<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="m_6608009141552360113m_-3299668204492392958gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><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><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">August 22, 2018</div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><div style="text-align:right"><br></div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> Contact: Patrick White, Director and Teacher</div><p></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a>; 518-779-2803</div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Press Photos can be found at:</div></div><p></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/160240685@N03/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/160240685@N03/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><b>Acting Class with Patrick White Presents Its First Production, MEN ON BOATS at Sand Lake Center for the Arts September 14-23</b></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">ALBANY, NY (August 22, 2018)-For six performances beginning Friday night, September 14, 2018<b> </b>at 8 pm running through Sunday afternoon, September 23, 2018 at 2:30 pm, Sand Lake Center for the Arts will host the inaugural production of Acting Class with Patrick White's students in the Regional Premiere of <i>MEN ON BOATS </i>by Jaclyn Backhaus. The production will be directed by Patrick White and feature twelve of his students. Tickets are $15 and are available thru SLCA's website <a href="http://www.slca-ctp.org" target="_blank">www.slca-ctp.org</a> or by calling 518-674-2007.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>MEN ON BOATS </i>is the critically acclaimed (New York Times Critic's Pick, 2017 Outer Critic's Circle Award nominee) adventure about the 1869 exploration and charting of the Colorado River by the one-armed Civil War major, John Wesley Powell, and his insane but loyal crew written to be played by a cast of women. "The characters of <i>MEN ON BOATS</i> were historically cisgender white males. The cast should be made up entirely of people who are not" reads the playwright's instructions on casting in the acting edition of the script. The Powell expedition faced unknown waters, dangers and deprivations and struggled together to traverse the Big Canyon and make it safely down the river and through the Canyon in the face of rapids, capsizing, near-mutinies, rattlesnakes and rapidly depleting supplies. As Major Powell wrote in his journal <i>The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons</i> from which the play is based on "We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah well! We may conjecture many things." The play is an epic adventure of courage in taking on a momentous journey that had never been attempted before against great odds to benefit unseen generations to come.</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i></i><i></i><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Acting Class with Patrick White is entering it's 5th year of offering an adult acting class to all levels on Saturday mornings 10:30 am-1:30 pm in the Albany Masonic Lodge (67 Corning Place) from October through May. This year's session starts October 13th, 8 classes for $240. and reservations can be e-mailed to <a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a>. The goal of class is to introduce and nourish those interested with the greatest playwriting going on today and develop every student's skills individually preparing them to confidently contribute and shape the burgeoning Capital Region theater community. Dozens of students have taken Patrick's class and participated in one of his six Scene Nights offered free and open to the public at the Albany Barn biannually.</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>MEN ON BOATS</i> is the first fully staged production by the Acting Class. Patrick says "I was directing a production of a popular play at a local theater recently and the play called for 5 men and 2 women and I got a pretty good turnout of 30 actors showing up to audition. 10 men and 20 women. So, if you were a man your chances of getting cast were 50/50 and if you were a woman, it was 1 in 10. I know all my students knew this but I had never seen an example presented so starkly before of the need to offer more opportunities for women in the Capital Region. I saw the Clubbed Thumb production of <i>MEN ON BOATS </i>at Playwright's Horizons and thought it was hysterical while offering a galvanizing piece of physical theater of a story I had never heard before."</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>MEN ON BOATS</i>: John Wesley Powell-Cori Irwin, William Dunn-Debra Bercier, John Colton Sumner-Iris Singer, Old Shady-Susan Katz, Bradley-Maghen Ryan, O.G.Howland-Sara Paupinin, Seneca Howland-Victioria Vine, Frank Goodman-Susan Dantz, Hall-Jeanette Horowitz, Hawkins-Laura Darling, Tsauwiat-Myrna Bernstein, The Bishop-Mary Williams</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Director-Patrick White. Assistant Director-Dennis Skiba, Stage Manager-Lisa Bryk, Lights & Sound-Barry Streifert, Costumes-Laura Darling</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">The play will be held at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts (2880 NY Route 43 Averill Park, NY 12018) on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2:30 pm from Friday, September 14- Sunday, September 23. Tickets are $15. and can be purchased on Sand Lake Center for the Arts website <a href="http://www.slca-ctp.org" target="_blank">www.slca-ctp.org</a> or by calling the Center at 518-674-2007.</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><b>AT A GLANCE</b></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><b><br></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">September 14-23, 2018</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><b><i>MEN ON BOATS </i></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>by Jaclyn Backhaus</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>directed by Patrick White</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>At the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 NY Route 43, Averill Park, NY 12018</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote 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