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<FONT FACE="Cambria"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Lorain County Community College announces auditions for a workshop production of <B><I>Home Sweet Homeland</I></B>, 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.<BR>
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<a href="http://www.lorainccc.edu/Stocker+Arts+Center/Home+Sweet+Homeland+Auditions.htm">http://www.lorainccc.edu/Stocker+Arts+Center/Home+Sweet+Homeland+Auditions.htm</a><BR>
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<B>Lynne Taylor-Corbett</B> 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 Broadway’s Swing! and for two American Theatre Wing Star Awards for its National Tour. She also choreographed Broadway’s 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 Cookin’ at The Minetta Lane. She directed Boxes and Asking For It at the New York Fringe Festival and Girl’s Room starring Donna McKechnie and Carol Lawrence in New York and Los Angeles. Her production of Wanda’s World (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations) is coming to New World Stages. Ms. Taylor-Corbett’s 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 Wanda’s 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.<BR>
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<B>Joanna Rush</B> 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 “International Women’s Day” 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.<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%">Jeremy K. Benjamin<BR>
Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer<BR>
Lorain County Community College<BR>
1005 N. Abbe Rd.<BR>
Elyria, OH 44035<BR>
(440) 366-7120<BR>
<a href="jbenjami@lorainccc.edu">jbenjami@lorainccc.edu</a><BR>
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