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Steven Shapiro, a New Jersey busi- nessman, and Daniel Roth, a Metro Detroit actor, will be represented in the first Michigan Theatre Festival, which runs Wednesday-Sunday, June 8-12, at three Ann Arbor venues. A coalition of nine theaters from around the state will host 12 plays. Shapiro's The Journey of Nathan Strauss is an identity mystery that has to do with the Holocaust. Roth's Two Men in a Box is a philosophical puzzler about places in which people find themselves. Mark Harvey Levine, a Los Angeles researcher, and Joe Feinstein, a West Bloomfield retiree, will have short works in Play by Play 2005; a marathon fund-raiser for the Heartlande Theatre Company at Ann Arbor's Performance Network. Between noon and midnight Saturday, June 11, audiences will see some two dozen new works, including Levine's romantic comedy The Kiss, which tests friendship, and Feinstein's end-of-life drama Oh, Brothers!, which has to do with realizing dreams. Michigan Theatre Festival • 7 Ann Arbor , 970863- "I've made some changes to my play as a result of its being presented earlier this season by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre," says Shapiro, 52, again invit- ed by JET as the company becomes a Michigan Theatre Festival participant. "The feedback after the reading gave me some ideas for the structure of the play." Shapiro, who has another work being presented at about the same time in Nantucket, Mass., tells a story of deception and reconciliation as he introduces a psychiatrist who treats only Holocaust victims. It will be per- formed at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, June 12, at Performance Network. %want my works to bring audi- ences to a portal for their emotions," says Shapiro, who majored in psychol- ogy at the City University of New York and feels the experience of work- ing with JET put him in touch more closely with his Jewish roots. "I've been blessed because I don't have to earn a living by writing, and I'm going to leave real estate in January to write full time. I already have three ideas in mind : " Roth, 24, representing the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck, intro- duces an existential comedy about conventions. It will be read at 11 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at the Performance Network. "I wanted to get more people think- ing," says Roth, who has been cast in productions staged by JET, the Bonstelle Theatre and other local com- panies. "I think writing it helped me understand myself." Roth, who knew he wanted a the- ater career about the time of his bar mitzvah at the Birmingham Temple, went on to perform in high school plays and major in drama at Wayne State University in Detroit. He took classes and did some radio work in South Africa. "I think writing this play is part of the evolution of my theater career," Roth says. Other theaters hosting plays include Rochester's Meadow Brook Theatre, Lansing's BoarsHead Theatre, Detroit's Plowshares Theatre and the Williamston Theatre Project. The companies are inviting mem- bers of the audience to take part in talkback sessions so writers can learn about the impressions they made. Viewers also can attend wrap parties at the end of each day's programs to meet performers and those working behind the scenes. Play By Play In Play by Play, Levine's short work will be presented on June 11 between 4 and 5 p.m. and between 11:20 p.m. and midnight. Feinstein's piece will be staged between noon and 12:50 p.m. and between 7:30 and 8:20 p.m.