Karamu
Auditions for Rasheeda Speaking
Karamu
Theatre announces auditions for the Ohio premiere of RASHEEDA SPEAKING by Joel
Drake Johnson, directed by Sarah May.
Auditions
will take place at Karamu House, 2355 E. 89 Street, on
Sunday June 26 at 2:00
PM and Monday, June 27 at 6:30 PM.
Actors will be asked to read from the script. Those whose work is not known to director
Sarah May are asked to prepare a short monologue as well. Equity and non-Equity
performers are welcome to attend.
The
Roles
Dr.
David Williams: white male, 30-45
Ileen
Van Meter: white female, 40-60, lead
role
Jaclyn
Spaulding: African American female,
40-60, lead role
Rose
Saunders: white female, elderly.
The
production will run November 3 through 20 in Karamu's Arena Theatre.
Rehearsals
will begin September 28, with one or two pre-rehearsal sessions to be held in
late summer, at the cast's convenience.
Karamu
Theatre is proud to open its Arena Theatre season with the exciting new
"comedy-drama" Rasheeda
Speaking by Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson. Last season the play won rave reviews Off-Broadway
starring Tonya Pinkins and Diane Wiest as two women who are forced to navigate
the politics of race and friendship in the workplace. Pitted against each other by their boss,
their relationship spins wildly out of control in this timely dark comedy. The New York Times called
it "an exquisitely tense and often
cringingly funny portrait of racial paranoia." This play promises to
be a "wild ride" and will leave audiences with lots to talk about!
Area
director Sarah May returns to Karamu, where she began her
directing career many years ago.
Recent area productions include Caroline, or Change at Karamu, Mothers and Sons, Race, Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom, and The Pitman Painters for The Beck Center, and Thurgood,
and The Normal Heart at Ensemble.
If you have any questions, please call: Richard Morris Jr. (Production Manager) at 216.795.7070 ext 236