<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 18px;">Karamu Performing Arts Theatre is holding Auditions</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">for the production of</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: large;">The Elaborate Entrance of CHAD DEITY</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 18px;">By Kristoffer Diaz</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">PERFORMANCE DATES: March 14th -
April 6th, 2014</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: large;">Directed by: Terrence Spivey</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">AUDITION DATES</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Tuesday <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 7, 2014 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Wednesday<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 8, 2014 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.</span></div><div
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">CALLBACKS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: 18px;">Saturday <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 11, 2014<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 11:00 a.m.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">AUDITION PREPARATION</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please prepare 2 contrasting monologues no more than 2 minutes each.
All will be asked to do a cold</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">reading from the script. Please bring Headshot and Resume. Th is is a non - equity production.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">**Ring Girls must come with appropriate dress attire, (please look at World Wrestling Entertainment)</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">or WWE.COM.**</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font
style="font-size: large;">LOCATION 2355 east 89th Street, Cleveland Ohio</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">ABOUT THE PLAY</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">“Let’s get ready to rumble!” Mace is a professional wrestler. He’s a really good professional wrestler.</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">He’s not the champion though — that’s the impossibly charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides </span><span
style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;">to get him a job in the company. Only problem is, the boss has a very specifi c plan for the duo: put</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;">them on screen as terrorists. But when their rivalry is used to exploit racial stereotypes in the name </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;">of ratings, all three men fi nd themselves fi ghting for much more than just the title.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">CAST OF CHARACTERS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">MACEDONIO GUERRA a.k.a. “THE MACE” - Late 20’s to Mid 30’s</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: large;">A Puerto Rican Professional wrestler. Good at what he does, undersized, our hero.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">EVERETT K. OLSON a.k.a. “EKO” - 40’s or 50’s</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font style="font-size: large;">Th e Caucasian Owner of “Th e Wrestling”, Brash, Confi dent, ostensibly our villian.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">CHAD DEITY a.k.a. “CHAD DEITY” - Late 20’s to Mid 30’s, Must have EXTREMELY muscular</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">build, Th e African American champion of “The Wrestling”, Confident, Handsome, Charismatic </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">and not a very good wrestler.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIGNESHWAR PADUAR a.k.a. “VP” - LATE 20’s</span></div><div style="background-color:
transparent;"><font style="font-size: large;">A young Indian American Brooklynite, Charismatic, Natural, Effortless</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">THE BAD GUY - Late 20’s - a non descript professional wrestler (non-speaking): also plays</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">BILLY HEARTLAND and OLD GLORY.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">RING GIRLS - Mid 20’s - Early 30’s Two non-descript shapely, robust young
ladies, One African</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">American and One Caucasian, whose sole purpose is to accompany CHAD DEITY.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">REHEARSALS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Consists of a 6 week rehearsal schedule, 3-6 time per week. Th e cast will receive a Rehearsal schedule</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent;">by the fi rst cast meeting or first rehearsal.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style:
normal;"><font style="font-size: large;"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you have any Questions feel free to contact Richard H. Morris at 216.795.7070 ext.236.</span></div></div></body></html>