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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">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:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">I Call My Brothers<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:#44546A">Written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.
</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Directed by Evren Odcikin, 2015 National Directing Fellow.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">About the play…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Something has happened. A car. An explosion. And a city is paralyzed with fear. But Amor has an important errand to run. He walks the city streets with his backpack and
his cell phone, doing his best to blend in. But what looks normal? In this funny and fierce showdown with paranoia,
<i>I Call My Brothers</i> offers an intense 24-hour journey inside one young man’s head. What happens when the lines between reality and fantasy, love and fear, criminal and victim, become increasingly blurred?
<b>Regional Premiere.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">About the director…</span><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Evren Odcikin was awarded the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:black">2015 National Director’s Fellowship by the O’Neill, National New Play Network, the Kennedy Center, and Stage Directors
and Choreographers Foundation.</span> Based in San Francisco he is a director and producer with credits at Golden Thread Productions (where he serves as the Director of New Plays) including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:black">Yussef
El Guindi’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Language Rooms</i>, in San Francisco and Los Angeles (critic’s pick for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>LA Times</i>), Mona Mansour’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Urge
For Going</i>, Kevin Artigue’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Most Dangerous Highway in the World<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Theatre Bay Area Award Recommended Production), Denmo Ibrahim’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ecstasy
| a waterfable</i>, as well as numerous short plays in ReOrient Festivals. He has directed and developed new plays at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#222222">South Coast Rep, the Lark, O’Neill Theatre Center, InterAct
Theatre Company, National New Plays Network Showcase, Magic Theatre, Crowded Fire, Impact Theatre, and Playwrights Foundation with such writers as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Eugenie Chan,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#222222">Christopher
Chen, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Prince Gomolvilas, Garret Groenveld, David Jacobi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Michael Lew, Rehana Mirza, and Nick Nanna Mwaluko, amongst many others.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>A
graduate of Princeton University, Evren received the 2013 TITAN Award by Theatre Bay Area; and was selected as an Emerging Theatre Leader by TCG for their American Express Leadership Bootcamp.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.odcikin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.odcikin.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Looking to cast…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 Arab-American man (AMOR): 20s-30s, troubled, fast-speaking, socially-awkward<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 man of color, including Middle Eastern (SHAVI, BULLY, THE SALESMAN): 20s-30s, warm, funny, nerdy, feels responsible for Amor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 woman of color, including Middle Eastern (AHLEM, SUPERVISOR, TYRA): 30s, plays multiple roles, including a past troublemaker, who has found the light, a spy in Amor’s imagination, and Amor’s grandmother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 woman of color, including Middle Eastern (VALERIA, BULLY, CAROLINE): 20s-30s, plays multiple roles, including a strong-minded mother of two (Amor’s love interest) and an annoying telemarketer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All actors except for AMOR will also play the AMPLIFIERS who function as a chorus of Amor’s thoughts and paranoia.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Equity Agreements may be available for this production</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">About the process…</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><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 for this production will begin around January 1, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Performances will be in the James Levin Theatre on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays at 7:00pm February 9 – March 4, 2017. This production will
have one weekend of preview performances February 9 – 11 & 16 (no show on 2/13), and will then rehearse until the opening night on Friday, February 17<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:orange"><br>
</span><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Auditions…</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Saturday, 8/20: 12:00pm-4:00pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sunday, 8/21: 11:00am-3:00pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Actors may be asked to stay later than their scheduled audition time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>(Possible callbacks on Sunday, 8/21: 4:00pm-7:00pm)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Auditions are by appointment only, will be scheduled in 1-hour increments and will be conducted in a group setting.
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Actors must attend the full hour session.
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please prepare the side for the role that you would be appropriate for.
<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">To schedule an audition appointment…<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;color:black">Please email New Play Associate, Caitlin Lewins at
</span><a href="mailto:clewins@cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">clewins@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> You will receive the sides upon confirmation. No phone calls please.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Caitlin Lewins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">New Play Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">6415 Detroit Ave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Cleveland OH, 44102<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">(216) 631-2727 x211<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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