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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Tri-C Western Campus Theatre Department announces auditions for “Pray for
the Missing Girls” by Jean Seitter Cummins. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
winner of Tri-C’s first Great Lakes Play Competition, <i>Pray for the
Missing Girls</i> is the story of Marion, an award-winning news reporter trying
to find her missing daughter. While working on a story in Juarez, Mexico and
remote Texas, she discovers that, since the beginning of time, far too many
innocents have paid the ultimate price in the name of "commerce" and "civilization."
Auditions will take place September 6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> at 8:00
pm in the Western Campus Theatre located at 11000 Pleasant Valley Rd. Parma,
OH 44130. This production will be directed by Western Campus
faculty member, Fred Gloor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About
the Playwright: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jean
Cummins is a playwright, dramaturge, and occasional theater critic whose
reviews have appeared in the Cleveland Scene. She served for many years
as Literary Manager for Dobama Theatre and now directs the First Mondays play
reading series. Jean was the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from
the Ohio Arts Council in 2004 and two of her plays, Lives of the Saints and
Artemisia, were semi-finalists for the National Playwrights Conference (The
O’Neill) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In addition to receiving
first prize in the Lake Erie Playwright competition, <i>Pray for the Missing
Girls</i> is currently a semi-finalist in a competition run by MultiStages, a
New York theater company that specializes in multidisciplinary, multicultural
work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About
the Play: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Pray
for the Missing Girls” was written in the summer of 2004 with the support
of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. It was read at The
Cleveland Play House in August of that year and in November and December of
2009 as part of the First Mondays reading series. Meanwhile interest in Juarez
has been growing as the crime wave changes from a femicide – in which
young girls, many of them employees of American owned assembly plants or
maquiladoras were the chief target – to a “free for all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is
this an example of what happens when a country tolerates lawlessness against
the poor as long as its middle class is safe? Or is it just about the
growth of the cartels that now openly control the city and many of its police.
Charles Bowden called his collection of essays and photographs, published in
1998, Juarez: Laboratory of our Future. His work calls attention to the
ever-widening gap between the middle class and the poor, the growth of
“super cities” that draw those with no money, no education and no
experience of life outside an agrarian environment, and the growth of an
international workforce for which no one country feels responsible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditions
are open to non-students as well as students of Tri-C. Needed are a
company of approximately 10 Men and 10 Women of all ages and ethnicities, ages
16 and over. Auditioners should be prepared to move, improvise, and read
from the script. The director will not be auditioning anyone under
16. Certain roles may receive a stipend. <i>There are no
Equity contracts available.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditions:
September
6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> at 7 pm with callbacks on September 8<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Performance
Dates: November 4<sup>th</sup>, 5<sup>th</sup>, 10<sup>th</sup>,
11<sup>th</sup>, and 12<sup>th</sup>, at 8 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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November
6<sup>th</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> at 2 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
more information please call: 216-987-5536</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cuyahoga
Community College Western Campus Theatre</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>11000
Pleasant Valley Rd. Parma, OH 44130</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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