.com
THE CREATIVE TEAM
ELEANOR HOLDRIDGE (Director) Off-Broadway productions include world premieres of Selma ’65 (LaMaMa), Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), and Cycling Past The Matterhorn (Clurman Theatre). Regional world premieres include Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Soprano, David Grimm’s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists (Cincinnati Playhouse), NNPN Rolling World Premieres of Lauren Gunderson’s Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley and I and You, Meg Maroshnik’s Fickle: A Fancy French Farce, and Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl in the World (Theatre J). She has directed twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays, some of them multiple times including her most recent Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Upcoming projects include Ken Ludwig's Baskerville at the Alley Theatre. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, and is a professor and Chairs the Drama Department at The Catholic University of America.
LARRY HEYMAN (Scenic Designer) is a Cleveland-based freelance set designer with extensive experience in design for theatre, opera, film, television, and commercial events. In the past 35 years, Larry has worked in the shops with The Goodman Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse, The Huntington Theatre, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Florentine Opera, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The American Repertory Theatre, and numerous universities. He has also worked for Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox, Touchstone Films, and MTV Films. He is delighted to be working with the Cleveland Play House on this, his first design here. He is also credited with numerous publications on his craft in journals, books, and textbooks for theatre design students.
MICHELLE HUNT SOUZA (Costume Designer) is honored to return to CWRU/CPH for her second production. Her professional costume design work has been featured at a wide range of theatres from coast to coast, including the Cleveland Play House, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Summit Performance Indianapolis, Crossroads Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Moxie Theatre, and many others. Her writing and scholarship has been featured in Theatre Design and Technology magazine, HowlRound Theatre Commons, TheatreForum International Performance Journal, at the Prague Quadrennial, and in the USITT Teaching Archive. She is currently on the faculty of the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University. Find her work at msouzadesign.com.
COLLEEN ALBRECHT (Lighting Designer) is a Northeast Ohio based lighting designer and photographer. She designed Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, co-produced with CPH, Karamu House, and Playhouse Square. She has designed for Cleveland area companies such as Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater and The Musical Theater Project with Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Playhouse Square, convergence-continuum, Cleveland Institute of Music, Beck Center, The Fine Arts Association, Heights Youth Theatre, True North Cultural Arts, Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, Cain Park, and the nation’s oldest producing African American theatre, Karamu House, founded the same year as CPH. She toured with international smooth jazz artist Keiko Matsui. For eighteen years, she designed the Cleveland Metropolitan School District All-City Musical at Playhouse Square. She obtained her BFA in production design and technology from Ohio University and her MFA in lighting design from the University of California, Irvine.
ANGIE HAYES (Sound Designer) is based in Cleveland and has designed and mixed sound for productions at many area theaters. Recent design credits include Pride and Prejudice with CPH, Middletown and The Tempest with CPH and CWRU, Fun Home at Cain Park, The Other Place at Dobama, and Something Rotten at Beck Center. She is the resident sound designer for Dobama Theatre. She has also recorded and sound designed for several podcasts, including Beyond the Habit, Sidewalk, and Munchen, MN. She has a Bachelor Degree in Music from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, with an emphasis in Recording Technology and Music Business.
ELIZA LADD SCHWARZ (Movement Coach/Choreographer) is a performer, director, stage writer, composer, and choreographer from NYC. She is thrilled to collaborate as faculty at CWRU / Cleveland Playhouse MFA after 10 years teaching at the FSU / Asolo Conservatory. Eliza has created original multi-disciplinary work in NYC at PS 122, Dixon Place, Movement Research, the Knitting Factory, and Joyce Soho, and performed at La Mama, the Kitchen, NY Theater Workshop, St. Ann’s Warehouse and with Shakespeare and Company in MA. Notable recent works include Agridulce / Bittersweet, an Andrew W Mellon Foundation funded project; Work / Play / Work, a theatrical ensemble zoom response to the 2020 call for social justice; and, her solo works Gravity and Levity and Autobiography of the Human Species. This year Eliza is directing Men On Boats at CWRU. Eliza holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Harvard University and an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. www.elizaladd.com
DUSTEN A. WELCH (Fight Choreographer) is an award-winning fight choreographer and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. He teaches Stage Combat for Baldwin Wallace University and is the Art Director for Fight Master Magazine. As a fight choreographer, Dusten has more than 80 credits to his name, with work seen at Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland Play House, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre, Dobama Theater, Ensemble Theatre CLE among others. He is a multi-recipient of the Kennedy Center Foundation’s ACTF Achievement Award for Fight Direction (2007 and again in 2016). He served as Artistic Director for Cleveland Shakespeare Festival from 2020-2024, and was a teacher at the Academy for the Performing Arts from 2010-2020. Dusten holds his BA in Theatre and Performance from Ashland University.
