[NEohioPAL] KARAMU HOUSE IS LOOKING FOR STAGEMANAGERS FOR ITS UPCOMMING THEATRE SEASON

[richard morris]

Karamu Performing Arts Theatre is looking for Stagemanagers for the 2009/10
Season ofAccountability
 
MAINSTAGE
 
FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UDINE (Satirical Comedy/Midwest
Premier)
By Lynn Nottage 
Dir. Caroline Jackson
Smith
September 18 – October 11, 2009
From the playwright of
the hot Pulitzer Prize winning Ruined, comesher satirical hit about20an ambitious
and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband
suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the
brink of social and financial ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home in Brooklyns Walt Whitman projects, only to discover that she must cope with a
crude new reality. Undine faces the challenge of transforming her setbacks into
small victories in a battle to reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a
comeuppance tale with a comic twist.
 
 
YELLOWMAN (Drama/Ohio
Premier)
By Dael Orlandersmith 
Dir: Fred Sternfeld
October 30 – November
22, 2009
Mr. Sternfeld, former JCC
artistic director, comes to Karamu to direct this absorbing two character Pulitzer Prize
nominated drama- runner up to
TopDog/UnderDog- and winner of the Susan Blackburn Award in 2002. It was first
workshopped at the Sundance Theatre Lab.Yellowman is an edgy and provocative exploration of intra-racism within the
Black community and it’s unflinching look at its ugly legacy. Orlandersmith is widely
regarded as one of the most important new poetic voices in America today and belongs to a
daring new generation of women writing for the stage.
 
NUTCRACKER
RELOADED (Musical)
Adaptation
by Desiree Parkman
Dir.
Desiree Parkman
December
4 – December 27, 2009
Former Broadway dancer and Radio City Music Hall Rockette,
Desiree Parkman brings her own riff of The Nutcracker to Karamu’s stage titled Nutcracker Reloaded. Nutcracker Reloaded  is an urban rete
lling of the classic tale with
a cast of over fifty teens and adults.  Travel with Naima as she and the
Nutcracker journey to the Land  of Beats where break
dancers, krumpers, hip hop dancers,  Spanish, Asian and African dancers
entertain.  Great for the whole family and sure to be a holiday classic!
 
 
 
 
THE GREAT WHITE
HOPE by Howard Sackler (Historical Drama)
Dir. Terrence
Spivey
February 12 –
March 17, 2010 (Karamu Jelliffe Theatre)
April 1 – April
18, 2010 (Weathervane Playhouse) 
Set in the early 1900s,&nb
sp; The Great White Hope is loosely based on the life of African
American boxer Jack Johnson, renamed Jack Jefferson in the story. After
becoming the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world in 1908, the play
follows his tumultuous career andexplores
the nature of racism and racial conflict in American society. In collaboration
with Weathervane Playhouse and Ensemble Theatre comes one of the most dynamic
plays ever written for the American stage. The Great
White Hope won the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Drama.
 
ECLIPSE: THE
WAR AGAINST TUPAC SHAKUR 
By Michael
Oatman
Dir. Terrence Spivey
March 26 – April 18, 2010
Local playwright Michael Oatman’s thought provoking piece
first read at Fusion Festival and work shopped on stage through Ghostlight
Series with great media attention last Spring, hits the stage once again in a
reworked, three character drama between Tupac and Biggie Smalls as it examines
the last two days of the rapster's life as he meets with his rival (aka the Notorious B.I.G.).
 
CLOSURE (Play
with Multimedia /World Premier)
By Mary Weems, 
Images By RA Washington 
Dir. Terrence
Spivey
May 13 – June 6, 2010
 “Closure,” inspired by the images of20local,
poet/photographer, RA Washington., is a multi-media experience with an infusion of
blues and jazz, shared through a series of writings by Ms. Weems, local
playwright/poet, that explores the impact of the foreclosure crisis,
homelessness and tragic phenomenon resulting from the real estate melt down in Cleveland , urban and suburban America . 
 
18TH ANNUAL R. JOYCE WHITLEY ARENA
FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
April 23 – May 2, 2010 
 
 
YOUTH
THEATRE/YOUNG ADULT THEATRE SERIES
 
November
7 – November 22, 2009
THE
SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS (Revival)
By Linda Daugherty
Back by popular  demand. The The Secret Life of
Girls is based on the interviews with girls on the giving and receiving end
of bullying. The play highlights the impact of "cyberbullying," the
facilitation of mean-spirited behaviors through the use of cell phones, text
and instant messaging, e-mail and chat rooms.
 
January
9 – January 24, 2010
A  SOLITARY VOICE: Incidents in the Life of Bass
Reeves (Historical Drama/World Premier)
By Michael Oatman                                                                                  &nb
sp;                            
Bass Reeves, the first African
American U.S. Deputy Marshal, that many scholars consider to be one of
the most outstanding frontier heroes in United States history and  the most feared,must
retrieve his own son who is wanted for murdering his wife. 
 
May
22- June 6, 2010
LIAR!
LIAR! A Moral Musical
For Children ( Midwest Premier)
Book/lyrics
by James V. Hatch and music by Sam Rahpling

For more info, please call 216.795.7070 ext 236 or send your resume to rmorrisjr at sbcglobal.net.
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