[NEohioPAL] NON-EQUITY AUDITIONS FOR WORKSHOP PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT

[Jeremy Benjamin]

Lorain County Community College announces auditions for a workshop
production of Home Sweet Homeland, a new play by Joanna Rush.  This is a
wonderful opportunity to be involved in the development of a new theatrical
work under the direction of Tony Award nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett.  Please
follow the link below for specific audition information.

http://www.lorainccc.edu/Stocker+Arts+Center/Home+Sweet+Homeland+Auditions.h
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Biographies:
   
Lynne Taylor-Corbett is known for her work in theatre, dance and film. She
was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk for direction and
choreography of Broadway¹s Swing! and for two American Theatre Wing Star
Awards for its National Tour. She also choreographed Broadway¹s Chess and
Titanic. This season, her production of My Vaudeville Man was nominated for
two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Drama Desk Awards. She has also directed
many Off-Broadway productions, and was the original director of the Korean
import Cookin¹ at The Minetta Lane. She directed Boxes and Asking For It at
the New York Fringe Festival  and Girl¹s Room starring Donna McKechnie and
Carol Lawrence in New York and Los Angeles. Her production of Wanda¹s World
(Lortel and Drama Desk nominations) is coming to New World Stages. Ms.
Taylor-Corbett¹s films include Footloose, My Blue Heaven, Vanilla Sky and
Bewitched. Her dance works have been commissioned by New York City Ballet,
American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, locally by
GroundWorks Dancetheater and numerous companies throughout the world. Recent
projects include My Vaudeville Man at The York Theatre, and a dance work
about Dust Bowl women in Pittsburgh. Upcoming projects include the return of
Wanda¹s World and Creature of the Black Lagoon for Universal Hollywood. She
is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and
even prouder to be the mom of actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett who appeared on
Broadway in the Tony Award winning In the Heights and will be in the
national tour of the show.

Joanna Rush has appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions
including Pousse Cafe with Charles Durning, Daughters with Marisa Tomei,
Inside Out, the original Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, Broadway Scandals of 1928
and Options at Circle Rep. Regionally she has been seen in such plays as
Beyond Therapy, Fifth of July, Great White Hope, concert versions of Two by
Two and Minnie's Boys at the Jewish Rep. Film: The Luckiest Man in the
World, Sunburn with Farrah Fawcett and Joan Collins, On the Cliffs, winner
Best Short Comedy 2004, Ohio Independent Film Festival, and the soon to be
released Saying Goodbye. TV: Shannon, Archie Bunker's Place, A Killing
Affair, Cagney & Lacey and the pilot Straight no Chaser as the inappropriate
mother of Bronson Pinchot. She has recently performed her solo play Asking
For It at the New York Fringe Festival, the New York Society for Ethical
Culture, The Kirk Theater on Theater Row, Peter Jay Sharp Theater at
Playwrights Horizons and in the New York International Theater Festival at
the Cherry Lane Theatre. Most recently, Joanna was chosen to perform
sections of Asking For It on ³International Women¹s Day² sponsored by the
United Nations Counsel on the Empowerment of Women and the Hunger Project.
As a writer, Joanna Rush co-wrote Irish Whiskey, an independent feature and
"Best Screenplay" winner at the Temecula Valley Film Festival and a
screenplay entitled Mothers Day based on the life of Julia Ward Howe, the
first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters who, in
spite of wars being waged in her own home, created the holiday "Mothers Day"
in 1873, as a time for women throughout the world to come together each year
in the name of peace. Joanna lived in downtown Manhattan, across the street
from the World Trade Center. Her newest play Home Sweet Homeland takes a
look at the 9/11 experience from the perspective of the people who
experienced it that day and the effects on their relationships and on the
neighborhood. Joanna is a member of Actors Equity, The Dramatists Guild,
SAG.


Jeremy K. Benjamin
Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Rd.
Elyria,  OH  44035
(440) 366-7120
jbenjami at lorainccc.edu

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