[NEohioPAL] AUDITIONS: Breakout Session @ Cleveland Public Theatre

[Paige Conway]

*Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for the continued world
premiere of*

*BREAKOUT SESSION (OR FROGORSE)*

*By Nikkole Salter*

*Directed by Beth Wood*



*Looking to cast the following roles… *

-       *Officer Preston Walker: *late 30s – early 40s, Black, male. A
5-year patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police. Formal.
By-the-book. Loyal. Sensitive. Oh, and he can sing.

-       *Mantis Shrimp: *40s – 50s, a non-Black person of color… Latinx,
Asian, MENASA, or Indigenous. Male. A corporate, self-help, motivational
speaker. Wild. Intentionally weird. Committed. Nurturing. Brilliant.




*Disclosure: Some roles in the production have been cast. The current cast
includes Nicole Sumlin*, Tina Stump*, Rachel Lee Kolis, and Tony
Velez. ***Actor
appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional
Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.*



No additional equity agreements are available for this production.





*About The Play… *

Can a society legislate a change of heart? In *Breakout Session (or
Frogorse)*, a corporate training company is vying for a city contract for
De-escalation and Anti-bias Training with Cleveland’s Police Department.
When the white facilitator, presenting to Black and Latino police officers,
tosses the approved curriculum out the window to ignite change *her* way,
the session spirals in unexpected ways. Can a mantis shrimp and a crocodile
teach us about building trust and the strength of vulnerability? Inspired
by Cleveland’s Consent Decree with the U.S. Department of Justice*,* *Breakout
Session (or Frogorse)* was commissioned by Cleveland Public Theatre with
funding from the National New Play Network (NNPN). *Continued World
Premiere. *



*About The Process… *

This rehearsal process will be conventional in nature and based in script
analysis, character analysis, and emotional arc. Actors will be asked to
make strong proposals, be generous, and meet deadlines given.



Rehearsals will begin on or around September 12, 2022. Rehearsals are 5-6
times a week, with evening weekday rehearsals and some daytime weekend
rehearsals.



*Important Dates…*



·         9/12 – First rehearsal

·         10/20 – First Preview

·         10/22 – Opening Night

·         11/12 – Closing Performance

·         11/13 – Possible hold for extension


BREAKOUT SESSION runs October 20 – November 12, Thu/Fri/Sat/Mon at 7:00pm,
with 2 Sunday matinees in the James Levin Theatre.



*Important Information about The Play… *

BREAKOUT SESSION is a play about bias and racism. This play contains blunt
conversations about racism and its repercussions.



*Important Information about COVID-19… *

All artists and staff members working on BREAKOUT SESSION are required to
be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.





*Auditions… *

*Thursday, July 7th, 6:30pm – 9:00pm*

*Saturday, July 9th, 1:00pm – 4:00pm*



*Auditions are by appointment only and will be scheduled in 15-minute
increments. **Prepared auditions will be individual, but you may be asked
to stay and read with a fellow actor. Actors should plan to stay at the
audition for up to 75 minutes, though you may be released sooner. The
director, Beth Wood, will be watching the auditions. All actors will be
required to wear a mask when not actively auditioning.*



*What to Prepare… *

·         Prepare one monologue from BREAKOUT SESSION provided by CPT.
Memorization is NOT required.

·         Some actors may be asked to do cold readings from sides provided
by CPT at the audition.

·         Headshot and Résumé



To schedule an audition appointment, please email
auditions at cptonline.org. *Please
include [Breakout Session Auditions] in your subject line. Be sure to
include your name, email address, phone number, preferred audition time,
Covid-19 vaccination status, and role you are auditioning for in your
email. Send a copy of your headshot and resume as an attachment to your
email. *No phone calls please.





*About the Playwright: *

*Nikkole Salter* <https://www.nikkolesalter.com/> has written 8 full-length
plays, has been commissioned by 6 institutions to create full-length works,
has been produced on 3 continents in 5 countries, and has been published in
12 international publications. Her work has appeared in over 20
Off-Broadway, regional, and international theatres. The National Black
Theatre production of her play *Carnaval *was nominated for 7 AUDELCO
awards and won Best Ensemble Performance. Nikkole is a 2014 MAP Fund Grant
recipient, a Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference
semi-finalist, USA Fellowship nominee, and a two-time Playwrights of New
York Fellowship nominee. In addition to *Breakout Session*, she is
currently working on commissions from Woolly Mammoth, a musical with
Neworks Productions, and is in development to write the television
adaptation of Claude Brown’s *New York Times* Bestselling novel, *Manchild
in the Promised Land*.



*About the Director:*

*Beth **Wood* is a director of adventurous scripted work. She has been
honored as a director of superior achievement by the Cleveland Critics
Circle in 2016, 2015, and 2013, and has directed seven world premieres and
eight regional premieres during her twelve-year tenure at CPT. In 2016, she
was awarded a TCG Leadership U[niversity] Continuing Ed grant to research
long-term new play development models across the country. She has been
working with Nikkole Salter to develop Nikkole’s new play *Breakout Session
(or Frogorse) **since 2017*, a CPT commission supported by the National New
Play Network,and directed the world premiere in February 2020 – which was
shuttered in March 2020 due to Covid-19. Her CPT directing credits include
*Gloria* by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, *Lines in the Dust* by Nikkole Salter,
the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of *in a word* by Lauren Yee, *There Is a
Happiness That Morning Is* by Mickle Maher, *Barbecue* and *Antebellum* by
Robert O’Hara, *FEVER/DREAM* by Sheila Callaghan, *Why Torture is Wrong and
the People Who Love Them* by Christopher Durang, and *BOOM* by Peter Sinn
Nachtrieb.
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