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Auditions
Sat August 2
Noon - 3
VENUS THEATRE
THE FALL/WINTER
We are looking to expand our creative team
wRighting Women Reading Series
Full Productions
Email deb@venustheatre.org
for a preferred time slot on the 1/2 hours
(12-12:30, 12:30-1, 1-1:30, 1:30-2, 2-2:30, 2:30-3)
Auditions and rehearsals held at the Venus Theatre Play Shack.
21 C Street Laurel, MD 20707 (unless otherwise noted)
To get to the Play Shack in a car:
Exit 35A off of 95
Left at 3rd Light onto Main St.
Left onto C St.
www.venustheatre.org will have the whole scoop.
For many years Venus Theatre has been reading new or out-of-print plays for the public. The wRighting Women Reading series gives Venus an opportunity to work with new or new-to-us artists as well as exploring works between the time they are typed into a laptop and the time they are fully staged. We look at these works to see what is effective and what might need tightening. It is all about process and development.
In the months ahead we will need MANY hands on deck to pull off FIVE different scripts before the year comes to a close. So, if you are the adventuresome type and ready to invest three to four rehearsals into a script to see where we can take it, WE WANT YOU!
Venus Theatre's wRighting Woman Reading Series kicks off again with a reading by playwright Julianne Homokay's secret and not-yet-fully-disclosed Greek Project at the Kennedy Centers Page-to-Stage Festival on Labor Day Sunday. Beginning the last Sat in September, Venus will read a new play on the last Saturday of each month throughout the end of the year at the Shack. In addition, Venus is casting for a full production, dates and more info TBA.
The readings do not pay a stipend. The wRighting Woman Reading Series is not yet funded. Rehearsals are limited and no time is wasted.
SEEKING
The Secret Greek Project by Julianne Homokay**:
to be read at the Kennedy Center on Labor Day Sunday and performed in full production to follow:
Casting:
Hispanic Male, Middle Aged (representing entire chorus)
Female, 20's - Nanny (sexy, trendy, will do anything for a role)
Male, 20's - Hollywood Assistant (sexy, man-whore)
Girl, 9 - Beloved Daughter
Female Hispanic, Middle Aged (representing entire chorus)
Male, Patriarch
Female, 30's (Best Friend, Saint, Oracle)
Male, late 20's (killer handsome, smart)
September reading of Carolyn Gage's
"The Amazing Yamashita and the Gold Diggers of 2009"
Casting:
14 women of various types
1 man
October reading of Lisa Bonita Bridgens
"On Thin Ice"
Casting:
Female, 50's - Minister (African American)
Male, 22 - Artist (African American)
Female, 20's - BiPolar
Male, any age - of Middle Eastern descent
November reading of Claudia Haas'
"Three Sisters from Queens"
Casting:
Female, 70's
Female, 70's
Female, 60's
Female, 50's
December reading of Gina Stewart's
"A Slice of Her Life"
Casting:
Female, 22, 12-14
Male, 26
Male, 16-19
Male, 30's
Male, 40's
Female, 30's
Male, 50's
2 Females (no lines)
Synopsis of Readings
Sept 1 (Kennedy Center P2S)
The secret Greek Project
by Julianne Homokay**
Julianne Homokay, a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at UNLV, is a Los Angeles-based playwright, librettist, lyricist and performer. Currently, Julianne is a writer on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, but her time on the boards is not over yet! Recent productions and readings include "Cottonmouth" at the Blank Theatre Company (Los Angeles,) "Favors" at Bloomington Playwrights' Project, and a collaboration with composer Ron Barnett, "Around the World in Eighty Days," at the Fulton Theatre (Lancaster, PA.), and "Breaking the Bell Jar," with Venus Theatre (Play Shack in Laurel, MD) Special thanks to Adam Kinsinger and the William Inge Center for the Arts for aiding in the development of "Breaking the Bell Jar," and to longtime colleague and general kick-ass babe Deb Randall.
the greek script is still a secret
September
by Carolyn Gage**+
THE AMAZING YAMASHITA AND THE GOLDDIGGERS OF 2009
About the playwright:
Carolyn Gage is a playwright, performer and director whose work foregrounds lesbians and survivors in plays that electrify audiences. She takes risks that few contemporary theatres are willing to share, and, if productions of her work are hard to come by, her fans cherish them all the more.
About the play:
The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Golddiggers of 2009 is "the transnational, post-modern magic show of the millennia!" The A-Mazing Yamashita promises to levitate a woman, cut a woman in two, and disappear thirteen million women - all through the wizardry of modern pharmaceuticals, the mesmerism of sexual objectification, and the economic hocus-pocus of the Great Cabinet of GATT. An interactive play, Yamashita blurs the distinction between performance and reality, entertainment and exploitation, compelling each member of the audience to draw that line for herself.
October
by Lisa Bonita Bridgens
ON THIN ICE
About the playwright:
Lisa Bonita Bridgens is an emerging playwright living in Boston, MA. She attended Foothill Theater Conservatory in California and is currently a Research Intern at Boston Theatre Works. Her one-act play "The Party" made its premier in New York in February of 2008.
About the play:
Mary Jacobs has brought healing and hope to millions through her evangelical ministry. But, she has a secret that could rob her not only of her ministry millions, but her life as well. Is Mary a fake and a fraud, or is she blessed with a divine gift?
November
by Claudia Haas
THREE SISTERS FROM QUEENS
About the playwright:
Claudia Haas has been writing plays for fifteen years after a long stint as an actress. She works with five publishers and her plays (mostly for youth) have seen over 400 productions world-wide. 2007 has been very kind with her heartfelt play By Candlelight being honored at the Bonderman Symposium and as the winner of the 2007 Aurand Harris Play Writing Contest.
About the play:
During an evening of saying good-bye to Tess's recently deceased husband, three elderly sisters find themselves sorting out the scattered threads of their relationship to one another. The Italian saying that "blood is thicker than water" never rang with such resonance. Old resentments flare up as the sisters rediscover each other and their earlier bonds.
December
by Gina Stewart
A SLICE OF HER LIFE
About the playwright:
Gina Stewart, a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, came to Playwrighting late in life (30ish), although her younger sister had performed in plays in school. It just never dawned on Gina that someone had to sit down and write what the actors were saying! After writing several plays, she became a drama teacher for middle schoolers and sometimes high schoolers.
About the play:
The piece is semi-autobiographical. It's about an abusive relationship and how the woman came to cope with the abuse by cutting herself. We visit Joyce and Glen and their families as teenagers and find out where their abusive pasts began. It's very intense and not for the faint of heart.
** Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
+Member of International Center for Women Playwrights
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