<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Akron's Premiere Black Box Theatre announces auditions for their 2016 spring line-up! None Too Fragile is located in the heart of Akron's Merriman Valley at the Southern Gateway to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. An intimate 80 seat, black box, Off Broadway style theatre is celebrating the opening of their 24th production and 4th theatrical season on January 28th, 2016!</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">AUDITIONS:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When: Sunday, November 22nd, 3 - 6pm.<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br class="">No appointments. Arrive asap.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;" class="">Where: 1835 Merriman Rd, Akron, 44313</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Needed: Contemporary Monologue/ Reading from selected script(s).</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">**All non-Equity Actors are paid a stipend of $400.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">***Equity Contracts will be considered.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Productions & Characters being cast:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">1. Pure Shock Value by Matt Pelfrey<br class="">Satire/Comedy-directed by Sean Derry <br class="">January 28th - February 13th</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">"Pelfrey's Pure Shock Value brilliantly updates the scathingly bleak Hollywood satire for a post-Tarantino generation of Silver Lake Slackers. " - S.F. Bay Guardian</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Breakdown:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Gabby - Female/Any Ethnicity/Age 25-35<br class="">Ethan - Male/Any Ethnicity/Age 30-35<br class="">Tex - Male/Any Ethnicity/ Age 25-30<br class="">Julian - Male/Any Ethnicity/ Age 40's</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">2. A Kid Like Jake by Daniel Pearle<br class="">Dramedy - directed by Sean Derry<br class="">March opening(TBD) 3 week/10 perf.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">The admissions cycle for Manhattan's most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to G.I. Joe. But as the process continues, Jake's behavior becomes erratic and perplexing, and other adults in his life start to wonder whether his fondness for dress-up might be cause for concern. The story of a husband and wife struggling to do right by their son, A KID LIKE JAKE is a study of intimacy and parenthood and the fantasies that accompany both.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Breakdown:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Alex - Female/Any Ethnicity/Age 30's<br class="">Greg - Male/Any Ethnicity/Age 30's<br class="">Judy - Female/Any Ethnicity/Age 40-60's<br class="">Nurse - Female/Any Ethnicity/Age 20's</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">3. The Beauty Queen of Leenane <br class="">by Martin McDonagh<br class="">Dark Comedy - directed by Sean Derry<br class="">April 22nd - May 7th</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Set in the mountains of Conemara, County Galway, Ireland. The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Golan, a plain and lonely woman, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the plays terrifying denouement.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Breakdown:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Mag Folan - Already Cast(Anne McEvoy) <br class="">Maureen Folan - Female/White/Age 40's<br class="">Pato Dooley - Male/White/Age 37-43<br class="">Ray Dooley - Male/White/Age 20's</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Any Questions can be directed to:</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Sean Derry<br class="">Co-Artistic Director<br class="">none too fragile theater<br class=""><a href="mailto:Sjsderry@gmail.com" class="">Sjsderry@gmail.com</a></p></div></body></html>