Playwrights Local 4181 Announces Open Auditions for TO THE ORCHARD Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, 7-10pm Dancing Wheels Company and School (Masonic Auditorium) Playwrights Local 4181, a new company dedicated to supporting the dramatists of Northeast Ohio, will be holding open auditions for TO THE ORCHARD, a world-premiere play by Les Hunter, at the above date and time. Callbacks will be held by appointment. This is a non-Equity, paid production, directed by Dale Heinen. Performance dates are May 26-28 and June 2-4 at the Waterloo Arts in Collinwood, with a third weekend to follow at a TBA location in the eastern suburbs. In *To the Orchard*, college student Rachel Bergman is propelled to reveal her sexual identity to her conservative father, who has hidden his own past from the family for years. An orthodox rabbi, a queer studies professor, and the spirits of Robert Plant and Virginia Woolf inhabit this slightly magic-realist play about family, making mistakes, retribution and coming clean. Prior to this world premiere, *To the Orchard* received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play grant, and development at Boston Playwrights Theatre and Brooklyn College. *Audition Information* Dancing Wheels Company & School is located inside the Masonic Auditorium at 3615 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH 44115 . There is both on-street parking as well as lot parking on the corner of Chester and 36th. Please sign in at the front desk, then proceed to the 3rd Floor. Those auditioning should allow time to complete paperwork. Please bring a current headshot and resume with you as well as your calendar. Wear comfortable clothing and be prepared to move. No appointments are necessary. At the audition, actors will read character sides. If you have any questions, please email the playwright at leslielarshunter@gmail.com or the director at dale.heinen@gmail.com. For more information on the company, see http://playwrightslocal.org/ *Character Breakdown* SIMCHA BERGMAN: 40s-50s. Surgeon. Baal teshuva Modern-Orthodox Jew. RACHEL’s father. RACHEL BERGMAN: 19. SIMCHA’s daughter. Brooklyn College student. Aspiring writer. TRACIE BRAGGS: 30s-40s. African American. Gender Studies professor at Brooklyn College.