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A
True Story
(that
I just made up
(with a little help from my conscience))
A writer is trying
to simply make up a story from her youth. Well,
okay, not exactly from her youth. And that’s
where the writer’s problems start. Her
Conscience won’t let her alone. It seems
that when a “goody two-shoes, ‘fraidy-cat”
tries to pretend she was something else in her
youth, the old truth-telling guilt still, decades
later, won’t relent. The war between fantasy
and conscience-driven real history leads to
a fun telling of what is, well, a true story…
that she just made up.
STORY
by Laurel Winter
MUSIC by Michael Flohr and
Nadia Tarnawasky
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Cast:
Cathrine
Albers – storyteller
Paula Duesing - conscience
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Laurel Winter – author
Laurel Winter (l.winter@earthlink.net) belongs to a 13.2-pound black cat
named Panther. She is currently polishing 3 YA novels and (at the writing
of this bio) is 12,222 words into another one. She's won 1 World Fantasy
Award for best novella and 2 Rhyslings awards and 2 Asimov's Reader's Poll
Awards for best poem. Her 1st novel Growing Wings, was a finalist for the
Mythopoeic Award for Children's Fantasy and she's won 1 McKnight Artist
Fellowship for Children's Fiction. "egg horror poem" is to be included in
an upcoming Houghton Mifflin 9th grade literature textbook. She has 2 sons
born 5 minutes apart in 1985 and is 45 years old. (She is NOT obsessed with
numbers Ð usually.) What else? She grew up in the mountains of Montana,
attended a 1-room country grade school with 1 teacher for 8 grades with
12-25 students in the entire school, likes to play poker (especially 3/6
Texas Hold'em) and her favorite food is navy bean and ham soup, although
she likes many other foods as well. She is a tea fanatic, with her 2
current favorites being Numi's Lapsang Souchong and Eden's Gen Maicha. She
is a massage school drop-out, and is studying energy medicine. For
nowÐ subject to changeÐ she lives in Rochester, Minnesota. Galaxy in a Jar
(Dark Regions Press) is her 1st poetry collection.
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Cathrine
Albers – storyteller
Catherine is a professional actress and a teacher
at Case Western Reserve University in the Department
of Theater and Dance, where she is the Director
of Undergraduate Theater Studies. She is also
a Master
Teacher in the MFA Professional Actor Training
program, run in
conjunction with the Cleveland Play House. She
has performed on stages throughout the U.S. and
is a certified Master Teacher of Michael Chekhov
Acting Technique. She is thrilled to be working
with this wonderfully talented group of people.
Thank you for the opportunity.
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Paula
Duesing - conscience
Paula Duesing has lived and worked in the Cleveland
area for the last thirty years as a freelance
voice-over talent and actress. She's performed
at Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama
Theater, Ensemble Theater, and Actor's Summit,
of Hudson, in many varied roles from the young,
beguiling Barbara Allen in Dark of the Moon
to the brassy harridan Martha in Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolfe. Even raising her baritone
voice in song at Cain Park in Fiddler on the
Roof. She's also produced a number of productions
under Actor's Equity Association, the professional
actor's union. As an AFTRA voice-over talent she
has done hundreds of local and national commercials
as well as non-brodcast narrations, most notably
as the voice of the Omnimax Theater at the Great
Lakes Science Center. She's even occationlly appeared
on camera. Her most recent project is a pilot
for t.v. filmed in Cleveland, "The Rudy Connelly
Story", which is just getting "shopped
around" in LA.
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Michael
Flohr and Nadia Tarnawsky
Michael D. Flohr - Michael has been a
professional musician and has
served as musical director and director in the
Cleveland area for over 10 years. In 2001 he received
an Artist's Project Grant from the Ohio Arts Council
to direct Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors,
an original dance-theatre piece which fused Ukrainian
folk music, modern dance and puppetry. Forest
Song, another piece in the same genre premiered
at Cleveland Public Theatre's Old Parish Hall
in June of 2004. Michael has played keyboards
for the legendary Miss Patti Page and Christian
contemporary artists Bob Fitts and Arlen Salte.
He provided pre-show music during the run of Ragtime
at Playhouse Square, and has served as keyboardist
for Actor's Summit Theatre, the Black Hills Playhouse,
and other Cleveland area theaters.
Nadia Tarnawsky - Nadia is a teacher
of Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Cleveland Institute
of Music and other Cleveland area schools. In
2002, she received a Foreign Language and Area
Studies (FLAS) Fellowship which allowed her to
study in Ukraine for 10 weeks collecting folk
songs and folklore in the Polissia, Volyn and
Poltava regions of Ukraine. She served as dramaturg/translator
and ensemble member of the premiere performance
of Ancestral Voices in the summer of 2000, and
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors which premiered
at Cleveland Public Theatre’s Gordon Square
Theatre in January of 2002. In 2002 she received
an Artist's Project Grant from the Ohio Arts Council
to produce a soundtrack recording for Forest Song,
an original dance-theatre piece which fused Ukrainian
folk music, modern dance and puppetry which premiered
at Cleveland Public Theatre's Old Parish Hall
in June of 2004.
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