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AUDITION NOTICE - PERFORMERS - CAHOOTS THEATRE AND OBSIDIAN THEATRE
COMPANY - TORONTO, ON
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Production name: OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME
Date production rehearsal/job starts: 09/18/2017
Audition date: 03/22/2017
Deadline to submit: 03/10/2017
Email applications to: apply at cahoots.ca
Contact name: Marjorie Chan
Contact email: apply at cahoots.ca
Contact phone: 416 203 9000
Engager Website: www.cahoots.ca

Ethno-cultural mandate or ethno-cultural casting statement: Cahoots and
Obsidian are equal opportunity employers. All roles are open to actors of
any race and/or ethnicity except where specified due to the play's
requirements.

Cahoots is dedicated to celebrating diversity onstage in all forms,
celebrating our 30th Anniversary Season.
For more information about Cahoots, visit www.cahoots.ca

Obsidian Theatre Company's threefold mission is to produce plays, to develop
playwrights and to train theatre professionals from the far ranging African
diaspora. We are in our 17th year of training non-performing creative team
artists and have a fully realized playwrights unit that continues to develop
new theatrical voices. www.obsidiantheatre.com

Additional information:
AUDITION NOTICE
OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME (World Premiere)
Written By Amanda Parris
Directed by Nigel Shawn Williams
AKI Studio Theatre,
Cahoots and Obsidian are currently seeking performers for the following
roles:

BEVERLEY/SHEVONNE
Beverly, female, 22 year old African Nova Scotia activist.
Shevonne, female, 21 year old of mixed descent from a middle-class
background but attracted to the so-called 'hood-life'.

NICOLE/AKILAH
Nicole, female, 21 year old of Caribbean descent living in an unidentified
Toronto hood.
Akilah, female, 25 activist & Mother.

KHALIL/ DEVONTE
Khalil, male, 25 year old activist
Devonte, male, 21 year old of Caribbean descent caught up in the game and
living in the same hood as Nicole.
FULL SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY AVAILABLE at
http://www.cahoots.ca/in-cahoots/auditions/

DATES

Rehearsals Sept 18th – Oct 13th, 2017
Previews Oct 14th, 15th and 17th, 2017
Opening October 18th, 2017
Closing November 5th, 2017

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To submit for auditions, please email your photo and resume to
apply at cahoots.ca with OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME in the subject line or through
Casting Workbook.

Deadline, Friday March 10, 2017

Electronic submissions only.  Performers in consideration will be provided
sides and a script. Performers will be engaged under the CAEA CTA contract,
Category ‘G’.

Equity members will be seen first at all open audition calls. Equity members
cast in this production will be engaged under an Equity form of contract.
CAEA members: please bring your membership card to the audition.

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