Ensemble Theatre Announces Winners Of 2021 Demaline Playwriting Competition
This year marked the most submissions received since the inception of the competition for regional undergraduate and graduate student playwrights.by BWW News Desk
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati has announced the winners and finalists of the third annual PLAY/write: The Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition.
The annual collegiate competition nurtures local aspiring dramatists who are helping to shape the future of American theatre and provides a $2,500 juried cash award to support the early work and career of each winner along with staged professional readings of their scripts. This year marked the most submissions received since the inception of the competition for regional undergraduate and graduate student playwrights. Impressed by the overall strength and breadth of this season s entries, the panelists have decided to name two winners as well as recognize two finalists.
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Remus and his wife Imogene threw lavish parties at their Westwood mansion, which some believe helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald s Jay Gatsby in
The Great Gatsby. The King of the Bootleggers eventually was arrested, found guilty and jailed for two years, during which Imogene filed for divorce and fell in love with federal agent Franklin Dodge. On the way to court to finalize the divorce in 1927, Remus shot and killed Imogene in Eden Park – and then beat a murder charge by pleading temporary insanity. Long before O.J. Simpson, the Remus trial was called the trial of the century, Friedman says. Many people don t know about Remus, but hopefully more will know about it after this weekend.
Cincinnati Opera announces first all-digital winter festival The Cincinnati Opera is holding its first-ever, all-digital winter festival in February and March. They will partner with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati to present a reading of Julian Mitchell’s play “After Aida,” inspired by the life of composer Giuseppe Verdi and starring Cincinnati actor Bruce Cromer. (Source: Cincinnati Opera Facebook page) By FOX19 Digital Staff | January 26, 2021 at 9:50 AM EST - Updated January 26 at 12:43 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Cincinnati Opera announced Tuesday it will hold an inaugural all-digital winter festival after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the company’s 100th Anniversary Season last summer.
Cincinnati police officer Nedra Ward
“I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’ ”
Even the work part of the day was like nothing she’d ever known.
“I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’” she said.
The officer gets it. In fact, some of her family members were among the protesters. But the anger directed at her, as a Black woman wearing a badge, was tough.
Her career had started in the wake of the 2001 riots, after which she joined the department to make sure people who looked like her were represented on the force.