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Audition Dates/Times: <BR>
</B>Wed, 5/25, 6:30 – 10:00 by appointment<BR>
Thu, 5/26, 6:30 – 10:00 by appointment<BR>
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<B>Callbacks: <BR>
</B>Fri, 5/27, 6:30 – 10:00 <BR>
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Place: </B>TBD, we’ll have that finalized soon and will share location info when you schedule your audition time.<BR>
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<B>Directed by: </B>Laura Kepley<BR>
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Play synopsis: </B><FONT COLOR="#353535">A teenager discovers the real reason her mother pulled her out of high school and moved the two of them to Alaska: mom plans to assassinate a certain rogue Presidential candidate. A dark comedy about murder, motherhood and moose.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>Characters: <BR>
</B><I>Deb Marshall</I> – mid to late-40’s, a divorced suburban mom who has reimagined herself as a righteous Liberal avenger following the death of her activist mother. <BR>
<I>Hannah Marshall</I> – 17, Deb’s daughter, has a hostile, “whatever” outer shell that masks a sensitive and intelligent interior. Good sense of humor, practical, resourceful. <BR>
<I>Laurel Halen</I> – 18, daughter of Alaska’s most famous politician. Sweet, but not the brightest bulb. <BR>
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Production dates: </B>September 9 – October 2, 2011<BR>
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Audition:</B> Readings from the sides. Sides will be emailed upon request. The script is not available at this time; please see Mr. Brant’s bio below.<BR>
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<B>AEA contracts: </B>There is 1 AEA Contract available for this production. (AEA contracts are based on the Special Appearance Agreement). Non-AEA Contracts will pay $450 each.<BR>
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</B>*Please contact Dobama @ (216) 932-6838 or email <a href="jfriedman@dobama.org">jfriedman@dobama.org</a> to arrange a date & time.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>Playwright’s Biography <BR>
George Brant’s </B>plays<B> </B>include <I>Elephant’s Graveyard</I>, <I>Any Other Name</I>, <I>The Mourners’ Bench, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Defiant, Dark Room, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes</I>, <I>One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire </I>and <I>Night of the Mime. <BR>
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</I>His work has been produced and developed by Trinity Repertory Company, the Kennedy Center, the Cleveland Play House, the Playwrights Foundation, Dobama Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Equity Library Theatre, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theatre, Trustus Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, Balagan Theatre, the Drama League, the Disney Channel, Factory Theatre, Debutantes and Vagabonds, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company, among others. <BR>
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His script <I>Elephant’s Graveyard</I> was awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center and the Keene Prize for Literature. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4. George received his Masters in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His scripts are published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, and Broadway Play Publishing.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><BR>
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