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AUDITION NOTICE - BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP - TORONTO, ON
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Production name: Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears
Date production rehearsal/job starts: 10/01/2012
Audition date: 04/23/2012
Deadline to submit: 04/19/2012
Email applications to: submissions at blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Contact name: Quincy Armorer, Artistic Director
Contact email: ad at blacktheatreworkshop.ca
Contact phone: (514) 932-1104 ext 222
Engager Website: www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca

Ethno-cultural mandate or ethno-cultural casting statement:
Black Theatre Workshop is an equal opportunity employer and encourages
applications from people of all cultural and diverse backgrounds.

Additional information:
Black Theatre Workshop will be holding auditions in Toronto for its
Montreal production of Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears, directed by Mike
Payette. (Montreal auditions will be held at a later date).
Harlem Duet is a prelude to Shakespeare's Othello. It is the story of
his first wife, Billie, a Black woman, as she watches the dissolution of
her relationship as Othello announces that he has fallen in love with
"Mona", a white woman. According to the playwright, Harlem Duet
"represents the best and the worst of everything about people of African
descent."
Actors will be asked to prepare a monologue from the play.
Rehearsals begin on October 1, 2012.
The show runs from October 23 to November 11, 2012 at the Segal Centre
Studio in Montreal.

Roles:

BILLIE: African-American female, mid 30s.

OTHELLO: African-American male, late 30s-early 40s.

CANADA: African-American male, 60s.  Billie's estranged father.

AMAH: African-American female, early 30s.  Billie's sister-in-law. 

MAGI: African-American female, early 40s. Billie's landlady.

In attendance will be Director Mike Payette and Artistic Director Quincy
Armorer.
Please submit headshot and resume by e-mail to
submissions at blacktheatreworkshop.ca
We thank all who submit but only those chosen to audition will be
contacted.

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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