Notre Dame College Presents Sholiton Play

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio—5 February 2008—Award-winning playwright Faye Sholiton returns to Notre Dame College for a staged reading of her production All Things Being Equal in the College’s Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 10 at 2:00 p.m. The reading is presented by the Notre Dame College theater department and will be followed by a question and answer period with the author at each performance. The performances are free of charge and open to the public.

The play, inspired by an actual U.S. Supreme Court case, centers on two teachers caught up in a difficult situation when their school board is forced to lay one of them off. When the selection is made, it is revealed that the decision is based solely on race. All Things Being Equal has been performed in staged reading locally at Weathervane and Karamu, at Soho Theatre and Playwrights Centre in London, and at Fremont Center Theatre in Pasadena. National honors include the Reva Shiner Contest (IN), Fremont Centre; and Writer’s Digest. The play won a third Ohio Arts Council (OAC) grant in 2007. Portions of the script will appear in Duos! Best Scenes for the 21st Century (Applause, 2008).

This production is one in a series of events this semester commemorating the tenth anniversary of Notre Dame College’s Tolerance Resource Center. In 1998, Sholiton helped to launch the Center with the premier of her play, The Interview, at Notre Dame. The Interview explored the impact of silence in families, in this case, in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It won top honors in three national competitions and went on to seven productions and more than a dozen staged readings. For her work on that drama, she won an OAC Individual Artist Grant and several regional awards.

Sholiton is a member of the Playwrights’ Unit at the Cleveland Play House, where she has developed her work since 1996. She and her husband, David, are the parents of two married children.

Notre Dame College is located at 4545 College Road in South Euclid. For more information about this production and the Tolerance Resource Center call 216.373.5267.

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