[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Theater Auditions

[Ensemble Theatre]

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From: Ensemble Theatre <ensemble-theatre at sbcglobal.net>
To: "post at neohiopal.org" post at neohiopal.org; Curt Arnold 
Cc: amiee collier <amiee.collier at gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, March 18, 2012 12:49:57 AM
Subject: Cleveland Auditions 


Generally speaking, MOST theatres, community or professional, are very explicit 
when it comes to announcing auditions for roles for plays they are producing. If 
this is not the practice here in Cleveland, then this ruckus over 'audition 
rudeness' should make it policy once and for all. How could anyone let an 
audition hopeful sit there and wait, not even giving them a chance to read???? 
Doesn't sound like REAL theater people to me!!!  


Non-traditional casting is a very important advancement in the American theatre 
and most 'forward thinking' theatre groups,practice it.  For those who have any 
sense at all, and are not intrinsically still bigoted and racist when it comes 
to opening theatre to everyone, allowing mixed- race audition hopefuls to sit 
and wait, when clearly the roles are race-specific is certainly 'ignorance at 
its finest. . . ..' 


Posting audition roleswith race requirements in LARGE print is the smart thing 
to do. Theaters that are fortunate enough to practice NON-TRADITIONAL CASTING 
should also announce this on their audition notices. Not only is it smart, it is 
the'right' thing to do, and to overtly discriminate toward audition hopefuls 
because of race speaks volumes about what your group is all about. 

Our collective and sincere apologies to Eva Withers Evans and her granddaughter 
for this unacceptable behavior. Let us all make the best efforts to prevent this 
hurtful action from occurring  again.  


Martin Cosentino
Managing Director
Ensemble Theatre of Cleveland
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>>>>>On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:56 PM, neohiopal-request at lists.neohiopal.org wrote:
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>>>>>>On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:33 PM, EVA 
>>>>WITHERS-EVANS <eweworld1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>I very seldom complain to this list, but I feel that I have to address this 
>>>>>>concern.
>>>>>>>Last night, my granddaughter (an African American) went to an audition at the 
>>>>>>>Mayfield
>>>>>>>library.  When she got there, everyone looked at her as if she were an alien.  
>>>>>>>When
>>>>>>>she said she was there for the audition, instead of being told they were 
>>>>>>>auditioning only
>>>>>>>Caucasion girls, she was told to fill out an audition sheet and have a seat.  
>>>>>>>When it was
>>>>>>>asked who in the group was 20 or over, she said she was. Another girl 
>>>>>>>(caucasion) said
>>>>>>>she was twenty, she was asked to come into the auditioning room; my 
>>>>>>>granddaughter was
>>>>>>>ignored.  She was totally ignored until she finally got up and left.  I am not 
>>>>>>>just upset because she
>>>>>>>is my granddaughter, I am upset because this behavior is unacceptable in the 
>>>>>>>theater.
>>>>>>>Common courtesy would have been to tell her what the situation was and there 
>>>>>>>would have
>>>>>>>been no hurt feelings.  It's never right to make someone feel unwanted, 
>>>>>>>especially
>>>>>>>in the theater; I would hope that this is not the norm for Cleveland 
>>>theater.
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>>>>>>>MATTERS OF THE HEART SHOULD ALWAYS BE ABOUT LOVE.
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