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FOURTH WALL PRODUCTIONS is holding auditions for ONE FEMALE ROLE in our summer show <BR>
DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD by Bert V. Royal.<BR>
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LOOKING FOR: One female cast member that can play a high school student. <BR>
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AUDITIONS: <BR>
Sunday, June 1, 2008 <BR>
1-3pm<BR>
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LOCATION:<BR>
Enterprise Center Building<BR>
540 East 105th St. #221 <BR>
Cleveland, OH 44108<BR>
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TO SCHEDULE AN AUDITION: <BR>
Call Rebecca Cole at (330) 283-2442 or email her at <A href="mailto:rebecca@fourthwallproductions.com">rebecca@fourthwallproductions.com</A><BR>
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DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD rehearsals start June 9. (Sunday-Thursday rehearsals) <BR>
Performances are <A href="http://www.fourthwallproductions.com/dogsees.html"><FONT color=#666666>July 17-27</FONT></A>. <BR>
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<P class=style8 align=left>ABOUT <STRONG>DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD</STRONG> </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>(Summer, 2008) Last year, Fourth Wall asked its New York and Chicago friends to keep their eyes open for plays making waves in the cities. In April, a friend came back to Cleveland with a copy of <STRONG>Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead</STRONG> by Bert V. Royal, which Fourth Wall immediately took a liking to. Going out of our comfort zone by dealing with a published play, we felt Cleveland needed to see this play, and who better to gather a cast of twenty-something actors then a twenty-something theatre company? </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>The Story: When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that’s both haunting and hopeful. </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>Reviews that Dog Sees God received: “Good grief! The Peanuts kids have finally come out of their shells.” —Time Out. “A welcome antidote to the notion that the Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness.” —NY Times. “…easily identifiable with the Peanuts crowd yet with a distinctly ‘Royal’ touch…The way Royal builds on the foundation of Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip actually results in a parody that’s also a stand-alone play apt to resonate even with anyone belonging to that small population segment unfamiliar with Peanuts.” —CurtainUp. “Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny.” —NY Post. “Bert V. Royal is the playwright of the Off-Broadway show DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD and is he ready to confess all!” —Broadway.com. “DOG SEES GOD doesn’t feel like the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters—teenage and reckless—are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing more hysterical — and more harrowing — as it flows to an inevitable, uncomfortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing.” —NY Magazine. </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>Awards: In 2004, it was one of the breakout hits at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the Excellence Award for Best Overall Production, as well as Theatermania's Play Award of 2004, the GLAAD Media Award for Best Off-Off-Broadway production, Broadway.com's 2006 Audience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play.ience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play. </P>
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<P class=style8 align=left>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT<BR>Bert V. Royal was an associate and assistant casting director for many years and has helped to cast such shows as the recent Broadway revival of<EM> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof </EM>and the off-Broadway revival of <EM>Miss Evers' Boys</EM>. He quit his profession as a casting director to write the play <STRONG>Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead</STRONG> which was awarded the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award, as well as the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Production. He is from Green Cove Springs, Florida. He has two siblings, Ashley Halil and Boyce Royal - both are also writers. Won the Clay County Spelling Bee in 6th Grade only to lose a shot at Nationals by misspelling a ridiculously easy word that he will never misspell again as long as he lives - 'Buccaneer.’ He currently lives in West Hollywood with his partner, Clay. </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>Recently, he finished his first screenplay <EM>Parents on Strike!</EM> and currently adapting Michael Stadther's bestselling children's book <EM>A Treasure's Trove</EM>, both for Paramount Pictures. </P>
<P class=style8 align=left>Bert started File 14 Productions with his best friend - actress/producer Sorrel Tomlinson.</P>
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