<html><body><div><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">The School of Creative Arts at Cuyahoga Community College announces auditions for, "Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea," by Julia Izumi. Auditions will take place from 6:00pm - 9:00pm on November 18th & 19th in the Murphy Theatre on the Tri-C Metro Campus. </span></span></span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">All Tri-C
students, faculty, staff, and community members are encouraged to
audition. You do not have to be a currently enrolled student to participate! All roles are unpaid. </span></span></span></b></div><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">The Tri-C
School of Creative Arts is committed to promoting diversity in the casting of
roles where race, ethnicity, gender, age and the presence or absence of a
disability is not absolutely essential to the development of the play or
character. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt">How to
Audition:</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt">Cold Read from
the Script</span></span></b></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Excerpts from
the script are available via email.</span></span></li></ul><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt">Share a Story!</span></span></b></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Tell us briefly
about one of your favorite fairytales</span></span></li></ul><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt">Optional:
Showcase a Special Skill!</span></span></b></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;tab-stops:list 1.0in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Play an
instrument? Sing? Tumble? Whistle? Share it with us!</span></span></li></ul></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt">Sign up on the “SignUp
Genius,” website for a 5-minute audition slot. Some actors may be asked to
stay.</span></span></b></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-top:0in"><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 1.0in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Link Here: </span></span><span style="color:windowtext"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tinyurl.com/322e67ky"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">https://tinyurl.com/322e67ky</span></span></a></span></li></ul><li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 1.0in;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"></span>If you are unavailable to attend in-person auditions, please contact the email below for self-tape submission instructions! </li></ul><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:1.0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Sometime the Rain,
Sometimes the Sea</span></span></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Written
by Julia Izumi</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Directed
by Ricky Quintana</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></p><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Performances:</span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> February
27, 28, March 5, 6, 7, 2026 at 7:30pm; March 1 @ 2:00pm. March 4 @ 10:00am</span></span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Rehearsals start on:</span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> January 13<sup>th</sup>,
2026. Rehearsals will be Monday – Thursday evenings, weekend afternoons
depending on cast availability.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Synopsis: The
Little Mermaid is Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved and well-known fairy
tale, which is why it’s not the story our friend, Dolan, is going to tell you
today. No, he’s going to tell you the story about a Little Rain Cloud who falls
in love with a human. They are not the same story at all, he swears. This
playful, quirky, loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid, about a Little Rain
Cloud who falls in love with a human, unpacks some personal history about Hans
Christian Andersen.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> ROLES AVAILABLE:</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align: baseline" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">RAIN
CLOUD (pronounced like </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">🌧🌧</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">No
age / A rain cloud, then a female human</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">BESSIE
(pronounced like </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">🐄🐄</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">?)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Age
unknown / A cow? A sea witch? A human? A dream?</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">RALMOND
(pronounced like “almond” with an R in front)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">28,
then no age/ A male human, then a rain cloud</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">MIDI
(pronounced like “mini” but with a D in the middle)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">29
/ A female human</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">EDVARD
(pronounced like “Edward” with a V in the middle)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Just
Old Enough to Marry / A royal male human</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">INA
(pronounced like “I? Nah.”)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Old
Enough to Marry / A secretly royal female human</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">DOLAN
(pronounced like “Dole Whip” except instead of “whip” you say “an”)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Timeless
/ Hans Christian Andersen</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">LITTLE
ONE (NOT pronounced like “mermaid”)</span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Little
/ A female hero and storyteller</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center; line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:18pt">QUESTIONS?</span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Cambria, serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:18pt"> Contact
Director, Ricky Quintana: <a href="mailto:ricky.quintana@tri-c.edu">ricky.quintana@tri-c.edu</a> or (216) 987- 4535</span></span></span><br></p><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>