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<p class="p2" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Ohio Shakes, located in Akron, will cast a summer company to perform in both outdoor productions of </span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Up to three AEA contracts available for each production. All non union actors paid a stipend determined by size of role, length of commitment, and number of years spent working with the company.</span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Open Auditions will be held at Greystone Hall (103 S High Street, Akron) on <strong>Sunday</strong> <strong>March 31st, 12:00-3:00pm</strong> and <strong>Monday April 1, 6:00-10:00pm.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">No walk ins, please.</span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Actors may request an audition time by submitting a<strong> headshot and resume </strong>to <a href="mailto:tess@ohioshakespeare.com"><span class="s3">tess@ohioshakespeare.com</span></a>, and please include in the subject line: </span><span class="s4"><strong>Ohio Shakes Summer Season Auditions</strong></span><span class="s5"><strong>.</strong></span><span class="s1"> Actors may request a particular time frame, and will be scheduled in the closest available slot.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Video auditions, </span><span class="s6">though not encouraged,</span><span class="s1"> may be submitted to <a href="mailto:tess@ohioshakespeare.com"><span class="s3">tess@ohioshakespeare.com</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Prepare 2 contracting Shakespeare monologues, no longer than 3 minutes in total length </span><span class="s6"><strong>OR</strong></span><span class="s1"> a scene to read from HAMLET or MEASURE FOR MEASURE.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>(Reader provided, scene need not be memorized.) </span></p>
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<p class="p6" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Invited callbacks will be held April 13 (12-3pm) and 16 (6-10pm)</span></p>
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<p class="p8" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Ohio Shakespeare Festival operates with an informal resident acting company. Ohio Shakespeare company members who have worked with the Festival within the past two seasons do not need to come to open auditions.  All said company members <strong>must</strong> submit their interest to <a href="mailto:tess@ohioshakespare.com"><span class="s3">tess@ohioshakespare.com</span></a> and their preferred time/date of callback.<strong> All company members must email their interest to be invited to callbacks, no exceptions.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="p9" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1"><em>When indicating genders of characters in descriptions below, please know that Ohio Shakespeare is open to all the ways a person can identify on the gender spectrum.</em></span></p>
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<p class="p12" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s7">HAMLET</span></p>
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<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Directed by Terry Burgler</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Rehearsals begin: June 4, 2019</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Performances: June 27 - July 14</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Description: <em>Performed </em><strong><em>outdoors </em></strong><em>at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.</em></span></p>
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<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1"><strong>The role of Hamlet has been cast from our resident acting company.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">AVALIABLE ROLES:</span></p>
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<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Available roles for women (traditionally male characters will be played as pants roles), all ages and ethnicities:</strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Ophelia—daughter to Polonius, sister to Laertes, Hamlet’s love interest</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Queen Gertrude—Hamlet’s mother</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Horatio—Hamlet’s school friend and closest confidant </span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Fortinbras—King of Norway</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Player Queen—Leading female player in the play-wtihin-the-play</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Rosencrantz—Hamlet’s childhood friend</span></li>
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<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Available roles for men, all ages and ethnicities:</strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">King Claudius—Hamlet’s uncle, now married to his mother, and the murderer of Hamlet’s father</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Hamlet’s Ghost—Hamlet’s father</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Osric—A foppish courtier </span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Laertes—Son of Polonius, brother, to Ophelia, master swordsman</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Polonius—Lord Chamberlain to the King, a bumbling man, father to Ophelia and Laertes </span></li>
</ul>
<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Seeking all genders, ages, and ethnicities for the following roles. </strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Guildenstern—Childhood friend of Hamlet’s</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Player King—An exceptional actor, the leading player in the play-within-the-play</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Marcellus—An officer</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Bernardo—An officer</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Two Clowns—Gravediggers</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Voltemand & Cornelius —ambassadors to Norway</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Francisco—A soldier </span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Reynaldo—Servant to Polonius </span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Players—for the play-within-a-play</span></li>
<li class="li16"><span class="s1">Assorted courtiers of all ages, genders, and ethnicities. </span></li>
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<p class="p12" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s7">MEASURE FOR MEASURE</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">By William Shakespeare</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Directed by Terry Burgler</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Rehearsals begin: June 29</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Performances: July 25 - August 11</span></p>
<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">Description: <em>Performed </em><strong><em>outdoors </em></strong><em>at Stan Hywet Hall & Garden, a less frequently produced Shakespeare tragi-comedy. </em></span></p>
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<p class="p13" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1">AVALIABLE ROLES:</span></p>
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<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Available roles for women, all ages, and ethnicities:</strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Isabella— A very virtuous and chaste young woman who faces a difficult decision when her brother is sentenced to death for fornication (unlawful sex). Isabella does not approve of her brother's actions at all, but she pleads for his life out of loyalty and sisterly devotion. Isabella is a spiritual person who wants to become a nun.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">The Duke— She spends most of her time dressed as a friar in order to observe what is happening in her absence. The Duke is unfailingly virtuous, good, and kind-hearted. She tends to rule a little softly, which is why she enlists Angelo's help. <em>In our production, The Duke will be re-gendered as a female. However, she will retain the title of The Duke.</em></span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Mariana—Mariana was supposed to marry Angelo, but he called the wedding off when she lost her dowry in a shipwreck that killed her brother.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Mistress Overdone—runs a brothel</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Juliet—Claudio’s lover and pregnant with his baby</span></li>
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<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Available roles for males, all ages, and ethnicities:</strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Angelo—the villain of the play, a man who rules strictly and without mercy. He has his own weaknesses, however. He presents Isabella with a disturbing proposition.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Claudio—Isabella's brother, a young man sentenced to death for impregnating an his fiancé before marriage. He was engaged to her by a common-law agreement, but they had sexual intercourse before the legal marriage took place.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Elbow—a dim-witted constable who arrests people for misconduct, particularly of the sexual variety. He speaks in malapropisms and provides comic-relief throughout the play.</span></li>
</ul>
<li class="li13"><strong></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Seeking all ages, genders, and ethnicities for the following roles.</strong></span></li>
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<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Escalus— a wise lord who advises Angelo to be more merciful. He is loyal to the Duke and seeks to carry out her orders justly, but cannot go against Angelo's will.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Lucio—a flamboyant bachelor who provides much of the play's comedic content. He is a friend of Claudio's and tries to help him.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Pompey— a clown who also works for Mistress Overdone.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">The Provost—runs the prison and is responsible for carrying out all of Angelo's orders.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Barnadine—A long-term prisoner in the jail, Barnadine is sentenced to be executed together with Claudio.</span></li>
<li class="li13"><span class="s1">Assorted courtiers, musicians, and soldiers. </span></li>
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