Powerful Long Ladder is proud to announce auditions for the Regina Project by Golden Globe Winner & Emmy Nominee Regina Taylor

Regina Project Directed by Terrence Spivey Performance Dates: Thursday, July 25- Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Regina Project will be part of Cleveland’s Borderlight International Theatre + Fringe Festival, launching July 24-27, 2019. The play is a series of short plays that deal with issues of voting to LGBTQ to gun rights to the 13th amendment's tie to modern slavery as it relates to the prison system. These diverse plays dig into and ignite a questioning of our current social political terrain.

AUDITION DATES

When: Thursday, May 16, 6PM-9PM (Only) Where: Creative Space at Waterloo Arts 397 E. 156 Street <https://maps.google.com/?q=397+E.+156+Street+%0D%0A%0D%0A+Cleveland,+OH+44110&entry=gmail&source=g>

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Rehearsal Start Date: Monday, June 24, 2019 Rehearsal Hours: Weekday Evenings, Weekend Mornings TBD

Actors will be compensated.

Some roles already filled. Still seeking seeking 1 African American Male/1

African American Female,1 White Male/1 White Female, 1 Hispanic/Native American Female

Please prepare a 2-3 minute monologue. Scenes will be handed out. Be prepared to move.

Auditions are by Appointment Only through pllecompany2.0@gmail.com. If you cannot attend, a monologue on video is also accepted via email.

*About The Playwright REGINA TAYLOR*

Actress/director/playwright Playwright credits include: “Bread” (Edgerton Award. Water Tower Theater), “Crowns” (four Helen Hayes awards, including Best Director), "Oo-Bla-Dee," (Steinberg-ATCA award) and "Drowning Crow," (Broadway, MTC), “The Trinity River Plays” (Edgerton Foundation Award) and “stop.reset” (Signature Theater Residency Five). Ms. Taylor received the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair Fordham University at Lincoln Center. An Artistic Associate of Goodman Theatre, Taylor is its most produced playwright. Signature Theater residency five playwright. Taylor in her TV role as Lily Harper in "I'll Fly Away” received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress, 3 NAACP Image Awards and two Emmy Award nominations. Her other television roles include “The Unit”. Taylor was first African American lead in Masterpiece Theatre’s " Cora <x-apple-data-detectors://7> Unashamed <x-apple-data-detectors://7>, starred as Anita Hill in HBO’’s “Strange Justice” and “A Good Day to Die” starring Sidney Poitier. She has co-starred in USA Networks’ Dig and guest starred in “Elementary” and “The Black List”. Next year Taylor is featured in Netflix’ One Day and a Night starring Jeffrey Wright, Ashton Saunders and directed/written by Joe Robert Cole (writer: Black Panther) and guest stars on Red Line (Producer Ava DuVernay for CBS).

Taylor’s film credits include “Saturday Church”, "The Negotiator," "Courage

Under Fire," "Clockers," and "Lean on Me." Taylor was also the first Black woman to play Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway.

About TERRENCE SPIVEY Terrence Spivey is founding director of Powerful Long Ladder. He was artistic director for Karamu House, the nation’s oldest African American theatre, for over 12 years and directed some of its most acclaimed plays while bringing the theatre back to national prominence. As a freelancer, he has directed acclaimed productions such as “Bootycandy” at Convergence-Continuum and “Objectively/Reasonable: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice, 11/22/14”. He also received numerous accolades including “Best Director” for Best of Cleveland 2017.

Powerful Long Ladder, a new theatre company, focused on the African American experience. The company recently collaborated with Playwrights Local with Ernesta Jefferson’s “Thiz Girlz Lyfe”. Past productions includes James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner” and “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”.

Borderlight International Theatre + Fringe Festival, July 24-27,2019

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