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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#538135">Workshop/Research Project led by Cleveland Core Ensemble member Darius Stubbs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Looking to cast…</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3-7 actors of color </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">for an </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">exploratory rehearsal process which will culminate in some kind of workshop performance as part of CPT’s Entry Point.</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#538135"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">About the rehearsals…</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Include </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">weekday evenings and some weekend daytime rehearsals. Rehearsals will be November 1 – December 10, January 8-15 and then move into performances
approximately January 16-21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:orange"><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Sunday, 10/8: 3-5:30pm<br>
Monday, 10/9: 6:30-9pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Auditions are by appointment only.
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a workshop-style audition and those auditioning should expect to participate fully for the entire time of the audition. Prepared material is not requested.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To schedule an audition appointment, please email
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Artistic Associate, Molly Andrews-Hinders at
<b>mollyah@cptonline.org</b>.</span> <b>Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition date in your email.</b> No phone calls please.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">About The Lead Creator…<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Darius Stubbs is a poet, playwright, performer, vocalist, educator and transgender advocate who has been living and working in Cleveland, OH since 2006. Artistically, he has collaborated
with many fine creative thinkers across the city. Selected acting credits include
<i>Rusted Heart Broadcast</i> (CatManDu, Cleveland Public Theatre '13), <i>Titus Andronicus</i> (Aaron the Moor, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival '10),
<i>Comedy of Errors</i> (Sir Balthazar, Great Lakes Theatre '09) and <i>The Boys Next Door</i> (Lucien P. Smith, Medina Showbiz '07). His artistic home-base continues to be among the artists who work under the visionary guidance of Raymond Bobgan. At CPT, Darius
has been involved in the creation of over a dozen original performance pieces spanning the genre spectrum from performance art to fully-staged production. For the last 3 years, Darius has been a member of the Cleveland Core Ensemble and played the lead role
in their original play, <i>Red Ash Mosaic</i>, directed by Raymond Bobgan. Darius has also lent his talents as an instructor for CPT’s education programs, including the Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), a summer theatre intensive for Cleveland teens;
the Y-Haven Theatre Project, assisting previously homeless men in recovery from chemical dependency to express themselves through performance; and Brick City Theatre, a summer and afterschool theatre performance program for children living in CMHA housing.
As an advocate for Transgender Clevelanders, Darius actively seeks to lend his voice to the chorus of others in the city who are fighting to make sure that the “T” in LGBT does not remain a silent one. Darius has been a featured speaker in an array of venues
and events, including TedXCle 2015 “Untold” series, City Club of Cleveland’s Forum on Transgender Identity in Northeast Ohio, CPT’s Station Hope and Guide to Kulchur’s “Uncanny Voices” series. In 2015, Darius was highlighted among Scene Magazine’s “Cleveland
People” series, presenting Clevelanders who are “working every day to make the city better, to drive it forward, to contribute to its successes and rectify its shortcomings.” In July of 2016, Darius was awarded the Greater Cleveland Community Shares’ Rising
Activist Award. Most recently, he was fortunate enough to have his poem “If It Takes a Village” published by GTK Press in
<i>A Race Anthology: Dispatches and Artifacts From A Segregated City.</i></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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