<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e26782bc-462b-a0f5-ce0a-9cde04eaf796"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PLAYWRIGHTS LOCAL ANNOUNCES</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OPEN AUDITIONS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FOR THE MAY 2017 WORLD PREMIERE OF</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"><b>Things As They Are</b></font></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Written by David Todd</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Original score composed by Ben Chasny</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Directed by Anjanette Hall</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SEEKING</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ELSIE STEVENS </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Female, 35-50): </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spouse of poet Wallace Stevens. Enters as a young beau</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ty, exits as an isolated housewife. Orderly and often spectral.</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></span></p></li></ul><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MALE ENSEMBLE MEMBER (20-35): Performing multiple roles </span></p></li></ul><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MALE ENSEMBLE MEMBER (25-40): Performing multiple roles</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AUDITION SESSIONS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Wednesday, January 11, 4:00 - 6:00 pm</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Thursday, January 12, 4:00 - 6:00 pm</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AUDITION LOCATION</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Slovenian Workmen’s Home</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">15335 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH 44110</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CALLBACKS </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If necessary, callbacks will be on Monday, January 16 at a location TBA.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PRODUCTION INFO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is a non-Equity, paid production. Performances run May 12 - 28, 2017 at Reinberger Auditorium’s upstairs loft</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Rehearsals in Cleveland begin April 3.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DETAILS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Appointments are suggested, but not required.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Actors will read sides from the play. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- Please bring a current headshot, resume, and calendar, and leave time for paperwork. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For appointments or questions, please email </span><a href="mailto:fmamlin13@mail.bw.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">fmamlin13@mail.bw.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SYNOPSIS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Things as They Are</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a meditation on the life and work of American poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens. A collage of scenes, poems, movement, and original music, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Things as They Are</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> looks past the stock image of Stevens as an aloof attorney to find a striving son, an uncertain husband and father, a part-time comedian, and a full-time Modern giant. The play tracks its subject from run-ins with Marcel Duchamp in the 1910s to Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s, from crises with wife Elsie to reconciliations with daughter Holly, and from his beloved Pennsylvania countryside to his exotic refuge of Key West. Through a series of linked vignettes, it reveals the real Wallace Stevens to be a man of great insight, contradictions, whimsy, and desire.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Things as They Are </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">was written by David Todd, and includes excerpts from Wallace Stevens’ original work by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf. Directed by Anjanette Hall, this world premiere features an original score composed and performed by Ben Chasny, the creative figure behind the celebrated group Six Organs of Admittance.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ABOUT THE COMPANY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Playwrights Local is a theater company based in Cleveland. Billed as a playwrights’ center, the organization’s goal is to provide a home for dramatic writing in Northeast Ohio. They offer classes and workshops, produce original plays, provide networking opportunities, and engage the community through outreach projects. Tax-deductible contributions to this 501(c)(3) group can be made at</span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/donate/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/donate/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></span></div>