<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpa67821fayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div data-test-id="message-view-body" class="ydp72bba0fcI_52qC ydp72bba0fcD_FY ydp72bba0fcW_6D6F" style="width: 1203.33px;"><div class="ydp72bba0fcmsg-body ydp72bba0fcP_wpofO ydp72bba0fciy_A ydp72bba0fcmq_AS" data-test-id="message-view-body-content"><div class="ydp72bba0fcjb_0 ydp72bba0fcX_6MGW ydp72bba0fcN_6Fd5"><div id="ydp72bba0fcyiv4345630710"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><u style="line-height: normal;">AUDITION</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;">For</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"> </b></span><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;">Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf</i></b></span><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">By </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">Ntozake Shange</span><br></i></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">Directed by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;">Dale Ricardo Shields</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;">FOLUKE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER</b></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: normal;">2234 E. 55th Street</span><br style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: normal;">Cleveland, Ohio 44103</span></b><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <b><u>2019 Benefit production</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Ntozake Shange coined as the choreopoem</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Casting for the following roles</b>:</span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7 dynamic and diverse women of color with depth and range. Performers with spoken word, movement, and singing abilities highly encouraged to audition. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Experienced AEA and non-union </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">perf</span><span class="ydp72bba0fcyiv4345630710" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">ormers</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> invited to apply. [Ages 21 +]</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Actresses who move <i>very</i> well. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The production will be performed in late November 2019 </span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Bring recent an 8/10 photo and 1-page acting resume </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cold readings from the script (Group audition)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please wear comfortable clothing and footwear. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;">SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;">1:30 pm </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Production Description</span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>Casting For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece which captures the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><b> For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music, and poetry.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">An American classic, this stirring “choreopoem” weaves together 20 separate poems with music, movement and narratives </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">to tell the stories of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> love, empowerment, and struggle and loss in a complex representation of sisterhood. Mature subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion, and domestic violence are tackled.</span></b></i><br></div></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>* <u>No phone calls, please</u> *</b></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp72bba0fcjb_0 ydp72bba0fcX_6MGW ydp72bba0fcN_6Fd5"></div></div><div class="ydp72bba0fcH_7jIs ydp72bba0fcD_F ydp72bba0fcab_C ydp72bba0fcQ_69H5 ydp72bba0fcE_36RhU" data-test-id="toolbar-hover-area"><div class="ydp72bba0fcD_F ydp72bba0fcW_6D6F ydp72bba0fcr_BN ydp72bba0fcgl_C" data-test-id="card-toolbar" style="width: 1231.46px;"></div></div></div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>