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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">Gloria</span></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Directed by Beth Wood, CPT’s Associate Artistic Director & Director of Production
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Looking to cast… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Late 20’s/early 30’s male, white<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">20’s/30’s female, Chinese-American or Korean-American<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">20’s female, white<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Late 30’s/40’s female, any ethnicity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">30’s/40’s male, any ethnicity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Equity agreements may be considered for this production
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">About the play… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A group of bickering editorial assistants at a prestigious magazine are chasing the dream: a book deal before they turn 30 and a shot at fame when an ordinary day at the office becomes a living
nightmare. The stakes for who gets the story skyrocket when crisis offers an opportunity for a career-defining moment. Inside America’s media machine, who has the right to tell whose story? Simultaneously funny and shocking, Gloria is an adrenaline rush of
a show skewering the opportunistic culture of modern media.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">About The Process… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This rehearsal process will be conventional in nature and based in script analysis, character analysis and emotional arch. Actors will be expected to make strong proposals, be generous, and meet deadlines given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rehearsals will begin on or around February 11, 2019. Rehearsals are 5-6 times a week, with evening weekday rehearsals and some daytime weekend rehearsals.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Performances begin with previews on March 22 & 23. Rehearsals will resume March 25-27. A final preview will occur on March 28, and the production opens on March 29.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">GLORIA runs March 22, 2019 – April 13, 2019, Thu/Fri/Sat/Mon at 7:30pm in the Gordon Square Theatre
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Important Information about The Play…
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gloria contains scenes of violence, including hand-to-hand combat and gun violence. These scenes will be choreographed by a professional. Weapons used on stage may include a non-firing prop gun or a block-barreled
blank firing gun. All artists handling the weapons will receive appropriate training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Auditions… <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Saturday, January 5, 3-7pm & Monday, January 7, 6:30-10pm
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Callbacks: will be on Saturday, January 12 at 2pm.
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Auditions are by appointment only and will be scheduled in 10 minute increments.
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Prepared auditions will be individual, but you may be asked to stay and read with a fellow actor. Actors should plan to stay at the audition for up to 75 minutes, though you may be released sooner. Only the director,
Beth Wood, will be watching the auditions.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">What to prepare… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§ </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Prepare one monologue from GLORIA provided by CPT. Memorization is NOT required.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§ </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Optional</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> One minute of prepared & memorized monologue of your choosing. NOTE: This material may or may not viewed
as part of the audition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Some actors may be asked to do cold readings from sides provided by CPT at the audition.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§ </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Headshot and R</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">é</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sum</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">é
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To schedule an audition appointment, please email
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:auditions@cptonline.org">auditions@cptonline.org</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.
<b>Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition date & time in your email. Please include [Gloria Auditions] in your subject line.
</b>No phone calls please. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the Playwright: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white">Branden Jacobs-Jenkins'</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white"> plays include NEIGHBORS (Public Theater), APPROPRIATE (Actors Theatre
of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Signature Theatre), AN OCTOROON (Soho Rep), and WAR. He is a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at the Juilliard School. Additionally,
his work has been seen at the Vineyard Theatre, the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles, Company One in Boston, and the HighTide Festival in the United Kingdom. He has taught at New York University and Queens University of Charlotte, and his honors include the Paula
Vogel Award in Playwriting, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. He holds an MA in Performance Studies.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white">About the Director:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white">Beth Wood</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white"> joined the CPT staff in 2007. A director, actress, administrator, designer, educator,
and theatre technician, she holds a BA in Communications and Theatre from John Carroll University. As a director of adventurous scripted work, she has been honored as a director of superior achievement by the Cleveland Critics Circle in 2016, 2015, and 2013,
and has directed 16 productions, including seven world premieres and seven regional premieres, during her ten-year tenure at CPT. In 2017, Beth was selected as a finalist for the National Directing Fellowship. In addition to her directing work, Beth supports
four New Play Development series that invest in outside-the-mainstream work and the artistic growth of Northeast Ohio creators. In 2016, she was awarded a TCG Leadership U[niversity] Continuing Ed grant to research long-term new play development models across
the country. Beth also produces large-scale community events for CPT, including Station Hope – an annual community event featuring over 200 artists performing original work inspired by issues of freedom and justice at Cleveland’s first authenticated Underground
Railroad site. Last February, Beth traveled to Iowa to direct the World Premiere of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Apples in Winter</span></em> by Jennifer Fawcett at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Her CPT directing credits include <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lines
in the Dust</span></em> by Nikkole Salter, the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">in a word</span></em> by Lauren Yee, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There Is a Happiness That Morning Is</span></em> by
Mickle Maher, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Barbecue</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Antebellum</span></em> by Robert O’Hara, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FEVER/DREAM</span></em> by Sheila
Callaghan, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them</span></em> by Christopher Durang, and <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOOM</span></em> by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. In addition to her
work with scripted productions, Beth co-creates and directs original plays based on a comedic singing duo, The Loush Sisters, for Playhouse Square in 2011 and CPT in 2013, 2015, and 2017. Beth’s CPT acting credits include <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hedwig
and the Angry Inch</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mrs. Bob Cratchet’s Wild Christmas Binge</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A Bright Room Called Day</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fefu
and Her Friends</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Rocky Horror Show</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our Town</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pulp</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Matt
& Ben</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anna Bella Eema</span></em> (co-production with Theater Ninjas), <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Mind Firmament</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Don’t
Call Me Fat</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Akarui</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Earth
Plays (Part Two of the Elements Cycle)</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Loush Sisters DO the Nutcracker</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Loush Sisters Love Dick’ns: Great Expectations</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
Loush Sisters get HARD for the Holidays (Yippie-Kai-Yay Mother-Loushers)</span></em>, and <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play</span></em>. A former Actor-Teacher for Great Lakes Theater, Beth has taught a variety
of theatre and acting courses throughout Northeast Ohio, and has served as the Technical Director for John Carroll University, Lakeland Theatre, and Stagecrafters.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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