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Hunter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Audition Dates/Times: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tues, 7/31, 7pm – 10 pm by appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wed, 8/1, 7pm – 10 pm by appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AT: Dobama Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Hts, OH 44118<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Directed by: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nathan Motta<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Play synopsis: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In the bleak, corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. Will, a disgraced Evangelical who has fled his rural hometown, comes to the Hobby Lobby not only for employment, but also to rekindle a relationship with Alex, his brooding teenage son whom he gave up for adoption several years ago. He joins the ranks of the blue-vested employees, a comedic set of misfits struggling to find their way. Samuel D. Hunter’s dark but deeply empathetic comedy won the 2011 OBIE Award for Playwriting and the 2011 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Characters: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Three men (late 30s, mid 20s, late teens) and two women (late 20s, early 40s)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CHARACTERS<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WILL</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> – A disgraced Evangelical who has fled his rural hometown after a scandal (and a great personal loss) caused the fall of his cult-like church. He moves to Boise to connect with his son Alex, who he gave up for adoption many years earlier. Quiet with a great inner frustration that bubbles to the surface at times. Seems like everyman on the outside, with extreme religious beliefs that he keeps hidden until provoked or probed. Late thirties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PAULINE</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> – The manager of the Hobby Lobby, a craft store in Boise, ID. A bit manic, energetic, a bit of a control freak, and certainly obsessive about her store’s operation. She takes great pride in her store and likely doesn’t have much of a life outside of her work. Late thirties to early forties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ANNA</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Another Hobby Lobby employee/ loner who sneaks into the break room after hours to read alone in the dark. Naïve, lonely, intellectually very simple, and awkward- yet kind, compassionate. Late twenties to early thirties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>LEROY</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- A college art student who works at Hobby Lobby and thrives on making people feel uncomfortable in both his art and in his life (which are thinly separated). Driven, passionate, loyal. Early to mid twenties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ALEX</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Leroy’s adopted younger brother, Will’s estranged son given up for adoption, and a cashier at the Hobby Lobby. A loner, dealing with depression. Intelligent, straightforward. Buries himself in avant-garde modern classical music, his poetry, and performance art. 17 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Production dates: Oct. 26-Nov. 18. Preview date October 25. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rehearsals begin Sept. 20.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Audition:</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Sides provided. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AEA contracts: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There are 1-2 AEA Contracts available for this production. (AEA contracts are based on the Special Appearance Agreement). Non-AEA Contracts will pay $450 each.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*Please email Julie Friedman at <a href="mailto:jfriedman@dobama.org">jfriedman@dobama.org</a> to arrange a date & time. No phone calls please.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>