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For Immediate Release For more information, contact: Neil Thackaberry 330-342-0800 Actors’ Summit Presents The World Premiere of TREMONT Actors’ Summit, Hudson’s Equity Professional Theater,
announces the World Premier production of TREMONT,
a new comedy set in Cleveland. The play was written by the husband and wife
team of Robert Thomas Noll and Pamela V. Noll. TREMONT
is set in the early 60’s when the closing of the steel mills disrupted
the life of Cleveland’s eastern European neighborhoods. TREMONT will have a preview performance on
April 16 with the official opening night on The Play TREMONT is set in “The Silver Bush” a neighborhood tavern
with a small but loyal clientele. Eva is waiting tables and living above the
bar, having fled to its safety when her home was broken into. Zoltan, the owner
has fallen in love with her. An elderly couple, the Popovich’s, are
regular customers, although Marijka is trying to get her husband, Roman, to
move to Parma. “Tree” has just lost his job and thinks he can start
a new career as a gambler betting on the Cleveland Indians. Eva’s
brother, Andre (the Polish Milton Berle) has reappeared after a long absence
and is demanding his share of his parent’s savings. The characters, like the city and its neighborhoods, are in the midst
of change. The world in which immigrants could get good jobs, buy homes, cars,
and raise their families in comfortably isolated ethnic neighborhoods is
falling apart. Some flee to the suburbs while others fight a rear guard action
trying to hold onto the old ways. The Playwrights TREMONT is ROBERT THOMAS
NOLL’s 26th produced play. His works have been performed in
every U.S. state, including six off-off Broadway productions, and in many
countries. Six are published. His plays have also been produced in Northeast
Ohio at The Cleveland Play House, Playhouse Square Center, The Beck Center,
Dobama, Cassidy Theatre, Willoughby Fine Arts, Berea Summer Theatre, Youngstown
Playhouse, Kent State University Theatre, and at John Carroll University, where
he teaches in the Communications & Theatre Department. At John Carroll he
is also adviser to The Carroll News, an award-winning newspaper. As a TV
producer/writer, he has won nine Emmys and a Silver Medal from the
International Film and TV Festival of New York. For NBC, he served as producer/writer
for their syndicated children’s TV series, “Hickory Hideout.”
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. PAMELA V. NOLL is a
writer who has won awards for her dramas and comedies. She has had plays
produced off-off Broadway, at the Cleveland Play House, at the Cleveland Public
Theatre and at the Roxbury Center for Arts in Boston. One of her screen plays
has been produced. She was also a finalist at the British Filmmaking Institute
competition in London and won the first place award from the Gloria Film
Festival in Utah. Her love of writing grew out of her research and writing her
dissertation in psychology. As a psychologist, her specialty is happiness. She
has also written book reviews for professional journals. Her portfolio includes
six films and ten plays. The Cast The cast is made up of six members of the Actors’ Summit company. Glenn Colerider was in the first production ever mounted by
Actors’ Summit – The Price
in 1999. Since then he has also appeared in Over
the River and Through the Woods, and Tuesdays with Morrie. He has a long list of professional
credits at other theaters including: On
Golden Pond, Gin Game, Foxfire, Painting Churches, Da, Twelfth Night, Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees,
Mornings’ at Seven, and Young
Man from Atlanta. Jean Colerider is returning for her second production at
Actors’ Summit, having appeared with both Glenn and Peter in Over the River and Through the Woods. Her
extensive credits include The Bad Seed, The Glass Menagerie, On Golden Pond, Plaza Suite, The Dark
at the Top of the Stairs, Foxfire, The Gin Game, 84 Charing Cross Road, The
Foreigner, and The Road to Mecca. Geoffrey
Darling is a relatively recent addition to Ohio having
emigrated from New Zealand. He’s also a recent addition to the
Actors’ Summit family having appeared in Macbeth
and A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
He’s also been seen at the Beck Center and Magical Theater. Sally Groth has performed in more than 20 shows at
Actors' Summit, including Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Candida, Turn of the Screw, The Herbal Bed, and All in the Timing). Locally, she
has performed at the Porthouse Theater and Ensemble Theatre. Regional
theater credits include: The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., the Denver
Center Theater, The Wayside Theater, Trustus Theater in S.C., the U.S.C. Summer
Rep. and a national tour of The Little
Prince. Bob Keefe has been seen at Actors’ Summit in
Spoon River Anthology, Polish Joke, Picnic, Cotton Patch Gospel, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Arms and the Man. He recently completed
a long run at the 14th Street Theatre in We Gotta Bingo. Peter Voinovich received his B.F.A. in acting
from Ohio University. He has played a number of roles at Actors’ Summit
including Tuesdays with Morrie, Uh, Oh, Here Comes Christmas, She Stoops to Conquer, Over The River And Through The Woods, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, A
Child’s Christmas in Wales, and The Glass Menagerie. Performance Schedule Performance times: Performances are given Thursdays, Fridays
& Saturdays at Tickets New this year: ALL full time student
tickets (with ID) are $7 at all performances. Tickets can be purchased by phone at (330)
342-0800 or from the website at www.actorssummit.org. Web site
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