[NEohioPAL] AUDITION: Fourth Wall Productions "2 Man Kidnapping Rule"

[Carli Miluk]

FOURTH WALL PRODUCTIONS AUDITION NOTICE
AUDITIONS THIS WEEKEND FOR 2 Man Kidnapping Rule
 
(November 13th, 2007) Fourth Wall Productions is pleased to announce we will be holding auditions for Joseph Gallo’s 2 Man Kidnapping Rule this Monday, the 19th, 7pm-9:30pm, at the Cleveland Play House in Rehearsal Hall A.
 
Fourth Wall is looking for one male actor in his mid-twenties.  Actors should be prepared to read from sides, and also having a monologue prepared is not required, but appreciated.  Resumes are a must, and headshots are appreciated.  2 Man Kidnapping Rule will start rehearsals in late November, with the production going up in January.  
 
This is not an equity contract role, but will actor will be compensated based on contract.  
 
ABOUT 2 MAN KIDNAPPING RULE
 
2 Man Kidnapping Rule has been said to be “a Chekovian look at male friendship.”  Just developed and seen for the first time at Ohio University’s Annual Playwright’s Festival where it came off with glowing remarks from the Head of the Playwriting Program- Charles Smith.  Fourth Wall Productions, in attendance of the festival, immediately approached Joseph Gallo in hopes to produce his work, and help him to form a production draft of the script.
 
The Story: 2 Man Kidnapping Rule is a play about one night in the lives of three men: Seth, Vincent, and Jack.  When Jack refuses to put away the memories that his ex-girlfriend left behind- his buddies force Jack to come out on the town with them.  Will Jack find a substitute for the girl who got away?  Or is this the beginning of a whole new set of problems?  
 
Gallo takes the audience through “hooking up” in the present world, to current male mindsets of masculinity and women, at an alarmingly honest and fast pace.  With witty dialogue that could come straight off an episode of “Entourage,” Fourth Wall found 2 Man to be a perfect addition to it’s arsenal in getting twenty-year old males into theatre. 
 
 
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
 
JOSEPH GALLO is a member of the Writers Group in New York and is the recipient of a GSS Original Work Grant and the 2006 Scott McPherson Award in Playwriting.  His play My Italy Story (Penguin Rep, TheatreWorks, Seton Hall University), which had its New York debut Off-Broadway at the 47th Street Theatre, and was nominated for the Gay Talese Literary Prize, was recently revived at 12 Miles West Theater in New Jersey.  His 10-minute play Star Song was a 2007 Kennedy Center ACTF regional finalist, finishing in second place, while his play Ya Gotta Believe! will be produced in June at Mile Square Theatre’s Seventh Inning Stretch Ten Minute Play Festival.  He wrote and directed the short films M*O*N*E*Y and No Parking and did the screenplay adaptation of Raymond Carver’s Careful, which debuted at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival.  He has worked extensively in development on both film and television projects, including a film chronicling the life of
 architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and on the screenplay adaptation of the memoir Woody, Cisco & Me.  His original screenplays include My Italy Story and the pilot episode for the television series Gotham House.  Most recently he wrote the story Robert Zarinsky for Court-TV.  His work has additionally been seen on the stages of the Ohio Theatre, HERE, Circle Rep Lab, Pearl Theater, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, 78th Street Theatre, Waterfront Ensemble, Atlantic Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Delaware Stage Company, Seven Angels Theatre, Orlando Fringe Festival and the Hudson Guild Theatre in Los Angeles, amongst others.  His latest play – Warning: Adult Content – was recently given stage readings at both 12 Miles West and Manhattan Class Company, and will be produced at the Lark Theatre during the 2007-2008 Season.  This summer he will be working with Company Rindfleisch on drenched, a dance theater project in the Obie
 award-winning Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theatre in New York.  
 
 
QUICK FACT SHEET
 
What- Auditions for Fourth Wall’s season opener 2 Man Kidnapping Rule
 
Who- One Male actor in his mid-twenties for the following role: 
 
JACK - ex-Division II college football player who has fallen out-of-shape, sensitive, mid-20s.
 
Where: Cleveland Play House, Rehearsal Hall A.  8800 Euclid Ave.  Cleveland.
 
When:  Tuesday, the 23rd.  7-9:30pm.
 
How to Set up Audition time: Call Dash Combs at (740)236-2289
                                                 Or email fourthwallproductions at yahoo.com


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