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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">Br’er Cotton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#538135;background:white">National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">By Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Directed</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> by Jennifer L. Nelson</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:maroon"> </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: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:#538135;background:white">1 African-American young man (teen)
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1 white young woman (teen)<br>
1 African-American woman (30's)<br>
1 African-American man (60's)<br>
1 white man (30's)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Equity agreements may be considered for this production</span></i><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">About the play…</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Lynchburg, Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14-year-old
“militant,” incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boy’s anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field and no one seems to notice but him. <b>A National New
Play Network Rolling World Premiere.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">About The Director…<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jennifer L. Nelson</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is a Washington DC-based theatre professional who dedicates her artistic life to representing human dignity, justice and good
humor. She has been an actor, director, playwright, administrator and professor. Her professional career began with the Living Stage Theatre at Arena Stage. Following that, she served as Producing Artistic Director of the African Continuum Theatre Company.
Her play <i>Torn from the Headlines</i> was awarded a Helen Hayes Award for Most Outstanding New Play. She is a currently a busy freelance director. Her most recent productions were
<i>The Gospel at Colonus </i>for AvantBard Theatre; and <i>Milk Like Sugar</i> for Mosaic Theater Company where she is an Associate Artist. She is also Artistic and Legacy Project Advisor at Ford’s Theatre. She is proud to have served on the Board of the Theatre
Communications Group (TCG) and is a former President of the League of Washington Theatres.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></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">Rehearsals begin around mid-February. Rehearsals are 5-6 times a week, with evening weekday rehearsals and some daytime weekend rehearsals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Previews March 29 - 31 & April 5. Runs April 6 - April 21. Gordon Square Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#538135">Auditions…</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#538135"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Friday 11/17: 6-9pm</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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Saturday 11/18: 1-4pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#538135">Callbacks</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">…<br>
Saturday 11/18 6-9pm </span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">(If you are unable to make callbacks, please let New Play Associate</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Andrew Valdez, know when
booking your audition appointment; </span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="avaldez@cptonline.org">avaldez@cptonline.org</a></span></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Auditions are by appointment only. You can schedule for either Fri 11/17
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">OR</span> Sat 11/18. <br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We will schedule an arrival time for each actor, but plan on staying until the end of the audition (for Fri. auditioners- 9pm; for Sat. auditioners- 4pm)
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">What to prepare…</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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<span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">One, 1-2-minute contemporary dramatic monologue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and work with the director.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Headshot and R</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">é</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">sum</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">é</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Seeking an ensemble of bold, imaginative actors.</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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">New Play Associate, Andrew Valdez at</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:yellow">
<a href="avaldez@cptonline.org">avaldez@cptonline.org</a><span style="color:black">.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <b>Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition date & time in your
email. Please include [BR’ER COTTON Auditions] in your subject line.</b> No phone calls please.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">About The Playwright…</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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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is a current member of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard and a recent MFA Playwriting graduate
from the Catholic University of America. His play Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies will receive its World Premiere at Mosaic Theatre in Washington, D.C. this year and will be followed by the World Premiere of his play Br’er Cotton at Kitchen Dog Theatre
in Dallas, TX. His work has been developed with the Signature Theatre, Theatre J, Theatre Alliance, Endstation Theatre, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He was
named a “Person to Watch” by American Theatre Magazine and a “Rising Star” by Variety. He was a finalist for the inaugural Relentless Award and London's 503 Theatre Award. He was named winner of bot the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award and the Lorraine Hansberry
Playwriting Award at KCACTF 2016.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </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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