Wild Hair Theatre Collective announces auditions for Doric Wilson’s “Street Theater”, a comic imagining of the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969. This production is being produced in collaboration with Partners for Theatre and will be a fundraiser for CANAPI and GLSEN.
Auditions will be held on May 13 and 14 from 7 PM to 9 PM at the Quirk Cultural Center, 1201 Grant Ave, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223. Performance dates will be June 28, 29, and 30th, (exactly 50 years to the same weekend of the original event) and again on Akron Pride Weekend August 23, and 24, 2019. A preview scene will presented at Summit StageFest on June1 in Akron. These are MUST ATTEND DATES. Auditions are open to EVERYONE but ALL LGBTQIA theatre artists are STRONGLY encouraged to audition or work crew.
There are no AEA contracts at this time. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script in a group setting. Please come dressed comfortably and prepared to stay for the entire time. Please bring a headshot or current photograph, theatrical resume and conflict calendar with you. There has been no pre-casting done with this show. There may be opportunity for understudies / double cast role due to the performance date schedule.
The following roles are available:
Murfino – A thug
Jack – Heavy leather, keys left
C.B. – a politically incorrect lesbian
Heather – a flower child
Seymour – a vice cop
Ciel – a street queen
Donovan – apparently a pedestrian
Sidney – in the closet
Boom Boom – a street queen
Timothy – new in town
Michael – in analysis
Donald – noncommittal
Jordan – a student radical
Gordon – a new -left liberal

Secure an audition slot here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F084EABA82EA7FD0-doric