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Rebecca Joseph in ON OUR TERMS by Mary Darling.
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UPCOMING AUDITION: JANUARY 20 AND 21
No Place to Go: Stories from a Pandemic
The Forge Theater Lab will be opening their fourth season with No Place to Go: Stories from a Pandemic, an in-person workshop of short plays and monologues. This workshop, directed by Charlene Kennedy, will rehearse in February and culminate in a public performance on February 25 and 26.
DATE: Thursday January 20 & Friday January 21
TIME: 7:00-9:00 PM
LOCATION: Wallace Center for the Performing Arts in the McKay Complex (B Entrance)
67 Rindge Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420
*Also known as: McKay Theater at Fitchburg State University
Video auditions will also be accepted as an alternative option through January 20, emailed to
theforgetheaterlab@gmail.com.
This workshop will include several short plays and monologues with roles spanning a range of ages and genders. Actors of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and types of ability are encouraged to audition.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
DATE: Thursday January 20 & Friday January 21
TIME: 7:00-9:00 PM
LOCATION: Wallace Center for the Performing Arts in the McKay Complex (B Entrance)
67 Rindge Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420
*Also known as: McKay Theater at Fitchburg State University
Video auditions will also be accepted as an alternative option through January 20, emailed to
theforgetheaterlab@gmail.com.
This workshop will include several short plays and monologues with roles spanning a range of ages and genders. Actors of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and types of ability are encouraged to audition.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Actors can arrive any time between 7:00 and 9:00 either evening and will be seen on a walk-in basis. All actors will be asked to cold read scenes from the plays. A prepared piece is not required. Rehearsals will be scheduled around the availability of the actors cast. At the audition, actors will be asked to provide their detailed availability for the month of February.
- Masks are required inside all buildings at Fitchburg State University. (Actors will have the option to remove their mask temporarily while reading sides while they are socially distanced on stage.)
- To limit the spread of illness, if you are experiencing any COVID symptoms or have recently been in close contact with someone with a case of COVID, please stay home and email us instead. Per the policy of our host university, all auditionees will be asked to sign a contact tracing form to attest to lack of recent COVID symptoms or close contact.
- Fitchburg State University is a vaccinated community. All actors cast in the workshop must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Proof of vaccination and booster shot (when eligible), or an FSU student/staff ID, must be shown at the audition.
- If you are unable to attend this audition in person because of COVID precautions, but would still like to be considered for casting, please email us at theforgetheaterlab@gmail.com by January 20 with your acting resume and a video recording (file or link) of yourself performing a contemporary monologue that is less than three minutes long. Please also list your detailed availability for the month of February.
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Daniel T. Hankins and Chris Merritt in a reading of FLOATING ON HOPE AVE by Matt Cogswell.
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