[NEohioPAL] Audition Notice and Workshop opportunity

Tue Aug 25 11:18:57 PDT 2009

Audition Notice and Workshop opportunity

Tri-C Presents at Cuyahoga Community College is producing a reading of
the new work; The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moises Kaufman and
The Tectonic Theatre Company directed by Dr. Brian Bethune, Dean of
Creative Arts. 

In the ten years since the Tectonic Theatre Company told the story of
the brutal murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard,
Artistic Director Moises Kaufman and other company members wondered what
changes affected Laramie, Wyoming since the incident brought hate crimes
legislation to national attention.   In a continuing effort to explore
this tragedy and its effects on societal norms, the Tectonic Theatre
Company revisits Laramie and many of the people portrayed in the
original play.  This seminal event features the Cleveland premiere of a
live reading of this stunning piece by local actors - one of 100 taking
place across the country - with an introduction via the internet by
playwright Moises Kaufman and a pre show discussion with local members
of PFLAG, LGBT Center, and Equality Ohio.

We are looking for 4 men and 4 women to read multi roles. The roles are
unpaid.

Auditions date:

Tuesday September 8, 2009

6-9 pm

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus

Please contact Laura Kendall at 216-987-4193 or tricpresents at tri-c.edu
to sign up for an audition time. You will be sent an email to confirm
your slot. The time commitment is 2- 3 rehearsals and the final
performance. The rehearsal dates will be the week and weekend prior to
the reading.

Readings will be provided, or you may present a contemporary monologue.

Performance:

Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Pilgrim Congregational Church of Christ in Tremont

2592 W 14th St., Cleveland

Tri-C Presents, a division of  Tri-C Creative Arts, is a premier
performing arts series in Northeast Ohio, showcasing arts and cultural
performances including Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
<http://www.tricjazzfest.com/ASSETS/6D4BDB806C4549C28029BD5B3C484C98/Upd
ated%20JazzFest%20History%20for%2009.pdf> , Showtime at High Noon, The
Song is You!, and the Classical Piano Recital Series.  Cuyahoga
Community College Center for Creative Arts presents significant
contemporary artistic programs of the highest quality for its diverse
multicultural audiences.  These experiences are designed to stimulate,
enlighten, educate and mutually enrich the artists and the community.  A
variety of free performances, workshops, and residencies are offered
throughout the season to complement our wide array of Performing Arts
programs held at the Tri-C campuses, Playhouse Square and other
locations around the city.  Visit www.tricpresents.com for more
information.

Workshop: Moment Work with Tectonic Theatre member, Greg Pierotti -
October 8 & 9, 2009

Moment work is a method for both writing and analyzing performance,
which was developed by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic
Theater Project.  The common model for making theater in the united
states is the one in which a playwright goes into a room over a period
of months or years and creates a text.  That play is then handed off to
a director who in three and a half weeks with a group of actors and
designers presents the text to the public, often without the writers
input.  The job of the theater artists is to interpret the text and make
it believable.  Moment work is a response to this somewhat limiting
model of making theater.

In moment work, we create performance from the ground up using all the
elements of the stage at once.  The emphasis is on creating theatrical,
rather than realistic, performance.  In level one of Tectonic's "moment
work workshops" the ensemble creates a list of the elements of the stage
and, through a series of exercises that build in complexity, uses all
these elements together to create moments rather than using all the
elements of the stage to simply support a text.  A moment is defined as
a unit of theatrical time and can be as short and simple as a five
second gesture, or as long and complex as a moment from "The Laramie
Project."  We also learn how to analyze the contents of moments to learn
more about what is effective story telling.

In level two of the workshops, we begin to look at structure, narrative,
and context.  The ensemble continues to create discreet moments and
starts to look at how to structure these "units of theatrical time" into
a complete event.  We examine how the moments speak to each other, how
the content of moments informs structure, as well as how the development
of structure in a piece begins to inform content so that moments need to
be reconsidered and redesigned.  We take a close look at narrative and
context and ask questions like:  How does narrative get created without
text?  How does moment A play when it comes before moment B?  What
changes within the moment or about the story we are telling when it is
placed after moment B.  What happens when they play side by side.
Attempts are made at creating a fully structured piece.

October 8 & 9

6-9 pm both nights

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus

                The class is limited to 16 participants

                To sign up for the workshop please contact Laura Kendall
at 216-987-4193 or tricpresents at tri-c.edu

                *No cost for participation  - if you need to cancel,
please give 24 hours notice. Must be 18 years old to participate.

Greg Pierotti is a writer, actor, teacher and has been a member of
Tectonic Theater Project for 13 years.  He is an associate writer of The
Laramie Project, and was a writer on the teleplay adapted for HBO (emmy
and GLAAD award nominations).  He has performed the The Laramie Project,
at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, and The Union Square
Theater in NY. He is the head writer of The People's Temple, for which
he and the playwright Leigh Fondakowski, along with their other
collaborators, received the Will Glickman Award for best New American
play.  He performed The People's Temple at Berekely Repertory Theater,
Perseverance Theater, and The Guthrie.  As a writer/actor he has
developed and/or performed original and classical work at Arena Stage,
Hartford Stage, The Magic, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The Sundance
Theatre Lab in Utah, New York Theatre Workshop, and the NYTW summer
writer's lab at Dartmouth.  Most recently he is collaborating on and
epilogue to The Laramie Project, which revisits the town ten years after
the murder of Matthew Shepard.  Greg is one of four master teachers of
moment work technique - a technique of writing performance developed by
Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project.  He has taught this work at
high schools and colleges around the country and in Naropa University's
MFA for  contemporary performance. 

Lilah M.Wiant 
Division of Creative Arts
Tri-C Jazzfest Cleveland

2900 Community College Ave.

Center for Creative Arts, Room 109

Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216-987-4249 Fax: 216-987-4186
lilah.wiant at tri-c.edu <mailto:lilah.wiant at tri-c.edu>   
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