<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpde984d35yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">A collage-and-meta
exploration wherein a modern-day black graduate student finds himself and his
189-yr-old grandfather transported back to slavery times and the Nat Turner
rebellion. Insurrection is a work unafraid to utterly confound most traditional
narrative assumptions, and in a surreal version of history also manages to
address contemporary police violence against African-Americans, to explore who
has the right to tell whose story, to look critically at African-American
attitudes toward homosexuality, and to explore how different generations adhere
to different rules.</span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"><b>AUDITIONS</b></span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Monday & Tuesday,
August 8 & 9 7-9:30 PM</span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Sign up here: <a href="https://forms.gle/yArJka9aEtvvudk48" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/yArJka9aEtvvudk48</a></span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"><b>VIDEO AUDITIONS</b> are
also being accepted until </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#F44336">Friday August 5th</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"> 11:59PM. </span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"><b>PREPARATION
(In-Person)</b></span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Please bring a current
resume, headshot & any conflicts between September 5 – October
14 to in-person auditions. </span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"><b>PREPARATION (Video)</b></span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Please send your
headshot, resume, conflicts between September 5 – October 14 and your
video to <a href="mailto:Jeannine.gaskin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">Jeannine.gaskin@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Auditions will consist
of readings from the script. Sides and short character descriptions 9Also Below) can be
found here: <a href="http://www.convergence-continuum.org/auditions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">www.convergence-continuum.org/auditions</a></span><div><br></div></div>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228"><b>PERFORMANCES</b></span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">October 14 – November
5, 2022, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00PM</span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">Provide a list of
conflicts for September 5 – October 14.</span></p>
<p class="ydp30a7e6bdMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#1D2228">For questions or more
information contact director <a href="mailto:Jeannine.gaskin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">Jeannine.gaskin@gmail.com<br></span></a></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Character Descriptions:</span></p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">1. Ron: African-American graduate student (Gay or comfortable kissing men)</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">2. TJ: African-American great-great grandpa who survived slavery. Voice of reason.</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">3. Mutha Wit/Mutha: African-American older woman. She is the voice in Ron's head and MaDear type.</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">4. Gertha/Clerk Wife/Mistress Mo'tel: Middle Age African-American woman. All stereotypical roles of anngry black mother/trailer park trash/southern belle</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">5. Octavia/Katie Lynn: African ‐American Daughter of Gertha and wet nurse to Mistress Mo'tel. Flighty and perceived as dumb.</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">6. Nat Turner/Ova Seea Jones: African-American man with a commanding presence and commanding voice.</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">7. Clerk Son/Izzie Mae: Young African-American girl who will also play a boy. Witty and quick on her feet when speaking.</p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">8. Reporter/Cop/Clerk Husband/Buck Naked/Detective: Middle age white man capable of transitioning from a reporter to a cop, stereotypical trailer park trash,white slave and detective. Good improv skills a plus. </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> </p><p class="ydp463e530font_8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;">9. Hammet: African-American handsome man (gay or comfortable kissing men). Somewhat athletic build. He has the soul of a poet, the spirit of a gentle giant but he is also a warrior at Nat's side.</p></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">All roles are provided a $400 stipend.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpde984d35signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cory Molner<div>Executive Artistic Director, <span style="font-style:italic;">convergence-continuum Theater</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-style:italic;">(He/Him/His)</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>