Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for Workshop/Research Project led by Cleveland Core Ensemble member Darius Stubbs Looking to cast... 3-7 actors of color for an exploratory rehearsal process which will culminate in some kind of workshop performance as part of CPT's Entry Point. About the rehearsals... Include weekday evenings and some weekend daytime rehearsals. Rehearsals will be November 1 - December 10, January 8-15 and then move into performances approximately January 16-21. Auditions... Sunday, 10/8: 3-5:30pm Monday, 10/9: 6:30-9pm Auditions are by appointment only. This is a workshop-style audition and those auditioning should expect to participate fully for the entire time of the audition. Prepared material is not requested. To schedule an audition appointment, please email Artistic Associate, Molly Andrews-Hinders at mollyah@cptonline.org. Be sure to include your name, email address, phone number and preferred audition date in your email. No phone calls please. About The Lead Creator... Darius Stubbs is a poet, playwright, performer, vocalist, educator and transgender advocate who has been living and working in Cleveland, OH since 2006. Artistically, he has collaborated with many fine creative thinkers across the city. Selected acting credits include Rusted Heart Broadcast (CatManDu, Cleveland Public Theatre '13), Titus Andronicus (Aaron the Moor, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival '10), Comedy of Errors (Sir Balthazar, Great Lakes Theatre '09) and The Boys Next Door (Lucien P. Smith, Medina Showbiz '07). His artistic home-base continues to be among the artists who work under the visionary guidance of Raymond Bobgan. At CPT, Darius has been involved in the creation of over a dozen original performance pieces spanning the genre spectrum from performance art to fully-staged production. For the last 3 years, Darius has been a member of the Cleveland Core Ensemble and played the lead role in their original play, Red Ash Mosaic, directed by Raymond Bobgan. Darius has also lent his talents as an instructor for CPT's education programs, including the Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), a summer theatre intensive for Cleveland teens; the Y-Haven Theatre Project, assisting previously homeless men in recovery from chemical dependency to express themselves through performance; and Brick City Theatre, a summer and afterschool theatre performance program for children living in CMHA housing. As an advocate for Transgender Clevelanders, Darius actively seeks to lend his voice to the chorus of others in the city who are fighting to make sure that the "T" in LGBT does not remain a silent one. Darius has been a featured speaker in an array of venues and events, including TedXCle 2015 "Untold" series, City Club of Cleveland's Forum on Transgender Identity in Northeast Ohio, CPT's Station Hope and Guide to Kulchur's "Uncanny Voices" series. In 2015, Darius was highlighted among Scene Magazine's "Cleveland People" series, presenting Clevelanders who are "working every day to make the city better, to drive it forward, to contribute to its successes and rectify its shortcomings." In July of 2016, Darius was awarded the Greater Cleveland Community Shares' Rising Activist Award. Most recently, he was fortunate enough to have his poem "If It Takes a Village" published by GTK Press in A Race Anthology: Dispatches and Artifacts From A Segregated City.