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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for the world premiere of</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>The Drowning Girls<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=Standard><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#525252'>Written By: Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#525252'>Directed By: Melissa Therese Crum, Joan Yellen Horvitz Directing Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#525252'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#525252'>Looking to Cast...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Alice: 26 years old. Young and Naive, love is an exciting new game. “I wanted to be swept off my feet.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Bessie: 33 years old. A true romantic, love is bliss. “I wanted romance.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Margaret: 38 years old. Practical, love is to avoid being alone. “I just wanted someone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Equity Contracts are not available for this production.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#525252'>About the Play...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>With their first look at him their lungs filled with air; their hearts began to beat. With their last look at him their lungs filled with water; their hearts would beat no more. Alice, Bessie, and Margaret surface from the still waters of their bathtubs to deliver their post-mortem testimony and tell how they were wooed, wed, insured and murdered. Based on the “Brides in the Bath” murders in England at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, <i>The Drowning Girls</i> is a touching and hauntingly beautiful script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Actors should be aware that much of the play will take place within three bathtubs and we will be working with water. Actors will play multiple characters and will be using movement and music as essential elements of storytelling. This will be a very physical show.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#525252'>About the process...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rehearsals will begin early in March.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Performances will be in the Storefront Studio April 17<sup>th</sup>-May 3<sup>rd</sup> Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays at 7:00pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Auditions...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Saturday, November 16 2-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Sunday, November 17 7-9pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Auditions are by appointment only and will be conducted in 5 minute slots. </span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Auditioner's should prepare a 1 minute monologue and a short verse of a non-musical theatre song, preferably a ballad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:orange'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>To schedule an audition appointment, please email New Play Associate, Emily Ritger, at </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:eritger@cptonline.org">eritger@cptonline.org</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>. <b>Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition slot in your email.</b> No phone calls please. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:orange'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Emily Ritger</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>New Play Associate, Cleveland Public Theatre</span></i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(216) 631-2727, ext. 210<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>6415 Detroit Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cleveland, OH 44102<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>