<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">CASTING NOTICE</span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Playwrights Local</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(</span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">seeks multiple cast members</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">for a staged reading on </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday, February 15 at  3:00 pm</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">OBLATUS</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A new play by Diana Lueptow</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Directed by Lenora Inez Brown</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Synopsis</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In a time in which sin and its punishment are real, a famous woman refuses to accept political penalty for standing on principle and what she says is the law of God. Set in 12th century Germany, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oblatus </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">finds the great abbess, intellectual, and composer Hildegard of Bingen as she defies church leaders in a battle of wills from which she refuses to retreat.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style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