BETH MCGEE (Voice Coach) is a member of Actor’s Equity and a voice, speech, and dialect coach. She was the on-set dialect coach for Cinemax’s 2016 television series Quarry, directed by Greg Yaitanes. She has acted as dialect coach for many Cleveland area theaters and dialect coached the 2002 film Welcome to Collinwood starring George Clooney, and directed by the Russo Brothers. She has coached and/or acted in productions at numerous Cleveland area theaters. She was one of the co-founders of Cleveland’s first immersive theater company Shadow of the Run LLC, and was the playwright for their first immersive piece,Wanderlust. She is a Professor of Voice and Acting at CWRU. Devotees of folk music can find her 1980 Folkways album Love is Teasing housed in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. McGee is an active member of Actors’ Equity Association.
JEFFREY ULLOM (Dramaturg) is an Associate Professor of Theater at Case Western Reserve University where he teaches theatre history and dramaturgy. He is the author of several books and articles focusing on regional theatre, including his most recent book on Cleveland Play House America’s First Regional Theatre. As a dramaturg, he worked with notable playwrights including Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, John Patrick Shanley and others at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, and he has served as a dramaturg for several Cleveland Play House productions. His latest book - a broad history of the past, present, and future of American regional theater - will be published this winter. Jeffrey is the Chair of the CWRU Department of Theater.
TYREE FRANKLIN (Stage Manager) (he/him) is a Cleveland based stage manager and Artist with his BFA in Stage Management from Wright State University. His recent stage management credits includes Velveteen Rabbit: A New Musical at Playhouse Square, BKLYN at Nearwest Theatre, The Bubbly Black Girl who Sheds her Chameleon Skin (Karamu House) The Tempest, The Liar, Everybody, and Passage (Cleveland Playhouse), Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity (Karamu House) Tyree is a new playwright. His play “Tales of a Fat Man” was recently produced at Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2024 Test Flight Series. He would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support!
DONALD CARRIER (Director of CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program/Production Liaison) most recently directed Middletown for the MFA Program, Othello at Texas Shakespeare Festival, Ellis Island: The Dream of America for The Cleveland Orchestra, and Doll’s House, Part 2 for the Beck Center. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, he has also directed The Liar, Passage, Fifth of July, Clybourne Park, The Misanthrope, Too True to Be Good, and The Violins of Hope. Other directing includes Doubt, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Seminar, and Really Really (Beck Center for the Arts); and Becky Shaw (Dobama Theatre). Other selected directing credits include The Crucible, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Habeas Corpus, The Pirates of Penzance, and Oh! What a Lovely War. He has appeared at Cleveland Play House in Shakespeare in Love; All the Way; Luna Gale; The Crucible; The Little Foxes; Yentl; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Ten Chimneys; Noises Off; and Lincolnesque. Regional credits include The National Arts Center, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, The Studio Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Wilma Theater, The Huntington Theatre, The Intiman Theatre, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He spent nine seasons at the Stratford Festival, three seasons at the Old Globe, and two seasons at the Shaw Festival. Television/Film: Guns, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Passion of Ayn Rand, and Dead by Monday. Don is a proud Lunt/Fontanne Fellow. He will be directing The Mousetrap for the CWRU Department of Theater this fall and appearing in CPH’s What the Constitution Means to Me.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
MICHAEL BARAKIVA (Artistic Director) is an Armenian-Israeli American director and writer who has staged new plays, revivals, and classics in New York City and around the country. Michael was appointed Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in December 2023, where he served as director of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as co-director of CPH’s world premiere production of Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure. Barakiva’s work has been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Primary Stages, Syracuse Stage, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and the Hangar Theatre, where he served as Artistic Director. He founded The Upstart Creatures, a theatre company that creates community through performance and food, as well as the Leadership Initiative Project, which equips historically excluded artists with the tools to succeed in leadership positions. Barakiva has received three Drama League directing fellowships, the Phil Killian Directing Fellowship (OSF), the David Merrick Prize in Drama, and was a Granada Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis. He led a week-long workshop on musical theatre at the International Puppet Theater in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was a presenter at the International University Theatre Festival at UNAM in Mexico City. He served as producer of Summer Camp 6 (Soho Rep) and as the Readings and Workshops Coordinator at New York Stage and Film, as well as a Primary Coach on Season 2 of MTV’s Made. As a writer, Barakiva is the recipient of a Red Bull Commission for his adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an EST/Sloan Project Commission, and a co-author of String Theory (Connotation Press). His young adult novels have been named to the Rainbow List, Equality Family Council Reading List, The Barnes and Noble’s Perfect Valentine’s Day YA Novels list, spending over a year as Goodreads #1 LGBTQ YA Novel. Education: Vassar College, The Juilliard School.
