<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b class=""><font size="5" class="">Avenue Arts Marketplace & Theatre announces auditions for PROOF</font></b></p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Located at 324 Cleveland Ave. NW Canton, Ohio 44702</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">SYNOPSIS: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Proof is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.</strong></p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Directed by: Olivia King</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font size="3" color="#831100" class="">Auditions will be held on Monday, February 25th and Wednesday, February 27th from 7-9pm</font></p><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><font color="#831100" size="3" class="">TO SIGN UP FOR AUDITIONS - </font><b class=""><font size="3" class=""><a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-proof" class="">https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-proof</a> </font></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Callbacks (if needed) will be Thursday, February 28th from 7-9pm. All roles are available. At this time, no actor stipends are available. </p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">All auditioners are asked to come prepared to cold read from the script. We also ask that you bring a current headshot and resume with you to auditions. </p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Rehearsals will begin on March 4th and will typically run Sunday through Thursday evenings</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Performances: April 12th, 13th, 19th and 20th at 8pm and April 14th at 2pm</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">CHARACTERS:</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Catherine (20s) - </strong>A young woman, 25 years old, who inherited much of her father's mathematical genius and, she fears, his "instability" as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Claire (30s) - </strong>Catherine's older sister, a practical and business-minded woman who has been comfortably successful in her work and relationships. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run-down family home of her youth. She left the family to make a new life for herself in New York City.</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Robert (50s-60s) - </strong>A recently deceased mathematician praised for his groundbreaking work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine's imagination and in flashbacks.</p><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Harold (Hal) Dobbs (20s-30s) - </strong>One of Robert's last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor's illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work. </p><div class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(93, 1, 14); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">All questions should be directed to <a href="mailto:avenueartstheatre@gmail.com" class="">avenueartstheatre@gmail.com</a></p></body></html>