[NEohioPAL] Subject: Audition (Video): Table Reading of New Play by Carson Grace Becker - NEOMFA

[Northeast Ohio Master in Fine Arts Program]

*AUDITION NOTICE*

Seeking five actors for a table reading of a new full-length play, PANGAEA,
by Chicago playwright Carson Grace Becker, to be directed by Christine
McBurney. Audition via video submission (details below). Actors will
receive an honorarium of $50 for one rehearsal and one reading/performance.

*Reading:*
Friday, November 10 at 7:00 pm
convergence-continuum, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland, OH 44113

*Rehearsal: *
Thursday, November 9 (time tbd but likely 6:00 pm)
Location for rehearsal: TBD

Presented by the NEOMFA writing program as part of its Visiting Writers
series. NEOMFA (Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing) is
a unique, consortial graduate program that offers a terminal degree in
Creative Writing. (https://neomfa.org/)

*Open Roles*

Ella 1 --  Female, 40s, settled, uneducated, forward, humorous, awaiting
her own execution.

Ella 2 -- Female, 13, curious, willful, careful, caged and considering her
options.

Ella 3 -- Female, 20s, intent, alone, ferrel, playing with a new adult
freedom.

Wick -- Male, anywhere between late 30s and 50s, Ella’s father, poor,
wounded, cruel and broken, for reasons he refuses to contemplate. This
actor will also play the Prison Guard and The Stag, either as an embodied
character or as puppeteer.

Narrator -- (Stage Directions)

*Audition Process (Video Submission)*

1. Email bluestockingproductionsllc at gmail.com with your name, location,
union status, and role you are interested in.

2. Confirm that you have no conflicts the evenings of November 9 and 10.

3. Share a quick (1 minute or less) story about something you did or did
not do during the height of the pandemic. No longer than 60 seconds, please.

4. Include a link (attachments will not be downloaded or viewed) to your
video.

5. Submit your material by October 30 at noon. No extensions, please.

*Playwright & Director*

*Carson Grace Becker *is an award winning, nationally produced playwright,
screenwriter, dramaturg and arts educator. She earned her MFA in
Playwriting from The University of Iowa, and her BA in English Literature
and Women’s Studies from UCLA. She has taught Playwriting/Screenwriting at
Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, The Graham School, The
Imagine Butte Resource Center, and Chicago Dramatists. She has been a guest
artist at NYU, Ohio University, The Univ. of Nebraska, The Univ. of
Illinois, and Oklahoma State University. She served as Literary Manager &
Dramaturg at Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and is the founder of The Root &
The Bloom Collective, a Humanities non-profit, housed at The Historic Clark
Chateau in Butte, MT. She is the Artistic Director of Chicago Dramatists.

*Christine McBurney* is an award-winning multi-hyphenate: a director,
actor, and educator, who splits her time between Cleveland and New York.
Christine was a co-founding, producing co-artistic director of Cleveland's
critically-acclaimed classical theatre company, Mamaí Theatre (2010-2017).
In 2017, The Cleveland Critics' Circle honored both Mamaí and her
production of A Doll’s House at Playhouse Square with two Superior
Achievement Awards. She has directed plays and opera for Mamaí, Playwrights
Local, universities & more. A previous chair of Shaker Heights High School
Theatre Arts Department, Christine now coaches acting at Bluestocking
Productions and Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School. Other teaching
positions include acting at the School of Film and Media Arts at Cleveland
State University and theatre at Baldwin Wallace University’s Department of
Theatre & Dance. Film: Wise Guys (Barry Levinson), Yaniv. TV: Fleishman is
in Trouble; FBI Most Wanted. Theatre: The Cleveland Play House, Mamaí
Theatre Company, Ohio City Theatre Project, Cleveland Public Theatre,
Cleveland Shakespeare Festival & more. Opera: The Metropolitan Opera.
Member: SDC, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (NYC),
Directors Lab West (L.A.), Directors Lab North (Toronto), and Cleveland
Play House Directors Gym. She is represented by Dream Maker Talent (NY) and
Eris Talent Agency (NY/LA) and Docherty & Heyman (OH/PA). Currently,
Christine is currently developing a solo show about discovering her Italian
heritage. www.christinemcburney.com.

*Thank you!*
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