<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font size="4"><b>Talespinner Children’s Theatre <br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font size="4"><b>announces open <span>auditions</span> for its 2016 Season.</b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p><font size="2"><b><span>Talespinner
Children’s Theatre (TCT)</span></b><span> Executive
Artistic Director Alison Garrigan is proud to announce open <span>auditions</span> for its
upcoming 2016 season. TCT is
Cleveland’s only professional children’s theatre, located on the near west side
in The Reinberger Auditorium in the Detroit Shoreway/Gordon Square Arts District.<span> Now entering into its fifth season,</span> TCT has been garnering audience and
critical praise by developing and producing highly imaginative, original,
collaborative and interactive professional works for children that also
stimulate creative growth in its artists. At any time, these pieces have
involved acting, dance, music, puppetry, tumbling, drumming, and numerous other
artistic disciplines as imagined by the artistic teams working with and for TCT, and the company is open to all
creative possibility--reaching across socio-economic, cultural and traditional
boundaries to bring theatre to the community in its fullest form providing
excitement, growth and joy for all who are involved in and/or touched by its
work.<span> </span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">We are looking for talented, dedicated, imaginative, Cleveland-area theatre
artists, age 18 or older.<span> </span>Must be
willing to share your imagination with others, connect with an audience, and to
work collaboratively with an artistic team. </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><u><i>Season information:</i></u></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b>GOLDEN (a Grimm's Faerie Tale)--adapted by Toni K. Thayer<br></b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">April 2—24,
2016</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">(Rehearsals
begin February 24, 2016)</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b>THE CROCODILE, THE COBRA, & THE GIRL DOWN THE WELL (a Tale of India)--adapted by Anne McEvoy, directed by Melissa Crum<br></b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">June 4 – 26, 2016</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">(Rehearsals
begin April 17, 2016)</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b>THE MUMMIES & THE MAGIC PRINCE (a Tale of Egyptian Mythology)--by
Michael Sepesy<br></b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">September 17—October 19, 2016</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">(Rehearsals
begin August 3, 2016)</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b>HOOK & SMEE (a Tale of Never Never Land) --by T. Paul Lowry<br></b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">November 26
– December 18, 2016</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">(Rehearsals
begin October 10, 2016)<br></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">All performing
positions are paid.</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><u><font size="2"><span>Audition</span>
information:</font></u></i></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b>BY APPOINTMENT ONLY</b></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b><u>When:</u></b><span> </span>Sunday, November 29, 2015, 4:30PM-10:30PM, and Monday, November 30, 2015, 5:30PM-10PM</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b><u>What:</u></b>
You will be given a one-and-a-half hour block appointment.<span> </span><span> </span>Blocks
on Sunday will be 4:30PM-6PM, 6PM-7:30PM, 7:30PM-9PM, and 9PM-10:30PM.<span> </span>Blocks on Monday will be 5:30PM-7PM, 7PM-8:30PM, and 8:30PM-10PM.</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">Come dressed
and prepared to move.<span> </span><b>You will be there for the full hour-and-a-half.</b>
No memorized material is necessary.<span>
</span>There will be story work, and imaginative collaboration.</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">Bring
headshot and resume.<span> </span><i>TCT is not offering AEA contracts at this
time</i>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><b><u>Where:</u></b> Auditions will be held at Talespinner Children's Theatre, Reinberger Auditorium, 5209 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2">For an
appointment, please email <a href="mailto:talespinnerchildrenstheatre@gmail.com" target="_blank">talespinnerchildrenstheatre@gmail.com</a> and place <i>2016 Season Audition</i> in the subject header.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font size="2"><br></font></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Alison Garrigan<br>
<i>Executive Artistic Director</i>, <br><b>Talespinner Children's Theatre</b><br></div><b></b></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><b>Next up on the TCT stage: Prince Ivan & the Firebird, Nov. 28 - Dec. 20</b><br><br></div><div><i><font size="2"><b>TCT's Exciting 2015 Season!<br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2"><b>Rosalynde & the Falcon March 28 - April 19<br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2"><b>The Silent Princess June 6 - 28<br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2"><b>Finn McCool September 19 - October 11<br></b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2"><b>Prince Ivan & the Firebird November 28 - December 20<br><br></b></font></i></div><div><br>For more information, or to make reservations, visit TCT's website<br></div><i></i><div><div><a href="http://talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org" target="_blank">talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div></div>
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