<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-35040933-773f-366f-1be5-92b6b336eaed"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Confetti Fest -The Capital District’s Premiere Original Play Fest- Returns October 7th!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Albany, NY)- Acclaimed for providing the downtown Albany community with original theatre, Confetti Stage’s award-winning showcase of local talent returns for its twelfth year this October. </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Confetti Fest 12 will present five original short and one-act plays written by local playwrights and honed through Confetti’s own mentorship process. These plays explore such topics as mortality, immortality, parasitic worms, and bad first dates. As colorful and diverse as the festive strips of paper that are its namesake, each Confetti Fest is guaranteed to show audiences something they’ve never seen before. Just look at the line-up!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Death of a Hamster</span><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- John, an unlikely modern Orpheus, finds himself, quite literally, at death's door, making one last Hail-Mary to save a small dead rodent. By Kate Carter, directed by Patricia Keister.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.608;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Survivor's Date</span><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Cecilia and Phillip are world weary singles, battle-scarred, and bitter as cheap gin. Is Alaska the only place they can find common ground? By Val Kavanaugh, directed by Matthew Teichner.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.608;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Girl With Wings</span><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Why can't the people Cassie loves see her wings? What happens when they finally do?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.608;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Julie Demers, directed by Tony Pallone.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.608;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Symbiosis</span><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Sometimes love is never having to say I'm sorry. Sometimes love is never having to say I'm sorry there's a parasite crawling up the inside of your leg. By Amy Sarah LaMena, directed by David Braucher.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.608;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Funny Voices</span><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Larry was a voice-over actor. His personality had as many facets as he had funny voices. Now, after his passing, his two children attempt to piece those facets together, and form something approaching the heroic cartoon captain for which he's best remembered. By Steve Henel, directed by Mark Dalton. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Confetti Fest 12 features: Peter Belencia, Roseann Cane, Barbara Davis-Dickman, David DiPaola, Keyonn Everett, Anna Guntner, Corey Haines, Kasey Kenyon, Colleen Lovett, Daniel Mayer, Talon McLaughlin, Monica Murphy, John A. Nickles, Lydia Nightingale, Joe Plock, and Keith Searles </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Confetti Fest 12 runs the following dates and times:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 7, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 8, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 9, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2:00pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 13, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 14, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 15, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sunday,</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 16, 2016</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2:00pm</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All performances will take place at </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Albany Masonic Hall</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 67 Corning Place, Albany, NY 12207.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets will be available at the door or may be reserved by calling the Confetti Stage Box Office </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(518) 460-1167. </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online ticketing available at </span><a href="http://confettistage.org/buy-tickets" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://confettistage.org/buy-tickets</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets are: </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">$15; $10</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">with a student ID</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please visit us on Facebook or go to </span><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://confettistage.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for more information.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Confetti Stage, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" target="_blank">www.confettistage.org</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc</a><br></div><div><div><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please join us for</span> </font><font color="#000000">our upcoming production of </font><font color="#e06666" size="4"><b>Confetti Fest 12</b></font><font color="#000000">, inside </font><b><font color="#0000ff" size="4">The Albany Masonic Lodge on Corning Ave.</font></b><font color="#000000"> from </font><font size="4" color="#45818e"><b> October 7-16</b></font><font color="#000000">!</font></div></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-6t7zyIKiKdQ0JzQTJpR05iTGc&revid=0B-6t7zyIKiKdcS9FR01rdmk5Z29BZG9TV052SExoT2doUURzPQ" width="544" height="201" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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