Marjorie Prime Debuting At Dobama Theatre

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH - From Dobama Theatre: Dobama Theatre announces the Midwest premiere of MARJORIE PRIME, running October 13 – November 12, directed by Shannon Sindelar.

In the not-too-distant future, it’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion programmed to recount the distant, fading memories of her life. This incredible new play and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores what it means to be human in the digital age.

MARJORIE PRIME features
Dorothy Silver, Derdriu Ring*, Steve Sawicki, and Nicholas Chokan+
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association
+ Equity Membership Candidate

“ ... a thought-provoking play about memory, its corruption and our insistence that technology help us outwit death”. – The New York Times

About the Playwright:
JORDAN HARRISON was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for MARJORIE PRIME, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. A film adaptation, directed by Michael Almereyda, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Harrison's play MAPLE AND VINE premiered in the 2011 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Other plays include THE GROWN-UP (Humana Festival), DORIS TO DARLENE, A CAUTIONARY VALENTINE (Playwrights Horizons), AMAZONS AND THEIR MEN (Clubbed Thumb), ACT A LADY (Humana Festival), FINN IN THE
UNDERWORLD (Berkeley Rep), FUTURA (Portland Center Stage/NAATCO), KID-SIMPLE (Humana Festival), THE MUSEUM PLAY (WET), and a musical, SUPREMA (O'Neill Music Theatre Conference). Jordan has two new plays premiering Off-Broadway in the '17-'18 season: THE AMATEURS at the Vineyard Theatre, and LOG CABIN at Playwrights Horizons. Jordan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Residency with The Empty Space Theater. His children's musical, THE FLEA AND THE PROFESSOR, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production after premiering at the Arden Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, he is an alumnus of New Dramatists. For three seasons, he was a writer and producer for the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black.

About the Director:
SHANNON SINDELAR is a theater director and producer based in New York. With Dobama: regional premieres of Bathsheba Doran's THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX and KIN, C. Denby Swanson's THE NORWEGIANS, Liz Duffy Adams' OR, and Will Eno's THE REALISTIC JONESES. Recent credits include the world premieres of a new translation of Peretz Hirschbein's ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER (New Worlds Theatre Project), Sara Farrington's REQUIEM FOR BLACK MARIE (Incubator Arts Project), Miranda Huba’s CANDY TASTES NICE (HERE), and the New York premieres of Tennessee Williams' THE REMARKABLE ROOMING HOUSE OF MME. LEMONDE (Target Margin) and Jason Grote's A CHRISTMAS CAROL (The Brick). She was the Producing Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based company Brave New World Repertory Theatre, where she directed the world premiere of RN Healey's NUN$ and produced the New York premiere of Gertrude Stein's 100-year-old PINK MELON JOY. Prior to that, she was the co-Artistic Director of the cross media performance group 31 Down, and for five years directed the company’s productions, including HERE AT HOME (Bushwick Starr), RED OVER RED (Incubator Arts Project), THE ASSEMBER DILATOR (PS 122), I USED TO BE CURIOUS (LOUD) (Prelude Festival),
UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (Ontological) and THE SCREAM CONTEST (PS 122/Bumbershoot/Orange County Arts). She recently produced the New York premiere of David Adjmi's MARIE ANTOINETTE (Soho Rep), and served for four years as Managing and Programming Director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NYC). The Ontological’s Incubator program for independent artists garnered an Obie grant under her direction and in 2010 transitioned to become its own organization, she served as its first Producing Director. She remained on the curatorial staff for the new organization, the Incubator Arts Project, and founded and produced its annual Other Forces festival, which ran for five years and premiered Julia Jarcho's GRIMLY HANDSOME (Obie Award for Best New American Play), Alexandra Collier's mobile performance TAKE ME HOME and Daniel Fish's TOM RYAN THINKS HE'S JAMES MASON.... She was a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her MFA.

Tickets are $29-32. Senior, Student and Military discounts available. Call the Box Office at 216.932.3396
or email boxoffice@dobama.org Walk up box office hours: Monday- Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday, noon-4pm (during performance weeks), and one hour before performances.

Sunday, October 15 is a Pay-As-You-Can Performance. In an effort to remove economic barriers and to make
Dobama’s productions accessible to everyone, the first Sunday of every production is a 7:30pm Pay-As-You-Can Performance.

Show dates and times:
Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30 pm - Preview Performance, all tickets $15
Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 pm - Preview Performance, all tickets $15
Friday, October 13 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 14 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 15 at 7:30 pm - Pay-As-You-Can Performance

Thursday, October 19 at 7:30 pm
Friday, October 20 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 21 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 22 at 2:30 pm
Thursday, October 26 at 7:30 pm
Friday, October 27 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 28 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 29 at 2:30 pm
Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 pm
Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 4 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 5 at 2:30 pm
Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 pm
Friday, November 10 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 12 at 2:30 pm

For information on our Audience Engagement events, visit dobama.org At the Heights Library, 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118. Please mention any accessibility needs at time of reservation.
Assisted Listening Devices are available upon request.

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