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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Cleveland Public Theatre announces auditions for the World Premiere of<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">10 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: 9 QUIRKY PLAYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS</span></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Short plays by local & national creators<br>
Director: Caitlin Lewins, CPT’s Director of Audience Engagement & Media Relations<br>
Associate Director: Ananias J. Dixon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Looking to cast 7-10 ensemble members who will play a variety of roles.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The ensemble includes roles that are Black, Latinx, white, and open/undefined. We are seeking a diverse ensemble. We are especially interested in actors who are comfortable with singing and/or play musical instruments
(though not required).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No equity agreements are available for this production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive
model of inclusion. As such, CPT encourages performers of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About The Play… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">No matter what you celebrate during December, the holidays can bring joy, communal meals, loneliness, family, pressure, parties, warm hugs on cold nights, incredible stress, romance,
anxiety, disaster, hope, dysfunction, and so much more! This holiday season, CPT shares humor, heart, and a party-like celebration, wrapped in a montage of short holiday (or non-holiday) plays. Part variety show, part cabaret, and part 10-minute play festival, <i>10
Minutes to Midnight</i> celebrates the breadth of holiday happenings (or non-happenings) in this seasonal extravaganza dosed with live music, fun-sized scenes, hilarity, and humanity. <b>World Premiere.</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About The Process… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The production will be semi-scripted and semi-devised/created in rehearsal. The full script will be assembled during the rehearsal process and actors who are cast in this production will be involved in multiple
scenes and transitional pieces. Music will also be created in the rehearsal process in collaboration with the Music Director and creative team.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rehearsals will begin on or around October 18 or October 25, 2021. Rehearsals are 5-6 times a week, with evening weekday rehearsals and some daytime weekend rehearsals.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Performances begin with one preview on December 2. The production opens on December 3.
<i>10 Minutes to Midnight </i>runs December 2 – 18, Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat at 7:30pm, and Sun at 3:00pm in the Gordon Square Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Important Information about The Play…
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">10 Minutes to Midnight </span>
</i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">is in the process of being created. Themes currently known include race, loss, gender identity and self-love, and pregnancy.
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Important Information about COVID-19…
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All artists and staff members working on
<i>10 Minutes to Midnight</i> are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Auditions… <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wednesday, October 13, 6pm-9m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sunday, October 17 12pm-3pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Callbacks, if needed, will be on Sunday, October 17 from 5pm-7pm.
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Auditions are by appointment only and will be scheduled in 10-minute increments.
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Prepared auditions will be individual, but you may be asked to stay and read with a fellow actor. Actors should plan to stay at the audition for up to 75 minutes, though you may be released sooner. The Director and
Associate Director, Caitlin Lewins and Ananias J. Dixon, will be watching the auditions. All actors will be required to wear a mask when not actively auditioning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What to Prepare… </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="Default" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Two minutes of prepared material (monologue, contrasting monologues, or 16 bars of a song a cappella)
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="Default" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Some actors may be asked to do cold readings from sides provided by CPT at the audition
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="Default" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Headshot and resume<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To schedule an audition appointment, please email
</span><a href="mailto:auditions@cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">auditions@cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.
<b>Please include [10 Minutes to Midnight Auditions] in your subject line. Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number, preferred audition time, and COVID-19 vaccination status.
</b>No phone calls please. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you are unable to attend the audition dates listed above, email
</span></i><a href="mailto:auditions@cptonline.org"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">auditions@cptonline.org</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> and attach a resume and headshot, expressing your interest in being considered.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white">About the Director:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white">Caitlin Lewins
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:white">is a writer, composer/musician, performer, director, and designer/crafter. Caitlin was named a 2019 Finalist for the National Directors Fellowship and a 2019 Finalist for The MITTEN Lab. Recently, Caitlin
directed the Zoom Premiere of <i>Savory Taṇhā (sixteen short plays</i> performed by a rotating ensemble), and co-directed
<i>Awakenings, A Celebration of Cleveland Public Theatre</i>, a one-hour television special created in collaboration with WKYC Studios and The Cleveland Film Company (Regional Emmy Nominee, Telly Award Winner). Caitlin was Assistant Director of Clue at Cleveland
Play House (directed by Casey Hushion). Caitlin was awarded a 2016/2017 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellowship which culminated in the World Premiere
<i>of Everything is Okay (and other helpful lies)</i>, a dark musical comedy co-created with Melissa Crum which received readings inside the 2019 New York Musical Festival (NYMF). Caitlin joined the CPT staff in 2013 as Story Connector, became New Play Associate
in 2014, and transitioned into her current role in 2017. Caitlin completed the 2013/2014 Joan Yellen Horvitz Director Fellowship which culminated in the production
<i>Left in Ink</i> which she conceived, directed, and co-created. Previously at CPT, Caitlin co-directed (with Dan Kilbane) and music directed
<i>44 Plays For 44 Presidents </i>and created and performed The Cleveland Line Dance as a part of
<i>Light the Lights, Ol’ Moses CLE! (A Wild Holiday Romp).</i> Caitlin line produced Entry Point (A New Play Development Program), four Road to Hope events in the Spring of 2016, line produced
<i>Exact Change</i> and <i>The Santaland Diaries</i> at Playhouse Square, and the Nord Family Foundation Playwright Reading Series. Caitlin directed
<i>Canon Fodder</i> – a Nord Fellowship Reading, music directed <i>Frankenstein’s Wake</i>, and assistant directed/contributed to
<i>The Loush Sisters Love Dick’ns: Great Expectations</i>. Caitlin co-created and directed
<i>Edison and Ford</i> which appeared in <i>Air Waves (Part Three of the Elements Cycle)</i>. In the 2012/2013 season, Caitlin was Assistant Director/Stage Manager to Raymond Bobgan for
<i>Rusted Heart Broadcast</i> and made her writing/directing debut at CPT with <i>
The Environmented</i> in <i>Earth Plays (Part Two of the Elements Cycle)</i>. She is a member of the Class of 2019 for Cleveland Bridge Builders, a program of the Cleveland Leadership Center, and serves on the Board of Northwest Neighborhoods CDC.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">About the Associate Director:<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ananias J. Dixon </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regional Theatre: <i>Lyon’s Den</i> and <i>Sweat</i> at Pittsburgh Public Theatre; <i>John Henry</i> at Cleveland Play House. Off-Broadway: <i>Black Angels Over Tuskegee </i>at Actor’s Temple<i>. </i>Film:<i> Antwone
Fisher; Criminal Activity, Home:__, Slavery By Another Name. </i>Television:<i> Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, NYC 22, Person of Interest. </i>Other Theatre:<i> An Octoroon, Skeleton Crew, The Effect,
</i>and <i>Sunset Baby</i> at<i> </i>Dobama Theatre; <i>Rastus and Hattie, The Good Heart
</i>and <i>The Family Claxon </i>at<i> </i>Cleveland Public Theatre;<i> Detroit 67, Julius X, The Blacks: A Clown Show
</i>at Karamu House<i>; The Toilet </i>at New Federal Theatre; <i>Anne Frank </i>
at Haneulyean Theater (South Korea);<i> An Octoroon </i>at Kinetic Theatre.<i> </i>Additional Credits: Cleveland Public Theatre Premiere Fellow 2021.<i> </i>For more information, please visit ananiasjdixon.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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