<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">New to the Cleveland theater community, Shakespeare Exchange is seeking union and non-union talent for upcoming and ongoing events in the area. If you would like to be added to our casting files, please send:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- your headshot and resume </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- a video audition link (via YouTube or Vimeo)<span style="font-size:12pt"> including two monologues -- one should be Shakespeare or </span>other<span style="font-size:12pt"> classical playwright; contemporary is fine for the second, if you wish </span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- total time should not exceed three minutes</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- send to <a href="mailto:cleveland@nysx.org" target="_blank">cleveland@nysx.org</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"Shakespeare Exchange - Midwest" is a new regional offshoot of NY Shakespeare Exchange which has been in operation as an off-off-Broadway 501c3 since 2010. Our mission is to build communities and create conversations through classical work, especially Shakespeare. In addition to full productions, our work includes the wildly popular ShakesBEER Pub Crawls (a pop-up performance party bringing Shakespeare into comfortable, approachable spaces); NYSX Freestyle Labs (combining Shakespeare and contemporary issues - part performance, part panel discussion, and part group conversation); The Sonnet Project (an ongoing catalog of cinematic interpretations of Shakespeare's sonnets); The Voices Project (performance videos featuring the talent of communities that have been traditionally under-represented in classical work); and much more. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our goal is to begin producing in Cleveland in the late summer/early fall with a ShakesBEER Pub Crawl. For these events, actors must have classical acting skill, a heightened sense of improvisational freedom, and powerful vocal tools (think outdoor theater). Video example: <a href="https://vimeo.com/179766035" id="m_-7581894330252437839gmail-LPlnk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/179766035</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;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