Dobama Theater
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Dobama Theatre is a Cleveland Heights, Ohio theater founded in 1959 by Donald (Do) and Marilyn Bianchi, Barry (ba) and Janet Silverman and Mark Silverberg (ma). The first play performed by Dobama was Rope Dancers.
The artistic director is Joyce Casey. 2005 was its final season in a basement in the Coventry neighborhood; following a year producing at Cleveland Play House it will produce in new facilities in Fall 2008.
The theater was also home to the late-night Night Kitchen Company (Adrienne Moon, its final artistic director), a venue for experimental and edgy work that stretched traditional theatrical boundaries.
The Dobama Theatre is well-known for its annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival, open to Cuyahoga County students in grades 1 through 12. Each year, the Festival receives between four and five hundred plays, of which a small number are chosen for professional production. Winning plays submitted by older students are presented by the Night Kitchen, while the younger winners see their plays performed at the annual recognition ceremony.