RACHEL L. FINK (Managing Director) is thrilled to be returning home to Northeast Ohio after 25 years. Her childhood was filled with fundamental and rich Cleveland arts experiences — and it was at Heights High (Go Tigers!) that Fink’s passion for arts access, social justice, and inclusive, equitable practices was ignited. She carried those values with her as she enrolled at Case Western Reserve University, where an astute professor introduced her to the field of arts administration, and she hasn’t turned back since. The experience at CWRU led to an internship at Cleveland Play House, followed by earning an MFA in theater management at the Yale School of Drama (now the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale). After graduate school, Fink ventured west to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California, where she founded and grew the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre into a nationally-recognized learning hub which centered theatre as an essential education and engagement tool for all ages, providing direct service and support to more than 300 theatres and 2,000 artists across the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, Fink served as the executive director of the Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. Producing highlights include Plantation! by Kevin Douglas and directed by David Schwimmer; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written and directed by David Catlin; Her Honor Jane Byrne, written and directed by J. Nicole Brooks (holiday radio broadcast in partnership with local NPR affiliate, WBEZ); Steadfast Tin Soldier, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman; and Lookingglass Alice, written and directed by David Catlin. Fink has held professional distinctions including co-leading the Professional Association of Chicago Theatres; and serving as a Fellow at the Civic Leadership Academy at the University of Chicago/Harris School of Public Policy; as the US delegate for the British Council’s Cultural Leadership International Programme; as a member of the American Express/Aspen Institute Fellowship for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders inaugural class; and as a 2016 artEquity facilitator cohort member.
ABOUT CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE & THE MFA ACTING PROGRAM
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: At Case Western Reserve University, we're a community of innovators, knowledge-seekers and groundbreakers. As a leading national research university located in one of the nation's top arts districts and within walking distance of three major hospitals, we offer ample opportunities for you to excel. With programs spanning the arts and sciences, engineering, health sciences, law, management, and social work, our research and educational opportunities allow our students, faculty, staff and alumni to tackle today’s toughest problems—and transform the future. case.edu
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY/CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE MFA ACTING PROGRAM: Since 1996, Case Western Reserve University has partnered with Cleveland Play House. Every two years, eight actors are chosen from the hundreds who audition nationwide to join this rigorous three-year conservatory program. The CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program admits committed and bold young artists who possess a love of language, empathy for the human experience, a vivid imagination and the desire to develop the necessary physical and vocal skills for a successful and sustained career in the ever-evolving performing arts scene. All three years are spent in residency at Cleveland Play House, providing students with unique access to its new downtown Cleveland state-of-the-art facilities and the professional expertise of its staff.
CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE, founded in 1915 and recipient of the 2015 Regional Theatre Tony Award, is America's first professional regional theatre. Throughout its rich history, CPH has remained dedicated to its mission to inspire, stimulate, and entertain diverse audiences across Northeast Ohio by producing plays and theatre education programs of the highest professional standards. CPH has produced more than 100 world and/or American premieres, and over its long history more than 12 million people have attended over 1,600 productions. Today, Cleveland Play House celebrates the beginning of its second century of service while performing in three state-of-the art venues at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. Cleveland Play House is made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically. Cleveland Play House is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. To learn more, visit:www.clevelandplayhouse.com.
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