<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 align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class="" style="font-size: 36px;">Animal Auditions</b></p><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Avenue Arts Marketplace & Theatre announces auditions for ANIMAL<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Located at 324 Cleveland Ave. NW Canton, Ohio 44702<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">SYNOPSIS: Rachel has it all: marriage, house, career. So why does she suddenly have this creeping feeling? Did she leave something behind? Or is there something in the walls…? Her husband thinks she needs time; her psychiatrist suggests positive thinking. But then the visions start. Apparitions of doubts, past decisions, future mistakes. Is it time for Xanax? Prozac? Or perhaps she just needs to forget it all, follow her instinct, and kiss a stranger. A darkly comic play about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos, and the thin line between sinking and survival.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Animal is presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, Inc.</strong><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Directed by: Jared Sparks<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stage Manager: Alison Foutz<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Auditions will be held on Tuesday, March 24th and Wednesday, March 25th from 7-9pm<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Callbacks (if necessary) will take place on March 27th from 7-9pm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">At this time, there are no stipends and/or AEA contracts being offered!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Rehearsals will begin on March 30th and will run Mondays-Thursdays<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Performances: May 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th at 8pm and May 10th at 2pm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> <b class="">TO SIGN UP, PLEASE VISIT: </b></span><a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-animal2" class="">https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-animal2</a></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">CHARACTERS:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Rachel (female, any ethnicity, 20s-40s) - </strong>her brain is in continuous chaos--slipping into manic episodes and having visions; pushed to the edge by the pressures of domesticity.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">This role requires mature language, mild sexual content and onstage violence</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Stephen (male, any ethnicity, 30s-60s) - </strong>Rachel’s psychiatrist; methodical and direct; graduated at the top of his class.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Tom (male, any ethnicity, 20s-40s) - </strong>Rachel’s husband; a consistent source of care and support throughout his wife's psychological descent.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">This role requires mature language</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Dan (male, any ethnicity, 20s-30s) - </strong>a stranger; a young, attractive vision of Rachel’s potential affair.<br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">This role requires mild sexual content and partial nudity (shirtless)</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Little Girl (female, any ethnicity, 10-12yo) - </strong>to play 10; a hallucination of Rachel’s.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Older Woman (female, any ethnicity, 50s-80s) - THIS ROLE HAS ALREADY BEEN CAST!</strong><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">This role requires onstage violence</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Avenue Arts Marketplace and Theatre is a CLEan House Theatre. This means we are committed to being a space free of harassment based on sex, gender, race, religion, class, ethnicity, nationality, political belief, or ability. We are committed to being a safe environment that fully allows us to challenge ourselves, our audiences, and our communities; that supports creative risks of mind and body; and that establishes the freedom to create theatre that represents the full range of human experience</em>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 2rem; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">All questions should be directed to <a href="mailto:avenueartstheatre@gmail.com" class="">avenueartstheatre@gmail.com</a></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p></body></html>