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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span><br>
March 26, 2012<br>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight:bold">Great Lakes Theater Announces </span>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Auditions for Actor/Teachers</span></font><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Great Lakes Theater announces auditions for non-Equity actor/teachers for its School Residency Program for the 2012-2013 school year.
</span>Actors of all cultural backgrounds are encouraged to audition. These are full-time, seasonal, paid positions, offered from September 2012 through May 2013.
<span style="font-weight:bold">All auditions are by appointment only.</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Requirements include an undergraduate degree in any discipline, as well as previous stage experience or actor training.
</span>Teaching experience or prior work with elementary, junior high or high school age students is a plus, but not required. Applicant must have use of a reliable automobile.<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Applicants should prepare one Shakespearean monologue and one contrasting contemporary monologue for the audition.</span> Both monologues should total no more than three minutes combined.<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Auditions are by appointment only. </span>To schedule an audition appointment, visit
<a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/work-with-us/auditions" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">
www.greatlakestheater.org/work-with-us/auditions</a><span style="font-weight:bold">
</span>or contact Lisa Ortenzi at (216) 241-5490 x306. Headshots and resumes may also be submitted by mail to Great Lakes Theater, Attn: Lisa Ortenzi, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.
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<span style="font-weight:bold">The deadline to register for an audition appointment is Friday, May 11, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.</span> Auditions will take place on Monday, May 14, 2012. Callbacks will take place on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 and are by invitation only.
Great Lakes Theater is an equal opportunity employer.<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">MEDIA CONTACT:</span><br>
Lisa Ortenzi<br>
Supervisor School Residency Program<br>
(216) 241-5490 x306<br>
lortenzi@greatlakestheater.org<br>
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