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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOTICE - SOULPEPPER THEATRE COMPANY - TORONTO, ON
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Production name: Kim's Convenience
Deadline to submit: 08/19/2013
Email applications to: lisa at soulpepper.ca
Contact name: Lisa Li
Contact email: lisa at soulpepper.ca
Contact phone: 416-203-6264 x130

Additional information:

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AUGUST 19, 2013 - 2PM

Soulpepper Theatre Company is seeking submissions for potential future and/or touring productions of Kim's Convenience.

We encourage submissions from across the country.

SUBMISSIONS MAY BE MADE TO:
Lisa Li, Artistic Coordinator
lisa at soulpepper.ca

Please include resume and headshot AS AN ATTACHMENT.
Please do not include links to other websites.

We thank you for your submission.

Looking for actors suitable for:

1. JUNG: Asian male, 25-35. Recently became a father. Has a shady past. A tough guy. Proud. Selfish. Able to sing.

2. UMMA: Asian female, 45 and up. The mother of 2 adult children. Faithful to her dwindling downtown Korean church. With her husband together, runs a convenience store in Regent Park (downtown Toronto). Lives in her memories. A martyr. Able to sing. Speaks with a Korean-Canadian accent. Some lines are in Korean.

3. JANET: Asian female, 25-35. The younger cooler sister. A photographer. A contemporary, urban, woman. Single. Awkward, geeky, sexy. Fierce.  Level-headed. A lead of the play.

4. APPA: Asian male, 45- and up. The owner of a convenience store in Regent Park. The Patriarch of the family. A Hapkido master. His way or the highway. Very opinionated, proud. Awkward sense of humour.  Rage. Lives with regret. The lead of the play. Speaks with a thick Korean-Canadian accent. Some lines are in Korean.

5. One actor to play four characters described as Black male, 25-35: 1) An average young man; 2) a successful real estate agent; 3) a shop lifter; 4) a respectable police officer (main role). Able to speak with a Jamaican accent.

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