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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Tender Napalm<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>By Philip Ridley</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Directed by 2012-13 Joan Yellen Horvitz Directing Fellow, Denise Astorino<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Looking to cast…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>Two physically demanding roles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>1 female late 20s – mid 30s, any ethnicity<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>1 male late 20s – mid 30s, any ethnicity<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>About the play…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i>Tender Napalm</i> is an exhilarating exploration of love in the face of disaster. Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept play mapping the journey from first attraction to consuming devotion. It's a sweaty portrait of passion and destruction and an examination of how love can leave you shipwrecked, deep-burning and unquenchable.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>About the timing…</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rehearsals will begin the first week of April. Performances are May 2<sup>nd</sup> – 18<sup>th</sup> (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays) in CPT’s Storefront Studio. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:orange'><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Auditions…</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Saturday 12/15: 10a – 1p<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sunday 12/16: 7p – 10p<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Callbacks will be held Tuesday 12/18 7p – 10p.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Auditions are by appointment only and will be scheduled in 10 minute increments. </b>Auditioners should prepare a two minute contemporary monologue.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:orange'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>To schedule an audition appointment, please email Associate Artistic Director, Beth Wood at </span><a href="mailto:bwood@cptonline.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>bwood@cptonline.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>. <b>Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition date & time in your email.</b> No phone calls please. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:orange'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'>Beth Wood<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>Associate Artistic Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>6415 Detroit Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>Cleveland, OH 44102<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>216-631-2727 ext. 206<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'>216-631-2575 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#244061'><a href="mailto:bwood@cptonline.org">bwood@cptonline.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>